HP Integrity BL870c Server-Blade - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................6
Overview................................................................................................................................6
Concept of the Blade Link Domain (BL870c i4 and BL890c i4)...................................................7
2 Managing nPartitions..................................................................................8
Basic system components...........................................................................................................8
iLO....................................................................................................................................8
iLO Domain Management Processor (DMP) .......................................................................8
Requirements.............................................................................................................8
iLO Monarch Management Processor (MMP) .....................................................................8
Requirements.............................................................................................................8
iLO Auxiliary Management Processor (AMP) ......................................................................9
Blade Link...........................................................................................................................9
How nPartitions are displayed in the Onboard Administrator..........................................................9
nPartition License......................................................................................................................9
iLO Text User Interface LM command....................................................................................10
3 nPartitions configuration settings.................................................................12
User interfaces for nPartitions...................................................................................................12
iLO Text User Interface........................................................................................................12
Domain Management Processor (DMP)............................................................................12
Monarch Management Processor (MMP)..........................................................................12
iLO Command Line Interface................................................................................................13
NPAR command line options on DMP..............................................................................13
NPAR command line options on MMP.............................................................................13
iLO Web Graphical User Interface.......................................................................................14
nPartition Configuration on DMP.....................................................................................14
nPartition Configuration on MMP.....................................................................................16
4 Planning nPartitions..................................................................................18
Hardware Configurations.........................................................................................................18
BL860c i4, BL1 Blade Link...................................................................................................18
BL870c i4, BL2 Blade Link...................................................................................................18
BL890c i4, BL4 Blade Link...................................................................................................18
Processor and memory configuration rules.............................................................................18
Internal SAS considerations............................................................................................18
Firmware configuration requirements.........................................................................................18
Creating a new (smaller) nPartition...........................................................................................19
Single-blade nPartition........................................................................................................19
Double-blade nPartition......................................................................................................19
Physical resource requirements in the Blade Link Domain..............................................................19
5 Creating and configuring nPartitions — use cases.........................................20
Tools for configuring nPartitions – use cases...............................................................................21
Partitioning use cases..............................................................................................................21
Case A: Creating a new nPartition............................................................................................21
System setting ...................................................................................................................21
VC profiles........................................................................................................................21
Case B: Scaling down the nPartition size (shrinking)....................................................................21
System setting....................................................................................................................22
Removing (deleting) an nPartition.........................................................................................22
Case C: Scaling up the nPartition size (growing).........................................................................22
System settings..................................................................................................................22
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