Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (A.01.01)

Planning Your Virtual Partitions and Installing vPars

Planning Your Virtual Partitions

Chapter 454

HP recommends using the corresponding hostnames forpartition names,

but they are not internally related.

For our example computer, we have chosen the names of our partitions to

be winona1, winona2, and winona3:

Although the underscore (_) is a legal character within the name of a

virtual partition, it is not a legal character within the Domain Name

System (DNS) and should not be used.

Minimal Hardware Conﬁguration

Every bootable virtual partition must have at least:

• 1 CPU

• RAM (sufﬁcient for HP-UX and the applications in that partition)

• a boot disk (when using a mass storage unit, please check your

hardware manual to verify that it can support a boot disk)

Although not required for booting a partition, you might want to add

LAN card(s) as required for networking.

For your partitions, use the number of CPUs, amount of memory, boot

disk conﬁguration, and lan cards as is appropriate for your OS and

applications.

CPUs

For detailed information on CPU allocation, please read “CPU

Allocation” on page 32.

The ioscan output for the example N-class shows the following

processors:

#ioscan -kC processor

H/W Path Class Description

===================================================

33 processor Processor

37 processor Processor

41 processor Processor

45 processor Processor

Partition

Name

winona1 winona2 winona3