HP rp7440 nPartition Administrator's Guide, Second Edition - Page 3

Table of Contents About This Document...11 New and Changed Information in This Edition 11 Document Organization...11 Typographic Conventions...12 Related Information...13 Publishing History...13 HP Encourages Your Comments...13 1 Getting Started with nPartitions 15 Introduction to nPartitions...15 Operating Systems Supported on nPartitions 15 HP Server Support for nPartitions 16 HP Superdome Hybrid Servers: Intel® Itanium® 2 and PA-RISC nPartition Mixing 17 Hardware Components of nPartition-Capable Servers 18 Administration Tools for nPartitions...18 Commands for Configuring nPartitions 19 Availability of nPartition Commands 21 Enhanced nPartitions Commands for Windows 21 Enhanced nPartition Commands for Linux 22 Partition Manager...22 Partition Manager Version 2.0 for Windows 23 nPartition Properties...23 Partition Numbers...24 Assigned and Unassigned Cells...24 Base Cells...24 Core Cells...24 Active and Inactive Cells...25 Cell Local Memory...25 Cell Property Details...25 Active and Inactive nPartition Boot States 27 Overview of Managing nPartitions...27 Basics of Listing nPartition and Complex Status 27 Basics of nPartition Creation...29 Genesis Partition...30 Basics of nPartition Modification...30 nPartition Modification Tasks...31 Basics of nPartition Booting and Resetting 32 Boot Process for Cells and nPartitions 32 Common nPartition Boot Commands and Tasks 33 Complex Profile...36 Changing the Server Complex Profile 37 How the Complex Profile is Updated 37 Complex Profile Entry Locking and Unlocking 38 Complex Profile Group Details...39 Remote and Local Management of nPartitions 41 Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI 41 IPMI Block Transfer (IPMI BT 42 nPartition Configuration Privilege 42 IPMI over LAN...42 Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM 43 Table of Contents 3