Creating or Deleting an Application Partition

The HSM Security Officer (SO) is responsible for creating the application partition. The HSM SO can delete the partition at any time, destroying all partition roles and stored cryptographic objects.

Prerequisites

>The HSM must be initialized (see HSM Initialization).

>You require the HSM SO credential (blue PED key).

To create an application partition

1.Log in as HSM SO (see Logging In as HSM Security Officer).

2.Create the application partition.

lunacm:> partition create

3.[Optional] Confirm that the partition was created.

lunacm:> slot list

To delete an application partition

1.Log in as HSM SO (see Logging In as HSM Security Officer).

2.Delete the application partition by specifying the slot number.

lunacm:> partition delete -slot <slot>