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HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide - Hewlett Packard

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2 How vPars and Its Components Work<br />

This chapter covers:<br />

• Partitioning Using vPars<br />

• vPars Monitor and vPars Partition Database<br />

• vPars Boot Sequence<br />

• EFI and Integrity Notes<br />

• <strong>Virtual</strong> Consoles and Logs<br />

• Security<br />

Partitioning Using vPars<br />

To understand how vPars works, compare it to a server not using vPars. Figure 2-1 shows a<br />

4-way <strong>HP</strong>-<strong>UX</strong> server. Without vPars, all hardware resources are dedicated to one instance of<br />

<strong>HP</strong>-<strong>UX</strong> and the applications that are running on this one instance.<br />

Figure 2-1 Server without vPars<br />

Processor<br />

0<br />

SCSI<br />

0/0<br />

Host PCI Bridge<br />

4<br />

Processor<br />

1<br />

LAN<br />

1/0<br />

Memory<br />

6<br />

Processor<br />

2<br />

SCSI<br />

0/0<br />

6.0 6.0<br />

Host PCI Bridge<br />

5<br />

Processor<br />

3<br />

Figure 2-2 shows the software stack where all applications run on top of the single OS instance:<br />

LAN<br />

1/0<br />

Partitioning Using vPars 27

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