NonStop NS1200 Planning Guide

1 NonStop NS1200 System Overview
The Integrity NonStop NS1200 system combines up to eight HP Integrity rx2660 servers with
the NonStop operating system.
Each HP Integrity rx2660 server is adapted for use as a blade element containing one single-core
Intel® Itanium® processor and a ServerNet PCI adapter card to provide connectivity to the
ServerNet fabrics.
The Integrity NonStop NS1200 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 rx2660
blade elements.
The characteristics of an Integrity NonStop NS1200 system:
Intel ItaniumProcessor
NSE-QProcessor model
4 GB or 8 GB DDR2Main 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 “Example of an Integrity NonStop NS1200 System” shows the rear view of an example
Integrity NonStop NS1200 system with eight blade elements in a 42U modular cabinet without
the optional UPS and ERM.
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