HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide (5900-1801, August 2011)

NOTE: This is a graceful shutdown and allows the OS to transition through the shutdown

process.

To poweroff a virtual partition from the OA prompt, do one of the following:

◦ For graceful shutdown type:

poweroff partition 1:1

◦ For ungraceful shutdown (required whenever the partition is at the UEFI prompt) type:

poweroff partition 1:1 force

• To reset a virtual partition invoked from the OA:

vparreset -f -N 1 -p 1

reboot partition force 1:1

• To simulate a hard-reset, use the -h option:

vparreset -f -p 1:1 -h

poweroff partition 1:1 force

• To simulate a TOC reset, use the -t option:

vparreset -f -p 1:1 -t

INIT partition 1:1

Shutting Down All Virtual Partitions

You can shut down all the virtual partitions within a hard partition when there is a hardware

problem, or when the nPartition modification requires the nPartition to be down. To gracefully

shutdown all the virtual partitions in an nPartition, run the following command:

poweroff partition <npar_id> OVERRIDE

To ungracefully shutdown all the virtual partitions in an nPartition, run the following command:

poweroff partition <npar_id> OVERRIDE FORCE

Managing: Removing a Virtual Partition

To remove a virtual partition, use the vparremove command to purge the virtual partition from

the parspec. Any resources dedicated to the virtual partition will be freed and can be allocated

to a different virtual partition.

You must shut down the virtual partition before removing it. If the target virtual partition is running,

vparremove will fail.

Example

To remove a virtual partition named vPar0001:

1. Login to the OA.

2. The partition must be in the Down state.

vparstatus -N nPar0001 -p vPar0001

If the virtual partition is running, it can be shutdown from the OA using poweroff command,

or from OS by running the following commands:

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