HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide (5900-2064, November 2011)

Booting from the CLI

To set the vPars environment, you must set the nPartition into vPars mode so that the next nPartition

boot allows you to boot into vPars mode. To set the nPartition mode:

1. Set the nPartition in vPar mode.

# parmodify –p <npar_name> -N vpars

2. Do one of the following:

a. poweron partition {nPartition identifier}[:{vPar identifier}] (Not

specifying a vPar will result in all of the vPars in the nPartition to be booted.)

b. Use the pe command to prompt you for the partition to activate:

Example 6 Booting a vPar

This command controls power enable to a partition.

Partition Partition

Number Name

--------- ---------

1 nPar0001

2 nPar0002

2:1 nPar0002:vPar0001

Q) Quit

Select partition number: 2:1

The power state is OFF for partition 2:1.

In what state do you want the power? (ON/OFF) on

Managing: Modifying attributes of a Virtual Partition

You can modify the name of a virtual partition and its resource attributes using the vparmodify

command. For more information about resource attributes, see the vparmodify2 manpage on the

OS or the vparmodify help on the OA.

Examples

• To rename the virtual partition vPar0001 to Bergen:

vparmodify -N nPar0001 -p 1 -P Bergen

• To add two processors to the virtual partition Oslo (cpu and core syntax):

vparmodify -N nPar0001 -p vPar0001 -a cpu::2

vparmodify -N nPar0001 -p vPar0001 -a core::2

• To add two socket-local processors from enclosure 1, blade 2, socket 0 to the virtual partition

vPar0001 ((cpu and core syntax):

vparmodify -N nPar0001 -p vPar0001 -a socket:1/2/0:cpu::2

vparmodify -N nPar0001 -p vPar0001 -a socket:3/6/0:core::2

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