Technical data

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

Booting an Inactive nPartition past Boot-Is-Blocked (BIB) . . . . . . . . 226

Conﬁguring Boot Paths and Boot Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Conﬁguring Autoboot and Autostart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Autoboot Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Autostart Conﬁguration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Conﬁguring Automatic System Restart for a nPartition . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Conﬁguring Fast Boot Settings (Self Tests) for a nPartition. . . . . . . . 239

Boot Timer Conﬁguration for an nPartition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Chapter 6.

Managing nPartitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Coordinating Changes to nPartitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Rebooting to Implement nPartition Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Listing the Local (Current) Partition Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Listing All Conﬁgured nPartitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Listing Cell nPartition Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Creating a Genesis Partition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Creating a New nPartition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Assigning (Adding) Cells to an nPartition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Unassigning (Removing) Cells from an nPartition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Removing (Deleting) an nPartition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Naming and Renaming nPartitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Setting and Checking Cell Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Setting and Checking nPartition Core Cell Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Reassigning (Moving) a Cell to a Different nPartition . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Restoring a Complex Proﬁle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Unlocking Complex Proﬁles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Chapter 7.

Listing and Managing Server Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Tools for Listing and Managing Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Powering Server Cabinets On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Powering Cells and I/O Chassis On and Off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Power Status for Hardware Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Turning Attention Indicators (LEDs) On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Listing Cell Processor and Memory Conﬁgurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331