HP Integrity rx8620 Server User Service Guide

also is assigned to the nPartition. Each I/O chassis has PCI card slots plus any I/O cards and

attached devices, and has a core I/O card assigned to the I/O chassis.

On the HP Integrity rx8620 Server, each nPartition has its own dedicated portion of the server

hardware that can run a single instance of the operating system. Each nPartition can boot, reboot,

and operate independently of any other nPartitions and hardware within the same server complex.

The server complex includes all hardware within an nPartition server: all cabinets, cells, I/O

chassis, I/O devices and racks, management and interconnecting hardware, power supplies, and

fans.

One or more nPartitions may be configured within a server complex, enabling the hardware to

function as a single operating system or as many systems.

NOTE: Partition configuration information is available on the HP website at http://hp.com

For details, see HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions.

Internal Disk Devices for the Server

As Figure 1-9 shows, in the server cabinet, the top internal disk drives connect to cell 0 through

the core I/O for cell 0. The bottom internal disk drives connect to cell 1 through the core I/O for

cell 1.

The upper removable media drive connects to cell 0 through the core I/O card for cell 0 and the

lower removable media drive connects to cell 1 through the core I/O card for cell 1.

Figure 1-9 Internal Disks

Table 1-4 Removable Media Drive Path

PathRemovable Media

0/0/0/2/1.x

.0Slot 0 Media

1/0/0/2/1.x

.0Slot 1 Media

1 X equals 2 for a DVD drive while X equals 3 for a DDS-4 DAT drive.

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