Hitachi Compute Blade 2000, User Manual

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The following table shows how to switch between screens.
Switch Direction
Key
Operations
Description
From guest to LPAR
manager
Ctrl + l Press the Ctrl and l keys simultaneously on the
guest screen to switch to the LPAR manager
menu. The combination of keys used for screen
switching can be changed on the Options screen.
From LPAR manager
to guest
F8 When you press F8 on the LPAR manager Menu
screen or the Logical Partition Configuration
screen, the activated LPARs become selectable.
Select the LPAR that you would like to switch to the
foreground and press Enter .
If you shut down a guest OS when its LPAR is in the foreground, the LPAR manager
screen automatically returns to the foreground after the guest OS has finished shutting
down.
When displaying the guest screen by using the virtual COM console, screens can be
operated simultaneously without switching between the LPAR manager screen and guest
screen.
See Virtual COM console function for how to use the virtual COM console.

While you are using LPAR manager, garbage might
remain on the screen and part of the screen is missing.
If you switch to the SMP command mode with Ctrl+B
and display the LPAR manager screen again, it is not
displayed correctly. In this case, press Alt+t
simultaneously to refresh the screen. The screen
refreshing operation ( Alt+t works on all HVM screens).

If you continuously press an arrow key or a function key,
the screen might switch as pressing Esc ). If this occurs,
display the previous screen once again and continue
operations.
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If you activate or deactivate all LPARs from the
ServerConductor/Blade Server Manager at a time,
LPAR manager screen operations might become
temporarily unavailable and the screen might look as if it
has frozen. If this happens, wait for one minute or two
and try the operation again.
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When any of the following symptoms occurs, press
Alt+t simultaneously to refresh the screen.
(1) The cursor remains rooted to Esc:Menu in the
bottom right-hand corner of the screen, and cannot
move by the arrow keys, even though there are
selectable items in the screen.
(2) The cursor remains over an item that is not
selectable and cannot move by the arrow keys, even
though there are other selectable items in the screen.
(3) The cursor is not displayed, even though there are
selectable items in the screen.