IBM 440 manual Partitioning options Diagram

hardware changes and that resources such as PCI slots in an RXE-100 can be shared between the two partitions.

System Partition Manager is an IBM Director plug-in utility that IBM will be releasing with IBM Director 4.1. The agent component will initially be supported on the following operating systems:

￿Windows 2000

￿Windows .NET

￿Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1

￿VMware ESX Server

Components will also be installed on the IBM Director server and all IBM Director consoles.

System Partition Manager uses the following terms:

￿Node — Functionally equivalent to an x440. Also referred to by Active PCI Manager as a chassis.

￿Remote I/O Enclosure — An RXE-100 for example.

￿Partition — A node or group of nodes configured as a single server, with their attached Remote I/O Enclosures (if present). The smallest partition is a single x440 server.

￿Complex — A group of up to four nodes and their attached Remote Expansion Enclosures. A complex can be subdivided into partitions, or can be one big partition.

Table 5-3 shows examples of partitions.

Table 5-3 Examples of valid partitions using System Partition Manager

Partitioning options Diagram

One x440 with two or four processors. This configuration can only be used as one system and cannot be split into smaller partitions.

One x440 with eight processors. This configuration can only be used as one system and cannot be split into smaller partitions.

Two x440s with eight processors. This configuration can be partitioned in one of two ways:

￿One partition of eight processors

￿Two partitions each with four processors

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