Home Theater Server User Manual

1-6 SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Overview Guide • December 2010
■ The main components, power supply units, and FAN units support active (hot)
replacement/addition
Component replacement and addition during system operation supported for the
main components, such as a power supply unit, FAN unit, hard disk drive,
system control facility (board), system board, and PCI card, with some exceptions.
Dynamic reconfiguration (DR) is used for active replacement and addition of
CPU/memory board unit and I/O unit configuring the system board.
PCI hot-plug function enables replacement and addition of PCI cards while the
system is running.
■ Automatic reboot on failure
If a failure occurs, the faulty component is automatically isolated from the system,
and the system is rebooted. If 1-bit errors occur frequently in the cache memory
configuring a CPU, the faulty memory can be dynamically isolated without
rebooting the Oracle Solaris Operating System (Oracle Solaris OS). This type of
graceful degradation function enables the operation of the other resources to
continue without interruption, and also provides high fault-tolerance in case of
failure.
■ Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) controller
For measures against commercial power failure, the server is equipped with UPS
controller (UPC) ports. Using a UPS enables stable power supply to the system
when a power failure or an extensive power interruption occurs.
■ eXtended System Control Facility (XSCF)
This product has a built-in service processor (called the eXtended System Control
Facility (XSCF)), which monitors the system temperature, the hardware status of
the power supply unit and FAN unit, and the operating status of domains.
You can configure the system to selectively degrade a faulty component for
operation if supply failure is detected.
Scheduling is supported to enable automatic power-on and power-off of the
server according to the specified operation schedule.
The console of each domain can be controlled from the XSCF via a network.
A browser-based user interface (BUI) and the command line-based interface
facilitate operations for making configuration changes and status monitoring in
the system.
Note – A console display terminal is required for console control. Prepare it before
installation. The devices that can be used as the terminal are listed below.
■ PC
■ Workstation
■ ASCII terminal