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Figure 8. 

Primary components of the HP sx1000 Chipset 

 

 

Cell boards 

The cell, or cell board, is one of the basic building blocks of the HP Integrity rx7620-16 and 
rx8620-32 Servers. A cell board is a module that primarily houses processors, memory, and the cell 
controller ASICs. 

 

Figure 9. 

Layout of the Integrity rx7620-16/rx8620-32 Server cell board.  

CPU 2

CPU 0

CPU 3

CPU 1

 

 

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Содержание Integrity RX7620-16

Страница 1: ...ncy 14 Cell hot plug 15 Crossbar backplane 15 Crossbar chips 15 I O subsystem 16 I O controller chips 17 PCI X backplane 17 Core I O 19 HP Integrity rx7620 16 Server core I O 19 HP Integrity rx7620 16 Server internal peripheral bay 21 HP Integrity rx8620 32 Server core I O 21 HP Integrity rx8620 32 Server internal peripheral bay 22 HP Server Expansion Unit 22 AC power subsystem 24 Fault tolerant p...

Страница 2: ...33 Reliability in the cabinet infrastructure 33 Dual AC line cord support 34 Resilience to service processor failures 34 Enhanced serviceability 34 Investment protection 34 Binary compatibility for the Intel Itanium Processor Family 35 Upgrading the HP Server rp7410 and rp8400 35 Instant Capacity 35 Ease of management 36 Management Processor 36 Partition Manager software 36 HP UX 37 Windows 39 Lin...

Страница 3: ...ore applications additional features and a broader range of solutions And with flexible configurations competitive pricing and financial incentives the Integrity rx7620 16 and rx8620 32 Servers make high availability 64 bit computing an affordable reality for your enterprise Powered by Intel Itanium 2 processors and supporting the industry s leading operating environments including HP UX OpenVMS L...

Страница 4: ... from Web serving to mission critical enterprise resource management as well as world leading performance operating environment flexibility and simplified management for a level of functionality and value unmatched in their class This white paper introduces you to the technical details of both the Integrity rx7620 16 and rx8620 32 Servers beginning by describing their modular designs system archit...

Страница 5: ...Figure 1 HP Integrity rx7620 16 and rx8620 32 Servers 5 ...

Страница 6: ...4 GB 4 584 GB Internal removable media slots DVD DAT 1 2 2 Hard partitions 2 2 4 with Server Expansion Unit Hot swap redundant power supplies N 1 included 2 6 2 Hot swap redundant fans N 1 included Yes Yes Yes High availability features Hot swap redundant fans and bulk power supplies Redundant power line inputs for dual grid protection Error checking and correcting ECC on all CPU and memory paths ...

Страница 7: ...rver with a view of the cell board bay which supports up to two cell boards The cell boards contain processors memory and cell controller chips Figure 3 is a rear view of the Integrity rx7620 16 Server showing the location of the two hot swappable 150 mm exhaust fans and the I O bay bulkhead directly above them The core I O cards are located at the right edge of the unit The system backplane board...

Страница 8: ...controller chips reside on Figure 4 Front and side view of the Integrity rx8620 32 Server Figure 5 Rear view of the Integrity rx8620 32 Server Figure 5 is a rear view of the Integrity rx8620 32 Server showing the location of the 12 hot swappable 120 mm exhaust fans and the I O bay bulkhead directly above them The core I O cards are located at the right edge of the unit Visible here is the system b...

Страница 9: ...ple a typical cell board contains four processor sockets but with the HP mx2 Dual Processor Module the same cell board can contain eight processors resulting in double the capacity of the system in the same chassis The performance of the HP mx2 Dual Processor Module is enhanced with a 4 MB L3 cache along with a 32 MB L4 cache HP Integrity rx7620 16 Server architecture The HP Integrity rx7620 16 Se...

Страница 10: ...Figure 6 Architecture of the HP Integrity rx7620 16 Server showing the basic modular building blocks of the system 10 ...

Страница 11: ... four hardware isolated partitions when connected to the SEU Figure 7 Architecture of the HP Integrity rx8620 32 Server showing the basic modular building blocks of the system and the buses that connect them HP Super Scalable Processor Chipset sx1000 To support the growing needs in performance scalability and functionality HP has developed the new HP Super Scalable Processor Chipset sx1000 The HP ...

Страница 12: ...rd is one of the basic building blocks of the HP Integrity rx7620 16 and rx8620 32 Servers A cell board is a module that primarily houses processors memory and the cell controller ASICs Figure 9 Layout of the Integrity rx7620 16 rx8620 32 Server cell board C P U2 C P U0 C P U3 C P U1 12 ...

Страница 13: ...ntroller ASIC and sent directly to the DIMM via the memory interface address bus The memory subsystem is a quad ported implementation It supports memory DRAM fault tolerance in which a discrete SDRAM chip can fail without compromising data integrity The memory subsystem provides 16 GB s of peak bandwidth to the cell controller ASIC and reduces the overhead typically associated with directory coher...

Страница 14: ...s used In this case 50 of the addresses are to memory on the same cell as the requesting processor and the other 50 of the addresses are to memory on the other cell The HP Integrity rx7620 16 Server average memory latency depends on the number of processors in the partition Assuming that memory accesses are equally distributed across all cell boards and memory controllers within the partition the ...

Страница 15: ...a high performance 8 port non blocking crossbar and the 500 MHz crossbar link protocol Together the two crossbar chips provide 16 high performance ports for cell to cell communication with 8 GB s of bandwidth available for each cell All ports are functionally and electrically identical Some of the features of the crossbar chip that contribute to performance include the following Support for scalin...

Страница 16: ...rough a high performance I O cable link The components within the I O subsystem are the I O controllers internal peripheral bay and multifunction core I O Basic block diagrams for the HP Integrity rx7620 16 and rx8620 32 Server I O subsystems are shown in Figures 10 and 11 Figure 10 Basic block diagram of the Integrity rx7620 16 Server I O subsystem Figure 11 Basic block diagram of the Integrity r...

Страница 17: ...ots 0 and 1 must be purchased in order to access all available I O card slots With one cell board access to half of the available slots is enabled PCI X backplane Figures 12 and 13 show detailed views of the HP Integrity rx7620 16 and rx8620 32 Server PCI X backplanes The I O slot implementations between the two servers are almost identical the difference is the use of one or two slots by the Inte...

Страница 18: ...PCI X backplane of the Integrity rx8620 32 Server has dual high performance links for 14 of the 16 I O card slots In practice PCI X I O cards requiring the largest amount of bandwidth should be configured into the dual link slots Because each I O slot has a dedicated bus any slot can be hot plugged or serviced without affecting other slots 18 ...

Страница 19: ...egrity rx7620 16 Server chassis supports up to two core I O card sets Each set contains two cards MP SCSI and LAN SCSI which are installed in different locations MP SCSI cards are installed along the right rear vertical edge of the chassis LAN SCSI cards are installed in the PCI X card bay A minimum of one core I O card set must be ordered with each system the optional second core I O card set can...

Страница 20: ...start Viewing history log of system events Viewing history log of console activity Setting MP inactivity timeout thresholds Remote system control Remote power cycle except for MP housekeeping power Viewing system status Event notification to system console e mail pager and or HP Response Centers e mail and pager notification work in conjunction with HP Event Monitoring Service EMS Automatic hardwa...

Страница 21: ...6 Server holds up to four SCSI disks which are accessible from the front of the server These are hot plug disks so they can be removed and inserted while the Integrity rx7620 16 Server continues to operate The system supports the following disks 36 GB 15K rpm 73 GB 15K rpm and 146 GB 10K rpm Removable media The Integrity rx7620 16 Server contains one removable media bay which supports either a DVD...

Страница 22: ...t buses controllers core I O cards and master I O controller chips Hot plug disk drives The Integrity rx8620 32 Server holds up to four SCSI disks which are accessible from the front of the server These are hot plug disks so they can be removed and inserted while the Integrity rx8620 32 Server continues to operate Three disk sizes are currently supported 36 GB 15K rpm 73 GB 15K rpm and 146 GB 10K ...

Страница 23: ...t The HP SEU mirrors the I O resources embedded within the Integrity rx8620 32 Server chassis both physically and electrically The high speed connection between the Integrity rx8620 32 Server and the SEU is provided through a remote I O RIO cable with 4 GB s bandwidth The RIO cable mounts directly to the system backplane board in the Integrity rx8620 32 Server and to the I O backplane board in the...

Страница 24: ...m availability by protecting for example against power grid failures failed power supplies or accidentally tripped circuit breakers Four power cords are used in order to enable redundancy and hot swap functionality of the bulk power supplies This power is routed from four individual 20 ampere circuit breakers via input line filters to two internal bulk power supplies BPSs These four lines are labe...

Страница 25: ... on the back panel of the Integrity rx8620 32 Server Figure 20 shows the Integrity rx8620 32 Server power configuration Note that each AC inlet feeds three Integrity rx8620 32 Server bulk power supplies and that two separate AC inlets feed each bulk supply The design of the individual BPSs and the configuration of the interconnect meet all the conditions for fault tolerant power compliance Each BP...

Страница 26: ...stomer will most likely experience It can be used for power budgeting purposes Following are the theoretical maximum and typical power consumption values for two different configurations of each server HP Integrity rx7620 16 Server Integrity rx7620 16 Server fully loaded configuration with eight traditional Intel Itanium 2 processors The Integrity rx7620 16 Server fully loaded configuration consis...

Страница 27: ...Servers continue to provide leading edge performance and scalability to the midrange server market After factoring in racking density HP midrange servers maintain performance density at least double that of the competition The following section summarizes the main performance and scalability characteristics of the Integrity rx7620 16 and rx8620 32 Servers Important speeds and feeds Integrity rx762...

Страница 28: ...for servicing Cable management arm A design to manage cable bundles at the rear of the product as the product slides For access to all other components the rackmounted versions come with rack slides These enable the servers to slide forward out of the cabinet for servicing of internal components such as fans cell boards and I O cards even while the system is still operating The slides also allow f...

Страница 29: ...reduction and better utilization of existing assets HP solutions for server partitioning and resource optimization can help administrators drive server utilization from a typical 15 50 to over 90 without service level degradation The combination of a virtualized server environment with HP Utility Pricing Solutions such as Instant Capacity and Pay per use PPU allows customers to activate additional...

Страница 30: ...te processors within a partition or server when they are needed Processors can also be activated temporarily Temporary Instant Capacity to meet short term demand then deactivated and held again in reserve Cell board Instant Capacity also allows customers to add a complete cell board CPUs and memory to the system in standby mode ready for activation when more processing capacity is needed PPU solut...

Страница 31: ...m cosmic ray strike Such attention to detail is not found in many designs available from other vendors Automatic CPU deconfiguration Dynamic processor resilience DPR refers to the ability of the system to detect de allocate and swap in spare CPUs online for CPUs that are generating an excessive quantity of recoverable cache errors This protects the customer against the extremely unlikely event of ...

Страница 32: ...at use both chip spare tolerance and less reliable architectures There are many ways that DRAMs can fail especially when a system has hundreds of them It is hopeless to try to design around or explain away this simple fact With HP s chip spare technology the Integrity rx7620 16 and rx8620 32 Server memory is extremely reliable Dynamic memory resiliency DMR Dynamic memory resiliency is the system s...

Страница 33: ...e DC DC converters that power the backplane chips are fully redundant reducing downtime associated with power conversion Power conversion is normally a significant contributor to failure rate Full end to end error correction and independent partition design The backplane is built from a single crossbar with point to point connections Traffic within a partition is contained in that partition so the...

Страница 34: ...within 15 minutes or less In addition the Integrity rx7620 16 and rx8620 32 Servers are loaded with design innovations that greatly simplify servicing Enhanced serviceability The following is a list of enhanced serviceability features Hot plug functionality for internal disks and PCI X cards Hot swap functionality for bulk power supplies and cooling fans 26 75 inch product length from mounting col...

Страница 35: ...RISC based servers can be easily upgraded to an Integrity rx8620 32 Server containing Intel Itanium 2 processors Upgrading the rp7410 and rp8400 servers is simple Remove the cell boards Transfer all memory to the new cell board Plug the cell board into the cabinet Remove Replace existing core I O s Remove Replace I O backplane board Upgrade system firmware as needed Install desired operating syste...

Страница 36: ...formance all cell boards in the same partition should contain the same number of active processors For high availability reasons each cell board should contain at least two active processors Ease of management As the number of servers grows and server farms proliferate IT professionals have come to realize that the cost of managing these servers can add up to many times the actual cost of hardware...

Страница 37: ...ystem administrators to perform fast deployment for one or many servers It provides the means for creating and reusing standard system configurations enables replication of systems permits post installation customizations and is capable of both interactive and unattended operating modes Software Distributor UX SD UX is the HP UX administration toolset used to deliver and maintain HP UX operating s...

Страница 38: ...t based on prioritized service level objectives SLOs In addition WLM allows administrators to set real memory and disk bandwidth entitlements guaranteed minimums to fixed levels in the configuration The use of workload groups and SLOs improves response time for critical users allows system consolidation and helps manage user expectations for performance OpenView Operations Agent provides a fully i...

Страница 39: ...based user interface All system faults and major subsystem status are reported within the System Management Homepage The System Management Homepage is accessible either directly through a browser or through a management application such as Insight Manager 7 or an enterprise management application Available only on the 8 16 and 32 socket systems These tools are also available for managing HP Integr...

Страница 40: ...rocessor is embedded into the server and does not take a PCI X slot HP OpenView management tools such as OpenView Operations and Network Node Manager will be able to collect and process information from the SNMP agents running on Itanium 2 based Integrity servers with Linux HP Services for the HP Integrity rx7620 16 and rx8620 32 Servers Services and support for each operating system will be avail...

Страница 41: ...ou to determine your porting and migration needs devise a strategy for moving applications to Itanium based platforms and create a detailed migration plan And HP can manage all the details including porting and migrating your applications migrating your data integrating your applications with existing ones and performing application tuning if that s what you need IT consolidation HP offers IT cons...

Страница 42: ...cal services discrete focused engagements that provide on demand expertise to supplement your own IT resources HP delivers proactive technical consulting services across the entire IT lifecycle from assessment and planning to high availability and performance to security and system administration Business continuity services HP business continuity offerings including consulting disaster tolerant b...

Страница 43: ...m go rx7620 Visit the HP Integrity rx8620 32 Server Web site at www hp com go rx8620 2003 2004 Hewlett Packard Development Company L P The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an addi...

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