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

8 Managing and Booting Virtual Partitions
This chapter addresses the following topics:
• “Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes ” (page 92)
• “Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition” (page 96)
◦ “Booting a Virtual Partition” (page 96)
◦ “Managing: Modifying attributes of a Virtual Partition” (page 97)
◦ “Commands: Displaying vPars Resource Information (vparstatus)” (page 98)
◦ “Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition” (page 102)
◦ “Shutting down all Virtual Partitions” (page 103)
◦ “Managing: Removing a Virtual Partition” (page 103)
Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes
Modes
The mode can be set for an nPartition during creation time using the parcreate or the parmodify
command. Mode switching can thus be performed from the OA CLI. For vPars usage, there are
only two modes:
• vPars
Sets the next nPartition boot, to boot into the vPars environment. This enables you to boot to
the vPars mode, thereby booting all the virtual partitions in the nPartition.
• nPars
Sets the next nPartition boot, to boot into the standalone environment. In this mode, you cannot
boot the virtual partitions. However, you can boot any OE instance into the standalone mode.
For an nPartition that is already inactive, the mode switch occurs when the inactive nPartition
is booted.
Setting the mode using the OA GUI
The mode can be set for an nPartition during creation time using the Boot Options in the Modify
nPartition Window. Mode switching can thus be performed from the OA GUI.
To set the mode using OA GUI:
1. Open the OA GUI.
2. Login using the administrator credentials.
3. Click on nPartition name.
4. In the nPartition Status tab, click Modify nPartition.
5. Expand the Boot Options row to select the boot option.
6. Click Apply.
The mode is set for the next boot of the nPartition.
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