HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide

1/4 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 128.0/0.0/0.0 - - -
1/5 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 128.0/0.0/0.0 - - -
1/6 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 128.0/0.0/0.0 - - -
1/7 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 128.0/0.0/0.0 - - -
1/8 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 128.0/0.0/0.0 - - -
* D-Deconfigured I-Indicted
[IOBay]
Enclosure/ Usage/ Par Pending
IOBay Status* Num Deletion
========== ======================= === ========
5/1 Inactive /OK - -
5/2 Inactive /OK - -
6/1 Inactive /OK - -
6/2 Inactive /OK - -
7/1 Inactive /OK - -
7/2 Inactive /OK - -
8/1 Inactive /OK - -
8/2 Inactive /OK - -
9/1 Empty /Invalid - -
9/2 Empty /Invalid - -
10/1 Empty /Invalid - -
10/2 Empty /Invalid - -
11/1 Empty /Invalid - -
11/2 Empty /Invalid - -
12/1 Empty /Invalid - -
12/2 Empty /Invalid - -
* D-Deconfigured I-Indicted
[Partition]
Par State/ Status* # of # of ILM/ Partition Name
Num RunState Blades IOBays SLM (first 15
(GB)** characters)
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* D-Degraded
** Actual allocated for Active and User requested for Inactive partitions
In addition to providing the resource information, the parstatus command also shows the
existing nPartitions if any.
Assigned or Unassigned Blades and I/O bays
Each blade in a server complex is either assigned to one of the nPartitions in the complex, or
unassigned. If an I/O bay is unassigned, it is not used by any nPartition. Blades and I/O bays
that are unassigned are considered to be available resources; they are free to be assigned to any
of the existing nPartitions, or can be used to create new nPartitions.
You can assign a blade to an nPartition or unassign a blade from the nPartition by using the
parcreate or the parmodify commands. For more information, see help parcreate and
help parmodify.
Active and Inactive Blades
Blades that are assigned to an nPartition and have been booted are active blades whose resources
(processors, memory, and on-board I/O) can be actively used by software running in the nPartition.
Blades that are Inactive are either not assigned to an nPartition (recognized by the empty "Par
Num" field against those blades in the parstatus command output) or are assigned to an
nPartition that is not yet powered on (partition status Inactive/DOWN in parstatus command
output). Blades assigned to an nPartition are powered only when the partition to which they are
assigned are powered on or activated. A blade may show up as Inactive while being part of
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