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nPartition System Overviews
Cell Properties
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 61
Cell Properties
Cells in an HP nPartition server have various properties that determine
how the cells can be used and managed.
The cell properties discussed here include: Assigned and Unassigned
Cells, Base Cells, Core Cells, and Active and Inactive Cells.
To list details about all cells in a server complex, you can use the
parstatus -C HP-UX command or Partition Manager.
The parstatus -C command output includes the current nPartition
assignments, usage, and I/O details for the cells.
# parstatus -C
[Cell]
CPU Memory Use
OK/ (GB) Core On
Hardware Actual Deconf/ OK/ Cell Next Par
Location Usage Max Deconf Connected To Capable Boot Num
========== ============ ======= ========= =================== ======= ==== ===
cab0,cell0 active core 4/0/4 8.0/ 0.0 cab 0,bay0,chassis1 yes yes 0
cab0,cell1 active base 4/0/4 8.0/ 0.0 - no yes 0
cab0,cell2 active base 4/0/4 8.0/ 0.0 cab 0,bay1,chassis3 yes yes 0
cab0,cell3 absent - - - - - -
cab0,cell4 active core 2/0/4 4.0/ 0.0 cab 0,bay0,chassis3 yes yes 1
cab0,cell5 active base 2/0/4 4.0/ 0.0 - no yes 1
cab0,cell6 active base 2/0/4 4.0/ 0.0 cab 0,bay1,chassis1 yes yes 1
cab0,cell7 absent - - - - - -
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Assigned and
Unassigned Cells
Each cell in an nPartition server complex either is assigned to one of the
nPartitions in the complex, or it is unassigned and thus is not used by
any of the nPartitions. If an I/O chassis is attached to an unassigned cell,
then the chassis likewise is not assigned to an nPartition.
Cells that are unassigned are considered to be available resources; they
are on the server complex’s “free cell list” and are free to be assigned to
any of the existing nPartitions, or can be used to create new nPartitions.
Base Cells For the HP-UX 11i release, all cells within an Partition are base cells.
The HP-UX 11i utilities for managing nPartitions automatically set the
cell type to base cell, if you do not specify the cell type.