vPars config for booting

[KPS]

Hi,

I have an HP-UX 11.11 system running vpars with 3 different partitions. What is the best way to check to make sure that when I boot a partition, that it boots independently from the other existent partitions keeping them up.

[Alzhy]

That's how vPars are designed for.. that each "Partition" can be independently shut down and restarted independent of the other vPars.


Why, are you having problems with your vPar that everytime you reboot a partition it affects the others?

Please elaborate.

[Hakan Aribas]

Each vPar can run a seperate instance of HP-UX and provides complete software fault tolerance for applications running under each virtual partition. Each vPar is assigned itâ s own resources so that there are no resource conflicts between virtual partitions. vPars can be at different patch levels and be individually reconfigured and rebooted.

Why do you need such a need?

[KPS]

I thought I had seen before where people think their boot string is setup to boot partitions independently, when they're actually not. They go to boot a particular partition and then find out all partitions are booting because of incorrect configuration. I'm trying to find out if there's a way to look at this configuration through lifcp or vparstatus -v and just double check that my vPars config is correct?

Thanks,
KPS

[Alzhy · Accepted solution]

My nPar's PRI disk (which is also the first vPar's bootdisk) always does:

hpux /stand/vpmon vparload -all

so on an nPar reboot, the vPars in that nPar also get's booted automagically.

[Marvin Strong]

lifcp /dev/dsk/c?t?d?:AUTO -

will tell you contents of the AUTO file.

you can set the AUTO file with.

mkboot -a "hpux boot /stand/vpmon -a" /dev/dsk/c?t?d?