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Planning nPartition Conﬁgurations

Conﬁguration Process: Selecting Cells for an nPartition

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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Conﬁguration Process: Selecting Cells for

an nPartition

The following steps provide a basic procedure for selecting which cells to

assign to the nPartitions you will create in an HP server.

Selecting Cells for an nPartition

Step 1. Determine the sizes of all nPartitions you will create in the server

complex.

Before creating any nPartitions, determine how many nPartitions you

plan to conﬁgure and establish each nPartition’s size (the number of

cells).

Step 2. Select the largest undeﬁned nPartition.

If you will conﬁgure multiple nPartitions in the complex, assign cells to

the largest nPartition ﬁrst and then conﬁgure next largest, and so on,

and conﬁgure the smallest nPartition last.

Step 3. Choose which cells you will assign to the nPartition by using the

nPartition conﬁguration chart for the server model on which you are

conﬁguring the nPartitions.

These charts list which cell slots HP supports for assigning to

nPartitions, based on the nPartition size and server model.

For nPartition sizes for which HP recommends multiple conﬁgurations,

select the ﬁrst available set of cells. For example, for a two-cell nPartition

select conﬁguration 2A, if possible, before selecting 2B or 2C.

Step 4. Conﬁrm that the cells you have selected are eligible to be assigned to the

nPartition.

For the cells to be eligible, they must meet these requirements:

• The cells must not be assigned to another nPartition.

• The cells must meet the nPartition hardware requirements (the

required processor, ﬁrmware, and memory conﬁgurations).