NonStop NS-Series Planning Guide (H06.03+)

HP Integrity NonStop NS-Series Planning Guide—529567-004
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About This Manual
Who Should Use This Guide
This guide is written for those responsible for planning the installation, configuration,
and maintenance of the server and the software environment at a particular site.
Those who perform the hardware tasks documented in this guide must have completed
HP training courses on system support for Integrity NonStop NS-series servers.
What’s in This Guide
This guide is divided into these sections:
Note. Integrity NonStop NS-series and NonStop S-series refer to hardware systems. H-series
and G-series refer to release version updates (RVUs):
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H-series RVUs run on Integrity NonStop NS-series servers.
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G-series RVUs run on NonStop S-series servers.
Note. In this publication, the term processor complex is equivalent to the term NonStop Blade
Complex (NSBC). In future revisions of this publication, processor complex will be replaced
with one of the following terms, as space permits:
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NonStop Blade Complex
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Blade Complex
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NSBC
The term slice is equivalent to the term NonStop Blade Element (NSBE). In future revisions of
this publication, slice will be replaced with one of the following terms, as space permits:
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NonStop Blade Element
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Blade Element
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NSBE
Section Title Contents
1
Introduction to Integrity
NonStop NS-Series Systems
This section introduces the NonStop advanced
architecture (NSAA) and the Integrity NonStop
NS-series system.
2
Modular System Hardware This section describes the modular Integrity
NonStop NS-series system hardware.
3
ServerNet Communications
Network
This section describes the principles of the
ServerNet system area network.
4
System Configurations This section shows example configurations of
the modular hardware.