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Chapter 5. Management 151
hardware changes and that resources such as PCI slots in an RXE-100 can be
shared between the two partitions.
System Partition Manager is an IBM Director plug-in utility that IBM will be
releasing with IBM Director 4.1. The agent component will initially be supported
on the following operating systems:
Windows 2000
Windows .NET
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1
VMware ESX Server
Components will also be installed on the IBM Director server and all IBM Director
consoles.
System Partition Manager uses the following terms:
Node — Functionally equivalent to an x440. Also referred to by Active PCI
Manager as a chassis.
Remote I/O Enclosure — An RXE-100 for example.
Partition — A node or group of nodes configured as a single server, with their
attached Remote I/O Enclosures (if present). The smallest partition is a single
x440 server.
Complex — A group of up to four nodes and their attached Remote
Expansion Enclosures. A complex can be subdivided into partitions, or can be
one big partition.
Table 5-3 shows examples of partitions.
Table 5-3 Examples of valid partitions using System Partition Manager
Partitioning options Diagram
One x440 with two or four processors. This configuration can
only be used as one system and cannot be split into smaller
partitions.
One x440 with eight processors. This configuration can only be
used as one system and cannot be split into smaller partitions.
Two x440s with eight processors. This configuration can be
partitioned in one of two ways:
One partition of eight processors
Two partitions each with four processors