HP Superdome Hybrid Servers Intel Itanium 2 and PA-RISC nPartition Mixing Published: February 2010 Edition: Revision 1.
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Table of Contents 1 ..........................................................................................................................................5 HP Superdome Hybrid Servers with Mixed Intel Itanium 2 and PA-RISC nPartitions.........................5 Supported Processors........................................................................................................................5 Mixing Scenarios.........................................................................................
List of Tables 1-1 1-2 1-3 1-4 1-5 4 Supported Processors for Superdome Hybrid Servers...................................................................5 Operating System Support for Superdome Hybrid Servers...........................................................6 Firmware Requirements for Only HP-UX 11i v2 on PA-RISC nPartitions.....................................7 Firmware Requirements for Only HP-UX 11i v1 on PA-RISC nPartitions.....................................
1 HP Superdome Hybrid Servers with Mixed Intel Itanium 2 and PA-RISC nPartitions HP Superdome servers based on the HP sx1000 chipset can support configurations with both PA-RISC nPartitions and Intel® Itanium® 2 nPartitions in the same server. This document addresses the hardware, firmware, operating systems, and management tools required and supported for mixing PA-RISC nPartitions and Intel Itanium 2 nPartitions on Superdome hybrid servers.
Table 1-2 Operating System Support for Superdome Hybrid Servers Processor Mixing Supported Mixing Not Supported PA-8800 HP-UX 11i v2 December 2005 Release HP-UX 11i v1 December 2003 Release HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005 Release HP-UX 11i v1 June 2004 Release HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 Release HP-UX 11i v1 December 2004 Release HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 Release PA-8900 HP-UX 11i v2 December 2005 Release N/A HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005 Release HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 Release HP-UX 11i v1 December 2004 Rel
Pset SRDs, and FSS group SRDs) work correctly in Superdome hybrid servers. A remedy for this issue will be in a later release of gWLM. For a work-around, if you need to deploy gWLM v1.1.1 with an iCAP SRD on a Superdome hybrid server before the first maintenance release is available, contact gwlmfeedback@rsn.hp.com. Global Workload Manager (gWLM) on HP OpenVMS I64 8.2-1 does not identify the host nPartition. Because HP OpenVMS I64 8.
As Table 1-3 lists, PDC 20.8 and PDC 21.2 do not contain the required enhancements for mixing in any scenario, so both of these PDC versions must be upgraded to PDC 22.1 to enable mixing when running only HP-UX 11i v2 on PA-RISC nPartitions. PDC 22.1 is also the minimum firmware required to support PA-8900. There are no known issues with system management tools other than the uname -i issue for WLM and gWLM (for details, see “WLM and gWLM Limitation in All Mixing Scenarios” (page 6)).
• • • Intel Itanium 2 nPartitions (and PA-RISC nPartitions) can be managed by Partition Manager on the Support Management Station (SMS) Intel Itanium 2 nPartitions (and PA-RISC nPartitions) can be managed by nPartition Commands on any nPartition Intel Itanium 2 nPartitions (and PA-RISC nPartitions) can be managed by Partition Manager on any Intel Itanium 2 nPartition Limitation with iCAP on HP-UX 11i v1 December 2004 Release with PDC 22.1 and IPF 2.50/2.
