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

Planning Superdome Conﬁgurations

Rules and Guidelines for Conﬁguring a Complex

Appendix A336

Rules

• Each I/O chassis can be connected to only one cell, and each cell can

be connected to only one I/O chassis.

See “Cell I/O” on page 308 for more information.

• Each partition must contain at least one cell that is attached to an I/O

chassis containing core I/O. This cell should be the lowest-numbered

cell in the partition (the leftmost cell in the partition when you are

looking at the cabinetfrom the front). The I/O chassis should have the

following cards:

❏ The core I/O card itself.

Put the core I/O card in the rightmost slot (slot 0; this is the only

slot it can go in).

❏ The boot device controller.

Put the boot device controller in slot 4 of this chassis if it is a 4X

card, or in slot 1 if it is a 2X card.

❏ A removable-media controller card (e.g., for a DVD drive).

Put the card for a removable-media device in slot 8 of this chassis.

❏ A networking card.

Use this for the partition’s connection to the main LAN (e.g., your

site LAN). (The networking connection in the core I/O card is not

the best choice for this.)

This cell will be the core cell, used for booting the partition; and it

will be by default PDC’s ﬁrst choice for booting a partition that

contains more than one viable core cell (that is, more than one cell

attached to an I/O chassis containing core I/O; see “Guidelines for

High Availability” on page 338).