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

HP-UX Handbook – Rev 13.00 Page 4 (of 46)
Chapter 17 Virtual Partitions (vPars)
October 29, 2013
Using Virtual Partitions _______________________________________________________ 23
Booting the Monitor ______________________________________________________________ 23
EFI Commands (Integrity only), vPar and nPar Modes ____________________________________ 24
Using vparefiutil –u to update the EFI path mapping in the vPars database ____________________ 25
Boot configurations _______________________________________________________________ 25
Setting the Primary or Alternate Boot Paths___________________________________________________ 25
Monitor commands _______________________________________________________________ 26
vPars Commands _________________________________________________________________ 30
What is new in this version? ___________________________________________________ 36
vPars A.05.xx Releases _____________________________________________________________ 36
vPars A.04.xx Releases _____________________________________________________________ 37
vPars A.03.xx Releases _____________________________________________________________ 38
vPars A.02.xx Releases _____________________________________________________________ 39
Virtual Partitions Product Support Policy ______________________________________________ 41
vPars Support Matrix (March 2007) _________________________________________________________ 41
Crash Dump Handling on vPars Systems __________________________________________ 42
Resetting a Virtual Partition ________________________________________________________ 42
Hard Reset _____________________________________________________________________________ 42
Soft Reset (TOC) ________________________________________________________________________ 42
The monitor dump ________________________________________________________________ 43
Monitor Dump Analysis Tool ________________________________________________________ 44
The vPars Monitor Event Log ________________________________________________________ 44
The tool vpars-collect ____________________________________________________ 44
Interaction of vPars with other products _________________________________________ 45
Additional Information _______________________________________________________ 45
HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide _______________________________ 45
Some Useful Manuals _____________________________________________________________ 45
Various vPars-related whitepapers ___________________________________________________ 45
Product Support Plan (PSP) _________________________________________________________ 46
vPars Training Web Page ___________________________________________________________ 46
vPar Newsletter for support community ______________________________________________ 46