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...Server model HP 9000 rp7420 Server HP 9000 rp7440 Server HP Integrity rx7620 Server HP Integrity rx7640 Server HP 9000 rp8420 Server HP 9000 rp8440 Server HP Integrity rx8620 Server HP Integrity rx8640 Server HP 9000 Superdome Server (PA 8800 and PA 8900) HP 9000 Superdome Server with sx2000 HP Integrity Superdome Server HP Integrity Superdome Server with sx2000 Cell-based HP servers that do not support HP-UX 11i v3 Dynamic nPartitions operations: Cell capacity Two-cell Servers Four-cell Servers HP 9000 Superdome Servers Server model HP 9000 rp7405/7410 Server HP 9000 rp8400 Server HP 9000...

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...nPartition System Booting 87 Boot Process Differences for nPartitions on HP 9000 servers and HP Integrity servers 88 Types of Booting and Resetting for nPartitions 89 System Boot Configuration Options 91 HP 9000 Boot Configuration Options 91 HP Integrity Boot Configuration Options 91 Tools for Booting nPartitions...95... Local Memory 129 Adding Linux to the Boot Options List 130 Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 131 Booting SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 132 Shutting Down Linux...134 Rebooting and Resetting nPartitions 135 Performing a Reboot for Reconfig...139 Shutting Down to a Shutdown...

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... servers, including the cell-based HP Integrity servers. Operating Systems Supported on nPartitions. For details on the HP sx1000 chipset. 1 Getting Started with processors and memory) and all I /O in an nPartition are used as multiple smaller systems by configuring nPartitions. The HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) December 2003 release and later supports rp7420, rp8420, and HP 9000...

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...® Itanium® 2 nPartitions in the sets of supported tools and management capabilities. HP Server Support for Operating Systems" (page 61). Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Windows Server 2003 is supported on HP Integrity servers and HP 9000 servers. SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 support cell local memory. Table 1-1 nPartition Operating System Support (continued) Operating...

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... or Intel® Itanium® 2 processors. PA-RISC processors. Itanium® 2 processors. • HP Integrity Superdome servers include the SD16A, SD32A, and SD64A models. These models support up to 16 cells in a server complex. • HP 9000 rp8420 model, which supports up to four cells in a server complex. • HP 9000 rp7420 model, which supports up to nPartitions 17

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Core I/O is available from the http://docs.hp.com/ en/hw.html Web site under the HP 9000 Superdome Server and HP Integrity Superdome Server links. The two-cell HP servers consists of whether any I/O devices attached to provide additional I /O chassis. Slightly different toolsets and capabilities are available the different server models. The service processor includes the Command menu, nPartition...

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...(partition numbers 0 and 1) already are defined. Base Cells On both HP 9000 servers and HP Integrity servers, all other boot and management abilities for the nPartition. On first-generation cell-based servers and HP sx1000 chipset-based servers, core I/O is provided by any of the nPartitions. Although an nPartition... (or "alternates") for identifying the nPartition. The core cell controls the nPartition until an operating system is booted. On HP sx2000 chipset-based servers, core I/O is provided on the core cell runs the Boot Console Handler (BCH) or Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI)...

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...-V -p# command - frupower -d -C command or frupower -d -I command, rad -q command on HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) systems, and olrad -q command on HP 9000 servers) for listing hardware and nPartition status include the following commands. List product and serial numbers. &#...8226; EFI Shell methods (available only on HP Superdome servers. - info sys - List the I /O configuration details. - Information menu, ...

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...complex" option. Use the -u... -h... From Partition Manager Version 1.0 select the nPartition, use the BCH Configuration menu PD NewName command. On an HP 9000 server you also can use the EFI Shell cellconfig command to set of Managing nPartitions 31 set use -on -next-boot values. On an...use use the nPartition→Modify nPartition action, Change Cell Attributes tab, select the cell(s), and click Modify Cell(s). On an HP 9000 server you also can use the BCH Configuration menu CELLCONFIG command to set the name for details. For remote administration using IPMI over ...

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..., and the cell boot-is-blocked (BIB) flag is set core cell choices. A cell is the partition number). On an HP 9000 server you can use the BCH Configuration menu COC command to be listed and configured only from the local nPartition. b. Also see Chapter ...5 (page 87). Boot Process for a specified nPartition (-p#, where # is powered on both HP 9000 servers and HP Integrity servers, includes two phases: the cell boot phase and the nPartition boot phase. 1. For more details see "Setting nPartition Core Cell Choices" ...

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...boot phase is "waiting at BIB" state and thus begin . A processor on the core cell runs the nPartition system boot environment (BCH on HP 9000 servers, EFI on -next-boot value do so. The core cell hands off control to be cleared. 2. You can begin the nPartition boot phase...at BIB. e. Reset an nPartition. Overview of one core-capable cell that have completed. - A minimum of Managing nPartitions 33 c. On HP Integrity servers you should reset an nPartition only after its copy of the Partition Configuration Data for up to do not participate in time. For details see...

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... power on and power off also is available only on HP Integrity servers.) - autoboot - acpiconfig enable softpowerdown - reset - List and set the boot control flag for nPartitions with nPartitions On HP rx7620, rx7640, rx8620, and rx8640 servers this is available only on HP 9000 servers.) - List and set boot device path variables (PRI, HAA, ALT). - List, enable...

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On HP 9000 servers shutdown -r resets only the active cells. All cells are reset and nPartition reconfiguration occurs as needed. The nPartition then proceeds with the nPartition boot phase. Shuts down HP-UX and performs a shutdown for reconfig of the nPartition. All cells are reset and nPartition ... and SX2000 PA, shutdown -R -H does not stop at the P00>> prompt. Shuts down the OpenVMS I64 operating system. On HP 9000 servers, shuts down HP-UX, halts all nPartition hardware to instead cause all processing on an nPartition, issue @SYS$SYSTEM:SHUTDOWN.COM from OpenVMS, and then...

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...before it revises). Complex Profile Entry Locking and Unlocking Each Complex Profile entry has its name in the locking mechanisms on HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers. - If such a tool exits before revising the data according to modify the nPartition or complex-wide setting will ... which is unlocked then, as needed, another nPartition configuration task can be necessary to manually unlock Complex Profile entries. On cell-based HP 9000 servers, the Stable Complex Configuration Data has a single lock. - In this situation an attempt to the administration request. 5. The tool...

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...and EFI environments) do not directly configure this data. NOTE: The Complex Profiles on cell-based HP 9000 servers and cell-based HP Integrity servers contain slightly different sets of Complex Profiles. A reboot is not required for changing Dynamic Complex Configuration Data. ...Only on servers based on the HP sx1000 or sx2000 chipset. Table 1-5 covers both types of information. Some HP 9000 server Complex Profile data is unused on HP Integrity servers but is architecturally reserved information that are possible only...

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... member of nPartitions You can run on an nPartition and manage that the nPartition management tools run on HP 9000 servers, but for information only. Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) The nPartition management tools perform their functions ...nPartition: • HP 9000 server components (unused on system firmware to the server. Not actually used in the complex. and rp8400 servers) a proprietary interface to the HP 9000 server architecture or HP Integrity server architecture; Remote and Local Management of cell-based servers (the HP 9000 Superdome SD16000, SD32000...

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...-bandwidth processor, memory, and I /O busses. The cell-based HP Integrity servers either are based on the HP sx1000 chipset or are discussed here. • The HP 9000 series of servers: the first-generation models, models based on the HP sx1000 chipset, and models based on the HP sx2000 chipset. HP rp7420, HP rp8420, HP 9000 Superdome (SD16A, SD32A, and SD64A models). • Itanium...

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... the /usr/bin/getconf MACHINE_MODEL command. • From the Windows command line, use the systeminfo command to establish the machine hardware model on HP 9000 servers and HP Integrity servers. • For HP 9000 servers, the reported machine hardware model is based on the Creator Manufacturer and Creator Product Name complex-wide settings. A summary of the Stable Complex...

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... HP Servers Table 2-1 lists the cell-based HP servers. HP 9000 rp7405/7410 server Up to eight dual-core PA-RISC processors (16 processor cores total). model string: 9000/800/rp7410 HP 9000 rp7420 server Up to eight PA-RISC processor cores. Runs HP-UX B.11.11. Uses the HP sx2000 chipset. Runs HP-UX B.11.23, HP-UX B.11.31, and Microsoft® Windows® Server...

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... Enterprise Linux, and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Runs HP-UX B.11.11. Also runs the HP-UX B.11.23 September 2004 release and later. Uses the HP sx1000 chipset. HP 9000 rp8400 server Description Up to 16 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors. model string: 9000/800/S16K-A HP 9000 rp8420 server Up to 16 HP mx2 dual-processor modules with dual-core...

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