September 2005
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
14h 50m
English
HP supports two different virtual partitioning options: Virtual Partitions and Integrity Virtual Machines. These each have their own benefits and tradeoffs, so we will describe both of them here and then discuss how to choose which technology fits your needs later, in Chapter 3—Making the Most of the HP Partitioning Continuum. Let's first look at Virtual Partitions, or vPars.
Virtual Partitions (vPars) effectively provides you with the ability to run multiple copies of HP-UX on a single set of hardware, which can be a system or an nPar. It provides the ability to allocate CPUs and memory and I/O card slots to each of your OS images. Once that is done, the partitions boot as if ...
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