Hardware Card for XXXX
Short description about the hardware.
Insides
What's inside the hardware, probably depending on what we're talking about.
- Disk controller model. Linux driver needed?
- Network card model
- Any other?
Operations
Interesting information like how to handle it, anything interesting which is not trivial, like:
- How to get into the ILOM
- Power up/down procedures
- Commands to issue in an internal console
- Firmware updates
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++)
- 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, etc.)
Manuals
External links to manuals
Issues
Information about issues found with this hardware, and how to deal with them