Intel Itanium 2 and PA-RISC nPartition Mixing - HP Superdome Hybrid Servers

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HP Superdome Hybrid Servers with Mixed Intel Itanium 2 and PA-RISC nPartitions.........................5
Supported Processors........................................................................................................................5
Mixing Scenarios...............................................................................................................................5
WLM and gWLM Limitation in All Mixing Scenarios......................................................................6
Firmware Requirements....................................................................................................................7
Mixing Scenario 1: Superdome with Only HP-UX 11i v2 on PA-RISC nPartitions.....................7
Mixing Scenario 2: Superdome with Only HP-UX 11i v1 on PA-RISC nPartitions.....................8
Limitation with Partition Manager on HP-UX 11i v1 December 2004 Release with PDC
22.1 and IPF 2.50/2.52..............................................................................................................8
Limitation with iCAP on HP-UX 11i v1 December 2004 Release with PDC 22.1 and IPF
2.50/2.52...................................................................................................................................9
Limitation with WLM and gWLM on HP-UX 11i v1 December 2004 Release with PDC
22.1 and IPF 2.50/2.52..............................................................................................................9
Mixing Scenario 3: Superdome with Both HP-UX 11i v1 PA-RISC and HP-UX 11i v2 PA-RISC
nPartitions....................................................................................................................................9
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