HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.07) (5900-1229, September 2010)

storage subsystem, support has been extended to include vPars configurations and
operations starting with vPars A.05.03.
Agile addressing support is only provided for lunpath hardware paths, not for LUN
hardware paths. Use of LUN hardware paths will result in an error.
Agile addressing is supported only for HP-UX 11iv3 (11.31) releases of vPars, starting
with vPars A.05.03. It is not supported by vPars A.05.02 or earlier, vPars A.04.xx on
HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23), or vPars A.03.xx on HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11). This restriction also
applies to mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars environments. Virtual partitions running
HP-UX 11i v1 or HP-UX 11i v2 do not support agile addressing.
— In the vPars A.05.01 and vPars A.05.02 releases, the lunpath hardware path format and
LUN hardware path format are not supported for use on the vPars command line, and
vPars commands will only use legacy hardware paths in their output. You must continue
to use the legacy hardware path format that existed in previous vPars releases when
using the vPars commands; for HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31), ioscan’s default output will
continue to show the legacy format.
vPars does not affect the use of the agile view with non-vPars commands. Wherever
the new formats are supported by other HP-UX commands and tools, you can use these
new formats within the virtual partitions running HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31).
vPars does not support disabling legacy mode.
For information on the agile view of mass storage, including the new hardware paths, device
special files, and legacy mode, see the white paper The Next Generation Mass Storage Stack in
the Network and Systems Management section of http://docs.hp.com, under Storage Area
Management.
• vMedia Support vPars A.05.03 and HP-UX support read-only use of optical media via an
iLO 2 MP on HP Integrity servers based on the sx2000 chipset, including rx7640, rx8640,
and HP Integrity Superdome servers.
— vPars A.05.03 supports all the standard iLO 2 MP features that are supported by HP-UX,
including the Lights Out Advanced features of vMedia. However, vPars does not support
virtual keyboard, video, and mouse features.
— Only one virtual partition at a time can use the Lights Out Advanced features of vMedia.
To move the vMedia attachment to a different virtual partition, the path associated with
the vMedia card must be reassigned to the other virtual partition.
To launch Ignite-UX via a vMedia DVD drive in vPars mode:
1. Set up a vMedia DVD drive using the Lights Out Advanced vMedia feature.
2. Insert an HP-UX OE DVD (such as the Virtual Server OE and Data Center OE) into the
vMedia DVD drive.
3. Assign the path associated with the vMedia card to the target virtual partition.
4. From the vPars Monitor prompt, issue the following vparload command to launch
Ignite-UX from the HP-UX OE DVD in the vMedia drive:
vparload -p targetVpar -D fsIndex
• vPars A.04.05 or later on HP Integrity Platforms with SAS Disks vPars A.04.05 with patch
PHSS_37829, and vPars A.04.06, on HP Integrity platforms supports the use of SAS disks.
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