Max number of vpar on rx8640 Server

[Ayman D. Jweinat]

Hello All
Can anyone tell me what is that maximum number of vpars can be built on rx8640 server
which conatin 3 cell boards , 20 core and 48 GB Memory

i need to built 14 vpar and already have a 14 combo PCI[ex] cards (FC and Network ) on that server

Please Help
Ayman

[Alzhy]

8 vPars per nPar as far as I can remember.
SO you would likely make 2 nPars. One a single board nPar and another a 2-board nPar.

So I guess you're all set.

Your vPar can take an HBA each and I assume you will be doing all SAN Boot right?

May I ask what the 14 vPars (averaging around 3GB of RAM each would be doing and the reason why?

[Ayman D. Jweinat]

thanks for your fast reply
number of cores and memory can be increased as soon as my case required , i can upgrade to full 3 cell boards capacity

I need to build an Oracle farm as active-passive with another rx8640 server which mean 2 servers each of them with 14 vpar and so the other one

regarding the IO , you mean to assign -as example- 6 vpar with one npar with 1 cell board and the others with the second one ???

Best Regards
Ayman Jweinat

[Torsten.]

You have 2x 8 I/O slots available, so you can create 2 nPars, one with 1cell, the other with 2 cells.

So you have a nPar with up to 8 cores and 8 slots, another with up to 16 cores and 8 slots.

So you can create up to 8 vPars in the first and up to 8 vPars in the second nPar.


IMHO you have a little less memory available.


The question is, if you really need 14 vPars - you won't have any redundancy in I/O.


If you really need 14 vPars, its maybe better to use 4 cells and an I/O extender box.