Booting And Shutting Down The Operating System; Operating Systems Supported On Cell-Based Hp Servers - HP rp7440 Service Manual

4 Booting and Shutting Down the Operating System

This chapter presents procedures for booting an operating system (OS) on an nPartition (hardware
partition) and procedures for shutting down the OS.

Operating Systems Supported on Cell-based HP Servers

HP supports nPartitions on cell-based HP 9000 servers and cell-based HP Integrity servers. The
following list describes the OSes supported on cell-based servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset.
• HP 9000 servers have PA-RISC processors and include the following cell-based models
based on based on the HP sx2000 chipset:
— HP 9000 Superdome (SD16B, SD32B, and SD64B models)
— HP rp8440
— HP rp7440
These HP 9000 servers run HP-UX 11i Version 1 (B.11.11). Refer to
Down HP-UX" (page 94)
• HP Integrity servers have Intel® Itanium® processors and include the following cell-based
models based on the HP sx2000 chipset:
— HP Integrity Superdome (SD16B, SD32B, and SD64B models)
— HP rx8640
— HP rx7640
All HP Integrity servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset run the following OSes:
— HP-UX 11i Version 2 (B.11.23) — Refer to
(page 94)
— Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 — Refer to
Windows" (page 109)
HP Integrity servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset run the following OSes only in nPartitions
that have dual-core Intel® Itanium® processors:
— HP OpenVMS I64 8.3 — Supported only in nPartitions that have dual-core Intel®
Itanium® processors. Prior releases of OpenVMS I64 are not supported on servers based
on the HP sx2000 chipset.
Refer to
— Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4— On servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset, is
supported only in nPartitions that have dual-core Intel® Itanium® processors. Prior
releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are not supported on servers based on the HP
sx2000 chipset.
NOTE:
HP Integrity servers with the Intel® Itanium® dual-core processor. It is not supported
on these servers when they first release.
Refer to
— SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 — On servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset, is
supported only in nPartitions that have dual-core Intel® Itanium® processors. Prior
releases of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server are not supported on servers based on the HP
sx2000 chipset.
for details on booting an OS on these servers.
for details.
for details.
"Booting and Shutting Down HP OpenVMS I64" (page 105)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will be supported soon after the release of cell-based
"Booting and Shutting Down Linux" (page 114)
"Booting and Shutting Down HP-UX"
"Booting and Shutting Down Microsoft
Operating Systems Supported on Cell-based HP Servers
"Booting and Shutting
for details.
for details.
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