Compaq AlphaServer GS80 User Manual page 141

After you select a system, the first screen that displays is the Current Partition
Map (Figure 4–8), which shows hard partition information. Section 4.3
describes the information that is displayed in a partition map.
The GS80/160/320 system can have two types of partitions, hard and soft. In
this section we look at hard partitions; Section 4.5 discusses soft partitions.
Hard partitions do not share any CPU, memory, or I/O resources. In other
words, the boundaries of these partitions are hard. An instance of an operating
system can run in each hard partition; these instances run independently of
each other.
Using CAPM, you can perform several operations on hard partitions. These
procedures are described in the following sections:
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Creating Hard Partitions
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Adding a Hard Partition
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Deleting a Hard Partition
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Modifying a Partition Map
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Saving, Validating, and Committing a Partition Map
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Loading a Saved Partition Map
Compaq AlphaServer Partition Manager 4-13