HP PA-8600 Specification Download

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NOTE:

NOTE: PDC 20.8 and PDC 21.2 do not contain the required enhancements for mixing. Customers who
are running on either of these PDC versions will be required to upgrade to PDC 22.1 to enable mixing.
PDC 22.1 also happens the minimum firmware required to support PA-8900.

Any of the above operating environments may be used on a mixed Superdome. In the process of testing
all of the above combinations some issues and restrictions were discovered with WLM, gWLM and the
GUI version of partition manager on HP-UX 11i v1. Firmware, operating system or application updates
can resolve these issues. However, such updates may not always be possible or practical.

The following mixing scenarios serve to illustrate the issues that were found during testing and possible
ways to work around or resolve them. For simplicity, the first three scenarios assume that all the PA
partitions in the Superdome are running the same version of HP-UX. The fourth scenario explains the
more general case where the PA partitions are running different versions of HP-UX.

Scenario 1:

Scenario 1: PA-8800 Partitions running HP-UX 11i v1 HWE 0312 or 0406 mixed with Itanium 2 1.6

PA-8800 Partitions running HP-UX 11i v1 HWE 0312 or 0406 mixed with Itanium 2 1.6

GHz

GHz
Known issue with the GUI version of

Known issue with the GUI version of

Parmgr

Parmgr:

Both of these HWEs shipped with

Parmgr

V1. This version of Parmgr and the stack that sits under it are

not capable of managing Integrity partitions. Parmgr generates error messages when trying to access the
Integrity cells and display information about them.

Alternatives to running

Parmgr

Parmgr GUI on the PA partitions

GUI on the PA partitions

GUI on the PA partitions:

Integrity partitions (and PA partitions) may be managed from the SMS
Integrity partitions (and PA partitions) may be managed by parcmds from any partition
Integrity partitions (and PA partitions) may be managed by the GUI version of Parmgr on any
Integrity partition

The minimum firmware listed in the table above is sufficient for running this configuration.

Possible Upgrades:

Possible Upgrades:
If it is important to be able to use the

parmgr

GUI on the PA HP UX 11i v1 you can upgrade HP UX to

HWE 0412 and follow the process in Scenario 2. If a customer upgrades to any 11i v1 HWE beyond
HWE 0412 (HWE 0509 and later) then the proper nPar provider is already included in the HWE and the
firmware upgrades in Scenario 2 are sufficient to get full functionality.

Scenario 2:

Scenario 2: PA 8800 partitions or PA 8900 partitions running 11i v1 HWE 0412 mixed with Itanium

PA 8800 partitions or PA 8900 partitions running 11i v1 HWE 0412 mixed with Itanium

1.6 GHz

Known issue with the GUI version of

Parmgr

Parmgr:

HP-UX 11i v1 HWE 0412 introduced

Parmgr

V2. This version of Parmgr will exhibit the same issues as

Scenario 1 with the minimum required firmware from the table. However, upgrades to firmware and the
nPar provider will make this version of Parmgr fully functional and capable of managing Integrity
partitions. See the upgrade section below for details.

Alternatives to running Parmgr GUI on the PA partitions:
These are essentially the same as Scenario 1.

The minimum firmware listed in the table above is sufficient for running this configuration.

QuickSpecs

HP 9000 Superdome Servers (PA-8600, PA-8700, PA-

8800 and PA-8900)

Configuration

DA - 11721 Worldwide — Version 28 — October 23, 2009

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