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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions

Tools for Managing vPars on nPartition Servers

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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Tools for Managing vPars on nPartition

Servers

The main tools for vPars administration are the HP-UX vPars commands

and the Virtual Partition Manager (vparmgr) utility.

This section brieﬂy lists these and other tools and commands you can use

for managing Virtual Partitions on HP nPartition servers.

• HP-UX Virtual Partitions Commands

The HP-UX vPars commands create, modify, and provide status and

conﬁguration info about the Virtual Partitions in the currently active

vPars database (/stand/vpdb), or any other accessible vPars

database that you specify.

The vPars commands list status or modify conﬁguration details for

vPars in the local nPartition. They cannot modify or list info about

vPars running in remote nPartitions.

Using all vPars commands requires root permission.

In most cases the vPars commands are used after you have booted

one or more vPars in an nPartition. However, you also can use some

vPars commands when you have booted HP-UX in a non-vPars

nPartition environment, such as when initially conﬁguring vPars.

See the vpartition (5) manpage for a list and descriptions of the vPars

commands, including vparstatus, vparcreate, vparmodify,

vparboot, vparreset, and others.

• Virtual Partition Manager (vparmgr) Utility

The Virtual Partition Manager utility provides a graphical interface

to the HP-UX vPars commands. Using Virtual Partition Manager,

you can perform vPars administration tasks from HP-UX running on

a vPar. You cannot use Virtual Partition Manager when HP-UX is

booted in non-vPars mode.