Softreboot White Paper (5900-2577, March 2013)

Contents
About This Document.....................................................................................4
Intended Audience....................................................................................................................4
Typographic Conventions...........................................................................................................4
Executive Summary........................................................................................5
1 Technologies / Features..............................................................................6
SoftReboot Integrated with DRD..................................................................................................6
Product Contents.......................................................................................................................6
2 Installation and Uninstallation......................................................................7
Installation...............................................................................................................................7
Post1203............................................................................................................................7
EAP...................................................................................................................................8
Uninstallation...........................................................................................................................8
3 Configuration and Usage............................................................................9
4 Behavior and Use case Examples...............................................................10
5 Constraints..............................................................................................11
Hardware configuration changes..............................................................................................11
Primary boot path changes.................................................................................................11
HyperThreading settings......................................................................................................11
nPar hardware setting changes............................................................................................11
Cell OLAD........................................................................................................................11
Interface Card OL* (PCI OL*)..............................................................................................11
Instant Capacity (iCAP) and Dynamic Processor Resiliency (DPR)..............................................11
Known issues with SoftReboot...................................................................................................11
A SoftReboot Software Depot List...................................................................12
B Messages During SoftReboot......................................................................13
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