HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.09) (5900-2188, March 2012)

vPars A.03.xx and earlier...............................................................................................50
Memory...........................................................................................................................50
I/O..................................................................................................................................51
Assigning I/O at the LBA Level........................................................................................51
Assigning the Hardware Console LBA...................................................................................52
Choosing the Boot and Lan Paths.........................................................................................53
Autoboot..........................................................................................................................53
Virtual Partition Plan...........................................................................................................53
Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments in vPars A.04.05.......................................................54
Features of Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments...........................................................54
Feature Summary...............................................................................................................55
Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environments in vPars A.05.xx........................................................56
Features............................................................................................................................56
Feature Summary...............................................................................................................57
Booting Summary..............................................................................................................58
Determining the Version in a Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environment...................................58
Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars Environments in vPars A.05.03..................................................59
Features of Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars Environments.....................................................59
Features Summary..............................................................................................................61
Planning Your Virtual Partitions for LORA Support........................................................................61
LORA Support...................................................................................................................61
Prerequisite.......................................................................................................................62
Configuring vPars for LORA Support.....................................................................................62
Planning Your Virtual Partitions based on LORA Guidelines.....................................................62
Virtual Partitions Layout Plan Implementation with LORA Guidelines..........................................63
Implementing LORA Guidelines in Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environments...........................65
LORA Support Limitations....................................................................................................65
4 Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars......66
Notes, Cautions, and Other Considerations Before You Update or Install vPars...............................66
Notes...............................................................................................................................66
Cautions...........................................................................................................................67
Other Considerations.........................................................................................................67
Installing Server Firmware on non-nPartitionable Servers.....................................................68
Setting the GSP Terminal Type.........................................................................................68
How to Set the GSP Terminal Type..............................................................................69
Increase in Size of /stand File System..............................................................................69
VxFS (Veritas File System) (vPars A.03.xx).........................................................................69
SecurePath...................................................................................................................69
Bundle Names.......................................................................................................................70
vPars Product Bundles.........................................................................................................70
vPars-related Bundles (A.03.xx and earlier)............................................................................71
Installing and Removing vPars-related Bundles ..................................................................71
B6826AA (parmgr)...................................................................................................71
VPARMGR...............................................................................................................71
Installing vPars and the vPars-related Bundles from CD...................................................71
Setting Up the Ignite-UX Server.................................................................................................71
Ignite-UX Versions..............................................................................................................72
Determining the Ignite-UX Version........................................................................................72
Ignite-UX Cookbook...........................................................................................................72
Ignite-UX, the LAN, the LAN card, and vparboot -I......................................................................73
PA-RISC............................................................................................................................73
Integrity............................................................................................................................74
Updating from vPars A.04.xx to A.05.xx...................................................................................75
Update-UX Preparation Steps...............................................................................................75
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