HP-UX 11i December 2004 Release Notes

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nPartition (Hard Partition) Systems
New and Modified Hard Partition Commands
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New and Modified Hard Partition Commands
Several system administration commands are provided with HP-UX 11i for creating and
maintaining partitions on all nPartition systems.
Additionally, the existing commands shutdown, reboot, and setboot have been
modified to support nPartition platforms.
new for December
2004
Enhanced NPartition Commands
The /usr/sbin/ directory is the default location where the nPartition commands—
parcreate (1M), parmodify (1M), parstatus (1), parremove (1M), parunlock (1M), fruled
(1), and frupower (1M)—are stored. An enhanced version of all the nPartition commands
were provided in the HP-UX 11i v2 release. Now, the enhanced version of the nPartition
commands are available on the HP-UX 11i v1 release. The enhanced version of all
nPartition commands are stored in the directory /usr/lib/npar/.
The enhanced nPartition commands are delivered through a product named Enhanced
NPartition Commands (bundle name NParCmds). This product is dependent on the patch
PHCO_31878 (in HWEnable11i) and the nPartition Provider.
A new nPartition command called cplxmodify (1M), which was made available on the
HP-UX 11i v2 release, is stored in the directory /usr/lib/npar/ in the HP-UX 11i v1
release.
The nPartition commands check if nPartition Provider is installed on the system and if
the Enhanced NPartition Commands exist under the directory/usr/lib/npar/.
If an enhanced version of an nPartition command is available and if nPartition Provider
is installed, on executing any nPartition commands from the /usr/sbin directory, the
enhanced version of nPartition command is invoked.
If the -k option is specified with the parcreate (1M), parmodify (1M), and parremove (1M)
commands, then the nPartition commands stored in the directory /usr/sbin/ are
invoked.
The Enhanced NPartition Commands are not performance sensitive. Overall response
time of Enhanced NPartition Commands depend on WBEM stack elements and network
bandwidth.
New Commands
new at 11i original
release
Below are brief descriptions of the seven new commands used to manage an nPartition
server complex:
Command Description
parcreate (1M) Creates a new partition.
parmodify (1M) Modifies an existing partition.
parstatus (1) Provides information about an entire Superdome complex,
including partition information and available resources in
the complex.