HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.05.01) (previously titled Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions)

Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars
Notes, Cautions, and Other Considerations Before You Update or Install vPars
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Notes, Cautions, and Other Considerations Before You Update or
Install vPars
Notes
Please be sure you understand vPars before attempting the updates and installations. See Chapter 2, “How
vPars and its Components Work,” on page 29 and Chapter 3, “Planning Your System for Virtual Partitions,”
on page 53.
Related Information
For information on the installation of HP-UX and what is supported for your HP-UX version, see the
applicable HP-UX 11i Installation and Update Guide and the HP-UX 11i Release Notes for your OS version.
For information on swinstall and software depots, see the manual "Software Distributor Administration
Guide for HP-UX".
For more information on booting and boot devices on PA-RISC systems, see also the paper titled Booting,
Installing, Recovery, and Sharing in a vPars Environment from DVD / CDROM / TAPE / Network available
at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/11i/index.html#Virtual%20Partitions.
For information on using the vPars commands, see the following sections in the chapter Monitor and Shell
Commands:
• “Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition” on page 155.
• “Monitor: Booting the vPars Monitor” on page 129.
• “Boot||Shut: Booting a Virtual Partition” on page 159
• “Boot||Shut: Shutting Down or Rebooting the nPartition (OR Rebooting the vPars Monitor)” on page 162.
Server Chipset Upgrade
The process documented in many of the updates assumes you are not performing a hardware upgrade that
causes a change in hardware paths (for example, upgrading from the sx1000 chipset to the sx2000 chipset).
For information on upgrading vPars when the upgrade includes a hardware path change, please see
“Upgrading Integrity Servers from the sx1000 to sx2000 Chipset” on page 105.
Cautions
Hardware Paths on the vPars Command Line
— Hardware Path Differences Between Cellular (nPartitionable) and Non-cellular Systems
The hardware paths for some example system are formatted for non-cellular systems. For cellular
systems, their hardware paths contain the prefix of the cell number. Therefore, on non-cellular systems,
the path 0/0 refers to a SBA/LBA format. However, on cellular systems, the path 0/0 refers to a cell/SBA
format. Please read the section “Planning, Installing, and Using vPars with an nPartitionable Server” on
page 58 if you are using a cellular system.
— Path Formats on the vPars Command Line