NonStop NS1000 Planning Guide (H06.08+)

1 System Overview
Overview of the Integrity NonStop NS1000 System
The Integrity NonStop NS1000 system combines up to eight HP Integrity rx2620 servers with
the NonStop operating system. Each HP Integrity rx2620 server contains a single Intel® Itanium®
processor. The Integrity NonStop NS1000 server supports configurations of two, four, six, or
eight processors. It uses much of the same modular system hardware as other Integrity NonStop
NS-series servers. ServerNet connectivity is extended from the Versatile I/O (VIO) enclosure
directly to the HP Integrity rx2620s. For more information about the Integrity NonStop NS1000
system, see Chapter 4 (page 37). For information on installing an Integrity NonStop NS1000
server, refer to the NonStop NS1000 Hardware Installation Manual.
NOTE: For NonStop NS1000 servers that contain I/O Adapter Module (IOAM) enclosures,
refer to the H06.07 (or earlier) version of this manual for planning, configuration, and maintenance
information of the IOAM enclosure.
The characteristics of an Integrity NonStop NS1000 system:
Intel Itanium 1.3 GHz, 3-MB cacheProcessor
NSE-P (specified in the CONFTEXT configuration file)
AND NSE-B (displayed in the OSM Service Connection)
Processor model
4 GB or 8 GBMain memory
8Maximum processors
2, 4, 6 or 8Supported processor configurations
4 (16 with four daisy-chained configurations containing
4 FCDM per configuration) when using the embedded
Fibre Channel ports
Maximum Fibre Channel disk modules (FCDMs)
2 required (one each for X and Y fabrics)Maximum VIO enclosures
4 embedded Fibre Channel ports for FCDMs, tape, or ESS
connections, 4 embedded copper Ethernet ports
Maximum embedded I/O connectivity per VIO enclosure
4 optional ESS (Fibre Channel) ports OR 4 optional
Ethernet ports (copper/optical)
Maximum optional expansion I/O connectivity per VIO
enclosure
YesESS support
YesM8201R Fibre Channel to SCSI router support
Not supportedConnection to NonStop ServerNet Clusters
Not supportedConnection to NonStop S-series I/O
Figure 1-1 “Integrity NonStop NS1000 Server Example” shows elements of an example 2-processor
Integrity NonStop NS1000 server.
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