Hardware Card for Sun Blades 6048
This is a description for a 12-blade case full of blades. Each blade is model X6275, and each has two computers inside.
Each computer has two E5540 Intel CPU with 4 Hyper-Threading cores each.
Specifications
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.
- CDROM?
- Dual power supply?
- Front / Back picture (maybe available online?)
- Any other?
Power consumption (measured before and during the CPU/Disk tests)
- Minimum: 4000 W
- Maximum: 6250 W
Ambiental details
- External working temperature
- Normal CPU/memory internal temperature
- Air flow (cubic meters per hour)
- Power disipation: 21000 BTU/h
- Noise (dB)
Blade Numbering Layout
Blade Layout
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
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| 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 23 |
| 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 24 |
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| 25 | 27 | 29 | 31 | 33 | 35 | 37 | 39 | 41 | 43 | 45 | 47 |
| 26 | 28 | 30 | 32 | 34 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 42 | 44 | 46 | 48 |
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| 49 | 51 | 53 | 55 | 57 | 59 | 61 | 63 | 65 | 67 | 69 | 71 |
| 50 | 52 | 54 | 56 | 58 | 60 | 62 | 64 | 66 | 68 | 70 | 72 |
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| 73 | 75 | 77 | 79 | 81 | 83 | 85 | 87 | 89 | 91 | 93 | 95 |
| 74 | 76 | 78 | 80 | 82 | 84 | 86 | 88 | 90 | 92 | 94 | 96 |
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++)
CPU benchmarks (i.e. HepSpec06)
Network benchmarks (i.e. Iperf)
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