HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide HP-UX 11i v3 (766170-001, May 2014)

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Contents

HP secure development lifecycle......................................................................7

1 Introduction...............................................................................................8

Overview................................................................................................................................8

HP Superdome 2 terminology.....................................................................................................9

2 Partitioning in HP Superdome 2..................................................................10

Onboard Administrator and Partition Management.....................................................................10

Accessing the OA...................................................................................................................10

OA CLI.............................................................................................................................10

OA GUI...........................................................................................................................10

Managing Partitions – basics...................................................................................................11

nPartitions ........................................................................................................................11

Virtual Partitions (vPars).......................................................................................................12

Commands: Partition Help pages..............................................................................................12

Commands: Partition commands logging...................................................................................13

Log file location and log format...........................................................................................13

Cases where no logging occurs...........................................................................................13

Cases where logging occurs................................................................................................14

Constraints and restrictions to logging..................................................................................14

Ordering and licensing...........................................................................................................14

nPartitions licensing............................................................................................................14

Virtual Partitions licensing...................................................................................................14

Related software licensing...................................................................................................15

Ordering vPars..................................................................................................................15

nPartition and Virtual Partition unique identifiers.....................................................................15

3 Getting started with nPartitions...................................................................17

Administration tool for nPartitions..............................................................................................17

Onboard Partition Manager................................................................................................17

Commands for configuring nPartitions...................................................................................17

nPartition resources.................................................................................................................18

Assigned or unassigned blades and I/O bays.......................................................................19

Active and inactive blades..................................................................................................19

I/O Enclosures and I/O bays..............................................................................................19

Finding the resource path of I/O ....................................................................................20

nPartition properties................................................................................................................20

Partition names..................................................................................................................20

Partition numbers...............................................................................................................20

Hyperthreading.................................................................................................................20

Enabling or disabling Hyperthreading on HP Superdome 2 using the GUI............................21

Enabling or disabling Hyperthreading on HP Superdome 2 using the CLI.............................21

Socket Local Memory.........................................................................................................21

Blade resource attributes..........................................................................................................21

Operating system specific default values for nPartition attributes....................................................25

Partition State and RunStates....................................................................................................25

Support for partition discovery at run-time..................................................................................27

Partition specifications (parspec)...............................................................................................28

Creating a Partition specification..........................................................................................29

Creating a current nPartition from an alternate Partition specification.........................................29

Removing a Partition specification........................................................................................29

Listing a Partition specification.............................................................................................29

Saving the current configuration of nPartition and switch to an alternate configuration.................29

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