HP Integrity Superdome 2 16-socket HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator G - Page 5

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 Table of Contents 5