Note For The Lpar Manager Setup; Restriction Of Smp Configuration; Setting Fc Switch - Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series User Manual

Note for the LPAR manager Setup

Restriction of SMP configuration

• In SMP configuration, a server blade having the highest slot number is
called a primary server blade, and the others are called non-primary
server blades.
• In the case of mismatching for LPAR manager model (Essential/
Advanced), the lower LPAR manager model is booted.
• LP firmware of primary server blade is used.
• Configuration information of primary server blade is used, so this
information is inherited.
• The following table shows a comparison between primary server blade
and non-primary server blade for a support function.
USB
KVM
Remote console
LPAR manager firmware
LPAR manager configuration
Legend:
Y: Supported
-: Not supported

Setting FC Switch

Setting FC Switch to be necessary when using the "SAN boot".
• FC switch ports, which will be connected to 4 Gbps fibre channel adapter
in shared mode, should have NPIV enabled. With the "portcfgshow"
command, you can find whether or not NPIV is enabled.
If NPIV is disabled, enable the NPIV using the "portcfgnpivport" command
of FC switch. See the manual attached to the FC switch for how to set and
confirm NPIV.
• When the transfer rate of the FC port in an FC switch is the default value,
Auto-negotiation, LU in the storage may not be viewed because of the
discrepancy between the transfer rate of the FC port and that of the fibre
channel card.
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Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series Logical partitioning manager User's Guide
Table 10-1 Support function comparison
Item
VGA
COM
USB
Notes
Primary server
blade
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Non-primary server
blade
Y
-
-
-
-
-
-