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11 Virtual Partitions (vPars)

Management on nPartitions

This chapter describes how to create, conﬁgure, and manage HP’s Virtual

Partitions within an HP Superdome nPartition (hard partition) system

environment. Each Virtual Partition can boot a single instance of the

HP-UX 11i operating system.

The HP Virtual Partitions (vPars) software is an optional feature that

you can use to further subdivide a server’s resources into multiple,

smaller virtual machines through software partitioning.

By conﬁguring multiple vPars within an nPartition, you can boot

multiple instances of HP-UX 11i in a single nPartition.

For detailed tasks for conﬁguring vPars within an nPartition, see

Procedures for Managing vPars on HP nPartition Servers on page 473.

NOTE This chapter describes Virtual Partitions support for HP Superdome

servers only.

The current A.02.01 vPars software release does not support HP rp7410

or HP rp8400 servers.

Other vPar requirements are listed in the section vPars Requirements

and Recommendations on page 455.

For an introduction to nPartition features, refer to the chapter nPartition

System Overviews on page 31.

Also refer to the book Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions

(vPars) for more details about HP’s vPars software.