Post-Installation And Diagnostics; Setting Up Local Networks; Operating System Information - HP Cluster Platform Express v2010 Overview

2.5 Post-Installation and Diagnostics

CP Workgroup System uses the Insight Management interface to troubleshoot failures. For more
information, see the HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure and c3000 Tower Enclosure Maintenance and
Service Guide:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01126895/c01126895.pdf
For more information on post-installation and diagnostics, see the HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure
Troubleshooting Guide:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01215727/c01215727.pdf

2.6 Setting Up Local Networks

Connecting a CP Workgroup System to a local area network (LAN) depends on the operating
system environment and site network protocol. Site preparation and planning is the key to having
the necessary topology to accomplish LAN connectivity.
If the control node is a server blade and the configuration uses a c3000 enclosure, the connection
to an external network is made to one of the external ports on the HP GbE2c switch installed in
IMB1 of the enclosure. The intention is for traffic to the external network to be routed through
NIC2 on the control node server blade.
Since both the server blade connections to the Administrative network and the control node's
connection to the external network are through the same switch, the cluster must be configured
with a suitable addressing scheme to separate the administration port addresses (NIC1) from
the external network addresses. Additional separation may be achieved by configuring a Virtual
Local Area Network (VLAN) with switch ports 1-8 as members (see
Section 1.4.6
Note:
Be careful in setting up the VLAN to ensure that access to switch management functions is
available over the required network. VLANs are commonly used to split up groups of network
users into manageable broadcast domains, to create logical segmentation of workgroups, and to
enforce security policies among logical segments. For more information on how to configure
VLANs for creating separate network segments, including how to use VLAN tagging for devices
that use multiple VLANs, see the HP GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch for c-Class BladeSystem Application
Guide:
http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00701973/c00701973.pdf

2.7 Operating System Information

CPE systems come with the operating system software factory installed. Software options include
Red Hat and SUSE Linux distributions, as well as HP's message passing library, HP-MPI. For
Windows environments, clusters are available with the Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster
Server. For a complete cluster environment, HP's XC software can provide cluster management
and job management, along with Linux and the MPI. HP Cluster Management Utility and Scali
Manage are also available for Linux cluster management, along with HP Insight Control Linux
Edition offered in BladeSystem configurations.
For more information about the supported software options for CPE systems, see the HP Cluster
Platform Express QuickSpecs:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12324_div/12324_div.HTML
for more information about connecting to a LAN.
Appendix C). Also see
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