Setting Of Sadump - Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series Installation Manual

CHAPTER 5 Work after Operating System installation

5.3 Setting of sadump

5.3 Setting of sadump
In sadump, the following items are set for each partition.
- Validation of sadump
- Collection address of dump
- Compression at the time of dump collection
- Movement after dump collection
- Re-use of dump collection address.
The sadump setting is executed on the BIOS set-up menu.
Before the setting is executed, it is necessary to reserve the area of the damp device which becomes the collection
address of dump. When there is a system fault, the register information and memory contents are output to the dump
device. Due to this reason, the capacity of the device that performs dump output is determined, so as to match the memory
size. The required area is obtained by the estimation given below and it is reserved.
Amount of memory installed + FIXED VALUE (*)
(*) When amount of installed memory is less than 6 TB, FIXED VALUE is 512 MB.
When amount of installed memory is 6 TB or more, FIXED VALUE is 2.1 GB.
When Dynamic Reconfiguration is enabled regardless of the amount of installed memory,
FIXED VALUE is always 2.1 GB.
The dump device can use the disk and the disk partition. In case of dump device created for the disk partition, create the
disk partition when installing the operating system.
In case of setting the device on ETERNUS to dump device. It is necessary to execute UEFI driver setting in advance.
For the details of setting procedure see, PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series SAN Boot Environment Configuration Manual .
All the screenshots are display examples. The display contents differ according to the system configuration.
For the details of sadump settings, see "Chapter 6 Setting of sadump environment" of PRIMEQUEST 2000 series Tool
Reference (CA92344-0539).
All the windows given here are display examples. The display contents differ according to the system configuration.
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