HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide

8 Managing and Booting Virtual Partitions
This chapter covers:
• Switching Modes
• Managing the Virtual Partitions
— Creating a Virtual Partition
— Booting a Virtual Partition
— Modifying a Virtual Partition
— Virtual Partition States
— Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition
— When to Shutdown All Virtual Partitions
— Removing a Virtual Partition
Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes
Modes
The mode can be set for an nPartition during creation time using the parcreate or the parmodify
command. Mode switching can thus be performed from the OA CLI. For vPars usage, there
are only two modes:
• vPars
Sets the next nPartition boot to boot into the vPars environment. This allows you to boot
into vPars mode and hence boot all the virtual partitions in the nPartition.
• nPars
Sets the next nPartition boot to boot into the standalone environment. In this mode, you
cannot boot the virtual partitions. However, you can boot any OE instance into standalone
mode. For an nPartition that is already inactive, mode switch happens when the inactive
nPartition is booted.
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