Mixed OS (HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3) Considerations in vPars

HP-UX vPars environments. Also, please refer to the HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and
Configuration Guide for OE and software requirements for each vPars versions.
All HP-UX features specific to that HP-UX version release will be supported on the vPar running that
version of HPUX, unless otherwise noted".
Summary of Mixed HP-UX combinations in vPar environments
Supported vPar Versions Monitor
Version to
Boot from
Supported
mixed
HP-UX
combinations
11iv1 11iv2 11iv3
A.05.01 HP-UX
11i v2/v3
Not Supported A.04.02 or later A.05.01
A.05.02 HP-UX
11i v2/v3
Not Supported A.04.02 or later A.05.01 or later
A.05.03 HP-UX
11i v1/v2/v3
A.03.05 or later A.04.02 or later A.05.01or later
A.04.05 HP-UX
11i v1/v2
A.03.05 A.04.05 Not Supported
4.2 Unsupported Configurations
The vPars A.05.03 and A.04.05 monitors support mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 and 11i v1/v2
operating environments respectively with some restrictions. The unsupported configurations and
limitations are detailed below.
• Booting mixed HP-UX environments on the vPars A.03.xx monitor is unsupported because the
vPars A.03.xx monitor is not designed to handle any mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3
environments.
• Booting mixed HP-UX environments which contain 11i v3 vPars on the vPars A.04.xx monitor
is unsupported because the vPars A.04.xx monitor is not designed to handle HP-UX 11i v3
mixed environments.
• vPars A.04.01 is unsupported in a mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars or HP-UX 11v1/v2/v3
vPars environment. Please ensure that the HP-UX 11i v2 virtual partitions have vPars A.04.02
or later installed.
• vPars A.03.04 and older vPar11i versions are unsupported in a mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3
vPars or HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars environment. Please ensure that the HP-UX 11i v1 virtual
partitions have vPars A.03.05 or later installed.
• In mixed HP-UX environments, the vPars commands vparcreate and vparremove will not work
from virtual partitions running lower versions than the monitor. The vPars command
vparmodify when executed on the HP-UX 11i v1 or v2 virtual partition running on an A.05.xx
monitor is restricted to work only on the calling virtual partition. Similar restrictions apply to
11i v1 partitions when booted on the 11i v2 monitor.
• The vPars features supported across virtual partitions in a mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars
environment will generally be those supported in the respective vPars release stream. These
include CPU migration, Flexible Administration. Also, online memory migration will work on