Contents
1 Introduction
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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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Accessing the OA
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OA CLI
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OA GUI
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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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Identifying Partition specification using the OA GUI
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4 Planning nPartitions
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Recommended HP Superdome 2 nPartition configurations
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