HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.05.03)

vPars Monitor: Booting the vPars Monitor.........................................................................................132
vPars Monitor: Accessing the vPars Monitor Prompt........................................................................132
vPars Monitor: Using vPars Monitor Commands..............................................................................133
Booting...........................................................................................................................................133
Displaying Information.................................................................................................................135
vPars Monitor: Using the vPars Monitor Commands from ISL or EFI..............................................136
Commands: vPars Manpages..............................................................................................................137
Commands: vPars Commands Logging.............................................................................................137
Log File Location and Log Format................................................................................................137
Cases Where No Logging Occurs..................................................................................................138
Cases Where Logging Occurs........................................................................................................138
Constraints and Restrictions to Logging.......................................................................................138
Syslog and Priority and Facility Codes.........................................................................................138
Commands: Displaying vPars Monitor and Resource Information (vparstatus)...............................139
Virtual Partition States...................................................................................................................139
vparstatus Output Examples.........................................................................................................139
vparstatus: Summary Information................................................................................................141
vparstatus: Verbose Information...................................................................................................142
vparstatus: Available Resources....................................................................................................144
vparstatus: CPU Information on vPars A.04/A.05.........................................................................146
vparstatus: Dual-Core CPUs..........................................................................................................148
vparstatus: Pending Migrating CPUs Operations.........................................................................149
vparstatus: Pending Migrating Memory Operations....................................................................150
vparstatus: Base and Float Memory Amounts..............................................................................151
vparstatus: Pending nPartition Reboot for Reconfiguration.........................................................152
vparstatus: vPars Monitor and Database Information..................................................................153
Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition..............................................................................................153
Managing: Removing a Virtual Partition............................................................................................154
Managing: Modifying Attributes of a Virtual Partition......................................................................155
Booting a Virtual Partition..................................................................................................................156
Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition................................................................................156
When to Shutdown All Virtual Partitions.....................................................................................158
Shutting Down or Rebooting the nPartition (Or Rebooting the vPars Monitor)................................158
Setboot and System-wide Stable Storage ...........................................................................................159
Using Primary and Alternate Boot Paths............................................................................................160
Autoboot and Autosearch Attributes............................................................................................160
Setting the Primary or Alternate Boot Paths.................................................................................162
Using Primary and Alternate Paths with nPartitions....................................................................163
Original Status:.........................................................................................................................163
Changing the Virtual Partition’s Path (vPars Partition Database)............................................163
Changing the nPartition’s Path (Complex Profile Data)..........................................................164
Booting Using the Primary or Alternate Boot Paths......................................................................165
Autoboot.............................................................................................................................................165
The AUTO File on a Virtual Partition............................................................................................165
Autobooting the vPars Monitor and Virtual Partitions.................................................................167
Single-User Mode................................................................................................................................168
Example: A Hung Partition...........................................................................................................168
Other Boot Modes...............................................................................................................................169
Maintenance Mode........................................................................................................................169
Overriding Quorum.......................................................................................................................170
Changing the LVM Boot Device Hardware Path for a Virtual Partition.......................................170
Verification...............................................................................................................................170
Preparation...............................................................................................................................171
Change the boot device hardware path...................................................................................171
Boot into LVM maintenance mode...........................................................................................171
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