HP Integrity Superdome and 9000 Superdome sx2000 Booting and Shutting Down the Operating System

4 Booting and Shutting Down the Operating System

This chapter presents procedures for booting an operating system (OS) on an nPartition (hardware partition) and procedures for shutting down the OS.

Operating Systems Supported on Cell-based HP Servers

HP supports nPartitions on cell-based HP 9000 servers and cell-based HP Integrity servers. The following list describes the OSes supported on cell-based servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset.

•HP 9000 servers have PA-RISC processors and include the following cell-based models based on the HP sx2000 chipset:

—HP 9000 Superdome (SD16B, SD32B, and SD64B models)

—HP rp8440

—HP rp7440

These HP 9000 servers run HP-UX 11i Version 1 (B.11.11). Refer to “Booting and Shutting Down HP-UX” (page 118) for details on booting an OS on these servers.

•HP Integrity servers have Intel® Itanium® processors and include the following cell-based models based on the HP sx2000 chipset:

—HP Integrity Superdome (SD16B, SD32B, and SD64B models)

—HP rx8640

—HP rx7640

All HP Integrity servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset run the following OSes:

—HP-UX 11i Version 2 (B.11.23) — Refer to “Booting and Shutting Down HP-UX” (page 118) for details.

—Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 — Refer to “Booting and Shutting Down Microsoft Windows” (page 133) for details.

HP Integrity servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset run the following OSes only in nPartitions

that have dual-core Intel® Itanium® processors:

—HP OpenVMS I64 8.3 or later — Supported only in nPartitions that have dual-core

Intel® Itanium® processors. Prior releases of OpenVMS I64 are not supported on servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset.

Refer to “Booting and Shutting Down HP OpenVMS I64” (page 128) for details.

—Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4— On servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset, is

supported only in nPartitions that have dual-core Intel® Itanium® processors. Prior releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are not supported on servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset.

Refer to “Booting and Shutting Down Linux” (page 138) for details.

—Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5— On servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset, is supported

only in nPartitions that have dual-core Intel® Itanium® processors. Prior releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are not supported on servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset.

Refer to “Booting and Shutting Down Linux” (page 138) for details.

—SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 — On servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset, is

supported only in nPartitions that have dual-core Intel® Itanium® processors. Prior releases of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server are not supported on servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset.

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