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HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 18
Installing and Configuring iCOD on nPartitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Procedures for Changing Processor iCOD Configurations
on nPartitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Managing iCOD Utility (Pay Per Use) on nPartitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Chapter 10.
Processor Sets (Psets) on nPartitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Introduction to Psets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Tools for Managing and Using Psets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Procedures for Managing Psets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Example Uses of Psets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
Chapter 11.
Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Introduction to Managing vPars on nPartitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
Configuring vPar Resources and Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Tools for Managing vPars on nPartition Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
vPars Requirements and Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Fault-Tolerant vPar Configurations for nPartitions. . . . . . . . . . . 458
Dynamic vPars and Static vPars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
vPar Configuration Data on nPartitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
vPar Console and Log Use on nPartition Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Planning vPar Configurations for HP nPartition Servers. . . . . . . . . . 467
HP Superdome Hardware Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Listing Available nPartition Hardware Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . 468
vPar Configuration Planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Installing and Configuring vPars on nPartition Servers. . . . . . . . . . . 470
Procedures for Managing vPars on HP nPartition Servers. . . . . . . . . 473
Creating a New vPar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Deleting a vPar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Modifying vPar Configuration Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Listing the Status for vPars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Booting HP-UX on vPars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Rebooting or Shutting Down vPars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
Configuring vPar Autoboot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Managing nPartitions from a vPar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504