Creating Partitions

Prerequisites

• Nodes have to exist in the CRE database before you can add them to partitions.

• A node must be enabled for it to be an active member of a partition. If a node is configured as a partition member, but is not enabled, it will not participate in jobs that run on that partition.

Viewing Existing Partitions

Before creating a new partition, you might want to list the partitions that have already been created. To do this, use the list command from within the Partition context.

[node0]
Partition:: list        part0
        part1
[node0] Partition:: 

Creating a Partition

To create a partition, use the create command, followed by the name of the new partition. "Naming Partitions and Custom Attributes" discusses the rules for naming partitions.

For example:

[node0]
Partition:: create part0[node0] P(part0):: 

The create command automatically changes the context to that of the new partition.

At this point, your partition exists by name but contains no nodes. You must assign nodes to the partition before using it. You can do this by setting the partition's nodes attribute. See "Configuring Partitions" for details.