HP-UX Virtual Partitions 6.0 Release Notes

1. Install all necessary hardware.
Add any required mezzanine cards.
NOTE: It is not necessary to purchase and populate separate network and storage mezzanine
cards for each vPar, because shared I/O, such as vswitches and NPIV support sharing of the
hardware across multiple partitions.
Add DIMMS, as desired, to ensure that there is enough memory for both the VSP and the
vPars.
2. Verify the number of cores and memory available for vPars using the vparhwmgmt command.
Use vparhwmgmt -p cpu -l to display the allocation of CPU cores.
Use vparhwmgmt -p memory -l to display the allocation of memory.
3. Create one or more virtual switches using the vparnet command.
4. View or verify the inventory of CPU and I/O using the vparstatus -A command.
NOTE: You might have to repeat some of the steps several times until the proper configuration
is achieved. Some of the steps – such as changing the kernel tunables – may force a reboot of the
VSP.
Upon installation, tunables are set to the following values:
• ninode – 1024
• filecache_max – 134217728
• filecache_min – 134217728
• vxfs_bc_bufhwm – 64000 (64 MB)
Configuring the Virtualization Services Platform (VSP) 15