topic Re: bring up vpars in Operating System - HP-UX

bring up vpars

IT_2007 — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:45:02 GMT

I have 4 vpars running and how do I set priority to bring them up?

Like vpar1 - first
vpar2- second
vpar4 - third
vpar3 - last

Re: bring up vpars

Torsten. — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:00:11 GMT

If you configure autostart, all vpars will boot at the same time (simultaneous).

Re: bring up vpars

Jeff Schussele — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:24:31 GMT

Hi,

One *very* important thing to keep in mind with vPars is that you don't use the "standard" startup command like hpux -lq /stand/vmunix.
You *must* use the following to start the vPars:

hpux -lq /stand/vpmon -a

HTH,
Jeff

Re: bring up vpars

V.Manoharan — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:26:03 GMT

Hi Srini,
To Boot the vpar1 first when the server is powered on, mention the hadware path of Vpar1 bootdisk as primary path in the BCH. Then you can write a script in the vapr1 server to start vpar2,vpar4 & vpar3.

setboot can't be used to set as primary boot since setboot command on vpar systems will not read/write on the stable storage. So any settign to be done need to be configured in the BCH.

Regards
Mano

Re: bring up vpars

IT_2007 — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:27:04 GMT

Jeff,

I know that bootstring has to setup like "hpux -lq /stand/vpmon -a" to bring up vpars automatically. But I want to bring up vpar1 first then remaining ones should come up.

Re: bring up vpars

Torsten. — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:33:22 GMT

From the manual:

"At the ISL prompt, boot the Monitor and the first virtual partition.
Example:
ISL> hpux /stand/vpmon vparload -p winona1
"

(you can use this as autoboot string)

Use "vparboot" to start the other vpars from your running OS (even as script).

Re: bring up vpars

Jeff Schussele — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:36:52 GMT

OK, then you should *only* setup vPar1 to auto boot and then on vPar1 setup a startup script linked from /sbin/rc3.d to /sbin/init.d that goes something like...

for i in 2 4 3
do
/usr/sbin/vparboot -p vpar$i
sleep 60 #or whatever time you want/need
done

You get the idea.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: bring up vpars

IT_2007 — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:51:20 GMT

Jeff,

That's what exactly I thought.

Thanks,
Srini

Re: bring up vpars

IT_2007 — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:52:38 GMT

got idea.