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

Table of Contents 1 Introduction...11 Conceptual Overview...11 HP Superdome 2 terminology...12 2 Partitioning in HP Superdome 2 13 Onboard Administrator and Partition Management 13 Managing Partitions - Basics...13 nPartitions ...13 Virtual Partitions (vPars)...14 Commands: Partition Help pages...14 Commands: Partition Commands Logging 15 Log File Location and Log Format 15 Cases Where No Logging Occurs...15 Cases Where Logging Occurs...16 Constraints and Restrictions to Logging 16 Ordering and Licensing...16 nPartitions Licensing...16 Virtual Partitions Licensing...16 Related Software Licensing...17 Ordering vPars...17 nPartition and Virtual Partition Unique Identifiers 17 3 Getting Started with nPartitions 19 Administration Tool for nPartitions...19 Onboard Partition Manager...19 Commands for Configuring nPartitions 19 nPartition Resources...20 Assigned or Unassigned Blades and I/O bays 21 Active and Inactive Blades...21 I/O Enclosures and I/O Bays...22 Finding the Resource Path of I/O 22 nPartition Properties...22 Partition Names...22 Partition Numbers...23 Hyperthreading...23 Enabling or Disabling Hyperthreading on HP Superdome 2 using the GUI 23 Enabling or Disabling Hyperthreading on HP Superdome 2 using the CLI 23 Socket Local Memory...23 Blade Resource Attributes...24 Operating System Specific Default Values for nPartition Attributes 25 Partition State and RunStates...25 Partition Specifications (parspec)...27 Creating a Partition Specification...27 Creating an nPartition from a Partition Specification 27 Removing a Partition Specification 28 Saving the Current Configuration of nPartition and Switch to an Alternate Configuration..........28 Viewing Partition Specification Using the OA GUI 28 Table of Contents 3