Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (includes A.04.03)

Introduction

HP Product Interaction

Chapter 1

You must boot the nPartition into nPars mode to operate these utilities.

For more information on modes, see “Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes (Integrity only)”

on page 95

Ignite-UX

— Making Depots for Ignite-UX:

For information on where to find a "cookbook" for setting up your Ignite-UX server for use with vPars,

see “Setting Up the Ignite-UX Server” on page 64.

— Reading the CPU counts from Ignite-UX (vPars A.03.xx and earlier):

When Ignite-UX reports the Total Number of CPUs for a partition, it includes unassigned unbound

CPUs in the count. For information on bound and unbound CPUs, see “CPU: Bound and Unbound” on

page 204.

For example, if you have three virtual partitions, each with one bound CPU, and two unbound CPUs

not assigned to any of the partitions, this is a total of five CPUs in the server. Ignite-UX will report

three CPUs (one bound and two unbound CPUs) for each partition. However, adding up the numbers

results in a total of nine CPUs for the server when there are actually only five physical CPUs.

• (PA-RISC only) The WINSTALL Boot Kernel Paths with Different Versions of Ignite-UX and the vparboot

-I command

The examples in this document use the Ignite-UX bootable kernel WINSTALL path as

/opt/ignite/boot/WINSTALL

This is the correct path for Ignite-UX versions B.05.xx and earlier. However, if you are using Ignite-UX

version C.06.xx or later, the WINSTALL path has changed to

/opt/ignite/boot/Rel_B.11.NN/?INSTALL

where NN completes the HP-UX version and

where ? is W for PA-RISC systems

For example, if vPars is using HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) instances on a PA-RISC server with Ignite-UX

version C.06.xx, the path is:

/opt/ignite/boot/Rel_B.11.23/WINSTALL

Thus, if you are using HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) on a PA-RISC server and

— Ignite-UX version B.05.xx or earlier:

you should specify /opt/ignite/boot/WINSTALL on the command line (/opt/ignite/boot is the

default); for example

# vparboot -p <target_partition> -I <ignite_server>,/opt/ignite/boot/WINSTALL

— Ignite-UX version C.06.xx or later:

you must specify the absolute path /opt/ignite/boot/Rel_B.11.23/WINSTALL on the command line

(because /opt/ignite/boot is the default); for example

# vparboot -p <target_partition> -I <ignite_server>,/opt/ignite/boot/Rel_B.11.23/WINSTALL