rp4440 and vPars

[Gunther Schulze]

Does anyone know if vPars are officially supported by HP on the rp4440-8? I find it odd that the rp5470-4 is supported, but I can't find any information whatsoever regarding vPar support on HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11) for the rp4440-8.

Thanks, any help would be greatly appreciated!

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

Vpars is not supported on the rp4440.
For information you could look here:
http://docs.hp.com/en/hplex.html#C.%20vPars%20%28software-based%20partitioning%29

This lists the hardware supported currently under vPars, or spcifically see page 6 of
http://docs.hp.com/en/1705/oc.pdf

[Keith Bryson]

Hi Gunther

It appears that VPARs are not available on the RP4440.

Best of luck - Keith

[Nguyen Anh Tien]

VPars is not support for rp4440-8. see this
http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/rackoptimized/rp4440/specifications.html

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Gunther,

HP tok the decsision a few years ago, that only cell based systems would get vPars (so on the current range thats the rp7420, rp8420, and Superdome servers). The Integrity equivalents of these servers (rx7620, rx8620 and Integrity Superdome) will also get vPars this month, but there is no plan that I am aware of for process based systems to get vPars.

Of course you can still use PRM, and PSets to manage resources between applications, and the new secure resource partitions features will also arrive shortly (a bit like Solaris zones if you're famailiar with them)

Going forward on the Integrity range there will be a partitioning product available across the entire product range, currently called 'Integrity Virtual Machines' - this will be a VMware-like product and offer sub CPU partitioning and IO sharing as well. However as this tool is leveraging functions of the Itanium processor I doubt it will ever be available on the PA-RISC servers.

HTH

Duncan