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Managing nPartitions

Removing (Deleting) an nPartition

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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Removing (Deleting) an nPartition

You can delete (remove) any nPartition within a server complex.

The HP-UX nPartition deletion capabilities include restrictions for

security reasons: you can delete only the local nPartition and inactive

remote nPartitions.

You can delete an nPartition using these procedures:

• Deleting an nPartition [HP-UX] on page 280

This procedure (using the parremove command) deletes an nPartition

using HP-UX commands.

• Deleting an nPartition [Partition Manager] on page 282

This procedure (Partition —> Delete Partition action) removes an

nPartition using Partition Manager.

When removing the local nPartition, you must complete the procedure by

issuing the shutdown -R -H command as soon as possible after

initiating the local nPartition’s removal.

Deleting an nPartition causes all of the nPartition’s cells (and any I/O

resources connected to the cells) to be unassigned. As a result, all of

these cells become available resources that are on the “free cell list” and

can be assigned to any nPartition in the server complex.

Deleting an nPartition [HP-UX]

This procedure (using the parremove command) deletes an nPartition

using HP-UX commands.

Step 1. Use the parstatus -P command to list all nPartitions, and check the

status (active or inactive) for the nPartition you plan to remove.

To check the local partition number, use the parstatus -w command.

The local nPartition always is active when it is running HP-UX.

If you are planning to remove a remote nPartition, check to see whether

the remote nPartition is inactive.

Step 2. If a remote nPartition that you plan to remove currently is active, then

put the nPartition into the ready for reconﬁg state to make it inactive.