Document Organization

“Getting Started with nPartitions”

This chapter introduces HP nPartition system features, server models, supported operating systems, and administration tools, and outlines the basic information needed for managing nPartitions.

“nPartition Server Hardware Overview”

This chapter describes HP nPartition server models and features.

“Planning nPartitions”

This chapter describes how you can plan nPartition configurations. Details include the nPartition configuration requirements and recommendations.

“Using Management Interfaces and Tools”

This chapter presents the system management interfaces and tools available on HP nPartition servers. Also described here are the nPartition boot environments, management access procedures, and detailed command references.

“Booting and Resetting nPartitions”

This chapter introduces nPartition system boot and reset concepts, configuration options, and procedures for booting and resetting nPartitions.

“Creating and Configuring nPartitions”

This chapter presents the procedures for creating, configuring, and managing nPartitions on HP servers that support them.

“Managing Hardware Resources”

This chapter explains the procedures for managing the hardware resources in nPartitions and their server complexes. It describes power and LED (attention indicator) management, hardware configuration and deconfiguration, and analysis of the current status of the server complex.

“Listing nPartition and Hardware Status”

This chapter describes procedures for listing the current status of nPartitions and server hardware components.

“nPartition Commands”

This appendix contains details and command-line syntax for the HP nPartition configuration commands.