nPar / vPar Plannig

[Filippo_1]

Hi guys,

I am starting a new project that has a rx8640 with 2 cells.

We are planning to use the entire sever with both cells to create a unique nPar to run Oracle. Now is where I could use a little help. Is it better if I create on top of that nPar a vPar (I beleve it is because of benefits like online addition of memory and processors) or is it better if I install HP-UX directlly on the nPar ?

Second thing is, suppose I chose to use vPar and I have some kind of hardware problem on one of the cells (out of two that is part of the nPar). Do I need to stop the vPar running on the nPar to make the maintenance or could I just change the vPar configuration in order to online remove the hardware that belongs to that cell and keep the system running?

Thanks for your help.

Filippo

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Every npar/vpar requires these things to work:

disk
network access
At least 1 cpu
memory.

You can protect a vpar by using software mirroring of the OS. Two disks, raid 1.

SEP

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

vPARs make only sense if you have more than 1.

Anyway, a hardware problem in a nPar may affect all running vPars inside.

Read more about dynamic nPars:

http://docs.hp.com/en/10907/dynamic_nPars_WP.pdf

[Kaushal Desai]

Hi

Can I create nPar or vPar on RX6600?

Kaushal

[Torsten.]

No, you need a cell-based server.

[Filippo_1]

Thanks for the help. I think as I'll just have one instance of operating system running, I'll choose to use nPar.

Regards,

Filippo

[Filippo_1]

Thanks