HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide (September 2010)

Table of Contents
1 Introduction to This Document.......................................................................................7
What's Changed in This Document........................................................................................................7
Revision History................................................................................................................................7
2 Overview of Virtual Partitions.....................................................................................11
Key Benefits and Features.....................................................................................................................11
Advantages of HP-UX vPars.................................................................................................................11
Features of vPars Software by Release..................................................................................................11
vPars A.05.xx Releases.....................................................................................................................12
vPars A.04.xx Releases.....................................................................................................................14
vPars A.03.xx Releases.....................................................................................................................16
3 Purchasing and Licensing............................................................................................19
vPars Licensing.....................................................................................................................................19
Related Software Licensing...................................................................................................................19
Product Numbers..................................................................................................................................19
vPars Media..........................................................................................................................................20
Obsolescence of vPars Releases............................................................................................................20
4 Supported Configurations...........................................................................................23
Operating Systems................................................................................................................................23
HP-UX Version................................................................................................................................23
Patch Bundle....................................................................................................................................24
Hardware..............................................................................................................................................24
Servers..............................................................................................................................................25
Processors and Chipsets..................................................................................................................25
Server Firmware..............................................................................................................................26
Number of Virtual Partitions per nPartition...................................................................................30
Minimum Virtual Partition Requirements......................................................................................31
Supported Cards...................................................................................................................................32
Supported Mass Storage and Networking Cards (PA-RISC)..........................................................32
Supported Mass Storage and Networking Cards (Integrity)..........................................................34
Required Card Firmware (Integrity)...............................................................................................39
Checking Card Firmware Versions (Integrity)................................................................................54
Obtaining and Installing Card Firmware (Integrity)......................................................................55
Mass Storage Devices......................................................................................................................56
Interconnects....................................................................................................................................56
Software Applications...........................................................................................................................57
Application Certification.................................................................................................................58
VSE Management Software.............................................................................................................58
Ignite-UX Version............................................................................................................................58
WLM Version...................................................................................................................................58
iCAP Version...................................................................................................................................59
PPU Version.....................................................................................................................................59
Partition Manager and Virtual Partition Manager..........................................................................59
Online Diagnostics Versions............................................................................................................60
High Availability and ServiceGuard...............................................................................................60
Oracle with Dynamic Virtual Partitions...............................................................................................60
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