Managing: Creating A Virtual Partition; Booting A Virtual Partition - HP Integrity Superdome 2 16-socket Administrator's Manual

Figure 40 Remote Console
NOTE: On HP Integrity Superdome 2, vpmon is not supported. If you attempt booting vpmon
from the ISL prompt the following error message is displayed:
ERROR: Unsupported boot environment for vpar monitor! Booting vpmon not supported on this
platform Resetting the system!

Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition

You can create a virtual partition using the vparcreate command.
Examples
Consider that you want to create a virtual partition (vPar0001) in the first nPartition (nPar0001),
with 6 cores, 4 gigabytes of RAM, and the HBA in IO extender 6, Bay 2, Slot 3. This is done
from the OA command line with the vparcreate command. Because the command is issued
outside the nPar, either the option N {nParID} or the vParID format of {nParID}:{vParID} is
used. For nPartitions, the ID can either be the partition name or number:
vparcreate
ioslot:6/2/3
Consider that you want to create another virtual partition within the same nPartition, nPar0001,
with 2 cores, 8 gigabytes of RAM, and the HBA in IO extender 6, Bay 2, Slot 4.
vparcreate
Use the vparmodify command to assign the resources.
vparmodify -p nPar0001:vPar0002 -a cpu::2 -a mem::8192 -a
ioslot:6/2/4
You can check the list of vPars and assigned resources using the following command:
vparstatus
[Virtual Partition]
Num Name
=== ==========================
1 vPar0001
2 vPar0002
[Virtual Partition Resource Summary]
Virtual Partition
Num Name
=== ==========================
1 vPar0001
2 vPar0002

Booting a Virtual Partition

To boot a virtual partition, use the poweron command. The virtual partition must exist and be in
the DOWN RunState. To shutdown a booted virtual partition, see
Virtual Partition" (page
N nPar0001 p vPar0001 -a cpu::6 -a mem::4096 -a
N nPar0001 p vPar0002
N 1
RunState
============
DOWN
DOWN
CPU
Min/Max
=======
0/
0/
98).
State
=========
Inactive
Inactive
Num Num Granularity
CPUs IO ILM
==== ==== ===== =====
8 6 1 1024
8 2 1 1024
"Shutting Down or Rebooting a
Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition
Total MB
SLM ILM SLM
====== ======
1024 4096 0
1024 8192 0
93