nPartition Administrator's Guide

Table of Contents
About This Document.......................................................................................................11
New and Changed Information in This Edition...................................................................................11
Document Organization.......................................................................................................................11
Typographic Conventions.....................................................................................................................12
Related Information..............................................................................................................................13
Publishing History................................................................................................................................13
HP Encourages Your Comments..........................................................................................................13
1 Getting Started with nPartitions..................................................................................15
Introduction to nPartitions....................................................................................................................15
Operating Systems Supported on nPartitions.................................................................................15
HP Server Support for nPartitions...................................................................................................16
HP Superdome Hybrid Servers: Intel® Itanium® 2 and PA-RISC nPartition Mixing..............17
Hardware Components of nPartition-Capable Servers...................................................................18
Administration Tools for nPartitions....................................................................................................18
Commands for Configuring nPartitions.........................................................................................19
Availability of nPartition Commands........................................................................................21
Enhanced nPartitions Commands for Windows.......................................................................21
Enhanced nPartition Commands for Linux...............................................................................22
Partition Manager............................................................................................................................22
Partition Manager Version 2.0 for Windows..............................................................................23
nPartition Properties.............................................................................................................................24
Partition Numbers...........................................................................................................................25
Assigned and Unassigned Cells......................................................................................................24
Base Cells.........................................................................................................................................24
Core Cells.........................................................................................................................................24
Floating Cells...................................................................................................................................25
Active and Inactive Cells.................................................................................................................25
Cell Local Memory..........................................................................................................................25
Cell Property Details.......................................................................................................................25
Active and Inactive nPartition Boot States......................................................................................27
Cell Online Operation......................................................................................................................28
Adding Cell Online....................................................................................................................28
Deleting Cell Online ..................................................................................................................28
Overview of Managing nPartitions......................................................................................................28
Basics of Listing nPartition and Complex Status.............................................................................28
Basics of nPartition Creation...........................................................................................................29
Genesis Partition.........................................................................................................................30
Basics of nPartition Modification....................................................................................................31
nPartition Modification Tasks....................................................................................................31
Basics of nPartition Booting and Resetting......................................................................................33
Boot Process for Cells and nPartitions.......................................................................................33
Common nPartition Boot Commands and Tasks.......................................................................34
Complex Profile....................................................................................................................................37
Changing the Server Complex Profile.............................................................................................37
How the Complex Profile is Updated........................................................................................38
Complex Profile Entry Locking and Unlocking..............................................................................39
Complex Profile Group Details.......................................................................................................39
Remote and Local Management of nPartitions....................................................................................41
Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI).........................................................................41
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