Can I take out 2Gb Memory from 4Gb Npar system?

[Hanry Zhou]

I'm wondering if there is any minimum configuration on the amount of Memory the Npar system has to have?

Thanks,

[Steven E. Protter]

Charles Keenan in his book HP-UX CSE: indicates that on a practical level 1 GB is the minimum for a good operating vpar.

There are minimums on hardware, has to bee a boot device and a NIC, things like that.

SEP

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Hanry,

ON cell based servers, the memory is located on the cells. So, it's the cells that decides how much memory the systems should have rather than the nPar. You should be able to take 2 GB out. I haven't seen any minimum memory configuration for nPAR though following document describes the recommended configurations.

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/5990-8170/5990-8170.html

Look at "Planning nPartitions" and "Recommended configuration" settings.

-Sri

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Harry,

This depends on the configuration of the memory on the cell board - if all 4GB is within a single quad then no, you can't take part of it and move it to another cell board. If however the 4GB is made up of 2 x 2GB quads then you can. I'm fairly sure you can check this with the parstatus or stm commands.

HTH

Duncan