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

Booting Using the Primary or Alternate Boot Paths................................................................160
Autoboot.............................................................................................................................160
The AUTO File on a Virtual Partition...................................................................................160
Autobooting the vPars Monitor and Virtual Partitions.............................................................161
Single-User Mode.................................................................................................................162
Example: A Hung Partition................................................................................................163
Other Boot Modes................................................................................................................163
Maintenance Mode.........................................................................................................163
Overriding Quorum.........................................................................................................164
Changing the LVM Boot Device Hardware Path for a Virtual Partition......................................164
Verification.................................................................................................................164
Preparation................................................................................................................165
Change the boot device hardware path.........................................................................165
Boot into LVM maintenance mode.................................................................................165
LVM maintenance mode steps.......................................................................................165
Resetting a Virtual Partition....................................................................................................166
Hard Reset......................................................................................................................166
Soft Reset........................................................................................................................167
Using an Alternate Partition Database File ...............................................................................167
Example.........................................................................................................................167
Managing Resources With Only One Virtual Partition................................................................169
6 CPU, Memory, and I/O Resources (A.05.xx)partitionsremoving hardware
resources..................................................................................................170
I/O: Topics..........................................................................................................................171
I/O: Concepts and Functionality.............................................................................................171
System, Cells, SBA, LBA, Devices and Relationships..............................................................171
I/O: Adding or Deleting LBAspartitionsadding i/o resourcespartitionsremoving i/o resourcesadding
i/o to a partitionremoving i/o from a partitionvirtual partitionsadding i/o resourcesvirtual
partitionsremoving i/o resourcesvparmodifyi/o resources...........................................................173
I/O Syntax in Brief...........................................................................................................173
Examples........................................................................................................................174
I/O: Allocation Notespartitionsadding i/o resourcespartitionsremoving i/o resourcesadding i/o to
a partitionremoving i/o from a partitionvirtual partitionsadding i/o resourcesvirtual partitionsremoving
i/o resourcesvparmodifyi/o resourcesvparcreatei/o resources....................................................174
Memory: Topics....................................................................................................................176
Memory: Concepts and Functionalitymemoryresourcesmemorypartitionsadding memory
resourcesadding memory resources to a partitionvirtual partitionsremoving memory resourcesvirtual
partitionsadding memory resourcesremoving memory resources from a
partitionvparcreatememoryvparmodifymemory.........................................................................176
Definitions for Assigning (Adding) Or Deleting ILM or CLM Memory.......................................176
Definitions for Dynamically Migrating ILM or CLM Memory ..................................................177
Syntax for Assigning (Adding) and Deleting Base and Float Memory.................................178
Performance Note for Base versus Float Memory Amounts................................................179
Advanced Topic: Granularity.............................................................................................180
Memory: Assigning (Adding) or Deleting by Size
(ILM)ILMmemoryILMresourcesILMvparcreatememoryvparmodifymemory.......................................180
Syntax............................................................................................................................181
Examples........................................................................................................................181
Memory: Assigning (Adding) Or Deleting by Size (CLM)vparmodifymemory................................181
Memory: Assigning (Adding) Or Deleting by Address Range.....................................................182
2 GB Restriction (PA-RISC only)..........................................................................................183
Memory: Available and Assigned Amounts..............................................................................183
vparstatus: Available ILM and CLM Memory ......................................................................183
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