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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 “Setting Up the Ignite-UX Server” and “Updating the Ignite-UX Server”.
  1. Boot your hard partition 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, the vPars bundle, and the desired vPars-related bundles onto the disk that will be the boot disk of the first virtual partition.

    NOTE: So that the TERM variable will always be set correctly, you should ensure that the first virtual 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 virtual partition plan.

    # ioscan

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

    For the example hard partition, 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 hard partition.

    # shutdown -r

  6. Interrupt the boot process as your hard partition 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 virtual partition (in this example, the running virtual partition is winona1), if the TERM environment variable is set to unknown, change the TERM environment variable to hpterm. For example, in the POSIX shell the command is:

    # export TERM=hpterm

  9. Continuing on the console of the running virtual partition (winona1), perform the following for each remaining virtual partition:

    1. boot the target virtual partition from the running virtual 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

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

    3. 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, the vPars bundle, and the desired vPars-related bundles. As a result of this process, the virtual partition will automatically reboot.

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

Your hard partition should now be booted with all virtual partitions up.

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