HP Integrity Superdome 2 16-socket - Default Chapter; Table of Contents

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................7
Overview................................................................................................................................7
HP Superdome 2 terminology.....................................................................................................8
2 Partitioning in HP Superdome 2....................................................................9
Onboard Administrator and Partition Management.......................................................................9
Accessing the OA.....................................................................................................................9
OA CLI...............................................................................................................................9
OA GUI.............................................................................................................................9
Managing Partitions – basics...................................................................................................10
nPartitions ........................................................................................................................10
Virtual Partitions (vPars).......................................................................................................11
Commands: Partition Help pages..............................................................................................11
Commands: Partition commands logging...................................................................................12
Log file location and log format...........................................................................................12
Cases where no logging occurs...........................................................................................12
Cases where logging occurs................................................................................................13
Constraints and restrictions to logging..................................................................................13
Ordering and licensing...........................................................................................................13
nPartitions licensing............................................................................................................13
Virtual Partitions licensing...................................................................................................13
Related software licensing...................................................................................................14
Ordering vPars..................................................................................................................14
nPartition and Virtual Partition unique identifiers.....................................................................14
3 Getting started with nPartitions...................................................................17
Administration tool for nPartitions..............................................................................................17
Onboard Partition Manager................................................................................................17
Commands for configuring nPartitions...................................................................................17
nPartition resources.................................................................................................................18
Assigned or unassigned blades and I/O bays.......................................................................19
Active and inactive blades..................................................................................................20
I/O Enclosures and I/O bays..............................................................................................20
Finding the resource path of I/O ....................................................................................20
nPartition properties................................................................................................................20
Partition names..................................................................................................................21
Partition numbers...............................................................................................................21
Hyperthreading.................................................................................................................21
Enabling or disabling Hyperthreading on HP Superdome 2 using the GUI............................21
Enabling or disabling Hyperthreading on HP Superdome 2 using the CLI.............................21
Socket Local Memory.........................................................................................................21
Blade resource attributes..........................................................................................................22
Operating system specific default values for nPartition attributes....................................................25
Partition State and RunStates....................................................................................................26
Partition specifications (parspec)...............................................................................................28
Creating a Partition specification..........................................................................................29
Creating an nPartition from a Partition specification................................................................29
Removing a Partition specification........................................................................................29
Saving the current configuration of nPartition and switch to an alternate configuration.................29
Identifying Partition specification using the OA GUI................................................................29
4 Planning nPartitions..................................................................................31
Recommended HP Superdome 2 nPartition configurations............................................................31
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