Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (A.02.01)

What is New in this Release

This section covers the major points of what is new

• Superdome systems are now supported. For more information, please

see the following:

— “Supported Environments” on page 22,

— “nPartitions” on page 23,

— “Logs on a nPartition Server” on page 43,

— “shutdown and reboot commands” on page 28,

— “Performing nPartition Operations” on page 122.

• iCOD is now supported in a vPars environments. Please see “iCOD

(Instant Capacity on Demand) and PPU (Pay Per Use)” on page 25.

• vparmgr, a GUI to the vPars commands, is now available. Please see

“Virtual Partition Manager” on page 151.

• A “cookbook” for setting up your Ignite-UX server is now available.

See “Setting Up the Ignite-UX Server” on page 78.

• For information on performing ﬁrmware updates, see “Updating

Firmware” on page 22.

• Information on the free product (VPARSBASE) has been added. See

“Features of Free Versus Purchased Product” on page 31.

• For information on upgrading from a previous version of vPars, see

“Updating to the Latest Version of vPars” on page 91.

• Information on removing the vPars product has been added. See

“Removing the vPars Product” on page 95

• Information on virtual consoles has been added. See “Virtual

Consoles” on page 41.

• Information on Support Tools has been updated. See “Support Tools”

on page 24.

• Updates have been made to the following manpages:

vparboot (1M), vparcreate (1M), vparmodify (1M), vparremove (1M),

vparreset (1M), and vparstatus (1M).