(r3) HardwareCardTemplate < LCGTier2

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---+ Hardware Card for XXXX
Short description about the hardware.

%TOC%

---++ Insides
What's inside the hardware, probably depending on what we're talking about.
   * Disk controller model. Linux driver needed?
   * Network card model
   * Space that takes in the rack (U's)
   * Max CPUs, Max Disks, Max Mem slots.
   * Front / Back picture (maybe available online?)
   * Any other?

---++ Operations
Interesting information like how to handle it, anything interesting which is not trivial.
---+++ How to get into the ILOM
---+++ Power up/down procedures
---+++ Commands to issue in an internal console
---+++ Firmware updates
---+++ Replacement of internal components

---++ Installation notes
Instructions on how to set up a new machines that arrives, with things like:
---+++ BIOS settings
---+++ RAID configuration
---+++ Drivers required / kernel compatibility
---+++ Check firmware homogeneity with other machines in the cluster


---++ Benchmarks
Information about benchmarks performed in the machine.
---+++ Disk benchmarks (i.e. Bonnie++)
Example:
%EDITTABLE{}%
| Version 1.96 | | *Sequential Output* |||||| *Sequential Input* |||| *Random* ||
| Concurrency | 1 | *Per Chr* || *Block* || *Rewrite* || *Per Chr* || *Block* || *Seeks* ||
| *Machine* | *Size* | *K/sec* | *%CP* | *K/sec* | *%CP* | *K/sec* | *%CP* | *K/sec* | *%CP* | *K/sec* | *%CP* | */sec* | *%CP* |
| xfs | 100000M | 1673 | 98 | 258522 | 32 | 164738 | 23 | 3401 | 99 | 455836 | 29 | 518.8 | 13 |
| *Latency* || 4954us | | 314ms | | 231ms | | 7143us | | 177ms | | 74101us | |
| ext4 | 100000M | 927 | 98 | 256154 | 46 | 159501 | 19 | 3983 | 99 | 530509 | 35 | 400.6 | 34 |
| *Latency* || 9114us | | 206ms | | 599ms | | 2388us | | 150ms | | 627ms | |

---+++ CPU benchmarks (i.e. HepSpec06)
---+++ Network benchmarks (i.e. Iperf)
---+++ Power consumption (measured before and during the CPU/Disk tests)

---++ Monitoring
Instructions about monitoring the hardware 
---+++ Power Consumption
---+++ Raid Sanity
---+++ Other?

---++ Manuals
External links to manuals


---++ Issues
Information about issues found with this hardware, and how to deal with them
---+++ Issue1
---+++ Issue2