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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions
Rebooting or Shutting Down vPars
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 493
vPar Management: Rebooting or Shutting Down vPars
in an nPartition
The following procedure is for performing a normal reboot (shutdown -r)
or a shutdown-and-halt (shutdown -h) in a vPar that is running in an
nPartition.
This procedure also describes how to halt all vPars in an nPartition and
return to the nPartition’s BCH interface.
Step 1. Login to HP-UX running on the Virtual Partition that you want to
shutdown or reboot.
You can login to the vPar remotely by using the telnet command or
another remote login command, or can login through the vPar’s console.
If you plan to shut down all vPars in the nPartition, you should gain
console login access to the vPars.
You also will need vPar console access for this procedure if you must
interrupt the vPar’s HP-UX autoboot process.
To access the vPar’s console, first login to the service processor (GSP) for
server where the vPar’s nPartition resides and then access the
nPartition’s console. As needed, in the nPartition console type Control-a
to switch among the vPar consoles.
Step 2. Enter the vparstatus -w command to confirm that you are logged into
the vPar that you want to shut down.
You also can check the vPar’s autoboot setting by using the setboot or
the vparstatus command.
# vparstatus -w
The current virtual partition is Shad.
# setboot
Primary bootpath : 0/0/6/0/0.5.0
Alternate bootpath : 0/0/6/0/0.6.0
Autoboot is ON (enabled)
Autosearch is ON (enabled)
Note: The interpretation of Autoboot and Autosearch has changed
for
systems that support hardware partitions. Please refer to the
manpage.
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