HP HyperFabric manual Other Product Elements

Overview

HyperFabric Products

To determine the version of HyperFabric you have, issue this command:

swlist grep -i hyperfabric

Other Product Elements

The other elements of the HyperFabric product family are the following:

•A4892A HF1 copper cable (in 35-foot and 60-foot lengths).

•HF2 fibre cables:

—C7524A (2m length)

—C7525A (16m length)

—C7526A (50m length)

—C7527A (200m length)

•The HyperFabric software: The software resides in ASICs and firmware on the adapter cards and includes user space components and HP-UX drivers.

HyperFabric supports the IP network protocol stack, specifically TCP/IP, UDP/IP, and NFS.

HyperFabric software includes HyperMessaging Protocol (HMP). HMP provides higher bandwidth, lower CPU overhead, and lower latency (the time it takes a message to get from one point to another). However, these HMP benefits are only available when applications that were developed on top of HMP are running. Note that HMP can only be used on HP 9000 systems running HP-UX 11.0 or 11i provided HyperFabric A6092A or A6386A (PCI 4X) adapter cards are installed on those systems.

In addition, running an HMP application disables a node’s ability to interoperate with nodes that are using any HP-UX 10.20 version of HyperFabric, any HP-UX 11.0 HyperFabric versions earlier than B.11.00.11 or any HP-UX 11i HyperFabric versions earlier than B.11.11.01. If you use HMP on a node in the fabric, that node cannot communicate with any other nodes that are running the above versions of the HyperFabric software. See Chapter 2, “Planning the Fabric,” on page 21 for details on using HMP applications in a HyperFabric cluster.

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