Technical data

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 14
Licensing Information:
Getting Product Details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
nPartition and Virtual Partition Unique Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Using HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Specifying Cells and I/O Chassis to Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
nPartition Commands—Details and Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
parcreate Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
parmodify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
parremove Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
parstatus Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
parunlock Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
fruled Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
frupower Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Using the Partition Manager Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Chapter 2.
Planning nPartition Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
nPartition Requirements and Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Configuration Process: Selecting Cells for an nPartition . . . . . . . . . . 113
HP Superdome nPartition Configuration Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Chart of Supported HP rp7410 nPartition Configurations . . . . . . . . . 117
Chart of Supported HP rp8400 nPartition Configurations . . . . . . . . . 118
Charts of Supported HP Superdome nPartition Configurations. . . . . 119
nPartition Example Configurations
for an HP Superdome Server Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Chapter 3.
Using Console and Service Processor Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Service Processor (GSP or MP) Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Service Processor Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Service Processor Accounts and Access Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Accessing Service Processor Interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Using Service Processor Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Navigating through Service Processor Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Using Service Processor Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Commands Commonly Used at the Service Processor. . . . . . . . . 141