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
Options
The parmodify command supports the following command-line options.
DescriptionOption
Specifies the nPartition to be modified. PartitionNumber specifies the
unique number (integer) assigned to the nPartition.
The -p option is required.
You must also specify any one or more of the following options.
-pPartitionNumber
Specifies the cells to be added to the nPartition.
The only valid type value is:
• base: Base cell (the default)
The valid use_on_next_boot values for cells are:
• y: Participate in reboot (the default)
• n: Do not participate in reboot.
The only valid failure_usage value is:
• ri: Reactivate with memory interleave (the default). Specifies to
integrate the cell into the nPartition as normally occurs.
The clm value specifies the amount of memory that will be configured
as cell local memory for the cell. You can specify the clm value in either
of two forms: percentage or absolute amount of memory. The default
is 0 (no cell local memory).
• Percentage cell-local memory (CLM): The percent number can be
any number in the range 0–100 with a suffix of %.This number is
rounded to 12.5%, 25%, 37.5%, 50%, 62.5%, 75%, 87.5% or 100%. If
the cell contains less than 4 GBytes of memory, then the percentage
is rounded to 25%, 50%, 75% or 100%. Percentages are rounded up
or down to the nearest value, but are not rounded up to 100%.
• Absolute CLM specification (the default): The absolute number is
interpreted as an absolute number of gigabytes of memory and can
optionally have a suffix of GB. As needed, an absolute CLM
specification is rounded up to the nearest 0.5 GBytes.
If the clm value is rounded, the command reports the final value used.
-a cell:[celltype]:[use_on_next_boot]
:[failure_usage][:clm]
Modifies attributes of a cell already assigned to the nPartition.
See the -a option descriptions for details on the type, use_on_next_boot,
failure_usage, and clm cell attributes.
-m cell:[celltype]:[use_on_next_boot]
:[failure_usage][:clm]
Specifies the IP address that can be used by management tools to
address this nPartition. This value should be consistent with the IP
address used by the nPartition when an operating system is booted.
-I IPaddress
Specifies the core cell choices. One to four core cell choices can be
specified.
-r cell
Remove the specified cell from the nPartition.
-d cell
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