Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (includes A.04.02)

Chapter 4

4 Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars

and Upgrading Servers with vPars

This chapter covers

• Ignite-UX

• Installing vPars

• Updating vPars to the Latest Version of vPars

• Upgrading Servers with vPars

• Removing vPars

CAUTION Hardware Paths on the vPars Command Line

— Hardware Path Differences Between Cellular (nPartitionable) and Non-cellular

Systems

The hardware paths for some example system are formatted for non-cellular systems. For

cellular systems, their hardware paths contain the prefix of the cell number. Therefore, on

non-cellular systems, the path 0/0 refers to a SBA/LBA format. However, on cellular

systems, the path 0/0 refers to a cell/SBA format. Please read the section “Planning,

Installing, and Using vPars with an nPartitionable Server” on page 48 if you are using a

cellular system.

— Path Formats on the vPars Command Line

For vPars A.03.01 or earlier, you must explicitly specify the LBA for IO allocation. Thus, for

cellular systems on A.03.01 or earlier, you must use the cell/SBA/LBA format on the

command line. If you use only the cell/SBA format the vPars commands will not assume

that all LBAs under the specified SBA are to be included in the allocation. Doing so may

cause the system to panic.

For vPars A.03.02 or later, you can use either the cell/SBA or cell/SBA/LBA format on the

command line. The vPars commands will assume the command applies to all LBAs under

the specified SBA.