Technical data

Managing nPartitions
Creating a New nPartition
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 265
(The -B option causes parcreate to immediately boot the newly-created
nPartition past the default ready for reconfig state, thus making the
nPartition active and preventing you from further modifying it.)
By not specifying -B, the new nPartition can be further modified because
it will remain inactive at the ready for reconfig state (until you boot it
using the service processor Command menu’s BO command).
If creating a single-cell nPartition, just use one -c option.
To create a multiple-cell nPartition, you should specify the -c option
multiple times (once for each cell) issuing a single command line.
# parcreate -c4:base:y:ri -c6:base:y:ri
Partition Created. The partition number is : 1
#
When parcreate successfully creates a new nPartition, it reports
“Partition Created” and reports the nPartition number (“partition
number is...”).
If parcreate detects any problems or issues when creating an nPartition,
it lists them in its output. If it cannot create the nPartition, parcreate
reports “Command failed” along with more details.
The parcreate command’s -c option is as follows:
-c cell :[ cell_type ]:[ use_on_next_boot ]:[ failure_usage ]
This option specifies the cell ID ( cell ) to be assigned to the nPartition.
• The only valid cell_type value is: base (base cell, the default).
• The valid use_on_next_boot values for cells are:
y Participate in reboot (the default).
n Do not participate in reboot.
• The only valid failure_usage value is: ri (reactivate with
interleave, the default).
For details, see the parcreate (1M) manpage.
Step 3. Use the parmodify command to modify the new nPartition’s
configuration and set the nPartition name (-P), boot paths (-b, -s, and
-t), and any core cell choices (-r).