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8 Online Add and Replacement

(OLAR) of PCI Cards

This chapter presents background information and procedures for

performing PCI I/O card online addition and replacement (OLAR) on

HP’s nPartition servers.

The main procedures for adding and replacing PCI cards are:

• Online Addition (OLA) for a PCI Card on page 385

• Online Replacement (OLR) for a PCI Card on page 391

See the sections that follow for info on tools, requirements, limitations,

and other PCI card OLAR details.

For an introduction to I/O hardware on nPartition servers, refer to the

chapter nPartition System Overviews on page 31.

Also refer to the book Conﬁguring HP-UX for Peripherals for further

details on conﬁguring PCI cards and related devices.