N-par:V-par

[RAKUNTA]

Dear friends,
We are using HP-UX 11i V3 B.11.31 in rx8640.
In that
i)what is the process to create a N-par

1)How can i Know how many cpu s we have?
2)Which are Assigned/unassigned?
3)if unassigned cpus are available how can i create new V-par with those?

Thanks&regards
rakunta

[Emil Velez · Accepted solution]

go to http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=101&prodClassId=10008&contentType=SupportManual&docIndexId=64255&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=3367813

The HPUX manuals.. About 1/2 way down the page is the npar and vpar admin guides.

1. you need software
2. you need the licenses
3. You need each partition to have a boot disk, lan cards and cpus

NPARS can only be done on cell based systems and are based on the cell architecture and the cards and devices in the cells.

Vpars can be done on any multiprocessor system provided you have nic cards and boot disks.

WHy not consider integrity VM you have lots of flexability in creating virtual machines and alot less hardware limitations.

HP
Customer Education has a online course that covers both VPARS and NPARS and you build them.

[RAKUNTA]

Emil thanks for your reply....

and i need
how many V-pars we can create in one N-par.
how many N-pars we can create in rx-8640.

thanks
rakunta

[Torsten.]

how many V-pars we can create in one N-par.

Theoretical max. 8 per nPar.

how many N-pars we can create in rx-8640.

up to 4 (1 cell per npar) if I/O extender is installed.

[Vaidhyanathan_1]

Hi,

Minimum configurations to configure Npar and Vpar are stated below:

Npar --> Group of one or more cells and physically attached I/O ( IO Chassis)

Vpar --> Quantities of CPU & Memory Specific LBA for boot device

According to current resource( cpu, memory io cards) available in specific box, need to decide how many vparâ s can be created.

Hope your clear.

[RAKUNTA]

thanQ for your quick reply.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

http://www.hpux.ws/?p=141

http://www.hpux.ws/?p=127

If you are using EMC storage, these tools are extremely useful for getting good information on npar/vpar information.

Also useful is SysInfo a utility provided by HP which does gather a ton of data including cpu speed information.
SEP

[Dana IT Unix Sysmgt.Tea]

Also, for NPars the commands parstatus and parmodify are your friends.
For VPars use vparstatus and vparmodify.
Read man pages on them and experiment in a sandbox environment to get comfortable with them.

Hope it helps.

Shalom