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