Operating System And Virtualization Software - Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 2400E3 General Description Manual

CHAPTER 1 Product Overview
1.5 Software technologies
of settings.
The UEFI has a variety of functions. They include functions for loading various UEFI drivers, diagnosing
and initializing memory areas for the operating system, performing write/read diagnosis of various I/O
registers, selecting a boot device, and setting the boot device order. Moreover, the Extended Partitioning
function is installed in the UEFI firmware (*1). For the details, see
*1: Extended Partitioning is a function which runs on firmware, similar to the partition function (PPAR)
running on hardware. Different from the VMware, device virtualization is not carried out. OS handles
hardware resources divided by firmware as a hardware device within the partition. The granularity of the
partition consists of physically segmented hardware units (CPU core, DIMM Module, and I/O Device).
- BMC firmware
BMC firmware is provided with the functions for communicating with firmware, OS, and the MMB
firmware to realize physical partition and Extended Partitioning.
Included functions are:
- Console redirection
- Video direction function
- Virtual media function
Function corresponding to the remote storage function before the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series.
- Interface between the software in the higher level layers
- MMB firmware
MMB firmware manages entirely all models of PRIMEQUEST
- 2000 series.
Included functions are:
- System management function
- Hardware monitoring
- Power control, system initialization
- Mirror mode setup and partition configuration control
- Web-UI function for system management
- User authority management
- Time synchronization
- Scheduled power on and off operation
- Maintenance/ update function of each firmware
- Save/restore of the setup information
- Reserved SB function setup
- Firmware update while the partition is operating. (*1)
(*1) It is the time when the partition is turned off that updated firmware is applied.

1.5.2 Operating system and virtualization software

- Windows
PRIMEQUEST 2000 series supports Windows Operating systems such as Windows Server 2012 R2.
Hyper-V is available with all of Windows OS supported by PRIMEQUEST 2000 series.
- Linux
PRIMEQUEST 2000 series supports Linux operating systems such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
PRIMEQUEST 2000 series also supports KVM adopted in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server.
- VMware
PRIMEQUEST 2000 series supports VMware vSphere 5 as a virtualization platform.
To consolidate mission critical applications using VMware, PRIMEQUEST 2000 series with its high
reliability is the best matched platform.
For details on operating systems supported by PRIMEQUEST 2000 series, see
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3.2 OS.
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