vpars general info required

[Midrange]

HI I am after some general feedback and comments on the use of Vpars. I have a project on the go that initially looks perfectly suited to placing the environments into vpars. The aim being to have 6 environments running between 2 nodes using Veritas Clustering! the Veritas Clustering is a given as this is a standard across all servers within the company!. All feedback will be greatfully received.

[harry d brown jr]

We run over two hundred vpar partitions across over forty n-class and rp7410's. It's saved us a ton of space in the data centers.

As for veritas, we don't use it.

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[harry d brown jr]

go to http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/search

enter in the string "virtual partition"

lots of info

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[Midrange]

OK I've downloaded a load of info on installing and managing vpars. As is normal in these cases this raised additional questions :-
looking to configure 3 vpars per server, do you need to have seperate fibre cards for disk tape and network for each vpar? or can you share fibre attached devices such as tape storage ? I need this info in order to know how many fibre cards to order up, from what I have read so far it looks as though I will need 6 fibre cards for storage! also is the console server considered as the host server in which case this can boot from the internal disks! Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Pete Randall]

Yes, each virtual partition will need it's own card(s). You can share SAN but not the route to the SAN.


Pete

[harry d brown jr]

Like Pete said: Each partition needs it's OWN lan and fibre cards. Each also needs it's own disk, meaning the internal disks that have their own path can ONLY belong to ONE partition. It's really down to the bus level.

If you have an rp7410, fully loaded with four disks, then you can have two partitions boot from the each pair of internal disks because each pair is on a seperate bus.

Your best bet for fibre and lan in a production environment is the DUAL LAN and Fibre card. That way you get two seperate paths per partition to your LAN and maybe a san?

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