Technical data

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

Renaming a Server Complex [Service Processor]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Renaming a Server Complex [Partition Manager]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Checking Power Supply Status [Service Processor]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Checking Power Supply Status [HP-UX] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Checking Power Supply Status [Partition Manager]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Checking Memory Status [HP-UX]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Checking Memory Status [Partition Manager] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Checking Processor Status [HP-UX]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Checking Processor Status [Partition Manager] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Procedures for Online Add and Replacement (OLAR) of PCI Cards

Determining a Network Interface’s PCI Card Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Determining a Filesystem’s PCI Card Slot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Determining a Boot Device Path’s PCI Card Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

PCI Card Online Addition with SAM or Partition Manager . . . . . . . . 385

PCI Card Online Replacement with SAM

or Partition Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Procedures for Processor Instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD)

iCOD Installation and Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Activating and Deactivating Processors with iCOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Setting the Total Number of Requested Active Processors . . . . . . . . . 413

Load Balancing Processors across nPartitions with iCOD . . . . . . . . . 414

iCOD Contract Changes for an nPartition Server Complex . . . . . . . . 415

Removing iCOD Software and Functionality

from nPartitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Procedures for Processor Sets (Psets) on nPartitions

Listing Pset Conﬁgurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Creating a New Pset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Destroying (Deleting) a Pset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Assigning (Reassigning) Processors to Psets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Unassigning (Removing) Processors from Psets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Conﬁguring Pset Attribute Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Setting Pset Access Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Running Programs in a Pset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Binding Threads and Processes to a Pset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431