HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager 6.0 User Guide

2. Select one or more virtual partitions by selecting the checkbox against the virtual partition.
3. Select Tools→Stop Virtual Partition from the Virtual Partitions menu bar.
The Stop Virtual Partition screen is displayed.
Figure 60 Stop Virtual Partition
The General Preview area shows the virtual partitions that are going to be stopped. The Real
Command area displays the commands that the virtual partition Manager will execute to stop
the virtual partitions.
4. Select the How to Stop option to set the method to stop the virtual partition. The following
options are available:
• Graceful stop: The graceful stop or the -g command shuts down the virtual partition
gracefully. The -g option does not allow the automatic reboot of the virtual partition. The
virtual partition must be manually restarted using the vparboot command.
• Power-off: The power-off or the -d option is equivalent to the PC-off command in the
management processor of the specified virtual partition. The -d option does not allow
the automatic reboot of the virtual partition.
This option abruptly shuts down the virtual partition operating system without saving the
operating system crash dump.
5. Click OK to stop the selected virtual partitions.
Resetting virtual partitions
When you reset virtual partitions, virtual partition Manager resets the selected virtual partition
irrespective of whether the virtual partition is already booted or stopped. The Reset and Bootfunctions
are similar except that the Reset function reboots a virtual partition that is already booted, while
the Boot function does not (it leaves the booted virtual partition as it is).
You can use the Reset function instead of the Boot function when you have several virtual partitions
that you want newly booted, some of which are already booted and some currently stopped. The
Reset function resets all the virtual partitions. However, if you do not want the already booted
partitions rebooted, in other words, you just want the stopped partitions booted, use the Boot
function instead.
To reset one or more virtual partitions:
104 Working with virtual partitions