Managing Superdome Complexes: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Overview of the Superdome System Environment
Overview of Superdome System Features
Chapter 114
Overview of Superdome System Features
Hewlett-Packard’s new Superdome system provides a highly
configurable, high-performance HP-UX server environment.
Figure 1-1 HP Superdome Server Cabinet
Within each HP Superdome server cabinet are multiple cells, each of
which contains processors and memory. Each server cabinet also can
have multiple I/O chassis that provide PCI slots for I/O cards. Each I/O
chassis is connected to one of the cells in the server.
All hardware within a server—including all cells, I/O chassis, cables,
cabinet hardware, and power and utilities components—is considered to
be a Superdome server complex. A Superdome complex can consist of
one cabinet or two cabinet, as discussed in “HP Superdome Server
Models” on page 16.
A major new feature of Superdome servers is the ability to manage the
server hardware in units called partitions. The new partition
capabilities allow you to configure a single Superdome server as one
large system, or as multiple smaller systems.
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