HP SVA V2.0 Release Notes

1.1.3 Install Online Documentation
You can wait until the cluster is up and running and view the online SVA Documentation Library
already installed on all the nodes. The documentation files are in the /var/www/html/sva
directory. The /var/www/html directory is where Apache stores HTML files on Red Hat systems.
The documentation can be accessed from any cluster node at https://nh/sva. (nh is the
default name for the head node as specified by HP XC.) If you try to access the documentation
from outside the cluster, you need to replace nh with the full IP name for the head node. Open
index.htm to view the Table of Contents, which displays all the online books. Most documents
are available in html and pdf.
You can also view the full set of online documentation directly from the SVA CD using a Windows
or Linux system. The main navigation page for the Documentation Library is located on the CD
at the following location:
sva/index.htm
Because all the documentation is contained in a tree of Web-compatible files, you can also copy
the tree to any web server root directory (Windows, UNIX, or Linux) and it can then be viewed
via its URL by anyone with access to that web server.
The Documentation Library is a set of files bundled into a single compressed tarball file for
convenience. You can install the tarball manually at any time on an existing Linux or Windows
machine, for example, before you've set up all the cluster hardware and completed the installation
of the cluster software.
1. Mount the SVA CD in the CD drive on an existing Windows machine or Linux machine (not
part of the SVA).
2. Locate the sva_docs.tar.gz, which contains the Documentation Library files in the root
level of the CD.
3. Follow the instructions for the type of target system:
• Linux machine:
/var/www/html is where Apache stores HTML files on Red Hat systems. A reasonable
location for installing the files is /var/www/html/sva. If you install the Documentation
Library files on a system which has Apache running, you can access the documentation
from that system at the URL https://localhost/sva. Use the tar utility to extract
and install the set of files.
• Windows machine:
You can use WinZip to extract the entire tree to a local file system on disk or a web
server root directory for viewing via a URL address.
4. In either case, you need to open index.htm to view the available documentation, including
the SVA Software Installation Guide.
1.2 New Features in this Release
The following list summarizes the main new features in this release. Note that all patch kit
features are available in HP SVA V2.0.
• Available in HP SVA V2.0 only
— Support for HP XC 3.1.
— Support for HP xw8400 workstation and the HP DL 140 G3 server as visualization
nodes.
— Support for new graphics cards: NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 1500 (DL140 G3), NVIDIA
Quadro FX 3500 (xw8400, DL140 G3), and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 (xw8400).
— HP Parallel Compositing Library installed and ready for application developers who
want an optimized, compositing API for parallel compositing applications. See the SVA
8 Welcome to the HP Scalable Visualization Array V2.0 Release