HP Integrity Superdome 2 32-socket HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator G - Page 5

UPDATE SHOW FIRMWARE 72 HP Superdome 2 Boot Support 73 Local Boot...74 Considerations for Local Boot 74 Boot from local SAN...74 Boot from External SAN 74 nPartition and Resource Health Status 75 Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the CLI 75 Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the OA GUI 77 Resource health policy ...77 7 Planning Your System for Virtual Partitions 79 Planning Your Virtual Partitions 79 Virtual Partitions Layout Plan 79 Virtual Partition Names 79 Minimal Hardware Configuration 80 CPU-core...80 CPU-core: Boot Processor Definitions 80 CPU-core: Specifying Min and Max Limits 80 CPU-core: Adding and Deleting by Total 81 CPU-core: Adding or Deleting by Socket Local Processor (SLP 82 CPU-core: Adding or Deleting by Resource Path 83 CPU: Summary Information 83 Deleting CPU-cores Summary 84 CPU Allocation...84 Memory...84 Assigning Memory to a vPar 85 I/O...85 Assigning I/O at the rootport or I/O slot Level 85 Syntax, Rules, and Notes 86 Counts Summary...87 Parspec change policy...87 A note on Deconfiguration 87 8 Managing and Booting Virtual Partitions 89 Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes 89 Modes...89 Setting the mode using the OA GUI 89 Setting the mode using the OA CLI 91 Getting the vPar Console 92 Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition 93 Booting a Virtual Partition...93 Managing: Modifying Attributes of a Virtual Partition 94 Commands: Displaying vPars Resource Information (vparstatus 95 Virtual Partition States...95 vparstatus: Summary Information 96 Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition 98 Shutting Down All Virtual Partitions 99 Managing: Removing a Virtual Partition 99 Boot options management for partitions 100 9 Installing or Removing the vPars product from the OS 101 Before You Install the vPars Software 101 Installing vPars...101 Bundle Names...103 vPars Product Bundles...103 Contents 5