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• HP UX 11i v2 and HP UX 11i v3 operating system
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Datacenter and Enterprise Editions
• Linux RHEL AS 5 and AS 4 and SLES 10 SP 1. Mad9M rx8640 configuration not supported.
• OpenVMS V8.3-1H1 or higher (for Montvale). Mad9M rx8640 configurations not supported.
• External Ultra320 SCSI channel
• Two Internal Ultra320 SCSI channels, one channel to each internal disk
• 1 GbE LAN ports
• Management Processor technology with Integrated LAN console
• Rackmountable into HP 19 inch cabinets (factory or field integration)
• Rackmountable into some 3rd party cabinets
• Two hardware partitions (nPartitions)
• Four hardware partitions when configured with the Server Expansion Unit
• Factory integration of processors, memory, disk drives, removable media drives, and I/O cards
• HP site planning and installation
• One year warranty with same business day on site service response
• Owner's Guide and General Usage media set

• One active core in an Intel Dual core Itanium (1P/2C) processor
• One processor per cell board (Dual core Itanium requires one active core per cell board)
• One cell board
• 4GB memory module (1 pair of 2GB DIMMs)
• One core I/O
• One internal DVD drive for OpenVMS and Windows
• Two power cords
• 8 hot plug 33 /66 /133 /266 MHz 64 bit PCI X slots or 8 mix of hot plug 64 bit PCI X and PCIe x8 IO slots with adaptive signaling technology

• Sixteen (16) Intel Dual core Itanium (16P/32C) processors
• Four (4) processors per cell board
• Four (4) cell boards
• 512GB memory (32 pairs of 8 GB DIMMs)
• Four power cords, providing 2N power and dual grid support
• Four internal hot plug LVD SCSI disks
• Two removable media drives-DVD or DAT
• Sixteen PCI expansion cards

Maximum capacities when configured with the Server Expansion Unit 2 (SEU 2):

• Four core I/O cards
• Eight internal hot plug LVD SCSI disks
• Four removable media drives-DVD or DAT
• 32 hot plug 33 /66 /133 /266 MHz 64 bit PCI X slots or 32 mix of hot plug 64 bit PCI X and PCIe x8 IO slots with adaptive signaling technology

• HP UX 11i v3 and HP UX 11i v2 operating system
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Datacenter and Enterprise Editions
• Linux RHEL AS 5 and AS 4 and SLES 10 SP 1. Mad9M rx8640 configuration not supported.
• OpenVMS V8.3 1H1 or higher (for 91X0N processors Montvale). Mad9M rx8640 configurations not supported.
• External Ultra320 SCSI channel
• Two Internal Ultra320 SCSI channels, one channel to each internal disk
• 1 GbE LAN ports
• Management Processor technology with Integrated LAN console
• Rackmountable into HP 19 inch cabinets (factory or field integration)
• Rackmountable into some 3rd party cabinets
• Two hardware partitions (nPartitions)
• Four hardware partitions when configured with the Server Expansion Unit
• Factory integration of processors, memory, disk drives, removable media drives, and I/O cards
• HP site planning and installation
• One year warranty with same business day on site service response
• Owner's Guide and General Usage media set

• N+1 Hot swap cooling
• Redundant and hot swap power supplies
• Cell Hot plug (implemented as dynamic nPars in HP UX 11i v3)
• Hot plug disks
• 2N power inputs
• On line memory page deallocation
• ECC protected DDR II memory
• Full parity protection of data and address buses
• On chip processor cache with ECC protection
• Memory double chip spare
• Dynamic Processor resilience and deallocation (processor deallocation on failure)
• On line addition and replacement of PCI I/O cards
• UPS power management
• Four independent UltraSCSI buses to internal disks for mirroring across disks and controllers
• Journal file system (HP UX)
• Auto reboot
• On line diagnostics and system health monitor
• Microsoft Cluster Services for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and Datacenter Edition
• HP StorageWorks Software for HP Integrity Servers running Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and Datacenter Editions. Includes Cluster Extension XP and EVA, Continuous Access, Business Copy and SQL Server Fast Recovery
• HP OpenVMS Cluster Software

• Separate console LAN port for system management
• Password protection on console port
• Disablement of remote console ports

• Internet server (inetd)
• Domain name server
• Routing (OSPF, BIND, RIP, EGP, HELLO, gateD)
• Network Time Protocol

• Automatic configuration for printers, PCs, workstations, and X terminals (DHCP, Bootp, tftp, rbootp)

• Netscape Communication Server
• Netscape Navigator

• Mail, MailX, ELM
• Sendmail, MIME, SMTP, ESMTP

• Telnet, ftp, anonymous ftp server

Configuration

Cell Boards

A minimum of one and a maximum of four cells can be ordered in HP Integrity rx8640 Servers. Each cell can be purchased with up to four active Intel dual core Itanium processors (90X0 series or 91X0N series) or in combination with Instant Capacity processors. The rx8640 can support a mix of 90X0 and 91X0N series processors; however, within a single cell, all processors must be identical.

The HP Integrity rx8640 and HP Integrity rx7640 (8 processor) servers share the same cell board. The rp8400/rp8420/rx8620 cell boards cannot be carried forward to the rx8640 server.

Cell Details

• 4 processor slots (supporting up to eight processor cores with dual core)
• HP sx2000 cell controller
• 16 DDR-2 Memory DIMM slots
• DC-DC Power converters
• Manageability and Processor Dependent Hardware Circuitry

Cell Board Configuration Rules

• Cell boards are ordered individually
• Minimum: 1 cell board; Maximum: 4 cell boards
• Cell slots 0 or 1 must be loaded first
• Recommended Cell board loading order: 0,1,2,3
  

Cell Board and Processor Mixing Rules

• Cannot Mix Montecito processors with Mad9M on same cell board
• Cannot Mix Montecito processors with Mad9M in same partition
• Cannot Mix Montecito processors with Montvale processors on same cell
• Cannot Mix Montecito processors with Montvale processors in same partition
• Cannot Mix Montecito 1.4GHZ with Montecito 1.6GHZ on same cell board or in the same partition
• Cannot Mix Montecito 12MB with Montecito 18MB or 24MB on same cell board or in same partition
• Cannot Mix Montecito 18MB with Montecito 12MB or 24MB on same cell board or in same partition
• Cannot Mix Montecito 24MB with Montecito 12MB or 18MB on same cell board or in same partition
• Cannot Mix Montvale 1.4GHZ with Montvale 1.6GHZ on same cell board or in the same partition
• Cannot Mix Montvale 12MB with Montvale 18MB or 24MB on same cell board or in same partition
• Cannot Mix Montvale 18MB with Montvale 12MB or 24MB on same cell board or in same partition
• Cannot Mix Montvale 24MB with Montvale 12MB or 18MB on same cell board or in same partition

NOTE: If slower speed processor is installed on cell (1.4 with 1.6) the slowest speed will be used

Processor Configuration Rules

• The Intel dual core Itanium processor consists of 2 processor cores. You may order and upgrade the dual core Itanium processor in increments of one core (the second core in a processor being iCAP).
• There must be one active processor core (the other being iCAP) for dual core Itanium processors on each cell board.
• On each cell board, processors must be installed in the following sequence 0, 2, 1, 3.
• HP Integrity rx8620 1.6 GHz 6 MB Level 3 cache processors may be carried forward to rx8640 servers.
• Intel single core Itanium processors and Intel dual core Itanium processors can be mixed in the same chassis as long as they are in separate hard partitions (requires the same chipset sx1000 or sx2000).

Memory Configuration

Memory Module size
(pairs)

Memory Loading Rules

• Memory must be installed in pairs - modules (2 DIMMs of equal density)
• Memory modules (pairs of DIMMS) are available in three densities: 4 GB (2×2048MB DIMMs), 8 GB (2×4096MB DIMMs), and 16 GB (2×8192MB DIMMs).
• Memory bundle product numbers consist of DIMMS already qualified in the memory modules
• DIMM pairs must be loaded in slot order
• Minimum memory is 2 GB per cell
• Maximum memory per system is 512 GB-using 32 16 GB memory modules (8GB pairs) per system.
• Larger DIMMs must be loaded first across a cell, followed by progressively smaller DIMM sizes.
• On each cell board, Memory pairs must be installed in the following order:
  (0A, 0B), (1A, 1B), (2A, 2B), (3A, 3B), (4A, 4B), (5A, 5B), (6A, 6B), (7A, 7B)
• DIMM mixing other than recommended configurations is supported as long as the memory loading rules are followed

rx8640 Recommended Memory Configurations

Performance Tuning Guidelines

• For best performance, a cell should be configured with a multiple of 8 DIMMs or four pairs (although the server will execute properly with an odd number of pairs). It takes 8 DIMMs to populate both memory buses. Populating only one of the two memory buses on a cell board will deliver only half the peak memory bandwidth.
• Load memory equally across the available cell boards.

Memory Latencies

There are two types of memory latencies within the HP Integrity rx8640 Server:

1. Memory latency within the cell refers to the case where an application either runs on a partition that consists of a single cell or uses cell local memory.
2. Memory latency between cell refers to the case where the partition consists of two or more cell and cell interleaved memory is used. For example, for an rx8640 server with four cells in the partition, 25% of the addresses are to memory on the same cell as the requesting processor, and the other 75% of the addresses are to memory on the other three cells.

The HP Integrity rx8640 Server memory latency depends on the number of processors in the partition. Assuming that memory accesses are equally distributed across all cell boards and memory controllers within the partition, the average idle memory latency (load to use) is as shown below:

I/O Architecture

Components within the I/O subsystem are the I/O controllers, internal peripheral bay, and multifunction Core I/O. The figure below shows the basic block diagram of the I/O subsystem. The Integrity I/O architecture utilizes industry standard PCI buses in a unique design for maximum performance, scalability, and reliability. To achieve maximum performance and availability, each PCI/PCI-X slot on the I/O board is controlled by its own Bus Converter ASIC and is also independently supported by its own half of the dual hot swap controllers. All PCI slots are designed to be compliant with PCI Rev.2.2, PCI-X Rev.2.0a, and PCI-express Gen1 specifications.

The PCI-X 2.0 I/O Backplane implemented an important change to power distribution to the I/O partitions. The PCI-X Power supply bricks have been redesigned to allow the pair of them to be N+1 redundant in operation. Both I/O partitions will sustain their operational state even if one of the PCI bricks has failed. All the PCI voltages will remain within the PCI specification. These power bricks are not part of the PCI-X I/O board assembly. They plug into the edge of the PCI-X I/O Backplane to provide power to the board and they are not backwards compatible with the previous PCI power bricks. Any PCI brick failures will be reported to the system so the failing brick could be hot swapped.

The HP Integrity rx8640 Server supports both PCI-X 2.0 and PCI-Express. Two different backplanes are available. The PCI-X 2.0 backplane (AB160A) supports sixteen (16) PCI-X slots. A combination PCI-Express/PXI-X 2.0 backplane (AD161A) supports eight (8) PCI-X slots and eight (8) PCI-Express slots. Each backplane contains two master I/O controller chips located on the backplane. Each I/O controller contains sixteen high performance 12 bit wide links, which connect to sixteen slave I/O controller chips supporting the PCI X or PCI-Express card slots and core I/O. Two links, one from each master controller is routed through the crossbar backplane and is dedicated to core I/O. The remaining thirty links are divided among the sixteen I/O card slots. This one card per link architecture leads to greater I/O performance and higher availability. Each controller chip is also directly linked to a host cell board. This means that at least two cell boards, located in cell slots 0 and 1, must be purchased in order to access all sixteen I/O card slots. With one cell board, access to eight slots is enabled.

The HP Integrity rx8640 Server can be purchased with either one or two core I/O boards (if an SEU 2 is added, then four core I/O boards with two core I/O in the SEU). Both core I/O boards are identical and provide console, SCSI, serial, and Management Processor (MP) functionality. The second core I/O is used to enable the dual hard partitioning in the HP Integrity rx8640 Server and provide access to a second set of disk drives.

The internal peripheral bay is divided into two identical halves. Each half supports up to two low profile disks and one removable media device. A SCSI controller chip located on each core I/O board supports each half of the internal peripheral bay. This means that both core I/O boards must be purchased to access both halves of the peripheral bay.

PCI Backplane

Eight of sixteen I/O card slots are supported by dual high performance fat links. Each link is capable of providing 1060 MB/s of bandwidth. This means that half HP Integrity rx8640 Server I/O slots are capable of sustained 2.12 GB/s. Six of the sixteen I/O card slots are supported at 1060 MB/s of bandwidth. Aggregate I/O slot bandwidth is approximately 23 GB/s. In addition, because each I/O slot has a dedicated bus, any slot can be "hot plugged" or serviced without affecting other slots. The hot plug operation is very easy, and can be done with minimal training and effort.

The HP Integrity rx8640 Server supports a number of PCI, PCI X, and PCI Express HBA (I/O) cards for I/O expansion.

NOTE: The PCI X backplane is backward compatible with the older PCI backplane and can support many PCI HBA (I/O) cards.

When HP 9000 rp8400 servers are upgraded to HP Integrity rx8640 servers using the chassis upgrade kit, the older and slower PCI backplanes in the HP 9000 rp8400 server must be upgraded to the newer and faster PCI X (AD160A) or PCI Express/PCI X (AD161A) backplanes

When the rx8640 Server Expansion Unit 2 is connected to the HP Integrity rx8640 Server, its I/O backplanes act as PCI X or PCI Express I/O backplanes. See the rx8640 Server Expansion Unit 2 section for more details.

Cards can be in any combination (see Special Note section). Servers with one (1) cell board, minimum 1 - maximum 8. Severs with two (2) cell boards in base system, minimum 1 - maximum 16. Servers configured with SEU-2 and three (3) cell boards, minimum 1 - maximum 24. Servers with SEU-2 and four (4) cell boards, minimum 1 - maximum 32.

SEU-2 only, cards can be in any combination (see Special note Section), minimum 1 - maximum 8 with three (3) cell boards in base server. SEU-2 only with four (4) cell boards in base server, minimum 1 - maximum 16.

Lights-Out remote management port with both HP 9000 command line interface and new iLO-2 web GUI interface. iLO-2 standard features are part of the iLO-2 management processor. iLO-2 advanced features are added with optional PCI card per managed partition (option AD307A).

Standard Features:

• Password protected console ports
• Console mirroring between all local, modem, LAN, and web consoles
• Remote power up and power down control, per OS partition
• Configurable remote access control
• Interface to system monitoring and diagnostic hardware via an internal IC bus
• System Event logs and event notification to system console-Provides connectivity, information, and support for HP UX tools (such as STM and EMS) to notify by email, pager and/or HP response centers.
• Integration with HP management tools such as Systems Insight Manager
• Secure Sockets Layer security on web console
  (LDAP is not yet available for this product)

• Physical VGA/USB 2.0
• Integrated Remote Console (virtual Keyboard Video Mouse)
• Virtual Media USB 1.1
  Card provides one physical VGA port and two physical USB ports, should be used instead of graphics/USB option A6869A. One card should be installed in each nPar where additional management features are required. Card cannot be used in systems without iLO-2 management processor firmware installed.

AD307A card Integrated Remote Console (virtual Keyboard Video Mouse) and virtual Media (read-only CD/DVD/ISO file) support per OS: