vpar booting for rp8400

[Aaron_4]

I have a rp8400 with two npars and the second npar will have two vpars. I have installed the OS on both disks(1/0/0/2/0.6.0, 1/0/0/3/0.6.0) in the npar. Here is my problem: For my boot disk for the first vpar, I use vparmodify -p hp03b0 -a io:1/0/0/2/0.6.0.
The vpar comes up fine but for some reason it grabs the other drive too(1/0/0/3/0.6.0). So I can't create the other vpar. I know it is a syntax error but I can't figure it out.

[Aaron_4]

I meant vparmodify -p hp03b0 -a io:1/0/0/2/0.6.0:boot

[Enrico P.]

Hi,
you need to have two disks in two different scsi if you want create two vPars.
When you create a vPar you need specify the slots to assign it.


Enrico.

[Peter Heinemann · Accepted solution]

Aaron,
a vpar requires unique (exclusive) access to the boot disk, network, and mass storage paths (or instance).

Both scsi drives are on the same instance, 1/0/0, already assigned to the first vpar. There's no way to share one of them to the second vpar since the vpar assignment is at the instance level.

Your alternatives are to add an additional scsi controller and chain extra scsi drives to it, or to boot off a SAN via a Fibre Channel card (which is how we do it).

[Aaron_4]

I understand Peter. Now I have to figure out how to boot off the EMC