Windows nPartition Guide v5.5
Table Of Contents
- nPartition Administrator's Guide
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- Quick Start
- Getting to know nPartitions
- Choosing a management tool
- Management interface options
- Choosing a management mode
- Setting up the management station
- Performing nPartition management tasks
- 2 Installing nPartition Management Utilities
- 3 Using Partition Manager
- 4 Using Other Tools to Manage nPartitions
- Complex-level tasks
- nPartition-level tasks
- Boot configuration options for nPartition systems
- Find bootable devices
- List nPartition configurations
- List the local (current) nPartition number
- List memory configurations
- Configure boot paths and options
- Configure autoboot options
- Configure boot-time system tests
- Boot Windows Server 2003
- Boot over a network
- Shut down Windows Server 2003
- Reboot and reset
- Reboot for reconfiguration
- Shut down to a shutdown for reconfig (inactive) state
- Boot an inactive nPartition
- Perform a transfer of control reset
- Create a Genesis Partition
- Create a new nPartition
- Remove (delete) an nPartition
- Add cells to an nPartition
- Set core cell choices
- Rename an nPartition
- Cell-level tasks
- Power-, status-, and hardware-level tasks
- List input/output (I/O) configurations
- List cabinets in a server complex
- List power status and power supplies
- List fan and blower status
- Turn attention indicators (LEDs) on and off
- Power server cabinets on and off
- Power cells and I/O chassis on and off
- Configure and deconfigure cells
- Configure and deconfigure processors (CPUs)
- Configure and deconfigure memory (DIMMs)
- 5 nPartition Commands Reference
- 6 Troubleshooting
- Installation problems
- Checking component installation and operation
- Operational problems
- All commands: ordinal not found
- All commands: required data unavailable or locked
- Fruled: LED error messages (mid-range servers only)
- Frupower: cannot power off error
- Parcreate and parmodify: cell local memory warnings
- Parcreate, parmodify, and parremove: failure to update stable complex configuration data (SCCD)
- Parremove: shutdown and reset instructions
- Parstatus -c -V: apparent incorrect output
- Parstatus -p -V: apparent incorrect output
- Parstatus: local partition error
- Parstatus: unable to get read lock error
- Using WMIOP.EXE to pinpoint problems
- Error messages and corrective actions
- Index

1 Introduction
A cell-based HP Integrity server (such as the rx7620, the rx7640, the rx8620, the rx8640, or
Superdome) can be configured as a single system or partitioned into several independent systems.
Partitioning provides hardware and software isolation, in which each partition is assigned
memory, processors, and I/O resources for its exclusive use, and executes its own operating
system image. This chapter introduces node partitions (nPartitions) on cell-based HP Integrity
servers running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 and describes the tools to manage them.
Quick Start
This section provides an overview of the installation and configuration steps needed to get you
up and running as quickly as possible.
Figure 1-1 shows the hardware, software, and most commonly used connection method. All
components are described in greater detail later in this chapter.
Figure 1-1 System overview
management station
Partition Manager
nPartition Commands
MP Commands
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Cell 0 Core I/O Cell 1 Core I/O
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TwinTurbo PCI-X
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Turbo PCI-X
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DVD / DDS DVD / DDS
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HP Integrity rx8620 server
IPMI / LAN
Windows
HP-UX
The most common setup for nPartition management of HP Integrity servers running Windows
involves a remote management station. This dedicated management station hosts the management
tools and issues commands over a network connection to the server’s management processor,
enabling you to manage the complex even if no nPartitions exist on the complex yet.
To set up and configure the management station:
1. Establish a dedicated management station for the HP Integrity server. See “Setting up the
management station” (page 22).
2. Install the nPartition tools. See “Install nPartition Commands Bundle from the Smart Setup
media” (page 31) and “Install the Partition Manager Bundle from the Smart Setup media”
(page 32).
3. Verify installation of the management software. See “Verifying the installation” (page 33).
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