Power Saving; Agentless Monitoring; Software Technologies; Firmware - Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series General Description Manual

CHAPTER 1 Product Overview

1.5 Software technologies

Power Consumption Monitoring is a function that displays the power consumption of the main unit and the
PCI_Box of the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series.
Power consumption updated periodically is displayed in the MMB Web-UI. It is linked with the Systemwalker
Centric Manager, which is operation management software, and the power consumption is displayed as a
graph. Therefore, it is to effectively control power consumption of data center.
Target
Main unit
PCI_Box

1.4.29 Power Saving

Power Saving is a function that automatically adjusts the system operation when its power consumption
closes to pre-determined upper limit such that power consumption of the system does not exceed the
maximum value that has been set.
All models of PRIMEQUEST 2000 series supports the Power Saving function.

1.4.30 Agentless Monitoring

Agentless monitoring is supported in the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series.
Agentless monitoring is a function that reduces the use of agent software on OS and monitors the server by
the hardware.
It is necessary to install the SVAS if PCI Express card should be monitored (*1).
*1: SVAS does not monitor SAS RAID controller card. Since BMC firmware and MMB firmware monitor SAS
RAID controller cards, monitoring SAS RAID controller cards can be done without installing SVAS.
1.5 Software technologies
The PRIMEQUEST 2000 series uses the following types of software to increase reliability, availability, and
operability.
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Firmware

- Operating system and virtualization software
- Server management software
- Fujitsu middleware products
- Clustering
1.5.1 Firmware
The PRIMEQUEST 2000 series has the following firmware embedded for hardware management and
operation.
- UEFI (BIOS) firmware
The PRIMEQUEST 2000 series uses UEFI (United Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware, which is
becoming an industry standard. The UEFI firmware has the BIOS setup menu that enables various types
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:

TABLE 1.11 Power Consumption Monitoring Support

MMB Web-UI
Supported
Supported
Supported
Supported
'5.3 Extended
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SNMP (MIB)
Partitioning'.
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