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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions
Reboot for Reconfig or Shutdown to Ready for Reconfig from a vPar
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 508
Reboot for Reconfig or
Shutdown to Ready for Reconfig
from a vPar
This section describes how to perform a reboot for reconfig and how to
shut down an nPartition to the ready for reconfig state on nPartitions
that are running HP-UX one or more vPars.
A reboot for reconfig resets all cell in the nPartition, performs any
nPartition reconfigurations, and reboots the nPartition to its BCH
interface and allows the nPartition to autoboot, if it is configured to
autoboot.
A shut down to the ready for reconfig state resets all cell in the
nPartition, performs any nPartition reconfigurations, and then holds all
cells at a boot-is-blocked state, which makes the nPartition inactive.
Refer to the chapter Booting and Resetting nPartitions on page 197 for
complete details.
vPar Management: Performing a Reboot for Reconfig
or Shutdown to Ready for Reconfig from a vPar
This procedure covers how to perform a reboot for reconfig of an
nPartition that is running Virtual Partitions.
This procedure also describes how to reset an nPartition to a ready for
reconfig state, for an nPartition that is running vPars.
Step 1. Login to HP-UX running on any of the nPartition’s vPars.
Step 2. Issue the parstatus -w command to list the local nPartition’s partition
number, and confirm that you are logged into the vPar on the nPartition
you want to reboot.
Step 3. Issue the vparstatus command to list details about all vPars currently
defined in the local nPartition.
Check the command’s output to determine whether a reboot for reconfig
or a shutdown to ready for reconfig already has been initiated from one of
the vPars in the nPartition.
The following note in the vparstatus output is presented when either
type of reconfig shutdown has been initiated.