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01-Bullion S General Training V3
01-Bullion S General Training V3
General training
Index
Bullion S2
– 1 module, 2 CPUs, up to 3 TB memory, 7 PCI
slots.
Bullion S4
– 2 modules, 4 CPUs, up to 6 TB memory, 14 PCI
slots.
Bullion S8
– 4 modules, 8 CPUs, up to 12 TB memory , 28
PCI slots.
Bullion S16
– 8 modules, 16 CPUs, up to 24 TB memory , 56
PCI slots.
Hypervisors
Xeon E5v2
Intel Xeon E5-xxxx Run Sure Features ® bullion RAS specific features
1. Hot-Add Memory (Linux)
1. Memory Single Device Data 2. Hot-Add/Remove PCie
Correction (ESXi/ Linux)
1. Enhanced Memory Single Device
3. Hot-Add partition w/ new
Data Correction (Device Tagging)
module
2. Dynamic Memory Migration
4. Predictive Failure Analysis
3. Enhanced Memory Double Device
(ESXi, Linux)
Data Correction
5. Memory hot swap (Linux, ESXi)
4. Failed DIMM Identification
- Memory blade hot remove /
5. Intel® SMI2 Packet Retry
hot add
6. Intel® SMI2 Memory Half-Width
- On-demand Memory Migration
Fail over
(in development)
7. Memory Address Parity Protection
6. 586 Hardware Circuit Sensors
8. Memory Demand and Patrol
reported in management console
Scrubbing
(Linux, ESXi)
9. Memory Rank Sparing
7. Memory Mapout – reported in
10.Memory Thermal Throttling
BMC logs
- Allows the system to
automatically work around
faulty DIMMs
PCIe blades
Disks
(w/ Pcie RAID adapter)
Fans
(5+1 redundancy)
Index
Memory Riser
Module
RM3D3
CIX board
(Mother
Board) Power
Distribution PD16
Board
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bullion S physical views
VGA Connector Serial Port COM2 6 fan blocks
Rear view
Drawer containing PSU MRLB board 3rd HDD RP16 module RP8 module intermodules XQPI
server informations USB + LAN1G GCOS7 For 16x boards For 8x boards
2 HDD UCM Module
Front
view
Ma
LED/button Color Description In RM3D3 / RM3D4
rk
Attention
A Indication to BIOS for Hot Plugging
Button
Index
Motherboard
– 2-socket module or node (2S)
– CPU : IvyBridge-EX and then Haswell-EX and Broadwell-EX
– Maximum memory slots : 24 DIMMs per socket DDR3 and then DDR4
– Maximum use of available PCIe lanes offering low profile slots:
– seven (7) 8x PCIe slots
– or three (3) 16x PCIe slots and one (1) 8x PCIe slot
– BCS2, PCH, BMC, Gigabit Ethernet controller
Accessories
– Hot-plug PSU : 2N redundancy (2x700W or 2 x 1400W option)
– Hot-plug Fans : 5+1
– Hot-plug Front Disks : 0 to 2
– LCP
– Hot-plug UCM (option)
– Hot-plug Memory risers : 2 to 8
– Hot-plug PCIe risers : 0 to 7
Memory boards
CPU sockets I/O boards
connectors
connectors
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IMB backplanes overview
Cable assemblies :
– 4 different cabling versions
• 8 modules (24U height)
• 4 modules (12U height)
• 2 modules (6U height)
– Same Eth switch board
• Star cabling topology
• Remote redundant power
• SPI bus to CIX FPGA
– XQPI :
• 16 diff pairs per module
• 8TX/8RX
• All-to-all topology
• 14 Gbps per differential pair
• 14 GBps max BW per BCS2
• XQPI side band signals
– CATER, CLK, PMSYNC
Tyco 24U 8 modules IMB version
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xqpi links configuration: octo module
m0 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
m1 m7
6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
m2 m6
6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
m3 m5
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
m4
m0 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
m1
6 5 4 3 2 1 0
m2
6 5 4 3 2 1 0
6 5 4 3 2 1 0
m3
m0 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
m1
6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Ultra
capacitors Discharge
resistors VCAP I/O
Charger
Controller Transfer PD16
Switch connector
Index
System Control
– To manage server power sequences
– To launch server console to access BIOS, EFI, OS
Monitoring
– To view logs and sensors
Configuration
– To customize management parameters according to customer
environment
Maintenance
– List and update firmwares and BIOS
– List internal server components
– Usefull to reset BMC, exlude/include configuration components, set
the blue identification led on/off.
Error Management 2
1 Sensor status
10 tabs to categorizing 2
different sensor types
1 2
2
3
1
2
3
1
4
5
7
BMC
5
6
7
2 possibilities :
– Click on ‘’Launch’’
– Click in ‘’preview’’ window represented in blue
Index
1 2
Apply1
– Sélect the servers et click on ‘’Apply’’
Get XML Template
– Can be used if we
2 need to plane next several servers not yet
connected to network. But take care because there is no
configuration control.
1
1 Set ‘’enable autocalls’’
Folder contains
– C:\Program Files (x86)\bull\Bull insight Care\core\ammsite\data\bmc_backup\bullionS4_sup\XAN-LX7-
00010\2014-09-28_11-21-23
Index
– BSM_HW_NG_CLI
Index
1
1
1
2
2
Bottom picture show update for global partition (2 modules for S4, 4 modules
for S8, 8 modules for S16)
– Enter ressources DVD mounting point (ex, e:\)
Index
Index
• Corrected
Generate a CMCI (Correctable Machine Check Interrupt) to the
OS :
/var/log/mcelog
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3 insert back module in rack and push it but leave it around 2cm (1
inch) out before XQPI connection.
9 Connect AC power cables and when BMC’s are up, using bsmBMCcfg
script restore BMC/EMM configuration file