Partioning

[David_492]

Dear All

Can anybody tell me how many hard partion and soft partion can i do over the HP Unix rp8400?

Thank You

[Stefan Farrelly]

If you have a licensed version of VPARS (virtual partitions) then you can have as many partitions (hard and soft) as you have CPU's - you need 1 processer for each.

If you dont have licensed VPARS then you are limited to 2 partitions. One with 1 cpu, and the other with all the other cpu's (up to 7).

However, you will probably be limited by how many i/o cards in the rp8400. You need one network card, one scsi card (for bootable disks) etc. for each partition, probably more, which limits you practically to less than 1 partition for each processor you have.
I would estimate with 16 i/o slots you need 3-4 for each partition, leaving a max of around 4-5 partitions only (as long as you have 5 processors also).