Lpar Manager Boot - Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 User Manual

LPAR manager boot

This section describes how to boot LPAR manager using the server blade Web console.
Screen displays or defaults might be different from those in this manual depending on the
firmware version of the server blade Web console.
LPAR manager screen displays might be different from those in this manual depending on the
LPAR manager firmware version.
EFI setting
Check that extensible firmware interface (EFI) settings of the server blade where LPAR
manager boots as described in the table below. It is recommended that other EFI settings
should be the default values.
Item
SMT (Simultaneous
Multi-Threading)
Mode
Socket Interleave
PCI Error Handling Mode *3
PCIe Error Mezzanine
Isolation *4
Others
*1 If SMT setting is Enable, LPAR manager cannot boot. See
for details.
*2 If APIC Mode is not set to xAPIC, LPAR manager cannot boot. See
messages for details.
*3 The following table describes what happens during PCIe failure.
PCI Error
Handling Mode
Legacy
PCIe Error
Isolation
Setting value
Disable *1 LPAR manager firmware version 57-2X or
earlier
Disable/ LPAR manager firmware version 57-3X or
Enable later
xAPIC *2 High-performance server blades with BMC
firmware version 04-48 or later, or 06-01 or
later
Non-NUMA LP firmware version 59-1X/79-1X or earlier
Non-NUMA/ LP firmware version 59-2X/79-2X or later
NUMA *5
Legacy LPAR manager firmware version
58-6X/78-6X or earlier
Legacy/PCIe LPAR manager firmware version
Error Isolation 58-7X/78-7X or later
*4
Disable LPAR manager firmware version
58-7X/78-7X or earlier
Disable/ LPAR manager firmware version
Enable 58-8X/78-8X or later
Default
Behavior at PCIe failure
LPAR manager
Immediately reboots the server
blade forcibly.
Isolates the faulty PCI device:
deconfigure operation
1042
Remarks
LPAR manager boot messages
LPAR manager boot
Guest OS
Goes down.
Non-redundant NIC:
IP address and media
access control (MAC)
assigned to the NIC are
unavailable due to the NIC