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

Contents
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3. Managing the Overall Complex
Introduction to Complex-wide Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Viewing / Setting the Complex Hardware Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Naming / Renaming a Superdome Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Determining Which Partitions are Defined in the Complex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Determining How Many Cabinets are Present in a Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Determining the Processor and Memory Configurations of Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Determining Firmware Versions in a Partition or Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Determining the Serial Number of a Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Determining the Product Number of a Complex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Detecting / Controlling Power in the Complex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Determining Hardware Power Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
How to Determine if a Cell Board has Power:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
How to Determine if an I/O Chassis has Power: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
How to Determine if a PCI I/O Slot has Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Powering Cells and I/O Chassis On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Turning Service Indicator Lights (LEDs) On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Viewing the Current Status of the Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Analyzing the Health of the Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Determining if Processors Have Failed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Determining if Memory DIMMS Have Failed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Determining if Blowers, Fans, or Power Supplies Have Failed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Related Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
4. Configuring and Managing Superdome Partitions
Introduction to Partition Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Overview of Superdome Partition Concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Configuring Superdome Hardware and Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Partition Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Partition Configuration Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Procedure for Assigning Cells to Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Overview of Partition Management Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
HP-UX Superdome Configuration Commands—An Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Advantages of Using the HP-UX Superdome Configuration Commands . . . . . . . . 136
Specifying Cells and I/O Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
The Partition Manager—A Guided Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140