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

HP-UX Handbook – Rev 13.00 Page 3 (of 46)
Chapter 17 Virtual Partitions (vPars)
October 29, 2013
Table of Contents
Table of Contents ___________________________________________________________ 3
Introduction _________________________________________________________________ 5
Virtual Partitions Environment, vpmon and vpdb _______________________________________ 5
Virtual Console ____________________________________________________________________ 7
Daemons and vPar states ___________________________________________________________ 8
Differences between vPars and HP Integrity Virtual Machine _______________________________ 9
Supported Systems and Requirements for vPars ____________________________________ 9
Supported Systems and required Firmware for vPars _____________________________________ 9
Requirements for vPars _____________________________________________________________ 9
Comparison between vPars on PA-RISC and Integrity ____________________________________ 10
Booting _______________________________________________________________________________ 10
vPars Commands ________________________________________________________________________ 10
Processor and Cell-Based Systems with vPars __________________________________________ 11
Processor-based systems (PA-RISC only) _____________________________________________________ 11
Cell-based systems (PA-RISC and Itanium) ____________________________________________________ 11
Planning a Virtual Partition (an Example) ________________________________________ 12
N-Class Block Diagram _____________________________________________________________ 12
ioscan ________________________________________________________________________ 12
Partition information ______________________________________________________________ 14
Installing vPars ______________________________________________________________ 16
vPars Product Bundles and Required Patch Bundles _____________________________________ 16
Product Bundles ________________________________________________________________________ 16
Required Patch Bundles __________________________________________________________________ 17
Difference between PA-RISC and Integrity Severs _______________________________________ 17
Installation from Ignite-UX _________________________________________________________ 18
Ignite-UX Version considerations ___________________________________________________________ 18
Installation ____________________________________________________________________________ 18
Installation of PA-RISC systems _____________________________________________________________ 19
Installation of Integrity systems ____________________________________________________________ 19
Updating the vPars Product _________________________________________________________ 21
Ignite-UX Recovery _______________________________________________________________ 21
Making an Archive of a Virtual Partition ______________________________________________________ 21
Recovering a Virtual Partition ______________________________________________________________ 22
Change of vPars install path in Ignite-UX C.6.0 _________________________________________________ 23