HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide (5900-2540, December 2012)

a. Indicted resources are considered as healthy resources for activation.
b. However, an nPar can be marked “degraded” if it owns any indicted resources apart
from the deconfigured resources.
6. Deconfig failure usage policy
a. If a blade or iobay is deconfigured, then that blade or iobay is not activated.
b. By default, if a blade or iobay has some child resources that are deconfigured, then blade
or iobay is activated and all the healthy sub-blade or iobay resources are activated.
c. If the failure usage attribute of a blade or iobay is set to “deconfig”, and if the blade or
iobay has some deconfigured child resources, then the blade or iobay is excluded from
the list of nPar resources for activation. This is to keep the blade or iobay offline for
servicing.
7. Activation versus reboot
a. The policies used are same for first boot (activation) and reboot (re-activation).
b. During partition reboot, Partitioning subsystem tries to re-activate the partition with the
same set of resources. However, if one or more of the resources is not healthy, then the
partition reboot is internally translated into deactivation and then activation with the
healthy set of resources.
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