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© copyright ibm corp. 2005. All rights reserved. 1 chapter 1. General description the ibm sserver ® openpower™ 710 rack-mount server (9123-710) is a powerful, dense 2-way-capable system that delivers the expandability and availability required for constrained data centers. The openpower 710 server's...
2 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction 1.1 system specification table 1-1 lists the general system specifications of the openpower 710 server. Table 1-1 ibm eserver openpower 710 server specifications 1.2 physical package table 1-2 lists the major physical attributes found o...
Chapter 1. General description 3 one of the following feature codes (fc) must be ordered along with the system: fc 7998 ibm rack-mount drawer bezel fc 7999 oem rack-mount drawer bezel and hardware the openpower 710 server can be installed in either ibm or oem racks. There is only one adjustable rack...
4 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction 1.4 minimum and optional features the ibm eserver openpower 710 server is based on a flexible, modular design featuring: one-way and 2-way symmetric multiprocessor (smp) design using one power5 chip packaged in a processor module solder...
Chapter 1. General description 5 table 1-4 advanced power virtualization option for a detailed discussion on logical partitioning and virtualization, please refer to “the power hypervisor and virtual i/o server technologies” on page 26. 1.4.3 memory features the minimum memory requirement for the op...
6 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction 1.4.5 usb diskette drive in some situations, an external usb 1.44 mb diskette drive for openpower 710 servers (fc 2591) is helpful. This lightweight usb v2 attached diskette drive takes its power requirements from the usb port. A usb ca...
Chapter 1. General description 7 ibm eserver openpower consolidation express solution express product offerings consist of the following processor requirements: either a one-way power5 1.65 ghz processor (fc 1939) or two-way power5 1.65 ghz processor (fc 1941), and a defined minimum configuration. I...
8 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction 1.6 system racks the enterprise rack models t00 and t42 are 19-inch wide racks for general use with ibm sserver p5, openpower, and pseries rack-based or rack drawer-based systems. The racks provide increased capacity, greater flexibilit...
Chapter 1. General description 9 a rack status beacon junction box (fc 4693) should be used to connect multiple servers to the beacon. This feature provides six input connectors and one output connector for the rack. To connect the servers or other components to the junction box or the junction box ...
10 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction the pdu has twelve iec 320-c13 outlets. There are six groups of two outlets fed by six circuit breakers. Each outlet is rated up to 10 amps, but each group of two outlets is fed from one 15 amps circuit breaker. The universal pdus are ...
Chapter 1. General description 11 1.6.5 additional options for rack the intention of this section is to highlight some solutions available to provide a single point of management for environments composed of multiple openpower 710 servers or other ibm eserver p5 and pseries systems. Ibm 7212 model 1...
12 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction monitor. A minimum of one lcm feature (fc 4268) or usb feature (fc 4269) is required with a netbay lcm switch (fc 4202). Each feature can support up to four systems. When connecting to an openpower 710 server, fc 4269 provides connecti...
Chapter 1. General description 13 figure 1-4 top view of non-ibm rack specifications dimensions figure 1-5 rack specifications dimensions, top front view figure 1-6 rack specifications dimensions, bottom front view it might be necessary to supply additional hardware, such as fasteners, for use in so...
14 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction the rack or cabinet must be capable of supporting an average load of 15.9 kg (35 lb.) of product weight per eia unit. The rack or cabinet must be compatible with drawer mounting rails, including a secure and snug fit of the rail-mounti...
© copyright ibm corp. 2005. All rights reserved. 15 chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview this chapter discusses the overall system architecture represented by figure 2-1. The major components of this diagram are described in the following sections. The bandwidths provided throughout this s...
16 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction 2.1 the power5 chip the power5 chip features single and simultaneous multi-threaded execution, providing higher performance in the single-threaded mode than its power4™ predecessor at equivalent frequencies. The power5 processor mainta...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 17 figure 2-2 power5 system structure because of the higher transistor density of the power5 0.13- µ m technology, it was possible to move the memory controller on the processor chip and eliminate a chip previously needed for the memory controller funct...
18 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction the simultaneous multi-threading policy is controlled by the operating system and is thus partition specific. For linux, an additional boot option must be set to activate simultaneous multi-threading after a reboot. Simultaneous multi-...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 19 2.2 processor and cache the openpower 710 server supports one processor module (either a 1-way or 2-way) and integrated 36 mb l3 cache module. The storage structure for the power5 chip is a distributed memory architecture that provides high memory ba...
20 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction 2.3.1 memory placement rules the memory features available at the time of writing for the openpower 710 server are listed in “memory features” on page 5. Memory dimms must be ordered and installed in pairs. Memory feature numbers may b...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 21 2.3.3 memory throughput the memory subsystem throughput is based on the speed of the memory. An elastic interface, contained in the power5 chip, buffers reads and writes to and from memory and the processor. There are two smis, each with a single 8-b...
22 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction 2.5.1 pci-x slots and adapter pci-x, where the x stands for extended, is an enhanced pci bus, delivering a theoretical peak bandwidth of up to 1 gb/sec, running a 64-bit bus at 133 mhz. Pci-x is backward compatible, so the openpower 71...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 23 table 2-3 available scsi adapters 2.5.4 graphic accelerator the openpower 710 server supports one enhanced power gxt135p 2d graphic accelerator (fc 1980). It can be configured to operate in either 8-bit or 24-bit color modes. This adapter supports bo...
24 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction the control panel and dvd drive share the same bay. The front bezel cover must be removed to remove the dvd device and the control panel/media bay. This control panel/media bay is controlled by the integrated ide controller. Table 2-5 ...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 25 2.7 external disk subsystem the openpower 710 server has internal hot-swappable drives. Specific client requirements can be satisfied with the several external disks possibilities that the openpower 710 server supports. Ibm 2104 expandable storage pl...
26 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction 2.8 the power hypervisor and virtual i/o server technologies the optional power hypervisor and virtual i/o server feature (fc 1965) includes the power hypervisor enablement and virtual i/o server (vios) software for openpower systems. ...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 27 micro-partitioning technology the openpower 710 power hypervisor, when enabled, provides micro-partitioning virtualization technology. With micro-partitioning, a partition may be defined with a processor capacity as small as 10 processor units. This ...
28 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction ethernet features. The virtual ethernet network is extendable outside the server to a physical ethernet network. Virtual (tty) console each partition needs to have access to a system console. Tasks such as operating system install, net...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 29 figure 2-6 virtual partition organization view since the virtual i/o server is an appliance, redundancy for physical devices attached to the virtual i/o server can be provided by using capabilities such as lvm mirroring, multipath i/o, and ieee 802.3...
30 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction more information on specific storage devices supported can be found at: http://techsupport.Services.Ibm.Com/server/virtualization/vios/documentation/datasheet.Html refer to table 2-8 on page 30 for details on requirements for configuri...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 31 a partition must have an installation method, such as nim, and a means of running diagnostics, such as network diagnostics. Processor each lpar requires at least one physical processor if virtualization is not used. Based on this, the maximum number ...
32 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction therefore, the following integrated devices can be independent of each other assigned to lpars: integrated dual-channel ultra320 scsi controller all scsi resources in the disk bays, including external disks that are connected to the ex...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 33 additional partitions using virtualization can implement the required ethernet adapters as virtual ethernet adapters. Virtual ethernet adapters can be used for all kinds of inter-partition communication. To connect the virtual ethernet lans to an ext...
34 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction when an hmc is connected to the openpower 710 server, the openpower 710 integrated service processor communications ports are disabled. An async adapter is required to provide serial connections if required. Older hmc models, such as t...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 35 calculates number of operating system license(s) needed to support partition design validates number of virtual slots required for partitions figure 2-7 on page 35 shows the calculated hypervisor memory requirements based on sample partition requirem...
36 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction figure 2-8 econfig tab for csp selection csp is available on a limited number of power5 systems. See the following url for details: http://www.Ibm.Com/servers/eserver/power/csp/index.Html 2.8.6 linux for the openpower 710 server, linux...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 37 information about suse linux enterprise server 9 can be found at: http://www.Novell.Com/products/linuxenterpriseserver/ for information about red hat enterprise linux as for pseries from red hat. Cee: http://www.Redhat.Com/software/rhel/details/ for ...
38 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction 2.9 servicing information the openpower 710 server is a client setup system and is shipped with materials to assist in the general installation of the server. The system cover also includes a quick reference service information label t...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 39 review the following notes, and then slowly pull the system unit out from the rack until the rails are fully extended and locked. – if the procedure you are performing requires you to unplug cables from the back of the system unit, do so before you p...
40 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction figure 2-10 accessing the control panel to move the control panel back into the device enclosure, lift the control panel up to align it with the opening and push it into place until you feel the tab lock. Refer to figure 2-11 for detai...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 41 functions 11 to 19 – system reference code. Function 20 – system type, model, feature code, and ipl type. All functions mentioned above are accessible either using the asmi or the hmc or the control panel. For detailed information about each control ...
42 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction 2.9.4 system firmware server firmware is the part of the licensed internal code that enables hardware such as the service processor. Depending on your service environment, you can download, install, and manage your server firmware fixe...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 43 for a detailed description of firmware levels refer to the ibm sserver hardware information center → service and support → customer service and support → getting fixes → firmware (licensed internal code) fixes → concepts → temporary and permanent sid...
44 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction – if you are connected to the internet. – if you are not connected to the internet. 4. Install the server firmware fix to the temporary side. 5. Verify that the server firmware fix installed successfully. 6. Install the server firmware...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 45 figure 2-12 service processor block diagram the ppc405 core is five-stage pipeline instruction processor and contains 32-bit general purpose registers. The flash rom contains a compressed image of a software load. Fsp-b has four uart cores, which pro...
46 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction accessing the asmi using a web browser the web interface to the advanced system management interface is accessible through microsoft internet explorer 6.0, netscape 7.1, or opera 7.23 running on a pc or mobile computer connected to the...
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 47 hmc the hardware management console is a system that controls managed systems, including ibm sserver hardware, logical partitions, and capacity on demand. To provide flexibility and availability, there are different ways to implement hmcs, including ...
48 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction the global open firmware environment includes the partition manager component. That component is an application in the global open firmware that establishes partitions and their corresponding resources (such as cpu, memory, and i/o slo...
© copyright ibm corp. 2005. All rights reserved. 49 chapter 3. Reliability, availability, and serviceability the following chapter provides more detailed information on ibm sserver openpower 710 server reliability, availability, and serviceability features. 3.
50 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction 3.1 reliability, fault tolerance, and data integrity the reliability of the openpower 710 server starts with components, devices, and subsystems that are designed to be fault-tolerant. During the design and development process, subsyst...
Chapter 3. Reliability, availability, and serviceability 51 l1 and l2 caches and l2 and l3 directories on the power5 chip are manufactured with spare bits in their arrays that can be accessed via programmable steering logic to replace faulty bits in the respective arrays. This is analogous to the re...
52 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction 3.1.6 first failure data capture diagnosing problems in a computer is a critical requirement for autonomic computing. The first step to producing a computer that truly has the ability to self-heal is to create a highly accurate way to ...
Chapter 3. Reliability, availability, and serviceability 53 system identification. For identification, the indicators will flash, whereas the indicator will be on solid when an error condition occurs. 3.1.9 availability enhancement functions the auto-restart (reboot) option, when enabled, can reboot...
54 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction single point-of-control for distributed and clustered server management simplified use of it resources designed for 24x7 access to data applications business continuity in the event of disaster cluster systems management (csm) v1.4.1 f...
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56 ibm eserver openpower 710 technical overview and introduction ibm 2104 expandable storage plus: http://www.Ibm.Com/servers/storage/disk/expplus/index.Html power hypervisor firmware enablement code download page: http://www.Ibm.Com/servers/eserver/openpower/cod virtual i/o server supported environ...
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