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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HP Fabric Clustering System architecture provides a shortcut that bypasses several layers in the typical
protocol stack, boosting link performance and lowering latency. By avoiding interruptions and buffer copying
in the protocol stack, communication task processing is optimized.
The IETF has developed a draft standard that enables the use of TCP/IP and UDP/IP over HP Fabric
Clustering System transports. The standard is referred to in this document as IPoIB.
Application Availability
The following are the two families of applications that can use the HP Fabric Clustering System interface:
• Technical Computing Applications that use the HP Message Passing Interface (HP-MPI).
HP MPI is a native implementation of version 2.0 of the Message-Passing Interface Standard. It has
become the industry standard for distributed technical applications and is supported on most technical
computing platforms.
• TCP/IP and UDP/IP Applications using the IETF IPoIB draft standard for IP protocol over InfiniBand
transport.
Supported Features
The following are HP Fabric Clustering System features:
Diagnostics: Supported
You can run diagnostics to obtain information on many of the components for HP Fabric
Clustering System using the itutil command.
For information on HP Fabric Clustering System Switch diagnostics, see “Troubleshooting
the HP Fabric Clustering System Network” on page 122.
Non-Supported Features
The following are non-supported HP Fabric Clustering System features:
OnLine Addition and Replacement (OLAR): Not Supported
The OLAR feature, which allows the replacement or addition of adapter cards while the
system (node) is running, is not supported for the HP Fabric Clustering System product.
ServiceGuard: Not Supported
Within a cluster, ServiceGuard groups application services (individual HP-UX processes)
into packages. ServiceGuard requires a heartbeat LAN to monitor the nodes in a cluster.
ServiceGuard is not supported for the HP Fabric Clustering System product.
High Availability (HA): Not Supported
No High Availability features are provided with the HP Fabric Clustering System product.
Transparent Local Failover: Not Supported
Link and/or adapter failure is terminal for applications running on the HP server node.
Dynamic Resource Utilization (DRU): Not Supported
Addition of new Fabric resources (node, cable or switch) to a cluster running an HP Fabric
Clustering System application is not supported.
Load Balancing: Not Supported