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

Example nPartition Management Scenario

The remainder of this chapter walks through an example management scenario that covers the nPartition management tasks involved with an HP nPartition server hardware upgrade. This example scenario does not cover the process of installing the physical resources; this is typically performed by an HP field engineer. Instead, the purpose of this example is to illustrate the nPartition management applications with a practical example.

The initial configuration of the complex is shown in Table 4-4. The HP nPartition server used in this scenario is an rx8620 with two cells. The two cells are contained in a single nPartition which is named rex01. There are two I/O chassis in the server and both are in use by the ...