HP Integrity Superdome 2 16-socket Administrator's Manual page 5

UPDATE SHOW FIRMWARE...............................................................................................72
HP Superdome 2 Boot Support.................................................................................................73
Local Boot.........................................................................................................................74
Considerations for Local Boot..........................................................................................74
Boot from local SAN......................................................................................................74
Boot from External SAN.................................................................................................74
nPartition and Resource Health Status........................................................................................75
Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the CLI.....................................................75
Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the OA GUI..............................................77
Resource health policy .......................................................................................................77
7 Planning Your System for Virtual Partitions....................................................79
Planning Your Virtual Partitions.................................................................................................79
Virtual Partitions Layout Plan................................................................................................79
Virtual Partition Names..................................................................................................79
Minimal Hardware Configuration....................................................................................80
CPU-core.....................................................................................................................80
CPU-core: Boot Processor Definitions ..........................................................................80
CPU-core: Specifying Min and Max Limits...................................................................80
CPU-core: Adding and Deleting by Total.....................................................................81
CPU-core: Adding or Deleting by Socket Local Processor (SLP)........................................82
CPU-core: Adding or Deleting by Resource Path...........................................................83
CPU: Summary Information........................................................................................83
Deleting CPU-cores Summary.....................................................................................84
CPU Allocation........................................................................................................84
Memory.......................................................................................................................84
Assigning Memory to a vPar......................................................................................85
I/O.............................................................................................................................85
Assigning I/O at the rootport or I/O slot Level.............................................................85
Syntax, Rules, and Notes................................................................................................86
Counts Summary......................................................................................................87
Parspec change policy........................................................................................................87
A note on Deconfiguration..................................................................................................87
8 Managing and Booting Virtual Partitions.....................................................89
Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes ....................................................................89
Modes.............................................................................................................................89
Setting the mode using the OA GUI.....................................................................................89
Setting the mode using the OA CLI.......................................................................................91
Getting the vPar Console ...............................................................................................92
Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition......................................................................................93
Booting a Virtual Partition........................................................................................................93
Managing: Modifying Attributes of a Virtual Partition..................................................................94
Commands: Displaying vPars Resource Information (vparstatus)....................................................95
Virtual Partition States.........................................................................................................95
vparstatus: Summary Information.........................................................................................96
Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition............................................................................98
Shutting Down All Virtual Partitions.......................................................................................99
Managing: Removing a Virtual Partition.....................................................................................99
Boot options management for partitions...................................................................................100
9 Installing or Removing the vPars product from the OS..................................101
Before You Install the vPars Software.......................................................................................101
Installing vPars.....................................................................................................................101
Bundle Names.....................................................................................................................103
vPars Product Bundles.......................................................................................................103
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