HP Fabric Clustering System HP-UX Administrator's Guide, March 2008

Table of Contents
About This Document .....................................................................................................15
Intended Audience................................................................................................................................15
New and Changed Documentation in This Edition.............................................................................15
Publishing History................................................................................................................................15
What’s in This Document......................................................................................................................16
Typographical Conventions............................................................................................................16
Related Documents...............................................................................................................................17
HP Encourages Your Comments..........................................................................................................17
1 Introduction to Technology..........................................................................................19
Understanding the Fabric Clustering System.......................................................................................19
HP Fabric Clustering System...........................................................................................................19
Understanding InfiniBand™................................................................................................................19
What is InfiniBand?.........................................................................................................................19
InfiniBand Advantages....................................................................................................................19
InfiniBand Capabilities ...................................................................................................................19
InfiniBand Transport Services.........................................................................................................20
HP Fabric Subnet Manager..............................................................................................................20
About the HP Fabric Clustering System Software Suite......................................................................20
MPI..................................................................................................................................................20
IPoIB.................................................................................................................................................20
Oracle 10gRAC................................................................................................................................20
SKGXP.............................................................................................................................................20
Itutil.................................................................................................................................................20
IT-API..............................................................................................................................................20
User-Space RDMA Library..............................................................................................................21
HCA.................................................................................................................................................21
Kernel RDMA Subsystem................................................................................................................21
Interaction with HyperFabric Driver..............................................................................................21
2 Hardware Overview....................................................................................................23
Hardware Components........................................................................................................................23
Host Channel Adapters...................................................................................................................23
Switch..............................................................................................................................................31
Other Product Elements..................................................................................................................31
3 Installation Planning.....................................................................................................33
Preliminary Considerations..................................................................................................................33
Features, Parameters and Supported Configurations for Database/Oracle and TCP/UDP/IP
Applications..........................................................................................................................................33
Applications..........................................................................................................................................33
Application Availability..................................................................................................................34
Site Set-up.............................................................................................................................................34
4 Installing HP Fabric Clustering System.......................................................................35
HP Fabric Clustering System Installation Prerequisites.......................................................................35
Install HP Fabric Clustering System Adapters.....................................................................................36
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