Setup and Install

Overview
HyperFabric Products
Chapter 1
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To determine the version of HyperFabric you have, issue this command:
swlist | grep -i hyperfabric
Other Product Elements
The other elements of the HyperFabric product family are the following:
• A4892A HF1 copper cable (in 35-foot and 60-foot lengths).
• HF2 fibre cables:
— C7524A (2m length)
— C7525A (16m length)
— C7526A (50m length)
— C7527A (200m length)
• The HyperFabric software: The software resides in ASICs and firmware on the
adapter cards and includes user space components and HP-UX drivers.
HyperFabric supports the IP network protocol stack, specifically TCP/IP, UDP/IP,
and NFS.
HyperFabric software includes HyperMessaging Protocol (HMP). HMP provides
higher bandwidth, lower CPU overhead, and lower latency (the time it takes a
message to get from one point to another). However, these HMP benefits are only
available when applications that were developed on top of HMP are running. Note
that HMP can only be used on HP 9000 systems running HP-UX 11.0 or 11i provided
HyperFabric A6092A or A6386A (PCI 4X) adapter cards are installed on those
systems.
In addition, running an HMP application disables a node’s ability to interoperate
with nodes that are using any HP-UX 10.20 version of HyperFabric, any HP-UX 11.0
HyperFabric versions earlier than B.11.00.11 or any HP-UX 11i HyperFabric
versions earlier than B.11.11.01. If you use HMP on a node in the fabric, that node
cannot communicate with any other nodes that are running the above versions of the
HyperFabric software. See Chapter 2, “Planning the Fabric,” on page 21 for details
on using HMP applications in a HyperFabric cluster.