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About This Book: Overview of Chapters

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

About This Book: Overview of Chapters

1. nPartition System Overviews on page 31

This chapter introduces Hewlett-Packard’s nPartition system

features, server models, nPartition concepts, administration tools,

and HP-UX 11i support for nPartitions.

2. Planning nPartition Conﬁgurations on page 109

This chapter describes how you can plan nPartition conﬁgurations

for HP rp7410, rp8400, and Superdome servers. Details include the

conﬁguration requirements for nPartitions and HP

recommendations.

3. Using Console and Service Processor Interfaces on page 125

This chapter covers the service processors and nPartition console

interfaces available for HP’s nPartition servers.

4. An Overview of nPartition Boot and Reset on page 161

This chapter presents an overview of booting and reset concepts and

issues for HP nPartition servers.

5. Booting and Resetting nPartitions on page 197

This chapter presents procedures for booting and resetting

nPartitions and procedures for conﬁguring an nPartition’s

boot-related options.

6. Managing nPartitions on page 245

This chapter presents the procedures for creating, conﬁguring, and

managing nPartitions on HP servers that support them.

7. Listing and Managing Server Hardware on page 307

This chapter covers the tools and methods for listing details about

the hardware assigned to nPartitions. This chapter also covers

getting information about server hardware, and managing the

hardware resources in nPartitions and their server complexes.

8. Online Add and Replacement (OLAR) of PCI Cards on page 367

This chapter presents background information and procedures for

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

HP’s nPartition servers.