topic Re: Converting a vpar back to a npar in Operating System - HP-UX

Converting a vpar back to a npar

Feinberg Parker — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:33:35 GMT

We have two vpars runnning on a npar. One npar is not being used and the other we want to convert back to use the entire npar. I know we can use vparemove to remove the unused vpar. How do we convert the vpar we need back to a npar? We are doing this due to the limit of vpar licenses we have.

Re: Converting a vpar back to a npar

Duncan Edmonstone — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:36:55 GMT

HP9000 or HP Integrity?

The process is different depedning on what you have...

HTH

Duncan

Re: Converting a vpar back to a npar

Feinberg Parker — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:39:53 GMT

Sorry I should have put that in. it is PARISC RP8420 running 11.23

Re: Converting a vpar back to a npar

Duncan Edmonstone — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:44:48 GMT

Is the boot disk for the vPar you want to keep the same disk that starts vpmon?

if your're not sure how to check this, just identify your boot disk using "lvlnboot -v vg00" and then show the current contents of the AUTO file using:

lifcp /dev/dsk/cXtYdZ:AUTO -

Does it show /stand/vmunix or /stand/vpmon?

HTH

Duncan

Re: Converting a vpar back to a npar

Feinberg Parker — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:54:45 GMT

when we run lifcp it comes up hpux. I pretty sure it is the same disk.

Re: Converting a vpar back to a npar

Tim Nelson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:15:31 GMT

Why not just assign all the nPars resources to the vPar and leave it at that ?

or

just boot the nPar with /stand/vmunix from this vPar effectivly disabling the vPar. ( although the vPar software will still exist on the server ).

Re: Converting a vpar back to a npar

Feinberg Parker — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:49:56 GMT

Thanks for the idea Tim. We will try that when we can get some down time.

Re: Converting a vpar back to a npar

Feinberg Parker — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:53:32 GMT

Changing a vpar back to an npar turns out to be a big job. We would need to tune kernel, vgexport/vgimport, rename the npar and change the IP. We will try at a later date.