HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide (v09.06.16)
For customers that are using previous versions of vPars, HP strongly recommends that you
update to the latest supported vPars version to take advantage of new features and product
improvements.
2.3.1 vPars A.05.xx Releases
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, see http://docs.hp.com/en/14655/ENW-LORA-TW.pdf
and HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator’s Guide.
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 at the
website:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html#Release%20Notes.
vPars A.05.03 vPars A.05.03 adds support for the following:
• Starting with vPars A.05.03, the HP-UX 11i v3 vPars software is distributed on the HP-UX
11i v3 Operating Environment media. vPars A.05.03 is distributed via the new Virtual Server
OE (VSE-OE) and the new Data Center OE (DC-OE).
There is no longer a separate HP-UX 11i v3 Virtual Partitions DVD.
• Support for mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars environments on PA-RISC systems only.
A mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars environment allows you to have a vPars A.05.03 Monitor
and database that simultaneously supports virtual partitions running HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11),
HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23), and HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) in the same nPartition.
Only the following vPars releases are supported in a mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars
environment:
— virtual partitions running vPars A.05.03 on HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31)
— virtual partitions running vPars A.04.02 or later on HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23), and
— virtual partitions running vPars A.03.05 on HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11)
• Support for the next-generation mass storage subsystem in HP-UX 11i v3 (including agile
addressing) has been extended to include vPars configurations and operations starting with
12 Overview of Virtual Partitions