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Tips and Features for Administrators
Partitioning your Server
Important:
Reserved for partitioned servers and extended systems. Please contact your Bull
Sales Representative for sales information.
Bull NovaScale Servers are designed around a flexible, cell–based, midplane architecture
allowing dynamic partitioning into physically independent domains. A domain is a coherent
set of hardware and software resources managed by a single Operating System instance.
The NovaScale 6085 Server is designed to operate as one or two hardware–independent
SMP systems, or domains.
The NovaScale 6165 Server is designed to operate as one, two, three or four
hardware–independent SMP systems, or domains.
Note:
Server components and configuration may differ according to site requirements.
At least one IOC and one QBB are required for each server domain.
Partitioning allows you to optimize your server to:
•
meet variations in workload – peak / off–peak periods,
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allow different time and date settings,
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use the same environment for tests and production,
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carry out software tests prior to deployment / upgrades,
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reduce downtime for servicing or re–configuration.
PAM software provides you with all the tools and features required to partition and manage
your server as independent SMP systems. For easy configuration and optimum use of the
physical and logical resources required for simultaneous operation, domains are defined via
the
Domain Configuration Scheme
wizard. From the PAM tree, expand the
Configuration
Tasks
and
Domains
nodes to display domain configuration options.
Figure 106. Schemes and Identites panes
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