vpar,npar

[David_492]

Dear aLL

What is the difference between Vpar and npar partitioning?

Thanks

[aparna challagulla]

hi David,

Go thro this thread
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0x631731ec5e34d711abdc0090277a778c%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1067241314989+28353475
HTH
aparna

[Alzhy]

nPar is HP's "HARD" partitioning technology. The basic unit of an nPar is a CELL board one of which must be a Core cell.

vPar (or virual partitions) are further slices of nPars (or simple non-Cell capable servers ie. N-Class and the 5xxx series.). vPars allow finer grained paritioning down to the IO bus, memory and CPU level.

Both nPars and vPars have a copy of the HPUX OS running on their own bootdisk subsystems and each are independent of other partitions.

The following link is an exhaustive guide to HP's Partitioning Continuum -- which IMHO is the most complete and most robust.

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/5187-3603/5187-3603.html