Chapter 16. Virtual Partitions (vPars)

Introduction

With Virtual Partitions (vPars) you can take almost any HP Integrity or HP 9000 server and turn it into many “virtual” computers. These virtual computers each run their own instance of HP-UX and associated applications. The virtual computers are isolated from one another at the software level. Software running on one Virtual Partition does not affect software running in any other Virtual Partition. In the Virtual Partitions you can run different patch levels of HP-UX, different applications, or any software you want and not affect other partitions.

Virtual Partitions (vPars) work nearly identically on HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers. At the time of this writing, vPars are not available on HP-UX ...

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