HP-UX HB v13.00 Ch-17 - vPars
HP-UX Handbook – Rev 13.00 Page 39 (of 46)
Chapter 17 Virtual Partitions (vPars)
October 29, 2013
vPars A.03.02 (out-of-support):
It is now possible to use SBA (System Bus Adapter) as a I/O resource instead of LBA
during vPars configuration.
Autoboot attributes have been extended with the autosearch option. Attribute
autosearch can have the values “search” and “nosearch”. Value “nosearch” means
that only the primary boot path is attempted, while “search” will try the alternate boot
path, if the primary path boot failed. More on this at page 134 of “vPars A.03.02
Admin Guide” (http://docs.hp.com/en/6018/T1335-90031.pdf).
Now vPars commands will also be logged into syslog.log on the partition where the
commands are executed.
The command vparstatus –e will show the vpmon log, similar as vparextract,
vparstatus –m will get the info about vPars monitor.
vPars A.02.xx Releases
vPars A.02.03 and A.03.01 (both out-of-support)
Support for dual-core PA-8800 processor systems in A.03.01: RP7420 and RP8420,
Superdome
New IO hardware: Server Expansion Unit (SEU) and keystone KIOX expander in
A.03.01, additional combo cards in A.02.03.
New output from vparstatus command shows CPU migration pending status.
Pending means that we have unbound CPUs migrating to and from that virtual
partition. More info on page 153 of “vPars A.03.01 Admin Guide”
(http://docs.hp.com/en/T1335-90027/T1335-90027.pdf).
vPars A.02.02 (out-of-support)
New I/O hardware: Superdome IO expander, A5838A SCSI/LAN Combo card
(previously not supported for boot/dump, requires new hardware path format).
Hardware path specification format change. Prior to A.02.02, vPars allowed hardware
path notations for boot devices to be incompletely specified in the database. It was possible to
add a boot device without the complete hardware path from ioscan. For example, ioscan
shows 0/0/1/1.0.0. Then, we can add this device to vPars and the monitor expands it by
default to the full device path 0/0/1/1.0.0.0.0.0.0, if it is needed.