Vpars, a couple of questions.

[Steve Coates]

We are looking at setting up vpars on a rp8400 system and was looking for a little guidence from those that have done this.

1. Can the vpars all boot from the same system disk or are seperate disks needed for each one?

2. Do all the vpars use the same physical io, things like network, scsi?

3. The system is currently running as a DB server. Can the vpars be set up with out losing the current configureation?

Thanks
Steve

[Karthik S S · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Obvoiusly you need dedicated root disk for each of the vPar you configure as does the Network Interface card.

To my understanding disks on different vPars could be a part of the same SCSI controller card. I guess that each vPar will have separate hostid in which case check the licensing of the DB server if it is hostid bound.

Regards,
Karthik S S

[Pete Randall]

Steve,

It sounds like you need to take a look at this document. Most, if not all, of your questions should be answered within:

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/T1335-90001/T1335-90001.html


Pete

[harry d brown jr]

Steve,



1. Can the vpars all boot from the same system disk or are seperate disks needed for each one?

Each "partition" is it's own "system", therefore each partition will need it's own boot disks.

2. Do all the vpars use the same physical io, things like network, scsi?

NO. Each Partition MUST have seperate IO cards dedicated to just that partition.

3. The system is currently running as a DB server. Can the vpars be set up with out losing the current configureation?

YES! But first you should create a few make_tape_recovery's and a few application backups.

You must install the vpar software on the existing partition - REQUIRES a reboot. You must have a License to run more than two partitions.

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harry