Managing Superdome Complexes: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Configuring and Managing Superdome Partitions
Procedures for Managing Partitions
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Creating a Genesis Partition
When you create a Genesis Partition, you establish a one-cell partition
on the HP Superdome complex. The Genesis Partition replaces all other
partitions, and once created it is the only partition on the system.
Additional details are given in “Genesis Partition” on page 119.
GSP The following procedure creates a Genesis Partition on an HP
Superdome server.
As a result of this procedure, all existing partitions are destroyed and are
replaced with a single, one-cell partition (the Genesis Partition).
You can revert to the previous partition configuration, if any existed
before you created the Genesis Partition. For details see “Restoring a
Complex Profile” on page 156.
Step 1. Save all current partition configuration details, if any partitions are
configured in the complex.
Saving the current partition information provides you the details you
would need to re-create all partitions as they currently exist.
Use the parstatus command (or an equivalent parmgr procedure) to
save configuration details about each partition.
For each partition, use the parstatus -Vp# command to display detailed
information. You can gather this information from any partition in the
system.
Step 2. Determine which cell will be configured as the Genesis Partition.
The cell must be connected to an I/O chassis. The I/O chassis must have a
core I/O card installed, and must have a bootable disk (or a DVD-ROM
drive for install media, and a disk onto which HP-UX can be installed).
You can perform this task using the GSP menus.
• “GSP” on page 153
The only way to create a Genesis Partition is to use the Guardian
Service Processor (GSP) command menu.