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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions
Rebooting or Shutting Down vPars
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 492
Rebooting or Shutting Down vPars
This section describes how to reboot HP-UX in a vPar and how to shut
down all vPars running in an nPartition.
After shutting down all vPars in an nPartition you can reboot the vPars
monitor to reset the nPartition and, after resetting, make the
nPartition’s BCH interface available.
NOTE The nPartition reboot for reconfig and ready for reconfig state involve
methods of resetting an nPartition that require additional considerations
not covered in this section.
See the section Managing nPartitions from a vPar on page 504 for details
and procedures to perform a reboot for reconfig or to shut down an
nPartition to a ready for reconfig state when one or more vPars is running
in the nPartition.
When you reboot (shutdown -r) HP-UX running in a vPar, HP-UX will
automatically attempt to reboot on the vPar if the vPar is configured for
autoboot and none of the other vPars in the same nPartition have
initiated a reboot for reconfig or a shutdown to the ready for reconfig
state.
You can interrupt the vPar autoboot process when accessing the vPar’s
console interface through its nPartition’s console.
When you halt (shutdown -h) HP-UX running in a vPar the vPar shuts
down to a “Down” state and HP-UX does not reboot. After you have
halted a vPar you can load/boot HP-UX on the vPar using the vparboot
command from HP-UX running on any of the other vPars in the same
nPartition. Also see the procedure vPar Management: Booting HP-UX
11i on vPars in an nPartition on page 485 for other methods and details.
To shut down all vPars in an nPartition, login to each vPar through its
console and halt HP-UX (shutdown -h). Then from the vPars monitor’s
MON> prompt you can enter reboot to exit the vPars monitor and reset
the nPartition’s active cells.