nPartitions can be managed across a wide range of system operation. You can work with nPartitions at a very low level of the system such as the Guardian Service Processor (GSP,) or what I'll be calling the Management Processor (MP) in this chapter, or after HP-UX has booted with nPartitions commands or the menu driven Partition Manager ( /opt/parmgr/bin/parmgr .) The following list summarizes the many options available to you for managing nPartitions, beginning with the lowest level tools and progressing to the highest level tools:
As usual, the best way to learn about a topic is to work through some examples, so let's do just that in the upcoming sections. |