Planning Superdome Configurations
Planning Superdome Configurations
Rules and Guidelines for Configuring a Complex
Chapter 162
Loading and Assigning I/O Chassis
As shipped from the factory, I/O chassis will be loaded into the CPU
cabinet and assigned to cells in the following order:
It’s a good idea to keep to this order when you add I/O chassis to an
installed system.
Given the above layout, populate an empty CPU cabinet as follows.
Attach the first I/O chassis (I/O chassis 3 on the right of I/O bay 1, in the
rear of the CPU cabinet, or in the rear of the left CPU cabinet if this is a
64-way-capable system) to the lowest-numbered cell in the
lowest-numbered partition in the complex. This chassis should contain a
core I/O card.
Then continue by assigning the second I/O chassis to the first cell in the
next partition; continue until all partitions in (or beginning in) this CPU
cabinet have an I/O chassis inside the CPU cabinet attached to their
lowest-numbered cell; each of these chassis should contain a core I/O
card. Then start over with the first partition and assign additional
chassis (including chassis in an expansion cabinet, if any) to the
partitions as needed.
When loading and assigning chassis,keep thefollowing considerations in
mind (some of these are discussed in more detail in the rules and
guidelines that follow):
I/O Bay# Chassis# Position
1 3 rear right
0 1 front left
1 1 rear left
0 3 front right