16.4 Move from a Default Partition to a Custom Partition

Moving from a configuration that does not use InfiniBand partitions (that is, uses the default partition only) to a configuration with partitions involves the following steps:

• Making all Exalogic compute nodes limited members of the default partition

  Note:

  By default, all Exalogic compute nodes are full members of the default partition.

• Disabling IPoIB on the default partition

  Note:

  Do not complete this step if your Exalogic machine is connected to Oracle Exadata Database Machine on the same InfiniBand fabric.

See the following example:

1. Run the following command to start the process:

   # smpartition start

2. Run the following command:

   # smpartition list modified

3. Run the following command to make Exalogic compute nodes limited members of the default partition and to disable IPoIB on the default partition:

   # smpartition modify -n Default -port ALL_CAS -m limited -flag