topic RX7640 cells in Operating System - HP-UX

RX7640 cells

Jacques Tessier — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:02:12 GMT

I have a 8 way RX7640 and I am looking at creating 2 4 way servers. I have figured out the cards I need.
My question is regarding HPUX. I have HPUX standard licensed for the appropriate number of CPU/cores.

My question is do I need HPUX enterprise if I break the server up into 2 nodes, or is HPUX standard still ok?

Re: RX7640 cells

Duncan Edmonstone — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:35:35 GMT

If you aren't increasing the total number of cores you don't need any more licenses.

However depending on how you are intending to cut up the server you might need more items...

If using nPars (hard partitions), you'll need to have at least 2 cell boards, 2 MP/LAN cards and 2 core IO cards.

If using vPars, you might already have all the hardware you need, but you will need vPars licenses...

Which partitioning technology are you intending to use?

HTH

Duncan

Re: RX7640 cells

Tim Nelson — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:40:14 GMT

As far as the question you asked relating to HPUX.

HPUX comes in a number of bundles. FOE, EOE, MCOE. The bundle level only specifies what alternate applications that are included with the price.

i.e. Foundation Operating Environment only has the BASE HPUX ( and some other garbage that seems to have snuck its way on)
Enterprise Operating Environment includes Glance, Mirrur/UX, Online-JFS...
etc...

If you are only splitting this into two npars and have licensed for the full hard CPU count then you are good to go.

Re: RX7640 cells

Jacques Tessier — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:48:01 GMT

I am not sure what my partitioning technology I will be using. I was expecting some 4 way boxes but was told I will be getting half as many physical boxes thata will be split into 4 way boxes.

Now I am looking at all the cards I have trying to figure out what extra I need to make these 2 - 4 way servers

Re: RX7640 cells

Ted Buis — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:47:32 GMT

It may not fit but you should also be aware of IVM which can share more resources, but with more overhead. It will not fit your environment due to the current limit on the number of processors, but it is good to understand the options of nPars, vPars and IVM. You can't share PCI cards with vPars or nPars, and hence no shared boot devices. HP has a good white paper on the virtualization technology options. Go to www.hp.com/go/vse