AB291A Fabric Clustering System Support Guide (12-port Switch), April 2004
Table Of Contents
- About This Document
- 1 Introduction to Technology
- 2 Hardware Overview
- 3 Installation Planning
- 4 Installing HP Fabric Clustering System
- 5 Administration and Management
- HP-UX Host Administration and Management
- Switch Administration and Management
- CLI Overview
- Using the CLI
- Advanced Switch Setup
- Configuration, Image, and Log Files
- Configuration, Image, and Log File Overview
- File Management
- Listing Configuration, Image, and Log Files
- Viewing Configuration Files
- Viewing Log Files
- Saving Configuration Files
- Saving for System Reboot
- Saving the Backup Configuration
- Specifying the Configuration to Use at
- Saving and Copying Files
- Downloading Files to the System
- Deleting Configuration, Image, and Log Files
- Managing Log Files
- Understanding the Log Format
- Uploading Log Files
- Administering the System
- 6 Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- A Specifications
- B HP 12-Port 4X Fabric Copper Switch Commands
- Show Commands
- show arp ethernet
- show arp IB
- show authentication
- show backplane
- show boot-config
- show card
- show card-inventory
- show clock
- show config
- show fan
- show host
- show ib
- show ib sm configuration
- show ib sm multicast
- show ib sm neighbor
- show ib sm node subnet-prefix
- show ib sm partition
- show ib sm port
- show ib sm service
- show ib sm switch
- show ib-agent channel-adapter
- show ib-agent summary
- show ib-agent switch
- show ib-agent switch linear-frd-info
- show ib-agent switch all mcast-info lid
- show ib-agent switch all node-info
- show ib-agent switch all pkey-info
- show ib-agent switch port-info
- show ib-agent switch sl-vl-map
- show ib-agent switch switch-info
- show interface ib
- show interface ib sm
- show interface ib sm statistics
- show interface mgmt-ethernet
- show interface mgmt-ib
- show interface mgmt-serial
- show ip
- show location
- show logging
- show ntp
- show power-supply
- show running-status
- show sensor
- show snmp
- show system-services
- show terminal
- show trace
- show user
- show version
- IP Commands
- HP Fabric Clustering System Commands
- Administrative Commands
- action
- boot-config
- broadcast
- card
- clock
- configure
- copy
- delete
- dir
- disable
- enable
- exec
- exit
- ftp-server enable
- gateway
- help
- history
- hostname
- install
- interface
- interface mgmt-ethernet
- interface mgmt-ib
- ip
- location
- login
- logging
- logout
- more
- ntp
- ping
- radius-server
- reload
- shutdown
- snmp-server
- telnet
- terminal length
- terminal time-out
- trace
- type
- username
- who
- write
- Show Commands
- C How to Use Windows HyperTerminal
- Glossary
Installation Planning
Planning the Cluster
Chapter 3
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Planning the Cluster
This section contains the following general guidelines and protocol-specific considerations for planning HP
Fabric Clustering System clusters that run HP-MPI or TCP/UDP/IP applications.
• “Preliminary Considerations” on page 20
• “Features, Parameters and Supported Configurations for HP-MPI and TCP/UDP/IP Applications” on
page 20
Preliminary Considerations
Before assembling a fabric physically, do the following to address all of the appropriate issues:
Step 1. Read “What is InfiniBand?” on page 12, to get a basic understanding of InfiniBand and HP Fabric
Clustering System components.
Step 2. Read this chapter, Planning the Cluster, to gain an understanding of protocol specific configuration
guidelines for HP-MPI and TCP/UDP/IP applications.
Step 3. Decide the number of nodes that will be interconnected in the fabric.
Step 4. Decide the type of HP server for each node (for a list of supported HP servers, see the HP Fabric
Clustering System Release Notes available at:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html#Fabric%20Clustering%20System%20for%20InfiniBand.
Step 5. Determine the network bandwidth requirements for each node.
Step 6. Determine the number of adapters needed for each node.
Step 7. Decide the topology of the fabric.
Step 8. Determine how many switches will be used based on the number of nodes in the fabric. The only
configuration that can be supported without a switch is the point-to-point (node-to-node)
configuration. HP Fabric Clustering System supports meshed switches:
Step 9. Draw the cable connections from each node to switches (if the fabric will contain switches).
Features, Parameters and Supported Configurations for HP-MPI and
TCP/UDP/IP Applications
The following sections in this chapter define HP Fabric Clustering System functionality for HP-MPI
applications and TCP/UDP/IP applications.
HP Fabric Clustering System Applications
InfiniBand is an industry standard high performance cluster and I/O interconnect architecture. HP Fabric
Clustering System provides reliable, high speed, low latency, low CPU overhead, transport services to
applications running on the HP-UX operating system.
InfiniBand was jointly developed by a large number of contributors. For details on InfiniBand, see the
InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) web site, “http://www.infinibandta.org”.
When used as a clustering interconnect, InfiniBand significantly enhances the performance of parallel and
technical computing applications.