HP Integrity Superdome 2 8/16 HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide - Page 3

Contents 1 Introduction 7 Overview...7 HP Superdome 2 terminology...8 2 Partitioning in HP Superdome 2 9 Onboard Administrator and Partition Management 9 Accessing the OA...9 OA CLI...9 OA GUI...9 Managing Partitions - basics 10 nPartitions ...10 Virtual Partitions (vPars)...11 Commands: Partition Help pages 11 Commands: Partition commands logging 12 Log file location and log format 12 Cases where no logging occurs 12 Cases where logging occurs 13 Constraints and restrictions to logging 13 Ordering and licensing...13 nPartitions licensing...13 Virtual Partitions licensing 13 Related software licensing 14 Ordering vPars...14 nPartition and Virtual Partition unique identifiers 14 3 Getting started with nPartitions 17 Administration tool for nPartitions 17 Onboard Partition Manager 17 Commands for configuring nPartitions 17 nPartition resources...18 Assigned or unassigned blades and I/O bays 19 Active and inactive blades 20 I/O Enclosures and I/O bays 20 Finding the resource path of I/O 20 nPartition properties...20 Partition names...21 Partition numbers...21 Hyperthreading...21 Enabling or disabling Hyperthreading on HP Superdome 2 using the GUI 21 Enabling or disabling Hyperthreading on HP Superdome 2 using the CLI 21 Socket Local Memory...21 Blade resource attributes...22 Operating system specific default values for nPartition attributes 25 Partition State and RunStates...26 Partition specifications (parspec 28 Creating a Partition specification 29 Creating an nPartition from a Partition specification 29 Removing a Partition specification 29 Saving the current configuration of nPartition and switch to an alternate configuration 29 Identifying Partition specification using the OA GUI 29 4 Planning nPartitions 31 Recommended HP Superdome 2 nPartition configurations 31 Contents 3