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Virtual Partitions (vPars) Management on nPartitions

Adding or Removing nPartition Cells from a Virtual Partition

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

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Virtual Partition Name Min/Max Unbound devs Total MB Total MB

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Shad 2/ 8 2 0 7 0/ 0 2048

Mesh 2/ 12 2 0 3 0/ 0 2048

To perform the reboot for reconﬁg of the local nPartition:

• First issue the shutdown -R command in the current vPar.

• Then in all other vPars that are at an “Up” or “Load” or “Boot” state,

issue the shutdown -r command.

Any vPars in a “Load” or “Boot” state must be shut down after they

ﬁnish loading/booting HP-UX.

If the nPartition has only one vPar—or if all other vPars are in a

“Down” or “Shut” state—you do not need to shut down other vPars.

For details see vPar Management: Performing a Reboot for Reconﬁg or

Shutdown to Ready for Reconﬁg from a vPar on page 508.

After you issue the above shutdown commands, HP-UX on the vPars is

shut down and the vPars monitor is automatically rebooted.

Because a reboot for reconﬁg is a reset of the nPartition hardware, any

vPars that are conﬁgured for autoboot do not do so at this time. Instead,

the nPartition boot process takes place—including the conﬁgured

nPartition autoboot behavior (deﬁned by the nPartition’s Path Flag

settings).

As the reboot for reconﬁg occurs, all cells assigned to the nPartition will

reset, any cell assignment changes for the nPartition will occur, and the

cells will proceed to perform their self tests.

After the nPartition’s cells complete self tests the partition rendezvous

can occur and then the nPartition’s BCH interface is initiated. If the

nPartition is conﬁgured to autoboot, then that will occur; otherwise, the

BCH interface is made available through the nPartition console

interface.

To load/boot all vPars, you can use the normal vPar boot methods. See

the section Booting HP-UX on vPars on page 485 for details.