Intel Itanium 2 and PA-RISC nPartition Mixing - HP Superdome Hybrid Servers

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Pset SRDs, and FSS group SRDs) work correctly in Superdome hybrid servers. A remedy for this

issue will be in a later release of gWLM. For a work-around, if you need to deploy gWLM v1.1.1

with an iCAP SRD on a Superdome hybrid server before the first maintenance release is available,

contact gwlmfeedback@rsn.hp.com.

Global Workload Manager (gWLM) on HP OpenVMS I64 8.2-1 does not identify the host

nPartition. Because HP OpenVMS I64 8.2-1 does not support iCAP, gWLM iCAP shared resource

domains cannot in any case be configured to include such nPartitions, so this will not be a

problem. Both deficiencies will be resolved with later releases of HP OpenVMS I64 and gWLM

for HP OpenVMS I64. Other gWLM shared resource domains (Processor Affinity SRDs, and

Class Scheduler SRDs) work correctly with HP OpenVMS I64 8.2-1.

Firmware Requirements

The following sections describe the firmware requirements for different Superdome hybrid server

configurations:

• “Mixing Scenario 1: Superdome with Only HP-UX 11i v2 on PA-RISC nPartitions” (page 7)

• “Mixing Scenario 2: Superdome with Only HP-UX 11i v1 on PA-RISC nPartitions” (page 8)

• “Mixing Scenario 3: Superdome with Both HP-UX 11i v1 PA-RISC and HP-UX 11i v2 PA-RISC

nPartitions” (page 9)

These sections also describe limitations and the available ways to work around or resolve them.

For simplicity, the first two scenarios assume that all the PA-RISC nPartitions in the Superdome

are running the same version of HP-UX. The third scenario explains the more general case where

the PA-RISC nPartitions are running different versions of HP-UX.

Mixing Scenario 1: Superdome with Only HP-UX 11i v2 on PA-RISC nPartitions

Table 1-3 lists the minimum firmware required to enable full functionality of system management

tools (Partition Manager, iCAP, WLM, gWLM) on Superdome hybrid servers where all the

PA-RISC nPartitions are running HP-UX 11i v2.

For critical details about updating firmware, see “HP Recommends All Firmware Components

Be Updated to the Specified Revision” (page 5).

Table 1-3 Firmware Requirements for Only HP-UX 11i v2 on PA-RISC nPartitions

Not SupportedMinimum Required FirmwareProcessor

PDC 20.8

PDC 21.2

PDC 22.1 (SMS rel_5.0)PA-8800

N/APDC 22.1 (SMS rel_5.0)PA-8900

N/AIPF 2.50 (SMS rel_5.0) is the minimum

requirement for HP-UX, Red Hat

Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux

Enterprise Server, and Windows

Server 2003

IPF 3.88 (SMS rel_6.1) is the minimum

requirement for OpenVMS I64

Intel Itanium 2 single-core

processor with 9 MB cache (A1

stepping)

N/AIPF 2.52 (SMS rel_5.1) is the minimum