Increasing Flexibility by Mixing Minor Release of Virtual Partitions

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Increasing Flexibility by Mixing Minor

Release of Virtual Partitions

Using vPars at different Operating Environment levels

Technical white paper

Table of contents

Abstract .............................................................................................................................................. 2

HP-UX Virtual Partitions Overview .......................................................................................................... 3

Mixed Minor 11iv3 vPars ..................................................................................................................... 4

Configurations ..................................................................................................................................... 5

Supported vPar Configurations .......................................................................................................... 5

Supported Operating Environments .................................................................................................... 5

Unsupported configurations ............................................................................................................... 6

For more information ............................................................................................................................ 7

Summary of content (7 pages)

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Increasing Flexibility by Mixing Minor Release of Virtual Partitions Using vPars at different Operating Environment levels Technical white paper Table of contents Abstract .............................................................................................................................................. 2 HP-UX Virtual Partitions Overview .......................................................................................................... 3 Mixed Minor 11iv3 vPars ...........................
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Abstract This white paper is intended for individuals who are interested in consolidating virtual partitions (vPars) running different minor versions of vPar software onto a single hard partition. This document describes the supported configurations and guidelines for operating mixed minor vPar version environment. It also describes some tools available to aid in configuring and managing the virtual partitions.
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HP-UX Virtual Partitions Overview vPars allows the system administrator to create independent HP-UX operating environments from hardware resources in a system or hard partition. Each of the HP-UX operating environments can be tuned specifically for the applications that will be hosted. A virtual partition is composed of one or more CPUs, memory, I/O devices for mass storage, and network interfaces.
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Mixed Minor 11iv3 vPars Virtual partitions support mixing different minor release of vPars starting with the March 2011 release. There are various reasons why this feature makes vPar usage more flexible than before. Some of those reasons are as follows: • It is easier to carry out OE upgrades; it is not required to upgrade all vPars simultaneously. • A reboot of the vPar Monitor might not be required after an upgrade.
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Configurations Supported vPar Configurations The following vPars versions are supported in various mixed HP-UX combinations in vPars environment. Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars For Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars environment within the same hard partition, you must use the vPars monitor bundled with A.05.05 or later. HP-UX 11i v2: A.04.07 HP-UX 11i v3: A.05.05, A.05.06, A.05.07, A.05.
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Examples vPars Monitor version vPar1 vPar2 vPar3 vPar4 Environment 05.08 05.08 05.04 05.06 05.07 Not Supported 05.05 04.06 04.07 05.05 05.05 Not Supported 04.06 04.05 04.06 04.07 04.06 Not Supported 05.06 04.07 05.06 05.08 04.07 Supported 05.05 05.05 05.06 05.08 05.07 Supported The highlighted vPar version causes the configuration to be unsupported.
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For more information To read more, visit the following websites: HP Partitioning Continuum - www.hp.com/go/partitions HP Virtual Server Environment - www.hp.com/go/vse HP-UX 11i - www.hp.com/go/HP-UX11i HP Integrity Servers - www.hp.com/go/integrity HP 9000 Servers - www.hp.com/go/hp9000 vPars Documents - www.hp.com/go/hpux-vpars-docs Share with colleagues © Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.