HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.08) (5900-1312, March 2011)

CAUTION: The A.03.xx releases of vPars require the first virtual partition to own the LBA for the
physical hardware console port. For the example above, when we create the virtual partitions, we
would create winona1 and keira1 first.
CAUTION:
vPars Console Assignment on sx2000-based Servers
The console UART for sx2000-based servers is no longer on a PCI card, and the system console
is memory mapped and moved to PDH. Hence, there is no LBA component for the console to be
assigned to a virtual partition.
Thus, for sx2000-based servers, you must assign the console by hardware path to a virtual partition
by performing the following steps. For sx2000-based servers running vPars A.03.xx, the console
hardware path must be assigned to the first virtual partition created.
1. Find out the console hardware path:
# ioscan -kfnC tty
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
=============================================================
tty 0 0/8/1 asio0 CLAIMED INTERFACE Built-in RS232C
/dev/diag/mux0 /dev/mux0 /dev/tty0p0
The console hardware path on this system is 0/8/1.
2. Assign the console hardware path to the first virtual partition being created:
# vparcreate -p vPar1 -a io:0/8/1 ...
Choosing the Boot and Lan Paths
Using the full ioscan output, we chose the following boot disk path and note the LAN card path:
keira3keira2keira1Partition Name
0/0/0/3/0.6.01/0/4/1/0/4/0.1.0.0.0.0.11/0/0/3/0.6.0.0.6.0
Boot Path
0/0/2/1/01/0/1/1/0/4/00/0/1/1/0/4/0
LAN
winona3winona2winona1Partition Name
1.4.0.0.5.00.8.0.0.5.00.0.2.0.6.0
Boot Path
0.5.0.0.4.01.10.0.0.4.00.0.0.0
LAN
Autoboot
Autoboot allows a virtual partition to be booted automatically on a cold boot of the system. By
default, autoboot is set to AUTO for all virtual partitions.
keira3keira2keira1Partition Name
AUTOMANUALAUTO
Autoboot
winona3winona2winona1Partition Name
AUTOAUTOAUTO
Autoboot
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