VPAR Advice

[Alzhy]

Basically new to HPUX environments coming from Linux and Solaris [painless so far ;^) ]... we are deploying rp8400's and a couple of SuperDomes and the vPar approach was suggested for a couple of test, development and production environments. Would anyone please guide me on the following:

1. VPAR best practices and cookbooks if there are any?
2. VPAR documentation - howto's etc... I'd like to skip training and will just ask about a week of hands-on on an rp8400. I reckon, Vpar is just a few commands and an understanding of vpar capable architectures, buses, cell concepts..etc.
3. In my experience -- key to being a successful systems admin/manager is thorough uderstanding of the architecture of the hardware -- are there publicly available documents relating to the platforms that are capable of Vpars (ie... the rp8400 and the SD's?)

Thanks much.

NTC

[James Murtagh]

Hi Nelson,

Most HPUX technical documentation can be found at this site:

http://www.docs.hp.com

Other sites of interest are:

http://www..hp.com

look under the software and servers sections for more white papers, analyst reports etc

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/iv/data/documents/DE_SW_UX_swrec_EN_01_E/Introduction.pdf

an excellent sys-admin guide written by the German Response centre, including a VPARS chapter

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dev

A site for developers but contains good white papers and CPU architecture etc.

As for your questions, 1 & 2 are covered very well in the VPAR online documentation on the first link:

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/T1335-90012/T1335-90012.html

This covers planning, implementation and best working practises. This should be your first reference point.

For your last question there are numerous resources on the links I gave. There is a "Systems Harware" section on the first link for example. This should keep you busy for a while! :-)

Sorry for the amount of links here, welcome to hpux.

cheers,

James.

[Alzhy]

Thanks James...

Most of the sites you recommended -- I've already "mined". Thanks anyway.

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

http://www.hp.com/hpbooks/prentice/ptr_0130352128.html

from Marty Poniatowski


live free or die
harry

[Stefan Farrelly]

I agree 100% with Harry. The HP book on Virtual Partitions by Poniatowski is absolutely excellent - by far the best source of vpars info around. We used it to successfully build all our vpars on rp7400/8400 and soon superdome. Its all you need.

Just dont forget to install the latest Vpars patches on all nodes - very important. You can find vpars patchs on the ITRC patch database - just search for vpar.