Creating And Configuring Npartitions; Tools For Configuring Npartitions; Commands To Configure Npartitions; Granting Permission For An Os To Manage Npartitions - HP Integrity Superdome 2 16-socket Administrator's Manual

5 Creating and configuring nPartitions

This chapter describes the procedure to create, configure, and manage nPartitions on the HP
Superdome 2 server. This chapter discusses the following topics:
"Tools for configuring nPartitions" (page 38)
"Granting permission for an OS to manage nPartitions" (page 38)
"Task summaries for creating and configuring nPartitions" (page 39)
"Partition default attributes" (page 39)
"Partition specifications (parspec)" (page 28)
"Creating a new nPartition" (page 40)
"Verifying newly created nPartitions using the CLI" (page 41)
"Verifying newly created nPartitions using the OA GUI" (page 42)
"Removing an nPartition" (page 42)
"Renaming an nPartition" (page 43)
"Assigning blades and I/O bays to an nPartition" (page 43)
"Removing blades and I/O bays from an nPartition" (page 45)
"Renaming a server complex" (page 47)
"Setting blade attributes" (page 47)

Tools for configuring nPartitions

You can configure and manage nPartitions using the Onboard Partition Manager.
The Onboard Administrator Partition Management GUI replaces the legacy ParMgr GUI which
ran on an operating system in a partition. The Onboard Partition Manager tools are a set of
nPartition and vPar configuration and management tools that provide nPartition and vPar
configuration information, and other enhancements over the previous GUI tool. The OA GUI is
accessible from the partition side through HP SMH. For more information on launching OA CLI
and OA GUI, see

Commands to configure nPartitions

You can use the nPartition commands to create, modify, monitor, and remove nPartitions. For more
information on nPartition commands, see
NOTE: To execute nPartition commands from the operating system, you must have root or IPMI
LAN access.

Granting permission for an OS to manage nPartitions

Use the parperm command to remove restrictions which prevent an operating system running in
a partition from performing partition configuration operations on other partitions. By default, a
partition can only perform partition configuration operations on itself. The commands to display
partition status do not need any authorization and are allowed from any partition.
The following command removes nPartition configuration restrictions from an OS running in nPartition
1, enabling it to perform nPartition configuration operations on nPartitions other than nPartition 1.
parperm npar on 1
For more information, see help parperm.
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"Accessing the OA" (page 9).
Table 2.