HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide (5900-2540, December 2012)

UPDATE SHOW NPARTITION..............................................................................................70
UPDATE FIRMWARE...........................................................................................................71
UPDATE SHOW FIRMWARE...............................................................................................72
HP Superdome 2 Boot Support.................................................................................................72
Local Boot.........................................................................................................................73
Considerations for Local Boot..........................................................................................73
Boot from local SAN......................................................................................................73
Boot from External SAN.................................................................................................74
nPartition and Resource Health Status........................................................................................74
Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the CLI.....................................................74
Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the OA GUI..............................................76
Resource health policy .......................................................................................................76
7 Planning Your System for Virtual Partitions....................................................78
Planning Your Virtual Partitions.................................................................................................78
Virtual Partitions Layout Plan................................................................................................78
Virtual Partition Names..................................................................................................78
Minimal Hardware Configuration....................................................................................79
CPU-core.....................................................................................................................79
CPU-core: Boot Processor Definitions ..........................................................................79
CPU-core: Specifying Min and Max Limits...................................................................79
CPU-core: Adding and Deleting by Total.....................................................................80
CPU-core: Adding or Deleting by Socket Local Processor (SLP)........................................84
CPU-core: Adding or Deleting by Resource Path...........................................................84
CPU: Summary Information........................................................................................85
Deleting CPU-cores Summary.....................................................................................85
CPU Allocation........................................................................................................85
Memory.......................................................................................................................86
Assigning Memory to a vPar......................................................................................86
I/O.............................................................................................................................89
Assigning I/O at the rootport or I/O slot Level.............................................................90
Mapping to interconnect ports....................................................................................91
Powering up the complex...........................................................................................91
Powering up the compute enclosure............................................................................91
Syntax, Rules, and Notes................................................................................................91
Counts Summary......................................................................................................92
Parspec change policy........................................................................................................92
A note on Deconfiguration..................................................................................................92
8 Managing and Booting Virtual Partitions.....................................................94
Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes ....................................................................94
Modes.............................................................................................................................94
Setting the mode using the OA GUI.....................................................................................94
Setting the mode using the OA CLI.......................................................................................96
Getting the vPar Console ...............................................................................................97
Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition......................................................................................98
Booting a Virtual Partition........................................................................................................98
Managing: Modifying attributes of a Virtual Partition..................................................................99
Commands: Displaying vPars Resource Information (vparstatus)..................................................100
Virtual Partition States.......................................................................................................100
vparstatus: Summary Information.......................................................................................101
Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition..........................................................................104
Shutting down all Virtual Partitions.....................................................................................105
Managing: Removing a Virtual Partition...................................................................................105
Managing: Modifying Virtual Partitions online..........................................................................106
Modifying the number of active cores in Virtual Partitions......................................................106
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