HP UX 11i v2 manual Deactivated processor, Deconfigured processor, Hard partition

Glossary

Instant Capacity Terminology

deactivated processor

A processor that either has not yet been activated or that has been turned off by the Instant Capacity software and returned to the pool of inactive processors. These processors are available for activation.

Note that new HP-UX processes are not assigned to a deactivated processor and all processes running on the deactivated processor are migrated to other processors (with the exception that interrupt handlers may not be migrated from deactivated processors).

deconfigured processor

A processor that has not yet been configured at the boot console handler (BCH). The Instant Capacity software cannot activate a processor that is deconfigured.

hard partition

A physical partition of a HP server, comprising a group of cells (containing processors and memory), and I/O chassis. Each hard partition operates independently of other hard partitions, and can run a single instance of HP-UX or some other operating system. A hard partition can be further divided into virtual partitions. Hard partitions are also referred to as “nPartitions”.

iCOD component

See Instant Capacity component.

iCOD processor

See Instant Capacity processor.

inactive cell

On a hardware-partitionable system, a cell that is either powered off, or in a state prior to BCH, defined as “waiting on SINC_BIB”.

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