Table of Contents
About This Document
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New and Changed Information in This Edition
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Document Organization
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Typographic Conventions
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Related Information
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Publishing History
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HP Encourages Your Comments
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1 Getting Started with nPartitions
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Introduction to nPartitions
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Operating Systems Supported on nPartitions
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HP Server Support for nPartitions
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HP Superdome Hybrid Servers: IntelĀ® ItaniumĀ® 2 and PA-RISC nPartition Mixing
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Hardware Components of nPartition-Capable Servers
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Administration Tools for nPartitions
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Commands for Configuring nPartitions
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Availability of nPartition Commands
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Enhanced nPartitions Commands for Windows
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Enhanced nPartition Commands for Linux
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Partition Manager
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Partition Manager Version 2.0 for Windows
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nPartition Properties
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Partition Numbers
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Assigned and Unassigned Cells
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Base Cells
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Core Cells
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Active and Inactive Cells
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Cell Local Memory
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Cell Property Details
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Active and Inactive nPartition Boot States
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Overview of Managing nPartitions
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Basics of Listing nPartition and Complex Status
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Basics of nPartition Creation
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Genesis Partition
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Basics of nPartition Modification
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nPartition Modification Tasks
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Basics of nPartition Booting and Resetting
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Boot Process for Cells and nPartitions
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Common nPartition Boot Commands and Tasks
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Complex Profile
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Changing the Server Complex Profile
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How the Complex Profile is Updated
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Complex Profile Entry Locking and Unlocking
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Complex Profile Group Details
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Remote and Local Management of nPartitions
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Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
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IPMI Block Transfer (IPMI BT)
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nPartition Configuration Privilege
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IPMI over LAN
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Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
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