Question

[Nobody's Hero]

Can you partition an N4000 if you install 11.i?
Can you spilt the box, lets say you have an 8-way. Can I install two OS's, 4 cpu's on each partition? Or am I on the wrong track.

[Helen French]

Hi Robert:

I dont think it is possible. You can have two OS installed ( say 11.0 and 11i) in two different disks. Boot from the one which you need. If you are looking for splitting the CPU usage for different applications, then you may consider using PRM.

HTH,
Shiju

[pap]

Hi Robert you can do this thing on Superdome but not on N4000.
On N4000 you can do as Chan explained. You can keep the disk of group assigned to HP 11 and HP 11i. But at a time you will be able use only one OS either 11 or 11i.

thanks,
-pap

[Martin Burnett_2 · Accepted solution]

Hello Robert,

This can be done on a N4000 using Virtual Partitions (Vpars) on the 11i version of HPUX. For complete details look at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/T1335-90001/T1335-90001.html

The SuperDome supports Hard partitions as well but the N4000 does not.

Thanks for participating in the forums,

Martin
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[Jeff Schussele]

I assume you're referring to Virtual Partitioning or vPar.

See the following thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x056c49e8fb49d61190000090279cd0f9,00.html

And see this Ordering & Config Guide:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/os/11i/vpars_ordering.pdf

Which states that only 11i is supported.

HTH,
Jeff

[Sandip Ghosh]

Yes Robert you can do this by using vpars. Though there are some limitations but I know you can do this.

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/T1335-90001.pdf


Sandip

[Nobody's Hero]

Thanks Everyone, good links and info.

Bob