Hp Superdome 2 Terminology - HP Integrity Superdome 2 16-socket Administrator's Manual

You can manage partitions on HP Superdome 2 systems using the following methods:
From the OA: The OA Graphical User Interface (GUI) and Command Line Interface (CLI)
support partition management user interfaces.
NOTE:
From the partitions: The operation system based (Legacy) partition management command
interfaces are supported from the partition OS instance, until these operations are targeted to
that vPar instance. Operations targeting other vPars need explicit authorization using the
"parperm" command (available only from the OA). However, vparstatus does not need explicit
permissions and it can display status of all vPars contained in an nPar, irrespective of which
vPar OS instance it is invoked from.
From a Central Management System (CMS): The HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) and
other plug-ins from the CMS can be used to manage partitions.

HP Superdome 2 terminology

Table 1 (page 8)
Table 1 HP Superdome 2 terminology
Term
Resource path
LAN on Motherboards (LoMs)
Monarch OA
Partition specifications (parspecs)
Standby/Redundant OA
Socket
Blades
IOX / I/O Bay
Enclosure
8 Introduction
The initial release of HP Superdome 2 does not support iCAP CLIs on the OA.
lists the terms specific to HP Superdome 2.
Description
On HP Superdome 2 platforms, resources in the complex are identified
by a resource path. The resource path describes the physical hardware
resources in a hierarchy of elements called entity. Each resource path
consists of a hierarchical list of entity numbers. The hierarchy describes
the parent-child relationships. The parent is listed to the left of the
child. Each entity number is relative to the parent. The separator
between the entity numbers is the slash (/) character. For more
information on resource path, see help resourcepath. For example,
the resource path 1/2 identifies blade 1 in enclosure 2 of a HP
Superdome 2 complex.
LoMs represent the network ports on the blade.
This is the active instance of the Onboard Administrator (OA).
Platforms that have OA based partition management support partition
specifications (parspecs). A parspec is a collection of data that defines
the configuration of a specific nPartition. It includes the virtual
partitions in the nPartition if the customer has defined any virtual
partitions. For more information on partition specifications, see
"Partition specifications (parspec)" (page
This is the Onboard Administrator instance that can perform the role
of the Active or Monarch OA in the event of a failure of the Monarch
OA.
A socket on HP Superdome 2 represents the Field Replacable
processing unit on a blade. Each socket presents 4 CPU-cores.
A unit that contains CPU-cores, memory and onboard Network
Interface cards (NICs). A blade is the equivalent of a cell (in cell-based
platforms) in terms of being the unit of assignment for defining
nPartitions.
A unit that can be added to an HP Superdome 2 complex to add I/O
slots to the complex. An IOX provides upto 12 PCIe slots.
The unit that hosts either a blade or an IO Bay in an HP Superdome
2 complex.
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