HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide

Table of Contents
1 Introduction...................................................................................................................11
Conceptual Overview...........................................................................................................................11
HP Superdome 2 terminology..............................................................................................................12
2 Partitioning in HP Superdome 2.................................................................................13
Onboard Administrator and Partition Management............................................................................13
Managing Partitions – Basics................................................................................................................13
nPartitions .......................................................................................................................................13
Virtual Partitions (vPars).................................................................................................................14
Commands: Partition Help pages.........................................................................................................14
Commands: Partition Commands Logging..........................................................................................15
Log File Location and Log Format..................................................................................................15
Cases Where No Logging Occurs....................................................................................................15
Cases Where Logging Occurs..........................................................................................................16
Constraints and Restrictions to Logging.........................................................................................16
Ordering and Licensing........................................................................................................................16
nPartitions Licensing.......................................................................................................................16
Virtual Partitions Licensing.............................................................................................................16
Related Software Licensing.............................................................................................................17
Ordering vPars................................................................................................................................17
nPartition and Virtual Partition Unique Identifiers........................................................................17
3 Getting Started with nPartitions..................................................................................19
Administration Tool for nPartitions......................................................................................................19
Onboard Partition Manager............................................................................................................19
Commands for Configuring nPartitions.........................................................................................19
nPartition Resources.............................................................................................................................20
Assigned or Unassigned Blades and I/O bays.................................................................................21
Active and Inactive Blades..............................................................................................................21
I/O Enclosures and I/O Bays............................................................................................................22
Finding the Resource Path of I/O ..............................................................................................22
nPartition Properties.............................................................................................................................22
Partition Names...............................................................................................................................22
Partition Numbers...........................................................................................................................23
Hyperthreading...............................................................................................................................23
Enabling or Disabling Hyperthreading on HP Superdome 2 using the GUI............................23
Enabling or Disabling Hyperthreading on HP Superdome 2 using the CLI.............................23
Socket Local Memory......................................................................................................................23
Blade Resource Attributes....................................................................................................................24
Operating System Specific Default Values for nPartition Attributes...................................................25
Partition State and RunStates................................................................................................................25
Partition Specifications (parspec)..........................................................................................................27
Creating a Partition Specification....................................................................................................27
Creating an nPartition from a Partition Specification.....................................................................27
Removing a Partition Specification.................................................................................................28
Saving the Current Configuration of nPartition and Switch to an Alternate Configuration..........28
Viewing Partition Specification Using the OA GUI........................................................................28
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