Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (A.02.01)

How vPars Works
Partitioning Using vPars
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Partitioning Using vPars
To understand how vPars works, compare it to a server not using vPars.
Figure 2-1 shows a 4-way HP-UX server. Without vPars, all hardware
resources are dedicated to one instance of HP-UX and the applications
that are running on this one instance.
Figure 2-1 Server without vPars
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