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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 5.1 471
vPars Software Installation for an HP nPartition
This procedure gives a high-level overview of a process for manually
installing HP’s Virtual Partitions software product on an nPartition’s
disks.
The book Read Before Installing HP-UX Virtual Partitions has important
information you should read before performing this procedure. Also refer
to the book Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars).
Step 1. Boot HP-UX on the nPartition using the boot device that will be the
primary (PRI) boot device for one of the nPartition’s Virtual Partitions.
Step 2. Install the HP Virtual Partitions software product on the booted device.
As part of the vPars software installation, the nPartition is rebooted and
a new /stand/vmunix HP-UX kernel is built.
Step 3. Create the first Virtual Partition on the device onto which you have
installed the vPars software product.
NOTE Only perform this step for the boot disk from which /stand/vpmon will
be loaded. Do not perform this step for other boot disks.
Other boot disks are automatically updated with copies of the vPars
database as needed.
To complete this step, first boot HP-UX from the device, and then use the
vparcreate and vparmodify commands to create the first Virtual
Partition for the nPartition.
Creating the first vPar establishes a vPars database (/stand/vpdb) for
the nPartition.
You can assign each vPar resources that are part of the local nPartition.
Only hardware that is assigned to the local nPartition and is active can
be used by the vPars within the nPartition.
By default the vparcreate, vparmodify, and vparstatus commands
use the /stand/vpdb file. Although the vPars monitor is not running as
you perform this step, these commands will read and write to
/stand/vpdb if you do not specify a different vPars database file using
the -D option.