Hardware Card for Sun Thumper X4500

This is our old Storage node for dCache with 48 disks inside

Specifications

What's inside the hardware, probably depending on what we're talking about.

• Disk controller model. 6 x Marvell MV88SX6081 (8 ports)
• Network card model: 4 x Intel 82546EB + 1 Mellanox IB MT23108 (added later)
• Space that takes in the rack: 3U
• Max CPUs, Max Disks, Max Mem slots. 2 x AMD Opteron DualCore 290
• CDROM
• Dual power supply: yes
• Front / Back picture (maybe available online?)
• Any other?

Power consumption (measured before and during the CPU/Disk tests)

• Minimum: 1000 W
• Maximum 1100 W

Ambiental details

• External working temperature
• Normal CPU/memory internal temperature
• Air flow (cubic meters per hour)
• Noise (dB)

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

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