HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide (May 2012)

vPars A.05.06
• An enhancement in the mon_bootpath command at Monitor prompt to put the monitor boot
path at the beginning in the EFI boot manager menu, and to view the default bootpath.
• Product bundling changes. Starting this release, HP-UX Virtual Partitions will not be delivered
as part of the bundle T1335CC. Henceforth, only the bundle T1335DC, which was introduced
since the HP-UX March 2009 release, will include vPars.
• Fixes to some of the customer-encountered defects.
vPars A.05.05
• vPars A.05.05 adds support for vPars configuration based on Locally Optimized Reference
Architecture (LORA) on Multi cell Integrity systems.
LORA is a framework for increasing system performance by exploiting the locality domains
in HP servers with Non-Uniform Memory Architecture. LORA consists of configuration rules,
tuning recommendations, HP-UX 11i v3 enhancements and tools to support them. For more
information on using LORA, go to the BSC website at www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs, click
HP-UX 11i v3 and see Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment. Also, refer the most recent
HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide on the same BSC website at http://www.hp.com/
go/hpux-vpars-docs.
vPars A.05.04
vPars A.05.04 adds support for the following:
• Support for Directed LAN Boot feature on HP Integrity systems based on the sx1000 and
sx2000 chipset
Directed Lan Boot (Direct Boot) capability allows a system administrator or a user to specify
boot server information in vparboot command, which is typically obtained through the BootP
or DHCP protocols. With this feature, you can install to a virtual partition from an Ignite Server
which can be in a different subnet. For more information, see the vparboot(1M) and
vpardbprofile(1M) manpages.
• Support for Tunable Base Page Size on HP Integrity systems
With this enhancement, a system administrator can set the size of a base page of system
memory. The size of a base page was previously fixed at 4 KB and now the additional sizes
of 8 KB, 16 KB, and 64 KB are available. This enhancement is available in Update 3 (the
September 2008 Update Release) of HP-UX 11i v3 and with vPars A.05.04. The name of the
new tunable is base_pagesize. For information on this tunable, see the base_pagesize(5)
manpage.
For information about the new tunable that controls the size of a system base page, see
“Tunable Base Page Size” in the HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2008 Release Notes on the
BSC website at:
http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01917153/
c01917153.pdf.
vPars A.05.03
vPars A.05.03 adds support for the following:
2.3 Features of vPars Software by Release 11