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

1. Make sure that all the virtual partitions are up.
You can check this with the vparstatus command.
azure1# vparstatus
[Virtual Partition]
Boot
Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts
============================== ===== ============ ======================= =====
azure1 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
azure2 Up Dyn,Manl,Nsr /stand/vmunix
azure3 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
2. Record the current autoboot and autosearch settings of all the virtual partitions.
You will need to restore these settings later. To find the current settings, use vparstatus.
azure1 # vparstatus
[Virtual Partition]
Boot
Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts
============================== ===== ============ ======================= =====
azure1 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
azure2 Up Dyn,Manl,Nsr /stand/vmunix
azure3 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
Auto indicates autoboot is set, Manl indicates manual boot is set, and Nsr indicates “no
search”.
TIP: In this example, we are updating all the virtual partitions. However, if you have virtual
partitions that already meet the mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars requirements (vPars A.03.05
or later) and are not updating those virtual partitions, you can skip the update steps for those
virtual partitions.
3. Change the autoboot setting to manual for all virtual partitions.
Use the vparmodify -p vparname -B manual command, where vparname is the name
of the virtual partition.
This step must be performed to avoid automatically rebooting into the wrong vPars Monitor.
4. If gWLM is in use, disable (undeploy) gWLM’s management of resources in all virtual partitions.
gWLM is supported with restrictions in mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars environments, as of the
first release of vPars A.03.05 and vPars A.04.05. For details on gWLM restrictions, see
“Features of Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments” (page 54).
For details on how to disable gWLM, see Getting Started with HP Integrity Essentials Global
Workload Manager and reference the “Stop Managing an SRD” (shared resource domain)
procedure.
86 Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars