Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (includes A.02.02, A.02.03)

What is New in this Release

This section covers the major points of what is new in vPars A.02.02

relative to vPars A.02.01. For the pre-A.02.02 documentation, please see

the HP documentation web site at http://docs.hp.com.

• The format for hardware paths has changed. For more information,

see “Hardware Path Formats” on page 53.

• Supported Systems:

The nPartition-able severs rp7410 and rp8400 are now supported.

For a complete list of supported hardware and their required

firmware versions, please see the document HP-UX Virtual

Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide, available at:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/11i/index.html#Virtual%20Partitions

All information on supported hardware and firmware has been

moved from this manual to this softcopy document.

• PCI I/O combo-cards are supported. For more information on

supported I/O cards, see the document HP-UX Virtual Partitions

Ordering and Configuration Guide.

• The I/O expander is now supported. For more information on

supported configurations, see the document HP-UX Virtual

Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide.

• Updates have been made to the following manpages:

vparboot (1M), vparcreate (1M), vparmodify (1M), vparremove (1M),

vparreset (1M), vparresources (5), and vparstatus (1M).