HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide

nPartition, adds another 8 GB memory to that blade. When the nPartition is booted
again, the blade now has 16 GB of memory, but the SLM is still 4 GB.
Operating System Specific Default Values for nPartition Attributes
When an nPartition is created for a specific operating system type, the default values specific to
that operating system type are applied to the nPartition attributes. Hyperthreading is enabled
by default when nPartitions are created to run HP-UX. These default attribute values are applied
without a need for user intervention. The partition management software applies pre-determined
OS specific defaults when you create a partition for a specific operating system type. However,
there is also support for a new pardefault command, which displays the operating system
specific attribute values and allows users to change them if needed:
pardefault
[Original Defaults]
Parcon Default OS Type : HPUX_11iV3
OS Type : HPUX_11iV3
Hyper Threading at activation : Enabled
SLM Percentage : 87.50%
ILM granule size : 1024 MB
SLM granule size : 1024 MB
VGA : Enabled
[Current Defaults]
Parcon Default OS Type : HPUX_11iV3
OS Type : HPUX_11iV3
Hyper Threading at activation : Enabled
SLM Percentage : 87.50%
ILM granule size : 1024 MB
SLM granule size : 1024 MB
VGA : Enabled
Partition State and RunStates
Each nPartition has a State, a Status, and a RunState. The nPartition state indicates whether the
nPartition has booted.
The nPartitions have one of the following states:
• Active nPartition
• Inactive nPartition
Active nPartition An nPartition is active when a poweron operation is initiated on the nPartition
and the firmware boot process is started.
Inactive nPartition An nPartition is considered inactive when it is not active. An nPar is in
inactive state after it has been created or shut down.
To make an inactive nPartition active, either use the poweron command on the onboard
administrator CLI, or the Power On Partition button on the Virtual Devices tab on the nPartition's
page in the OA GUI.
To make an active partition inactive, use the poweroff command on the onboard administrator.
You can use the parstatus -P command on the onboard administrator CLI to list all nPartitions
and their boot states and run states (active or inactive status).
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