HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

Modifying and Creating an nPartition

Now that we know the basics of some HP-UX commands for working with nPartitions, let's put a few of these commands to use by modifying and creating some nPartitions. We're kind of getting ahead of ourselves in this section. There are a lot of basics related to working with nPartitions in upcoming sections, but most of the commands used in this section are at the HP-UX command line or parmgr interface, so we won't be using any information in upcoming sections. Let's go ahead and perform some modification on an nPartition and create a new nPartition.

We'll start our work on a 32-way Superdome that has one nPartition. In the following listing we'll issue parstatus with the -P option to see what partitions exist, ...