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

by Marty Poniatowski
February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1440 pages
30h 42m
English
Pearson
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Introduction to nPartitions

Hard Partitions (nPartitions) have dedicated hardware within an HP 9000 that work independently from other nPartitions within the same server. This independence includes both hardware and software isolation from other nPartitions. Virtual Partitions (vPars) covered in an Chapter 16 have full software isolation from one another. nPartitions have both software and hardware isolation from one another. An nPartition could be divided into multiple vPars.

The basic building block of an nPartition is the cell. Each cell has on it processors and memory that are assigned exclusively to that nPartition. I/O chassis are also exclusively assigned to nPartitions. Multiple cells can be combined to produce large nPartitions.

nPartitions ...

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