3. Expansion and Maintenance
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You can flexibly expand or reduce the system by adding or removing a SPARC
M10-4S in the building block system.
Reference Fujitsu M10/SPARC M10 Systems Installation Guide
"Chapter 8 Before Installing/Removing a System with
a Building Block Conguration"
"Chapter 9 Installing a System with a Building Block
Conguration"
"Chapter 10 Removing a System with a Building Block
Conguration"
Fujitsu M10/SPARC M10 Systems Domain Conguration Guide
"Chapter 6 Physical Partition Reconguration Example"

c. Adding/Removing a system in a building block configuration

a. Adding a PCI expansion unit

You can use a PCI expansion unit to increase the number of PCIe slots.
Reference Fujitsu M10/SPARC M10 Systems Installation Guide
"1.4 Workow when Connecting the PCI Expansion Unit"

b. Adding an optional component

You can expand the system by adding an optional component such as a memory
module or PCI card.
Reference Fujitsu M10-1/SPARC M10-1 Service Manual
Fujitsu M10-4/Fujitsu M10-4S/SPARC M10-4/SPARC M10-4S
Service Manual
PCI Expansion Unit for Fujitsu M10/SPARC M10 Systems
Service Manual

d. Expanding resources according to the load

You can use the CPU Activation function for CPU expansion in units of two cores
when the load increases.
Reference Fujitsu M10/SPARC M10 Systems System Operation and
Administration Guide
"Chapter 5 CPU Activation"