NonStop NS14000 Planning Guide (H06.10+)

1 System Hardware Overview
Overview of the Integrity NonStop NS14000 System
The Integrity NonStop NS14000 server uses Intel® Itanium® processors and NonStop advanced
architecture (NSAA) in duplex and triplex configurations. It uses much of the same modular
system hardware as other Integrity NonStop NS-series servers. It supports up to eight processors
in a fault-tolerant configuration, and ServerNet connectivity is extended from the Versatile I/O
(VIO) enclosure to the NonStop Blade Complex by way of the logical synchronization unit (LSU).
For more information about the Integrity NonStop NS14000 system, see Chapter 4 (page 35).
For information on installing an Integrity NonStop NS14000 server, refer to the NonStop NS14000
Hardware Installation Manual.
NOTE: For NonStop NS14000 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 NS14000 server:
Intel Itanium 1.5 GHz, 4-MB cacheProcessor
NSE-D (specified in the CONFTEXT configuration file)Processor model
4 GB or 8 GB per processorMain memory
8Maximum processors
2, 4, 6 or 8Supported processor configurations
8 (32 with eight daisy-chained configurations containing
4 FCDM per configuration)
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
connections4 embedded copper Ethernet ports
Maximum embedded I/O connectivity per VIO enclosure
4 optional Fibre Channel ports for FCDMs, tape, or ESS
connectionsOR4 optional Ethernet ports (copper/optical)
Maximum optional expansion I/O connectivity per VIO
enclosure
YesESS support
YesM8201R Fibre Channel to SCSI router support
6780 cluster switch onlyConnection to NonStop ServerNet Clusters
Not supportedConnection to NonStop S-series I/O
Table 1-1 “Figure 1-1. Integrity NonStop NS14000 Server” shows a 4-processor, duplex
configuration example of an Integrity NonStop NS14000 server.
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