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nPartition System Overviews

Disk Devices in HP rp8400 Cabinets

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

Disk Devices in HP rp8400 Cabinets

The hardware paths for internal drives in an HP rp8400 cabinet are

shown in Figure 1-11.

Figure 1-11 HP rp8400 Internal Storage Hardware Paths

As Figure 1-11 shows, in an HP rp8400 cabinet the top internal drives

connect to cell 0 through its core I/O card, and the bottom internal drives

connect to cell 1 through the cell 1 core I/O card.

nPartition Service Processor (GSP or MP) Hardware

This section introduces the service processor (GSP or MP) hardware in

HP’s nPartition servers:

• Service Processor for HP rp7410 on page 57

• Service Processor for HP rp8400 on page 58

• Service Processor for HP Superdome on page 59

For further details on connecting to and using an nPartition server’s

service processor, refer to the chapter Using Console and

Service Processor Interfaces on page 125.

0/0/0/2/1.9

1/0/0/2/1.9 1/0/0/2/0.9

0/0/0/2/0.9

0/0/0/3/0.2

1/0/0/3/0.2

HP rp8400 Front View: Cabinet-Internal I/O Devices

Cell 0 CD/DVD

Cell 1 CD/DVD

Cell 0 Disk Cell 0 Disk

Cell 1 DiskCell 1 Disk