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

Conﬁguring and Managing Superdome Partitions

Procedures for Managing Partitions

Chapter 4166

Partition Manager

Step 1. Determine which cell boards and I/O Chassis are to be a part of the

partition you are creating.

NOTE At least one cell in the partition must have an I/O chassis connected to it

that has a core I/O board in I/O chassis slot 0. Without this, the Partition

Manager will not let you create the partition.

Step 2. Free up needed resources from other partitions (if necessary).

If the partition you want to create will use resources that are currently

allocated to other partitions, or hardware that has not yet been installed,

you will need to make those resources available before continuing with

this procedure. If you will be using cells or I/O chassis that are currently

in use by another partition in the complex, see “Moving Cells to a

Different Partition” on page 196 and “Moving I/O to a Different

Partition” on page 198 for help on freeing up those resources.

Step 3. Run the Partition Manager (parmgr).

The Partition Manager can be run from:

• an HP-UX command line

• a Web browser

• the System Administration Manager utility (SAM)

For details see “How to Start The Partition Manager” on page 141.

TIP The Partition Manager can be started from the HP-UX command line

with a special option (-t create) to go directly to the screen for creating

a new partition. The parmgr (1M) manpage has complete details on

parmgr options.

/opt/parmgr/bin/parmgr -t create