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ibm.com/redbooksRedpaperFront coverIBM Eserver p5 570Technical Overview chnical Overview and IntroductionIntroductionGiuliano AnselmiGregor LinzmeierW

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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2004. All rights reserved. ixPrefaceThis document is a comprehensive guide covering the IBM® Sserver™ p5 570 UNIX® servers. It i

x p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe project that produced this document was managed by:Scott VetterIBM U.S.Thanks to the following people

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2004. All rights reserved. 1Chapter 1. General descriptionThe IBM ^ p5 570 rack-mount server is designed for greater application

2 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introductioncombined system. Additional processor configurations are possible with the installation of Capacity on De

Chapter 1. General description 31.1 System specificationsTable 1-1 lists the general system specifications of a single p5-570 drawer.Table 1-1 p5-

4 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 1-1 Views of the p5-5701.3 Minimum and optional featuresThe p5-570 full configuration system is

Chapter 1. General description 5򐂰 Two SPCN portsIn addition, the p5-570 building block features two internal Ultra320 SCSI controllers, redundant hot

6 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionEach processor card features one POWER5 chip, with two processor cores that share 1.9 MB of L2 cache, 36

Chapter 1. General description 7In a full configuration, with four connected p5-570 building blocks, the combined system supports up to eight slim-li

8 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe drawer has the following attributes:򐂰 4U rack-mount enclosure that can host one or two D10 drawers򐂰 S

Chapter 1. General description 97311 Model D11 I/O drawerThe 7311 Model D11 I/O drawer is very similar to the 7311 Model D10, except that it features

10 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introduction7311 Model D20 I/O drawer physical packageThe I/O drawer has the following physical characteristics:򐂰 Wi

Chapter 1. General description 111.3.6 Hardware Management Console modelsThe Hardware Management Console (HMC) provides a set of functions that is n

12 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionTable 1-8 Value Pak configuration1.5 Model type conversionCustomers who own an IBM pSeries 650 system

Chapter 1. General description 131.6.1 IBM RS/6000 7014 Model T00 Enterprise RackThe 1.8-meter (71-inch) Model T00 is compatible with past and curre

14 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introduction1.6.2 IBM RS/6000 7014 Model T42 Enterprise RackThe 2.0-meter (79.3-in) Model T42 is the rack that will

Chapter 1. General description 15򐂰 Any remaining space in the rack can be used to install other systems or peripherals, provided that the maximum per

16 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionHardware Management Console 7310 Model CR2The 7310 Model CR2 is a 1U, 19-inch rack-mountable drawer supp

Chapter 1. General description 171.7 Statement of directionIBM plans to extend the capabilities of the IBM Sserver p5 product line by introducing su

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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2004. All rights reserved. 19Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overviewThis chapter discusses the overall system architectur

20 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introduction2.1 The POWER5 chipThe POWER5 chip features single-threaded and multi-threaded execution, providing hig

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 212.1.1 Simultaneous multi-threadingAs a permanent requirement for performance improvements at the ap

22 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionPOWER5 chips extensively use a fine-grained, dynamic clock-gating mechanism. This mechanism gates off cl

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 232.1.4 CMOS, copper, and SOI technologyThe POWER5 processor design is a result of a close collaborat

24 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 2-5 Processor card with DDR1 memory socket layout viewThere are two system backplanes in the p5

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 25Figure 2-6 Logical p5-570 building blocks connection2.2.2 Processor clock rateThe p5-570 system f

26 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introduction2.3 Memory subsystemThe p5-570 memory controller is internal to the POWER5 chip. It interfaces to eithe

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 27Figure 2-8 IBM memory certification labelSometimes OEM vendors attach a label to their DIMMs that

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28 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introductionmust remain empty. All GX+ cards are hot-pluggable. The RIO-2 ports are used for I/O expansion to extern

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 29The PCI-X slots in the p5-570 system support hot-plug and Extended Error Handling (EEH). In the unli

30 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionTable 2-2 Available SCSI adapters2.6 Internal storageTwo Ultra320 SCSI controllers under EADS-X chips

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 31planning has been given to any operating-system-related disk layout, such as the AIX Logical Volume

32 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introduction2.7 External I/O subsystemsThis section describes the external I/O subsystems, which include the 7311 I

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 33Figure 2-10 Conceptual diagram of the 7311-D10 I/O drawer7311 Model D10 featuresThis I/O drawer mo

34 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 2-11 Conceptual diagram of the 7311-D20 I/O drawer7311 Model D20 internal SCSI cablingA 7311 Mo

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 35Each RIO-2 port can operate at 1 GHz in bidirectional mode and is capable of passing data in each di

36 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introductionthe p5-570 system. If you have more than one I/O drawer, you continue the loop, connecting the next draw

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 37IBM 7133 Serial Disk Subsystem (SSA)The p5-570 system supports the Advanced Serial RAID adapter (FC

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2004. All rights reserved. iiiContentsNotices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

38 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introduction2.8 Dynamic logical partitioningThe logical partition (LPAR) was introduced with the POWER4 processor p

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 39The Advanced POWER Virtualization feature includes:򐂰 Firmware enablement for Micro-Partitions򐂰 Insta

40 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 2-15 Micro-Partitioning and LPARVirtual I/O ServerThe Virtual I/O Server is a special-purpose p

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 41Partition Load ManagerThe Partition Load Manager (PLM) is part of the Advanced POWER Virtualization

42 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 2-16 Service processor logic diagram2.10.1 Service processor - baseThe PPC405 core features a

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 432.11 Boot processFrom the earlier RS/6000 systems, through the previous pSeries systems, the boot p

44 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introduction– Boot to open firmware prompt– Boot to System Management Service (SMS) to further select the boot devic

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 45– When the Partition Standby power-on is completed, the operator panel on the managed system display

46 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introduction– To enhance the flexibility to use the system within several different logical configurations, a System

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 47The p5-570 (or the logical partition) must be equipped with either a graphic adapter that is connect

iv p5-570 Technical Overview and Introduction2.5.4 SCSI adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

48 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introductionpartition displays the SMS menus, all of the necessary tests have been performed and the machine is scan

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 49available to the specific partition, using mksysb, for example.SCSI disk, and Virtual SCSI disk The

50 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionIBM periodically releases maintenance packages for the AIX 5L operating system. These packages are avail

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2004. All rights reserved. 51Chapter 3. Capacity on Demand, RAS, and manageabilityThe following sections provide more detailed i

52 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introduction3.1 Capacity on Demandp5-570 systems can be shipped with non-activated resources (processors and memory

Chapter 3. Capacity on Demand, RAS, and manageability 53Capacity Upgrade on DemandIn Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD), processors are shipped to the

54 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionOn/Off Capacity on DemandThe On/Off memory enablement feature is ordered and the associated enablement c

Chapter 3. Capacity on Demand, RAS, and manageability 55򐂰 Using e-mail3.1.4 Trial Capacity on DemandCustomers with CUoD featured systems must purcha

56 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introduction3.2.2 First Failure Data CaptureIf a problem should occur, the ability to diagnose it correctly is a fu

Chapter 3. Capacity on Demand, RAS, and manageability 57operating system has lost control. Mutual surveillance also enables the operating system to m

Contents v3.3.4 Service Update Management Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623.4 Cluster 1600 . . . . .

58 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introduction(dynamic bit-steering). Memory scrubbing is the process of reading the contents of the memory during idl

Chapter 3. Capacity on Demand, RAS, and manageability 59If the output shows CPU Guard as disabled, enter the following command to enable it:chdev -l

60 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introductionstarting on the exterior of the system (System Attention LED) and ending with an LED near the failing Fi

Chapter 3. Capacity on Demand, RAS, and manageability 61Figure 3-2 Advanced System Management main menu3.3.2 Service Agent Service Agent is an app

62 p5-570 Technical Overview and Introductionchecks the current customer service status from the IBM entitlement database; if this reveals that you a

Chapter 3. Capacity on Demand, RAS, and manageability 633.4 Cluster 1600Today's IT infrastructure requires that systems meet increasing demands

64 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionSome customers expanded the use of their dedicated systems and consequently model more business processe

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2004. All rights reserved. 65Related publicationsThe publications listed in this section are considered particularly suitable fo

66 p5-570 Technical Overview and IntroductionOnline resourcesThese Web sites and URLs are also relevant as further information sources:򐂰 AIX 5L opera

Related publications 67򐂰 SSA boot FAQhttp://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/products/ssa/faq.html#microcode򐂰 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 for pSeries

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