Compaq GS320 - Manual (Page 173)

Compaq AlphaServer Partition Manager 9-9
When you start CAPM, the first screen that displays (after the login box) is the Current
Partition Map (Figure 9–4), which shows hard partition information. Section 9.3
describes the information that is displayed in a partition map.
The GS80/160/320 system can have two types of partitions, hard and soft. In this section
we look at hard partitions; Section 9.5 discusses soft partitions.
Hard partitions do not share any CPU, memory, or I/O resources. In other
words, the boundaries of these partitions are hard. An instance of an operating
system can run in each hard partition; these instances run independently of each other.
Using CAPM, you can perform several operations on hard partitions. These procedures are
described in the following sections:
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Creating Hard Partitions
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Adding a Hard Partition
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Deleting a Hard Partition
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Modifying a Partition Map
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Saving, Validating, and Committing a Partition Map
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Loading a Saved Partition Map