HP-UX Virtual Partitions 6.0 Administrator Guide

Glossary
Accelerated Virtual
Input/Output
See AVIO.
APA Auto Port Aggregation.
assignable
resource
The resources that you can designate to be assigned to a partition.
AVIO Accelerated Virtual Input/Output. An I/O protocol that improves virtual I/O performance for
network and storage devices used within the Integrity VM environment. The protocol also enables
support for a greater number of virtual I/O devices per vPar. Special drivers are required on
both the VSP and vPars. Participating guests must include a virtual I/O device configured to use
the AVIO protocol.
Blade A board that contains CPUs and memory, and slots for C-class mezzanine cards, and onboard
NICs. A blade is the equivalent of a cell in terms of being the unit of assignment for defining
nPartitions.
boot virtual
partition
To load the operating system of a virtual partition and start it. The vparboot command can be
used to boot a virtual partition.
See also vPar.
c3000 enclosure The HP BladeSystem c3000 enclosure works well in smaller data centers. A single c3000 enclosure
is 6U high and can hold up to eight server, storage, or I/O option blades and up to four
interconnect modules. c3000 enclosure supports 8 half height blades but Integrity blades are full
height so only 4 blades are possible for max configuration.
c7000 enclosure The HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure is optimized for enterprise data centers. A single c7000
enclosure is 10U high and can hold up to 16 server, storage, or I/O option blades and up to
eight interconnect modules. c7000 enclosure supports 16 half height blade but Integrity blades
are full height so only 8 blades are possible for max configuration.
CLI Command-line Interface.
CPU In this guide, CPU is used as equivalent for processor core.
Deconfigured The term used to describe the health of a resource that has been marked as unusable by the
Health Repository. Such a resource will be excluded from partition activity.
DNS Domain Name Server.
EFI Extensible Firmware Interface.
enclosure An HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosure holds ProLiant and Integrity server blades, storage blades,
I/O option blades, interconnect modules (switches, pass-thru modules, and Virtual Connect
modules), a NonStop passive signal midplane, a passive power backplane, power supplies,
fans, and Onboard Administrator modules.
failover The operation that takes place when a primary service (network, storage, or CPU) fails, and the
application continues operation on a secondary unit. In the case of Serviceguard virtual partition,
the virtual partition can fail over to another cluster member. In case of a network failure, on a
properly configured system the virtual partition can fail over to another virtual switch (vswitch) on
the same cluster node.
FC Fibre channel.
GUI Graphical User Interface.
GUIDMgr HP-UX GUID (globally unique identifier) Manager. A client-server based product that allocates
and manages unique World-Wide Names (WWNs) for N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) Host Bus
Adapters (HBAs), so you do not have to perform these tasks manually.
HP SMH HP System Management Homepage, the system management application for HP-UX.
HP-UX Integrity
Virtual Server
Manager
The GUI version of vPars v6.0. HP-UX Integrity Virtual Server Manager can be accessed from HP
SMH of the VSP.
Ignite-UX The HP-UX Ignite server product. Used as a core build image to create or reload HP-UX servers.
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