HP-UX HB v13.00 Ch-17 - vPars

HP-UX Handbook – Rev 13.00 Page 19 (of 46)
Chapter 17 Virtual Partitions (vPars)
October 29, 2013
issues vparboot will tftp the Ignite kernel and file system from the Ignite Server and pass them
to the vpmon. vpmon will load them into the newly created vPar and boot it. The Ignite files
passed to the vpmon include the IP address of the Ignite Server. A LAN boot is not done;
therefore no booting IP addresses will be needed on the Ignite Server for the vPar.
Integrity: There is no argument to the –I option. A lanboot select displays a list of the LAN
cards that can be used to issue a bootp request for the new vPar. An Ignite-UX server configured
with a bootptab entry for the vPars MAC address is required. The Ignite-UX server cannot be
specified by its IP address. A broadcast is done, and the first server to reply will be used. You
will have an opportunity to cancel and try again if a reply does not come from the correct server.
Installation of PA-RISC systems
What follows is a typical installation (our example vpar2) using an Ignite-UX server. After
running vparcreate to create the virtual partitions on the stand-alone server (see previous
chapter), these steps have to be done
1. Boot the vPars monitor and the first virtual partition
ISL> hpux /stand/vpmon vparload –p vpar1
2. Continue to boot vpar2 using the Ignite-UX server, boot the target virtual partition from
the running virtual partition using vparboot.
# vparboot –p vpar2 –I \
<ignite_server>,/opt/ignite/boot/Rel_B.11.11/WINSTALL
A message will pop up showing:
<MON> vpar2 loaded
3. Use Ctrl-A to switch to the console of vpar2 and continue installation using the Ignite
installation interface.
4. Enter the boot disk path, LAN info, hostname, and IP address of the target partition into
the Ignite-UX interface and install HP-UX, desired patches, the Quality Pack bundle, the
vPars bundle, and the desired vPars-related bundles. The virtual partition will
automatically reboot after installation.
Installation of Integrity systems
1. After creating virtual partitions using vparcreate (see previous chapter), set the
nPartition to boot into vPars mode: