HP UX 11i v2 Networking Software Table of Contents, About This Document, 1 Introduction to Technology, 2 Hardware Overview, 3 Installation Planning, 4 Installing HP Fabric Clustering System

Table of Contents
About This Document .....................................................................................................	15
Intended Audience................................................................................................................................	15
New and Changed Documentation in This Edition.............................................................................	15
Publishing History................................................................................................................................	15
What’s in This Document......................................................................................................................	16
Typographical Conventions............................................................................................................	16
Related Documents...............................................................................................................................	17
HP Encourages Your Comments..........................................................................................................	17
1 Introduction to Technology..........................................................................................	19
Understanding the Fabric Clustering System.......................................................................................	19
HP Fabric Clustering System...........................................................................................................	19
Understanding InfiniBand™................................................................................................................	19
What is InfiniBand?.........................................................................................................................	19
InfiniBand Advantages....................................................................................................................	19
InfiniBand Capabilities ...................................................................................................................	19
InfiniBand Transport Services.........................................................................................................	20
HP Fabric Subnet Manager..............................................................................................................	20
About the HP Fabric Clustering System Software Suite......................................................................	20
MPI..................................................................................................................................................	20
IPoIB.................................................................................................................................................	20
Oracle 10gRAC................................................................................................................................	20
SKGXP.............................................................................................................................................	20
Itutil.................................................................................................................................................	20
IT-API..............................................................................................................................................	20
User-Space RDMA Library..............................................................................................................	21
HCA.................................................................................................................................................	21
Kernel RDMA Subsystem................................................................................................................	21
Interaction with HyperFabric Driver..............................................................................................	21
2 Hardware Overview....................................................................................................	23
Hardware Components........................................................................................................................	23
Host Channel Adapters...................................................................................................................	23
Switch..............................................................................................................................................	31
Other Product Elements..................................................................................................................	31
3 Installation Planning.....................................................................................................	33
Preliminary Considerations..................................................................................................................	33
Features, Parameters and Supported Configurations for Database/Oracle and TCP/UDP/IP
Applications..........................................................................................................................................	33
Applications..........................................................................................................................................	33
Application Availability..................................................................................................................	34
Site Set-up.............................................................................................................................................	34
4 Installing HP Fabric Clustering System.......................................................................	35
HP Fabric Clustering System Installation Prerequisites.......................................................................	35
Install HP Fabric Clustering System Adapters.....................................................................................	36

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