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

UPDATE SHOW FIRMWARE...............................................................................................72
HP Superdome 2 Boot Support.................................................................................................73
Local Boot.........................................................................................................................74
Considerations for Local Boot..........................................................................................74
Boot from local SAN......................................................................................................74
Boot from External SAN.................................................................................................74
nPartition and Resource Health Status........................................................................................75
Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the CLI.....................................................75
Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the OA GUI..............................................77
Resource health policy .......................................................................................................77
7 Planning Your System for Virtual Partitions....................................................79
Planning Your Virtual Partitions.................................................................................................79
Virtual Partitions Layout Plan................................................................................................79
Virtual Partition Names..................................................................................................79
Minimal Hardware Configuration....................................................................................80
CPU-core.....................................................................................................................80
CPU-core: Boot Processor Definitions ..........................................................................80
CPU-core: Specifying Min and Max Limits...................................................................80
CPU-core: Adding and Deleting by Total.....................................................................81
CPU-core: Adding or Deleting by Socket Local Processor (SLP)........................................85
CPU-core: Adding or Deleting by Resource Path...........................................................85
CPU: Summary Information........................................................................................86
Deleting CPU-cores Summary.....................................................................................86
CPU Allocation........................................................................................................86
Memory.......................................................................................................................87
Assigning Memory to a vPar......................................................................................87
I/O.............................................................................................................................87
Assigning I/O at the rootport or I/O slot Level.............................................................88
Mapping to interconnect ports....................................................................................89
Powering up the complex...........................................................................................89
Powering up the compute enclosure............................................................................89
Syntax, Rules, and Notes................................................................................................89
Counts Summary......................................................................................................90
Parspec change policy........................................................................................................90
A note on Deconfiguration..................................................................................................90
8 Managing and Booting Virtual Partitions.....................................................92
Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes ....................................................................92
Modes.............................................................................................................................92
Setting the mode using the OA GUI.....................................................................................92
Setting the mode using the OA CLI.......................................................................................94
Getting the vPar Console ...............................................................................................95
Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition......................................................................................96
Booting a Virtual Partition........................................................................................................96
Managing: Modifying attributes of a Virtual Partition..................................................................97
Commands: Displaying vPars Resource Information (vparstatus)....................................................98
Virtual Partition States.........................................................................................................98
vparstatus: Summary Information.........................................................................................99
Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition..........................................................................102
Shutting down all Virtual Partitions.....................................................................................103
Managing: Removing a Virtual Partition...................................................................................103
Managing: Modifying Virtual Partitions online..........................................................................104
Modifying the number of active cores in Virtual Partitions......................................................104
Adding cores to a running nPartition..................................................................................105
Deleting cores from a running nPartition..............................................................................109
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