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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions
Introduction to Managing vPars on nPartitions
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 444
Introduction to Managing vPars on
nPartitions
This section describes the basic features of Virtual Partitions running in
nPartitions on an HP Superdome server. The current A.02.01 release of
the HP vPars software does not support HP rp7410 or rp8400 servers.
Figure 11-1 shows how an nPartition can boot vPars software from its
BCH interface, thus enabling one or more vPars to run HP-UX 11i on a
subset of the nPartition’s active hardware.
Figure 11-1 Overview of HP Virtual Partitions (vPars) in an nPartition
Available
Hardware
vPar 0 vPar 1
(“Up” State) (“Down” State)
HP-UX 11i
nPartition Boot Console Handler (BCH)
vPars Monitor (vpmon, MON> prompt)
ISL> hpux boot /stand/vpmon
Active Cells Inactive Cell
nPartition’s Assigned Hardware
HP Superdome Service Processor (GSP)
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