HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide

REBOOT PARTITION.....................................................................................................................59
SET PARTITION DVD.....................................................................................................................59
SHOW PARTITION DVD................................................................................................................62
SHOW PARTITION INFO...............................................................................................................63
Force System Reset and Crash Dump (TOC) PARTITION.............................................................63
UPDATE NPARTITION..................................................................................................................65
UPDATE SHOW NPARTITION......................................................................................................66
UPDATE FIRMWARE......................................................................................................................66
UPDATE SHOW FIRMWARE.........................................................................................................66
HP Superdome 2 Boot Support.............................................................................................................67
Local Boot........................................................................................................................................67
Considerations for Local Boot....................................................................................................68
Boot from local SAN...................................................................................................................68
Boot from External SAN.............................................................................................................68
nPartition and Resource Health Status.................................................................................................68
Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the CLI........................................................69
Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the OA GUI................................................70
Resource health policy ....................................................................................................................71
7 Planning Your System for Virtual Partitions................................................................73
Planning Your Virtual Partitions...........................................................................................................73
Virtual Partitions Layout Plan.........................................................................................................73
Virtual Partition Names...................................................................................................................73
Minimal Hardware Configuration..................................................................................................73
CPU-core..........................................................................................................................................74
CPU-core: Boot Processor Definitions .......................................................................................74
CPU-core: Specifying Min and Max Limits...............................................................................74
CPU-core: Adding and Deleting by Total..................................................................................74
vparcreate..............................................................................................................................75
vparmodify...........................................................................................................................75
CPU-core: Adding or Deleting by SLP (Socket Local Processor)..............................................76
CPU-core: Adding or Deleting by Resource path......................................................................76
CPU: Summary Information......................................................................................................76
Deleting CPU-cores Summary...................................................................................................77
CPU Allocation...........................................................................................................................77
Memory...........................................................................................................................................77
Assigning Memory to a vPar......................................................................................................78
I/O....................................................................................................................................................78
Assigning I/O at the rootport or I/O slot Level..........................................................................78
Syntax, Rules, and Notes.................................................................................................................79
Counts Summary........................................................................................................................80
Parspec change policy......................................................................................................................80
A note on Deconfiguration..............................................................................................................80
8 Managing and Booting Virtual Partitions..................................................................83
Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes .......................................................................83
Modes..............................................................................................................................................83
Setting the Mode..............................................................................................................................84
Getting the vPar Console ...........................................................................................................85
Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition................................................................................................86
Booting a Virtual Partition....................................................................................................................86
Managing: Modifying Attributes of a Virtual Partition........................................................................86
Commands: Displaying vPars Resource Information (vparstatus)......................................................87
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