HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide (5900-2064, November 2011)

Table 3 RunStates for nPartition
DescriptionRunstate
The partition is inactive and powered off.DOWN
A boot operation has been initiated for this partition.ACTIVATING
The boot process is in the firmware boot phase for this partition and the partition has
transitioned into the active status.
FWBOOT
The partition is at the EFI shell.EFI
The boot process has started booting the operating system in this partition.OSBOOT
The OS in this partition is booted and running.UP
A shutdown/reboot/reset operation has been initiated on this partition.SHUT
The partition is being deactivated (powered down) as part of a shutdown or reboot
operation.
DEACTIVATING
1
A partition reset is in progress.RESETTING
1
A machine check (MCA) has occurred in the partition and is being processed.MCA
1
An INIT ( or TOC) operation on the partition is being processed.INIT
This is a partition definition in an alternate parspec.ALT_DEFINED
The nPartition is either running or is ready to run virtual partitions.RUN_VPARS
The status is not known. This may reflect an error condition or a transitionary state while
partition states are being discovered.
DETACHED
1
An inactive nPartition can be in the DEACTIVATING, RESETTING or MCA RunStates, if it encounters an error or is
interrupted during the activation process.
Partition specifications (parspec)
A parspec is a collection of data that defines the configuration of a specific nPartition, including
all defined vPars.
You may use the parspec functionality to do the following:
• Save nPartition and vPartition configurations.
• Modify configurations
• Create partitions
The following are the key features of parspecs.
• Every parspec defines only one nPartition.
• Multiple nPartitions must be described in multiple parspecs.
• A nPartition can be created from a specified parspec.
• Every nPartition that exists has a parspec associated with it (referred to as a current parspec),
and there can be only one current parspec for a given nPartition.
• Any parspec not associated with an existing nPartition is an alternate parspec.
• Every parspec has a unique name (scope of uniqueness is a complex).
• Parspecs can be managed through the partition commands.
• The vPar database resides within a parspec.
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