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

Planning Superdome Conﬁgurations

Rules and Guidelines for Conﬁguring a Complex

Appendix A332

Guidelines for Expandability

When populating a CPU cabinet, plan, as far as possible, not only for

your immediate needs but also for what you may want to add in the

future.

For example, if you deﬁne four 2-cell partitions in a

32-way-capable-system, you are leaving no room for expansion in that

cabinet. If you have only the one 32-way-capable-system and you need

the four partitions, then this conﬁguration may be the only option, but

suppose you need only two 2-cell partitions to begin with. In that case it

would be best to assign two cells from each crossbar to each partition.

Now you have room to expand either or both partitions to four cells while

still keeping each partition within the conﬁnes of a single crossbar.