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Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) > Chapter 4 Planning Your Virtual Partitions and Installing vPars

Installing vPars Using Ignite/UX

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NOTE: Before installing vPars, read the section “Updating Your Ignite Server”.
  1. Boot your computer using the Ignite/UX server. If your Ignite server's IP address is 15.xx.yy.zz:

    BCH> bo lan.15.xx.yy.zz install
    Interact with IPL: n

  2. Using the Ignite/UX server, install HP-UX, desired patches, the Quality Pack bundle, and the vPars bundle onto the disk that will be the boot disk of the first partition. (For more information on the Quality Pack bundle, see “Quality Pack”.)

    NOTE: So that the TERM variable will always be set correctly, you should ensure that the first partition owns the hardware console port. For more information, see “Ensuring the Hardware Console Port Is Owned by the First Virtual Partition”.

  3. Use ioscan to verify the hardware addresses in your partition plan.

    # ioscan

  4. Create the partitions using the information you prepared in the partition plan.

    For the example computer, the commands are:

    # vparcreate -p winona1 -a cpu::2 -a cpu:::2 -a mem::640 -a io:0/0 -a io:0/4 -a io:0/0/2/0.6.0:BOOT
    # vparcreate -p winona2 -a cpu::2 -a cpu:::2 -a cpu:41 -a cpu:45 -a mem::1280 -a io:0/8 -a io:1/10 -a io:0/8/0/0.5.0:BOOT
    # vparcreate -p winona3 -a cpu::1 -a cpu:::1 -a mem::1280 -a io:0/5 -a io:1/4 -a io:1/4/0/0.5.0:BOOT

  5. Reboot the computer.

    # shutdown -r

  6. Interrupt the boot process as your computer comes back up to reach the ISL prompt.

    BCH> bo pri
    interact with IPL: y

  7. At the ISL prompt, boot the monitor and the initial virtual partition.

    In our example, the command is:

    ISL> hpux /stand/vpmon vparload -p winona1

  8. From the console of the running partition (in this example, the running partition is winona1), perform the following for each remaining partition:

    1. if the TERM environment variable is set to unknown, change the TERM environment variable to hpterm. In the POSIX shell, the command is:

      # export TERM=hpterm

    2. boot the target partition from the running partition using vparboot.

      The syntax is:

      # vparboot -p <target_partition>
      -I <IP_of_ignite_server>,/opt/ignite/boot/WINSTALL

      For our example, if the target partition is winona2, we would execute the following command from winona1:

      # vparboot -p winona2
      -I 15.xx.yy.zz,/opt/ignite/boot/WINSTALL

      You will see messages similar to the following:

      Sending /var/tmp/VPAAAa08035 to monitor (15786 Kbytes)...
      Sending /var/tmp/VPFSBAAa08035 to monitor (8960 Kbytes)...
      # <MON> winona2 loaded

    3. press Ctrl-A until you see the console of the target partition. The console will display the Ignite/UX installation interface.

    4. enter the boot disk path, lan info, hostname, and IP of the target partition into the Ignite/UX interface and install HP-UX, desired patches, the Quality Pack bundle, and the vPars software. As a result of this process, the partition will automatically reboot.

      TIP: If you get a garbled display, you can press Ctrl-L to refresh the display.

Your computer should now be booted with all virtual partitions up.

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