HP-UX 11i Version 2 March 2006 Release Notes

General System Administration

HP Partitioning

Chapter 5

Documentation

The “bundle readme” document can be found on the OE media under the /DOCS/PATCH

directory, or on the IT Resource Center Web site at http://itrc.hp.com.

For information on patch management, refer to the Patch Management User Guide for

HP-UX 11.x Systems, available at

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv2.html#Patch%20Management.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.

HP Partitioning

Partitioning provides the ability to subdivide system resources into isolated regions that

operate independently from each other (the equivalent of a box within a box). HP is the

only high-end UNIX offering to provide a broad range of solutions designed to meet the

diverse needs of our customers. Changes to several of these solutions are described in the

following sub-sections:

• HP Global Workload Manager (see page 99)

• HP Process Resource Manager (see page 101)

• HP-UX Virtual Partitions (see page 102)

• HP-UX Workload Manager (see page 104)

• HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits (see page 105)

• PRM Libraries (see page 106)

HP Global Workload Manager

HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM) is a tool that allows you to centrally define

resource-sharing policies that you can use across multiple HP servers. These policies

increase system utilization and facilitate controlled sharing of system resources.

gWLM's monitoring abilities provide both real-time and historical monitoring of the

resource allocation.

gWLM A.01.01.x has three components:

• Central Management Server, or CMS (T2412AA)

You configure gWLM and monitor your workloads on the system where the CMS

software is installed. This system must also have HP Systems Insight Manager

installed.

1. See also “HP Systems Insight Manager” on page 111.