HP SVA V2.1 System Administration Guide

IMPORTANT: Always reboot display nodes after cabling any new display devices. This is
necessary so that the graphics card can recognize the displays.
It's a good idea to plan out the arrangement of your Display Surface and how you want to drive
it using display nodes. Section 2.3 provides additional information on how to plan out your
Display Surfaces.
Use Figure 2-1, Figure 2-2, Figure 2-3, and Figure 2-4 to determine how to cable the graphics card
ports for a single display node to display devices that map to its respective display block. The
cabling varies depending on the physical layout of the display devices that match a display block
and the number of graphics cards in the display node you are using to drive your display devices.
Various possible display block layouts are shown in Figure 2-3 and Figure 2-4. These physical
layouts reflect the various combinations of graphic card ports that you can use to drive display
blocks.
• Figure 2-1 applies to an xw8200, xw8400, xw9300, and xw9400. There are two installed
graphics cards shown, labeled A and B. In the case of a single card, it is placed in Slot 6. This
would apply to xw8200 and xw8400 machines because only a single graphics card (labeled
A) can be installed.
Each card has two ports, labeled 1 and 2. Such a port layout applies to NVIDIA FX1500,
FX3450, FX3500, FX4500, FX5500 cards.
• Figure 2-2 applies to DL140 G3 or DL145 G3 servers. There is only a single graphics card
slot supported as shown in the figure. The single graphics card (either an NVIDIA FX1500
or FX3500) has two ports, labeled 1 and 2. The graphics card is assumed to be labeled A in
Figure 2-4.
• Figure 2-3 shows front views of various possible display block layouts when two graphics
cards are used. The individual sub-images show the layout of tiles that could be cabled to
a single display node. Each tile has a label that corresponds to the correct port on the specific
graphics card to which to attach a cable. For example, a tile labeled A,1 requires a cable to
connect from that tile's display device to the number 1 port (topmost when viewed from
the rear of the workstation) of the A graphics card (leftmost when viewed from the rear of
the workstation).
• Figure 2-4 shows front views of various possible display block layouts when one graphics
card is used.
For SVA configurations that use a KVM, always cable the KVM into the A,1 port. It is not an
option to use the video portion of a KVM with a 4-tile, two gpu configuration or with a 2-tile,
single gpu configuration. You can still use the keyboard and mouse.
28 Setting Up Display Devices