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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions

Procedures for Managing vPars on HP nPartition Servers

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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Procedures for Managing vPars on

HP nPartition Servers

This section has procedures for performing typical Virtual Partitions

conﬁguration and management tasks on HP Superdome servers.

The following vPars procedures are covered here:

• vPar Management: Creating a New vPar in an nPartition on page 475

• vPar Management: Deleting a vPar from an nPartition on page 479

• vPar Management: Modifying vPar Attributes in nPartition

Environments on page 481

• vPar Management: Listing vPar Status from an nPartition on

page 483

• vPar Management: Booting HP-UX 11i on vPars in an nPartition on

page 485

• vPar Management: Rebooting or Shutting Down vPars in an

nPartition on page 493

• Conﬁguring vPar Autoboot on page 496

NOTE The procedures described here use the HP-UX Virtual Partitions

commands and not the graphical Virtual Partition Manager utility.

You can perform all tasks in this section with either the commands or

Virtual Partition Manager. For info on the Virtual Partition Manager

graphical utility see its online help or see the section Tools for Managing

vPars on nPartition Servers on page 450.

See the section Installing and Conﬁguring vPars on nPartition Servers

on page 470 for details on installing vPars software on nPartition

systems.

Also see the section Managing nPartitions from a vPar on page 504 for

issues you should be aware of when you perform nPartition conﬁg tasks

from a vPar environment.