v3) Considerations in vPars

the 11i v3 virtual partitions even in a mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars environment. Offline

memory migration will continue to work on all the virtual partitions.

• On HP Integrity systems that support Hyper-Threading, if the system has Hyper-Threading

turned on using the setboot command or other means, the HP-UX 11i v2 virtual partitions will

not boot. This limitation is present because HP-UX 11i v2 does not support Hyper-Threading

on settings.

5. Tools to Aid Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars

Environment Configurations

• On vPars A.05.01, A.03.05, A.04.05, and later releases, the vparstatus command has a

new option, “-P”, which returns the HP-UX version of each of the virtual partitions configured

in the hard partition. This option provides the HP-UX version for the virtual partition if the

virtual partition has ever been booted. If the virtual partition has never been booted, there is

no way for the product to determine the HP-UX version, and it will return Unknown.

# vparstatus -P

Current Virtual Partition Version: A.05.03

Monitor Version: A.05.03

[Virtual Partition OS Version]

Virtual Partition Name OS Version State

============================== ========== =====

vpar01 B.11.31 Up

vpar02 Unknown Down

vpar03 B.11.23 Up

vpar04 B.11.11 Up

vpar05 B.11.11 Down

• In a mixed vPars environment, running the vPars commands on a virtual partition running a

lower version than the monitor will return either a warning or an error. The commands that

are not allowed to operate on a different virtual partition from a lower version of vPars

software are vparcreate, vparmodify and vparremove. These will return the error message

below.

vpar1123OS> vparremove -p test

vparremove: Error: Command version 1.4 is incompatible with monitor

version 1.50.

• All other commands will return the warning as shown below.

vpar1123OS> vparboot -p test

vparboot: Warning: Command version 1.4 is different from monitor

version 1.50. The command will continue.

vparboot: Booting test. Please wait...

• The vparstatus command issued from an 11iv1 partition will not display complete information.

Please refer to HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator’s Guide under section

“Features of Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars Environments”