HP-UX Virtual Partitions 6.0 Release Notes

3 HP-UX Virtual Partitions v6.0 features and advantages
The management of virtual partitions is now converged under an overall framework, which you
can access from the VSP.
vPars v6.0 features
Installation
• Ignite-UX support for installing HP-UX on vPars
User interface
• HP SMH GUI tool HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager for virtual partition configuration and
management
• CLI (vPars v6.0) for virtual partition configuration and management
Accessibility
• Dedicated virtual console per vPar
• EFI access from the vPar console
• Virtual iLO Remote Console for each vPar
• Users on one virtual partition cannot access files or file systems on other partitions unless the
file systems are NFS-mounted, or access is otherwise given through networking or for
cluster-aware volume groups used within Serviceguard. Further, users configured on one virtual
partition do not automatically have access on any other partition.
Resources
• Each virtual partition is assigned its own resources (cores, memory, and shared I/O), so there
are no resource conflicts between virtual partitions.
• Processor cores can be added to or removed from a virtual partition without rebooting
(CPU-OL*).
• Shared I/O
Storage (whole LUNs, LVM, SLVM, file backing stores, and NPIV HBA)◦
◦ Networking (virtual switch and virtual NICs)
Configuration
• From within a single VSP (the OS instance hosting the vPars), you manage (create, modify,
delete) multiple virtual partitions.
• Each virtual partition runs its own instance of HP-UX. Therefore, each virtual partition has a
separate instance of HP-UX running different applications (or the same applications) at the
same time without conflicts.
• The patch level of each instance of HP-UX can be different.
• Virtual partitions can be individually reconfigured and rebooted (for patches and other changes
that require a reboot) using the VSP GUI and CLI.
• Max number of vPars per hard partition is raised from 16 to the available resource limit.
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