Help Npar crashed ....

[Coolmar]

I have a rp7420 with two npars and 3 vpars per npar. I rebooted one of the vpars and it didn't come back. Went to the MP> and found the following:

Partitions will NOT be invoked for crash handling.
A hard reset will be generated

TO OVERRIDE THIS BEHAVIOR, PRESS A KEY WITHIN 10 SECONDS...
Resetting machine (HARD)...

It is staying at that and has not come back. I don't know what to do now. Any ideas?

[Asif Sharif]

Hi Devine,
Crash processing for a virtual partition's OS is similar to the crash processing on a non-vPars OS: the OS is quiesced, portions of memory are written to disk, and in the case of vPars, resources are released to the monitor.

Please read the follow link, It will help you.

http://docs.hp.com/en/T1335-90018/index.html
http://docs.hp.com/en/T1335-90018/ch03s07.html

Regards,
Asif Sharif

[melvyn burnard]

So are you saying that after the VPar was rebooted, the whole NPar crashed and is now no longer booting up?

I would check your firmware versions on the server, and also ask what version of HP-UX and what version of VPars are you using.

[Coolmar]

Hi Burnard....the firmware is the latest because he was in just before xmas to upgrade it all. The OS is HP-UX 11.11 and I have no idea what version the vpars are at....how can I find that out?

Yes, I simply rebooted a vpar with the shutdown command and that was the message that I found on the GSP when the vpar wouldn't come back up.

[melvyn burnard]

Use swlist to check what version of Vpars you are using. Also check what version of iCOD software is in use, if it is indeed installed.

[Coolmar]

VPAR11i B.11.11.0404.1 Enablement Patches 11i, April 2003
VPARMGR B.11.11.01.02 Virtual Partition Manager - HP-UX
B9073BA B.06.00 HP-UX iCOD (Instant Capacity on Demand)

[melvyn burnard]

try using swlist -l product |grep -i virtual

[Eric Antunes]

Hi Sally,

Do you have PHKL_28764 installed?

PS: search for "crash" in this doc...

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

[Coolmar]

HP helped out and the firmware needs to be upgraded again.

Thanks for all the help!