Technical data

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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HP Superdome Partition Configuration Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Process for Selecting Cells for nPartitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Chart of Supported HP rp7410 nPartition Configurations . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chart of Supported HP rp8400 nPartition Configurations . . . . . . . . . . 58
Charts of Supported HP Superdome nPartition Configurations. . . . . . 59
Example Partition Configurations for an HP Superdome Server
Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Server Complex Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Locking and Unlocking Complex Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Coordinating Changes to nPartitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Using HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Specifying Cells and I/O Chassis to Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
nPartition Commands—Details and Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
parcreate Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
parmodify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
parremove Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
parstatus Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
parunlock Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Using the Partition Manager Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
3. Using Console and Service Processor Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Service Processor (GSP or MP) Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Service Processor Accounts and Access Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Accessing Service Processor Interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Procedure: Logging in to a Service Processor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Using Service Processor Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Navigating through Service Processor Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Using Service Processor Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Commonly Used Service Processor Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Service Processor Commands: Quick Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Configuring Service Processor Network Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Accessing nPartition Consoles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
nPartition Console Access versus Direct HP-UX Log-In . . . . . . . 109
Accessing the Boot Console Handler (BCH). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Viewing Console Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Using Chassis Code Log Viewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
HP Restricted / DRAFT
DRAFT NOV 2001