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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions

Installing and Conﬁguring vPars on nPartition Servers

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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Installing and Conﬁguring vPars on

nPartition Servers

This section covers information on installing the vPars software product

onto disks that will be used for booting HP-UX on a Virtual Partition

that is loaded in an nPartition.

After a boot disk has both HP-UX and the vPars software product

installed, the disk can be booted to be used in either vPar or non-vPars

environments.

The vPars software install process can occur when you have booted

HP-UX from each disk so that HP-UX is running in a non-vPars

environment.

You also can install both the HP-UX and vPars software simultaneously

on a vPar when its nPartition is running in vPars mode. To do this issue

the vparboot -p

vpname

-I... command from a different vPar in the

same nPartition to load/boot the vPar from an Ignite-UX server. For

details see the vparboot (1M) manpage or the vPars install

documentation listed below.

NOTE The HP vPars software product must be installed on every boot device

that will be used by Virtual Partitions. Each vPar must have a boot disk

where HP-UX 11i and the vPars software product are installed.

NOTE Before installing the HP vPars software product on an nPartition, you

must install the Partition Manager B.11.11.01.05 product (or a later

Partition Manager release).

For the latest Partition Manager software, see the

http://software.hp.com Web site.