nPartitions (Electrically Isolated Hardware Partitions)
nPartitions, or nPars, is HP's hardware partitioning solution. Because nPars is a hardware partitioning solution, it can be difficult to separate the features of the hardware from the features of nPars so we will start by discussing the hardware features that impact partitioning and then discuss partitioning itself.
Key Features
Single-System High-Availability (HA) Features
nPartitions allows you to isolate hardware failures so that they affect only a portion of the system. A number of other single-system HA features are designed to reduce the number of failures in ANY of the partitions. These include n+1, hot swappable components such as:
Cabinet blowers
I/O fans
DC power supplies
Cell backplane ...
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