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Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition
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A virtual partition can be gracefully shut down or rebooted via the HP-UX command shutdown. To ensure that the partition database is synchronized (see “vPars Partition Database”), execute the vparstatus command prior to executing the shutdown command.

Examples

  • To shutdown the virtual partition winona1:

    winona1# vparstatus
    winona1# shutdown -h

    After winona1 is shutdown, the virtual partition is in the down state. For more information, see Table 5-1 “Virtual Partition States”.

  • To reboot the virtual partition winona1:

    winona1# vparstatus
    winona1# shutdown -r

NOTE: If a virtual partition has its autoboot attribute set to MANUAL, the virtual partition will only halt and will not reboot when the command shutdown -r (or reboot -r) is given. For more information on the virtual partition attributes, see the vparmodify(1M) manpage and “Modifying Attributes of a Virtual Partition”.

For the -R and -r options of the shutdown and reboot commands, the virtual partition will not reboot when there is a pending reboot for reconfiguration (RFR) until all the virtual partitions within the nPartition have been shutdown and the vPars monitor has been rebooted. Also, the requested reconfiguration will not take place until all the virtual partitions have been shutdown and the vPars monitor has been rebooted.

When you need to force a non-graceful shutdown, such as when a partition appears hung, use vparreset. See “Resetting a Hung Virtual Partition”.

The shell commands shutdown and reboot apply only to the OS instance of the virtual partition from which they are executed and do not shut down or reboot any other virtual partitions or the vPars monitor.

There is no command to shutdown the monitor. The monitor command reboot (see “Using Monitor Commands”) applies to the entire hard partition, causing the hard partition to reboot. For more information on how to shut down or reboot the hard partition gracefully, see “Shutting Down or Rebooting the Hard Partition (rebooting the vPars monitor)”.



Setting and Booting a Virtual Partition Using Primary and Alternate Boot Paths
  		 


Shutting Down or Rebooting the Hard Partition (rebooting the vPars monitor)  
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