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CHAPTER 3 Component Configuration and Replacement (Add, Remove)
3.2 High availability configuration
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3.1.2 Setting procedure of partition in MMB Web-UI
The procedure to set the partition in the MMB Web-UI is described below.
1. Power off the partition.
For details, see "PRIMEQUEST 2000 series Tools Reference” '1.3.1 [Power Control] window'.
2. Add the SB and IOU into the partition.
For details, see "PRIMEQUEST 2000 series Tools Reference” '1.3.3 [Partition Configuration] window'.
3. Set the Home SB.
4. If necessary, set a Reserved SB.
For details, see '1.3.5 [Reserved SB Configuration] window’ in "PRIMEQUEST 2000 series Tools
Reference”.
5. Set the name of the partition.
For details, see '1.3.3 [Partition Configuration] window' in "PRIMEQUEST 2000 series Tools Reference”.
6. Set the various types of modes.
For details, see the [Mode] window of the '1.3.8 [Partition #x] Menu' in "PRIMEQUEST 2000 series Tools
Reference”.
7. Power on the partition.
For details, see '1.3.1 [Power Control] window' in "PRIMEQUEST 2000 series Tools Reference”.
3.2 High availability configuration
This section describes the following functions for realizing a high system availability of the PRIMEQUEST
2000 series.
- 3.2.1 Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR)
- 3.2.2 Reserved SB
- 3.2.4 Memory Mirror
- 3.2.5 Hardware RAID
- 3.2.6 Server View RAID
3.2.1 Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR)
This section describes the hot maintenance by DR.
For details on the hot maintenance, see CHAPTER 4 PCI Card Hot Maintenance in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Function Overview
The DR function is intended for adding or removing hardware resources, such as CPU, memory and I/O,
without stopping the partition system. Units for adding and removal are the partition configuration components
of SB and IOU (including the PCI_Box). The DR functions for various configuration elements are as follows.
- SB hot maintenance (SB hot add / SB hot remove)
It is a function for adding the CPU and memory resource to the SB unit without stopping the partition
system. The following functions are provided.
- Enable the expansion of the CPU and the memory resources of a system that is running.
- Enable the hot maintenance of SB where a suspected fault was detected.
- Redistribute the SB resources across partitions in accordance with the load.