Chapter Review Questions

     

1:	You have taken delivery of a new 8- cell PA- RISC Superdome complex. The cells have been wired to the default IO chassis. All IO chassis have a Core IO card in Slot 0. You have created the Genesis Partition using cell 4 as the initial cell in Partition 0. You have located a 2GB Tachyon Fibre Channel card in slot 6 of the associated IO chassis, which has a number of LUNs configured on an HP XP 1024 disk array. One of the LUNs houses HP-UX 11i. Is this an appropriate slot to for this interface card? What is the Slot- ID and associated HP-UX hardware path of the Fibre Channel card?
2:	Name all of the Single Points Of Failure in a Superdome complex. What would you do to alleviate the Single Points Of Failure in a server complex?
3:	You have deleted a cell from your current partition configuration using the following commands: #parstatus -w The local partition number is 4. #parmodify -p 4 -d 1/6 Cell 6 is active. Use shutdown -R to shutdown the system to ready for reconfig state. Command succeeded. #shutdown -R now You monitor the boot-up of your partition via the VFP on the GSP . You notice that the partition is spinning on BIB . What must you do to release BIB ? Explain why the partition did not automatically release BIB after the POST and consequent partition rendezvous?
4:	You have taken delivery of a dual-cabinet Superdome fully configured with 16 cells. All cells have the same number of CPUs and RAM installed and configured. All cells are connected to an associated IO chassis using the default wiring schema. The partition configuration supplied by HP is now no longer appropriate for your customers' requirements. You have met with your customers and have finalized a partition configuration that looks something like this: IT department = two cells Finance department = six cells Marketing department = two cells Sales department = four cells Research department = one cell Construct a partition configuration listing the cells that will be used for each partition. Choose an appropriate name for the partition, and list the order in which the partitions will be created. Your configuration should attempt to meet both goals of High Availability and High Performance. Document any specific reasoning behind your configuration, and list any assumptions you have made.
5:	The initial release of HP's Superdome server implemented a cc- NUMA architecture that was not fully utilized by HP-UX 11i version 1. Explain this statement.