HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.05.03)

Number of Virtual Partitions...........................................................................................................54
Virtual Partition Names...................................................................................................................54
Minimal Hardware Configuration..................................................................................................54
CPUs................................................................................................................................................54
vPars A.04.xx and later...............................................................................................................55
vPars A.03.xx and earlier............................................................................................................55
Memory...........................................................................................................................................56
I/O....................................................................................................................................................56
Assigning I/O at the LBA Level..................................................................................................56
Assigning the Hardware Console LBA...........................................................................................57
Choosing the Boot and Lan Paths....................................................................................................59
Autoboot..........................................................................................................................................59
Virtual Partition Plan.......................................................................................................................59
Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments in vPars A.04.05...........................................................60
Features of Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments..............................................................60
Feature Summary............................................................................................................................61
Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environments in vPars A.05.xx...........................................................62
Features............................................................................................................................................62
Feature Summary............................................................................................................................63
Booting Summary............................................................................................................................64
Determining the Version in a Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environment...................................64
Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars Environments in vPars A.05.03......................................................65
Features of Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars Environments.........................................................65
Features Summary...........................................................................................................................67
4 Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars........69
Notes, Cautions, and Other Considerations Before You Update or Install vPars................................69
Notes................................................................................................................................................69
Cautions...........................................................................................................................................70
Other Considerations.......................................................................................................................70
Installing Server Firmware on non-nPartitionable Servers........................................................70
Setting the GSP Terminal Type...................................................................................................71
How to Set the GSP Terminal Type.......................................................................................71
Increase in Size of /stand File System.....................................................................................72
VxFS (Veritas File System) (vPars A.03.xx)................................................................................72
SecurePath..................................................................................................................................72
Bundle Names.......................................................................................................................................72
vPars Product Bundles....................................................................................................................72
vPars-related Bundles (A.03.xx and earlier)....................................................................................74
Installing and Removing vPars-related Bundles .......................................................................74
B6826AA (parmgr)................................................................................................................74
VPARMGR............................................................................................................................74
Installing vPars and the vPars-related Bundles from CD.....................................................74
Setting Up the Ignite-UX Server...........................................................................................................75
Ignite-UX Versions...........................................................................................................................75
Determining the Ignite-UX Version.................................................................................................75
Ignite-UX Cookbook........................................................................................................................75
Ignite-UX, the LAN, the LAN card, and vparboot -I......................................................................76
PA-RISC...........................................................................................................................................76
Integrity...........................................................................................................................................77
Updating from vPars A.04.xx to A.05.xx..............................................................................................77
Update-UX Preparation Steps.........................................................................................................78
OE Bundle Names for Update-UX.............................................................................................79
The Update Process: Goal................................................................................................................79
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