Auto file for vpars

[Sagar Sirdesai]

Hi
This is on rx8640
I've plans to create 3 vpars in a npar.
But not sure with auto file.
Should all vaprs contains auto file as boot vpmon -a

Please advice as I'm very new to vpars

Sagar

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

Yes, each AUTO file in each EFI area must point to vpmon.

[Sagar Sirdesai]

Thanks
Another query out of curiosity.

Which of these 3 vpars will be the first to boot.

Sagar

[Torsten.]

As long as you don't mix 11.23 and 11.31 it doesn't matter.

[Sagar Sirdesai]

Hi Torsten.
I plan to have one vpar with 11.23 OS and other 2 vaprs are 11.31.

In this case what needs to be done.

Sagar

[N,Vipin]

The mixed OS support depends the vPar version. May be the following pdf will give you a clear idea.

http://docs.hp.com/en/9670/vParsMixedOS-A05xx.pdf

[Torsten.]

The admin guide has a chapter about this topic.

In this case you need to boot the newer (11.31) vpmon.

[Ganesh Balraman]

Hi Torsten!

Does auto file in all 3 vpars needs to include

"boot /stand/vpmon-a"
"boot -lq"

Kindly confimr.

[Torsten.]

To be sure set the AUTOFILE on each disk to "boot /stand/vpmon-a", so it does no matter what disk you boot from, the vpmon will always be loaded.

No need to set a switch like "-lq" here, because the vpmon will be started without care about LVM.