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3.2.5 Hot-add memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
3.2.6 Memory configuration in BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
3.3 Internal drive options and RAID controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
3.3.1 LSI 1078 SAS onboard controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
3.3.2 SAS disk drive options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
3.3.3 ServeRAID-MR10k RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
3.3.4 ServeRAID-MR10M SAS/SATA II controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
3.3.5 SAS expansion enclosure (unit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
3.3.6 Updating the SAS storage controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
3.4 Configuring RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
3.4.1 Starting the LSI1078 controller BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
3.4.2 Starting the ServeRAID-MR10k controller WebBIOS . . . . . . . . . . . 158
3.4.3 Working with LSI MegaRAID controller WebBIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
3.5 PCI Express options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
3.5.1 PCI and I/O devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
3.5.2 PCI device scan order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
3.5.3 PCI adapter installation order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
3.5.4 PCI Express device-related information in the BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . 190
3.5.5 Supported PCI Express adapter options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Chapter 4. Multinode hardware configurations
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4.1 Introduction and terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
4.2 Multinode capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
4.3 Understanding scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
4.3.1 Complex Descriptor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
4.3.2 Complex Descriptor contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
4.4 Prerequisites to create a multinode complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
4.5 Upgrading an x3850 M2 to an x3950 M2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
4.5.1 Installing the ScaleXpander key (chip) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
4.5.2 Configuring for a LAN connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
4.5.3 Updating the code levels, firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
4.6 Cabling of multinode configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
4.6.1 Two-node configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
4.6.2 Three-node configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
4.6.3 Four-node configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
4.7 Configuring partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
4.7.1 Understanding the Scalable Partitioning menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
4.7.2 First steps in configuring the partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
4.7.3 Creating partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
4.8 Working with partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
4.8.1 Managing partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
4.8.2 Behaviors of scalability configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
4.9 Observations with scalability configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
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