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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 5.1 472
If you want to create multiple vPars within an nPartition you can do so
as part of this step, by issuing a vparcreate command for each new
Virtual Partition within the local nPartition.
You also can create any additional vPars later, after you have booted the
vPars monitor and loaded/booted HP-UX 11i on the first Virtual
Partition.
Step 4. Issue the shutdown -r command to reboot HP-UX on the nPartition and
return to the nPartition’s BCH interface.
As needed, interrupt the autoboot process to interact with the nPartition
at the BCH interface.
Step 5. Install the vPars software product on each remaining boot device that is
to be used to boot HP-UX on one of the nPartition’s vPars.
For each vPar boot device, you can boot HP-UX from the device in
non-vPars mode and then install the vPars software product on the
device.
An alternate install method is to load/boot HP-UX on the first vPar, and
then simultaneously install HP-UX and vPars software on other vPars by
using the the vparboot -p vpname -I... command. See the vparboot
(1M) manpage.
You must install both HP-UX and the vPars software for every vPar. For
example, if you plan to have three vPars in an nPartition then you need
at least three boot devices with HP-UX and vPars software installed.
If you intend to have multiple boot disks for a vPar—for example, a PRI
device and an ALT device—then you need to install HP-UX and the
vPars software product on both the PRI and ALT devices for the vPar.