Commands: Displaying Vpars Resource Information (Vparstatus); Virtual Partition States - HP Integrity Superdome 2 16-socket Administrator's Manual

To delete 1 GB of Socket Local Memory on enclosure 1, blade 2, socket 0 from the same
virtual partition:
vparmodify -N nPar0001 -p vPar0001 -d socket:1/2/0:mem::1024
To add the I/O card in IOX 6, I/O bay 2, slot 3 to the virtual partition (io and ioslot syntax):
vparmodify -N nPar0001 -p vPar0001 -a io:6/2/0/0/2
or
vparmodify -N nPar0001 -p vPar0001 -a ioslot:6/2/3

Commands: Displaying vPars Resource Information (vparstatus)

On HP Integrity Superdome 2, the Partition Controller running on the OA maintains all the
information about the virtual partitions, including the current state of the virtual partitions and their
resources. To display this information, use the command vparstatus. This section describes the
possible states of a virtual partition and the common usages of the vparstatus command. This
information is also available in the OA GUI.

Virtual Partition States

Virtual partitions can either be in the active or inactive state. An inactive virtual partition can boot
as a single operating system. The initiation of the boot operation changes the state from inactive
to active.
Table 10 RunStates of an inactive Virtual Partition
State
DOWN
ACTIVATING
DEACTIVATING
1
RESETTING
1
MCA
DEFINED
ALT_DEFINED
1 An inactive vPar can be in the DEACTIVATING, RESETTING or MCA RunStates, if it encounters an error or is interrupted
during the activation process.
Table 1 1 RunStates of an active Virtual Partition
State
FWBOOT
EFI
OSBOOT
UP
SHUT
Description
The virtual partition is fully halted. This is the result of a normal /etc/shutdown -h command,
or after it has been created.
This run-state is displayed when a boot is initiated on a virtual partition. The virtual partition then
becomes active with an FWBOOT run-state.
1
This run-state is displayed when a shutdown or reboot of a virtual partition is being processed.
This run-state is displayed when a reset of a virtual partition is being processed.
This run-state is displayed when an Machine Check Abort (MCA) of a virtual partition is being
processed.
The virtual partition definition exists in the current partition specification and the nPartition is
booted in nPars mode.
The virtual partition definition is defined in an alternate partition specification.
Description
The virtual partition normally reaches this run-state from the ACTIVATING run-state when the
virtual partition is marked as active. This is a transitional run-state and normally reaches the EFI
run-state.
The virtual partition reaches this run-state after the firmware boot process launches the EFI shell.
The virtual partition reaches this run-state after the operating system is launched. This is a
transitional run-state and normally reaches the UP run-state.
The virtual partition is in this run-state when the operating system is completely functional.
A shutdown/reboot/reset operation has been initiated on this partition.
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