Technical data
Procedures for Managing nPartitions
Creating a New nPartition
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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When using the parcreate command, do not specify the -B option for
this procedure.
(The -B option causes parcreate to immediately boot the newly created
partition past the default ready for reconfig state, thus making the
nPartition active and preventing you from further modifying it.)
By not specifying -B, the new partition can be further modified because it
will remain inactive at a ready for reconfig state (until you boot it using
the service processor Command menu’s BO command).
If creating a single-cell nPartition, just use one -c option.
To create a multiple-cell nPartition, you should specify the -c option
multiple times (once for each cell) issuing a single command line.
When parcreate successfully creates a new nPartition, it reports
“Partition Created” and reports the partition number (“partition number
is...”).
If parcreate detects any problems or issues when creating an nPartition,
it lists them in its output. If it cannot create the partition, parcreate
reports “Command failed” along with more details.
The parcreate command’s -c option is as follows:
-c cell:[cell_type]:[use_on_next_boot]:[failure_usage]
This option specifies the cell ID (cell) to be assigned to the partition.
• The only valid cell_type value is: base (base cell, the default).
• The valid use_on_next_boot values for cells are:
y Participate in reboot (the default).
n Do not participate in reboot.
• The only valid failure_usage value is: ri (reactivate with interleave,
the default).
For details, see the parcreate(1M) manpage.
# parcreate -c4:base:y:ri -c6:base:y:ri
Partition Created. The partition number is : 1
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