Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition

A virtual partition can be gracefully shut down or rebooted via the HP-UX command shutdown; there is no vpar* command to shutdown a virtual partition. To ensure that the partition database is synchronized (see “vPars Partition Database”), execute the vparstatus command prior to executing the shutdown command.

Examples

To shutdown the virtual partition winona1:
winona1# vparstatus winona1# shutdown -h
After winona1 is shutdown, the virtual partition is in the down state. For more information, see “Virtual Partition States”.
To reboot the virtual partition winona1:
winona1# vparstatus winona1# shutdown -r




	NOTE: If a virtual partition has its autoboot attribute set to `MANUAL`, the virtual partition will only halt and will not reboot when the command shutdown -r (or reboot -r) is given. For more information on the virtual partition attributes, see the vparmodify(1M) manpage and “Managing: Modifying Attributes of a Virtual Partition”. For the -R and -r options of the shutdown and reboot commands, the virtual partition will not reboot when there is a pending Reboot for Reconfiguration until all the virtual partitions within the nPartition have been shutdown and the vPars Monitor has been rebooted. Also, the requested reconfiguration will not take place until all the virtual partitions have been shutdown and the vPars Monitor has been rebooted. When you need to force a non-graceful shutdown, such as when a partition appears hung, use vparreset. See “Resetting a Virtual Partition”. The shell commands shutdown and reboot apply only to the OS instance of the virtual partition from which they are executed and do not shut down or reboot any other virtual partitions or the vPars Monitor. There is no command to shutdown the vPars Monitor. The vPars Monitor command reboot (see “vPars Monitor: Using vPars Monitor Commands”) applies to the entire hard partition, causing the hard partition to reboot. For more information on how to shut down or reboot the hard partition gracefully, see “Shutting Down or Rebooting the nPartition (Or Rebooting the vPars Monitor)”.

When to Shutdown All Virtual Partitions

The only times you need to shutdown all the virtual partitions within a hard partition are when:

a hardware problem or nPartition modification requires the nPartition to be down. Note that PCI OL* is supported on vPars A.03.xx and A.04.
the entire hard partition hangs. This might be a problem with the vPars Monitor.
you need to update the vPars Monitor (/stand/vpmon)

Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition

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