https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/partioning/m-p/3103991#M573567 Dear All<BR /><BR />Can anybody tell me how many hard partion and soft partion can i do over the HP Unix rp8400?<BR /><BR />Thank You Tue, 28 Oct 2003 06:39:00 GMT David_492 2003-10-28T06:39:00Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/partioning/m-p/3103991#M573567 Dear All<BR /><BR />Can anybody tell me how many hard partion and soft partion can i do over the HP Unix rp8400?<BR /><BR />Thank You Tue, 28 Oct 2003 06:39:00 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/partioning/m-p/3103991#M573567 David_492 2003-10-28T06:39:00Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/partioning/m-p/3103992#M573568 If you have a licensed version of VPARS (virtual partitions) then you can have as many partitions (hard and soft) as you have CPU's - you need 1 processer for each.<BR /><BR />If you dont have licensed VPARS then you are limited to 2 partitions. One with 1 cpu, and the other with all the other cpu's (up to 7).<BR /><BR />However, you will probably be limited by how many i/o cards in the rp8400. You need one network card, one scsi card (for bootable disks) etc. for each partition, probably more, which limits you practically to less than 1 partition for each processor you have.<BR />I would estimate with 16 i/o slots you need 3-4 for each partition, leaving a max of around 4-5 partitions only (as long as you have 5 processors also).<BR /> Tue, 28 Oct 2003 06:47:25 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/partioning/m-p/3103992#M573568 Stefan Farrelly 2003-10-28T06:47:25Z