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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions

vPars Requirements and Recommendations

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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vPars Requirements and Recommendations

HP offers the following requirements and recommendations for

conﬁguring Virtual Partitions in HP Superdome nPartition

environments.

Additional recommendations for avoiding obstacles to loading/booting

vPars are in Fault-Tolerant vPar Conﬁgurations for nPartitions on

page 458. Also see the HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and

Conﬁguration Guide.

Conﬁguration Requirements and Recommendations

for Virtual Partitions

❏ The following software releases, or later, must be installed for

complete vPars support on HP Superdome nPartitions:

— Any HP-UX 11i release (December 2000 or later).

— The A.02.01 Virtual Partitions software product.

— The Partition Manager B.11.11.01.05 product, which must be

installed before the A.02.01 vPars software is installed.

— The Superdome SMS Software V1.2 release (including ﬁrmware).

❏ Each nPartition in which vPars are conﬁgured must have no more

than eight cells assigned to it, and all the nPartition’s cells must

reside in the same cabinet.

❏ Each nPartition must have no more than eight Virtual Partitions

conﬁgured.

If you require more than eight vPars in the same HP Superdome

complex, conﬁgure the vPars in multiple nPartitions.

❏ Hardware to be used by vPars within an nPartition must be

assigned to the local nPartition and must be active hardware.

Because each nPartition only provides access to the hardware that is

assigned to and active within the local nPartition, any Virtual

Partitions in the nPartition are limited to using this same set of

currently available nPartition hardware.