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HP Superdome 2 Boot Support
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Local Boot
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Considerations for Local Boot
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Boot from local SAN
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Boot from External SAN
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nPartition and Resource Health Status
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Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the CLI
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Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the OA GUI
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Resource health policy
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7 Planning Your System for Virtual Partitions
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Planning Your Virtual Partitions
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Virtual Partitions Layout Plan
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Virtual Partition Names
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Minimal Hardware Configuration
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CPU-core
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CPU-core: Boot Processor Definitions
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CPU-core: Specifying Min and Max Limits
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CPU-core: Adding and Deleting by Total
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CPU-core: Adding or Deleting by Socket Local Processor (SLP)
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CPU-core: Adding or Deleting by Resource Path
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CPU: Summary Information
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Deleting CPU-cores Summary
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CPU Allocation
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Memory
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Assigning Memory to a vPar
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I/O
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Assigning I/O at the rootport or I/O slot Level
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Syntax, Rules, and Notes
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Counts Summary
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Parspec change policy
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A note on Deconfiguration
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8 Managing and Booting Virtual Partitions
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Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes
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Modes
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Setting the mode using the OA GUI
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Setting the mode using the OA CLI
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Getting the vPar Console
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Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition
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Booting a Virtual Partition
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Managing: Modifying Attributes of a Virtual Partition
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Commands: Displaying vPars Resource Information (vparstatus)
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Virtual Partition States
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vparstatus: Summary Information
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Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition
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Shutting Down All Virtual Partitions
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Managing: Removing a Virtual Partition
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Boot options management for partitions
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9 Installing or Removing the vPars product from the OS
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Before You Install the vPars Software
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Installing vPars
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Bundle Names
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vPars Product Bundles
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