Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (A.01.01)

How vPars Works
Partitioning Using vPars
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Partitioning Using vPars
To understand how vPars works, compare it to a computer not using
vPars. Figure 2-1 shows a 4-way HP-UX computer. Without vPars, all
hardware resources are dedicated to one instance of HP-UX and the
applications that are running on this one instance.
Figure 2-1 Computer without vPars
Figure 2-2 shows the software stack where all applications run on top of
the single OS instance:
Processor
0
Processor
1
Processor
2
Processor
3
Host PCI Bridge
4
Host PCI Bridge
5
Memory
6
SCSI
0/0
SCSI
0/0
LAN
1/0
LAN
1/0
6.0
6.0