Converting a vpar back to a npar

[Feinberg Parker]

We have two vpars runnning on a npar. One npar is not being used and the other we want to convert back to use the entire npar. I know we can use vparemove to remove the unused vpar. How do we convert the vpar we need back to a npar? We are doing this due to the limit of vpar licenses we have.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

HP9000 or HP Integrity?

The process is different depedning on what you have...

HTH

Duncan

[Feinberg Parker]

Sorry I should have put that in. it is PARISC RP8420 running 11.23

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Is the boot disk for the vPar you want to keep the same disk that starts vpmon?

if your're not sure how to check this, just identify your boot disk using "lvlnboot -v vg00" and then show the current contents of the AUTO file using:

lifcp /dev/dsk/cXtYdZ:AUTO -

Does it show /stand/vmunix or /stand/vpmon?

HTH

Duncan

[Feinberg Parker]

when we run lifcp it comes up hpux. I pretty sure it is the same disk.

[Tim Nelson · Accepted solution]

Why not just assign all the nPars resources to the vPar and leave it at that ?

or

just boot the nPar with /stand/vmunix from this vPar effectivly disabling the vPar. ( although the vPar software will still exist on the server ).

[Feinberg Parker]

Thanks for the idea Tim. We will try that when we can get some down time.

[Feinberg Parker]

Changing a vpar back to an npar turns out to be a big job. We would need to tune kernel, vgexport/vgimport, rename the npar and change the IP. We will try at a later date.