HP Integrity Superdome 2 Administration

Course overview

The HP Integrity Superdome 2 server offers a solid foundation for mission-critical converged infrastructures. This course provides an overview of the complex components and practical experience using the enhanced Onboard Administrator (OA) management tools to monitor and manage the Superdome 2 complex, including node and virtual partitions. The course is 50 percent lecture and 50 percent hands-on labs using HP servers.

Prerequisites

• HP-UX System and Network Administration I (H3064S) and
• HP-UX System and Network Administration II (H3065S) or
• HP-UX System and Network Administration for Experienced UNIX® System Administrators (H5875S) or
• Equivalent HP-UX administration experience

Audience

• Experienced HP-UX system administrators responsible for managing and monitoring Superdome 2 servers

Course objectives

At the conclusion of this course you should be able to:

• Correlate Superdome 2 (SD2) hardware components with their functionality within thecomplex
• Interface with the OA to configure, monitor, manage, and access SD2 components and firmware
• Interact with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to configure partition boot parameters and manually boot a partition
• Configure, manage, and control virtual partitions (vPars v5) from the Superdome OA
• Configure Instant Capacity compute resources in a Superdome 2 partition

Next steps

• HP Systems Insight Manager on HP-UX (HK712S)
• HP Capacity Advisor and Global Workload Manager (HF869S)
• HP Integrity Virtual Machines (HB506S) or HP Integrity VM v6 and HP-UX vPars v6 Administration (H1L51S)

Benefits to you

• Learn to configure, monitor, and manage your SD2 complex using the OA management interface, including node and virtual partitions from the OA
• Gain experience using the management tools for an HP Superdome 2 server configuration

Course outline

HP Integrity Superdome 2 Introduction and Architecture

• Main components of the SD2 server
• Features and functions of SD2 components
• Display and identify the status of the SD2 components
• SD2 components and hardware paths in the UEFI and HP-UX

HP Integrity Superdome 2 Enclosure Administration using the Onboard Administrator

• SD2 OA to access enclosure components
• Access the OA using the browser and command line interfaces
• Upload/download OA configuration to/from a file on a browser client

HP Integrity Superdome 2 UEFI

• SD2 UEFI from the nPartition console
• Booting HP-UX 11i v3 manually
• HP-UX 11i v3 boot loader
• Configuring boot parameters
• The UEFI shell
• Bootable devices using the UEFI boot device hardware paths
• Ethernet MAC addresses from the UEFI shell
• HP-UX 11i v3 cold install from a local medium and Ignite server

HP Integrity Superdome 2 nPartition Administration

• Traditional server configuration correlated to an nPartition
• Managing SD2 nPartitions and configurations from the OA web-based GUI and CLUI
• Administering SD2 nPartitions using parspecs

HP Integrity Superdome 2 Virtual Partitions version 5

• Virtual partitions (vPars) related to a list of server virtualization technologies available for SD2
• Properly formed SD2 resource path to address different potential vPar resources
• Authorize vPar configuration and power state control at the HP-UX 11i v3 level
• Create and modify a vPar in the current and alternate parspec
• Access a vPar console
• Boot, reset, and remove a vPar

HP Integrity Superdome 2 Instant Capacity Administration

• Implementing HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) for SD2 servers
• LORA vs SMP operation as it relates to iCAP cores
• Configuring a SD2 nPartition LORA according to application requirements
• iCAP commands used to implement HP Instant Capacity on SD2 servers