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Introduction to nPartitions
Tools for Managing Partitions
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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Tools for Managing Partitions
You can use several different software tools to create, modify, and
monitor a server’s nPartitions and related server complex hardware.
These tools have capabilities that overlap in some cases, but each tool
also has unique features and access requirements.
The tools for managing nPartitions are:
• Service Processor (GSP or MP) menus
• Virtual Front Panel (VFP) interfaces
• Boot Console Handler (BCH) interfaces
• HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands
• Partition Manager (/opt/parmgr/bin/parmgr)
• System Administration Manager (SAM, /usr/sbin/sam)
NOTE The service processor in HP servers is sometimes called the Management
Processor (MP) and sometimes the Guardian Service Processor (GSP).
Regardless of the name, the service processor in these servers provides
approximately the same features and performs essentially the same role.
Throughout this document the term “service processor” refers to both the
MP and GSP service processors.
Table 2-1 lists the partition management tools and describes each tool’s
features and capabilities.
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