The HP Virtual Server Environment: Making the Adaptive Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter

Data Maintained by the Management Processor

HP nPartition severs contain one active management processor (MP). The MP is responsible for a variety of tasks; the most notable are the following:

• maintaining the configuration of the entire complex

• allowing access to the console and console logs for each nPartition

• storing the chassis and event logs

• providing a command menu for performing actions on the complex

• presenting the virtual front panel (VFP) interface

The remainder of this section focuses on how the management processor maintains the configuration of the nPartitions, cells, and other configuration aspects of HP nPartition servers. The configuration data for HP nPartition servers is stored on the MP. The MP provides an interface for management ...