Creating A New Npartition; Creating A New Npartition Using The Oa Cli; Creating A New Npartition Using The Oa Gui - HP Integrity Superdome 2 16-socket Administrator's Manual

Creating a new nPartition

This section describes the procedure to create an nPartition using the OA CLI and the GUI.

Creating a new nPartition using the OA CLI

Use the parcreate command to create a new nPartition on HP Superdome 2. The command
takes the specified blades and I/O bays and assigns them to the new nPartition. If an nPartition
number is not specified, the command finds an available nPartition number and assigns it to the
new nPartition. Likewise, if an nPartition name is not specified, a default name of the format
nParnnnn (example: nPar0001) is given to the new nPartition (where, nnnn is a 4 digit nPartition
number). Superuser permission is required to run this command from an operating system within
a partition. When the command is invoked from the OA, it requires operator-level privilege or
higher. This is applicable for all partition commands. For parstatus and vparstatus, you
must have user level privilege or higher.
To create a two-blade nPartition nextPartition that uses blades 1 and 3 in enclosure 1 and
the IO slot in IOX enclosure 5, bay 1:
parcreate -p nextPartition -a blade:1/1:::: -a blade:1/3:::: -a io:5/1:

Creating a new nPartition using the OA GUI

To create a new nPartition using the OA GUI:
1. Open the OA GUI.
2. Login using the administrator credentials.
3. Click Complex nPartitions in the Systems and Devices section on the left pane.
4. In Complex nPartitions Summary, click Create.
5. Enter the nPartition Name.
6. Click Create nPartition.
The nPartition is created.
You are redirected to the Modify nPartition screen (see
assign resources to the created npartition.
7. Expand the rows to select all the resources.
8. Click Apply.
Figure 7 Modify nPartition Window
40 Creating and configuring nPartitions
Figure 7 (page 40)), where you can