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
2. From the command line, issue the parstatus -w command to list the local nPartition
number.
NOTE: You must include the correct remote administration options when issuing par
commands (-h and -g for IPMI over LAN connections; -h and -u for WBEM/WMI
connections). For a complete explanation of these options, see the command description in
“nPartition Commands Reference” (page 89).
List memory configurations
Memory configuration details include summaries of the total memory in a cell or nPartition, the
amounts of interleaved memory and cell local memory (where supported) per cell or nPartition,
and the number and locations of memory modules (DIMMs) within the cells in a server complex.
Procedure 4-8 Listing memory configurations [nPartition commands]
List memory configurations using the following procedure:
1. Log in to Windows on the management station PC.
2. From the command line, issue the following command to list memory details:
• parstatus -C — Cell and memory summaries for all cells in the server complex.
• parstatus -V -c# — Detailed memory information for the specified cell (-c#, where
# is the cell number), including memory module (DIMM) locations and sizes. For HP
Integrity servers, this includes details about the interleaved memory in the cell as well
as the requested and allocated cell local memory (CLM) amounts.
• parstatus -V -p# — Detailed information about the specified nPartition (-p#, where
# is the nPartition number), with summaries for all assigned cells including their amounts
of memory. For HP Integrity servers, the nPartition details include the total good memory
size, total interleaved memory, and the total requested and allocated cell local memory
(CLM) amounts.
NOTE: You must include the correct remote administration options when issuing nPartitions
commands (-h and -g for IPMI over LAN connections; -h and -u for WBEM/WMI
connections). For a complete explanation of these options, see the command description in
“nPartition Commands Reference” (page 89).
Configure boot paths and options
CAUTION: With HP Integrity mid-range systems, if Windows is installed on a drive attached
to an IO chassis (rather than the core IO card), you must run the “search all” command from the
EFI prompt any time the partition is reset (for example, using the MP RS command). Otherwise,
the boot drive will not be found when the partition boots.
IMPORTANT: On HP Integrity servers, you must configure Windows boot options from EFI by
using the MSUtil\nvrboot.efi utility to import boot options from the
EFI\Microsoft\WINNT50\Boot00... file on the device from which Windows is to be loaded.
Configure boot paths and boot options using any of the following procedures:
Procedure 4-9 Configuring boot paths and options [EFI Boot Manager]
Configure boot paths and options using EFI Boot Manager as follows:
48 Using Other Tools to Manage nPartitions