Fujitsu M5000-CL11-12-PI01 Manual Do Utilizador

Product Facts 

⏐ Issue: June 01, 2008 ⏐ Product: SPARC

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 Enterprise  M5000 

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 ENTERPRISE M5000 supports partitioning in which a single server can be divided into multiple independent systems. 

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Partitioning creates multiple independent systems which are called partitions or domains. 

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The basic hardware resource required for partitioning is a Physical System Board (hereafter referred to as PSB). 
A PSB consists of a motherboard with or without connection to an IOU. 

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A PSB can logically be divided into four parts. In this case it is called a Quad-XSB. 
A PSB without such a division is called a Uni-XSB. 

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The physical unit configuration of each divided PSB part is called eXtended System Board (XSB). 

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Partitions can be configured to form a domain using any combination of XSBs. XSBs divided with Uni-XSB and Quad-
XSB can be mixed together within one domain. 

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The XSCF is used to configure a partition and specify the PSB division type. 

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Up to 4 partitions are supported. 

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A minimum of one system hard disk drive per partition is necessary as a boot device. 

 
PSB Division Types: 
1) Uni-XSB 

The motherboard is divided into two physical system boards (PSB). Each PSB 

represents an own logical system

 in UNI-

XSB format. The entire motherboard cannot be used as a single PSB.  
Uni-XSB is equivalent to the PSB definition for PRIMEPOWER. 
 
Division Type: Uni-XSB 

 

The two PSBs are not divided and used as two logical system boards (SB). 
CPU chips, memory, PCI slots, hard disk drives assigned to XSB are predetermined. 
Mount as a minimum one CPU module and two MEM modules per operating XSB.