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Planning nPartition Conﬁgurations

Conﬁguration Process: Selecting Cells for an nPartition

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• The cells should be present (installed) in the server and powered on.

You can assign cells that are not present or on when using

parcreate or parmodify. However, you should install and power on

cells before assigning them to nPartitions in order to allow

commands to automatically check the cells’ compatibility with any

other cells in the nPartition. Also note that assigning a cell that is

not present or on will cause the nPartition to wait 10 minutes for the

cell during the nPartition boot process, if the cell has a “y”

use-on-next-boot setting.

If any of the cells does not adhere to these requirements, go back to

Step 3 and select a different set of cells for the nPartition.

Step 5. Assign the cells to the nPartition.

You can either create a new nPartition that includes the selected cells, or

you can modify an existing nPartition so that it conforms to the

nPartition conﬁguration recommended by the conﬁguration chart.

For speciﬁc procedures for assigning cells, refer to the chapter Managing

nPartitions on page 245.

Step 6. If you still have additional nPartitions for which to select and assign

cells, continue with Step 2.

Select the largest remaining undeﬁned nPartition, and go back to Step 2

to choose and assign cells for it.