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  9. 6.7 Creating a Physical Partition Configuration List (PCL)

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Chapter 1 Understanding the Installation Flow
    1.  1.1 Workflow for the SPARC M10-4
    2. Click 1.2 Workflow When Installing the PCI Expansion Unit
  3. Chapter 2 Planning and Preparing for System Installation
    1.  2.1 Safety Precautions
    2.  2.2 Items Requiring Confirmation before Installation
    3. Click 2.3 Confirming the Physical Specifications of the System
    4. Click 2.4 Confirming Rack Specifications
    5. Click 2.5 Checking Environmental Conditions
    6.  2.6 Checking Acoustic Noise Levels
    7.  2.7 Checking Cooling Conditions
    8. Click 2.8 Checking the Power Input Type
    9. Click 2.9 Preparing Power Supply Facilities
    10. Click 2.10 Checking External Interface Port Specifications
    11.  2.11 Checking the Functions of the Operation Panel
  4. Chapter 3 Installing the System
    1.  3.1 Preparing the Necessary Tools/Information for Installation
    2. Click 3.2 Confirming Delivered Components
    3. Click 3.3 Mounting the Chassis in a Rack
    4. Click 3.4 Mounting Optional Components
  5. Chapter 4 Connecting Cables to the Chassis
    1.  4.1 Connecting Cables to the SPARC M10-4
    2.  4.2 Connecting Cables to the PCI Expansion Unit
  6. Chapter 5 Performing an Initial System Diagnosis
    1.  5.1 Connecting the System Management Terminal to the Chassis
    2.  5.2 Turning on the Input Power and Starting the XSCF
    3.  5.3 Logging In to the XSCF
    4.  5.4 Checking the XCP Version
    5.  5.5 Checking the Altitude Setting
    6.  5.6 Checking the Time Setting
    7.  5.7 Performing a Diagnosis Test
    8.  5.8 Checking the Component Status
  7. Chapter 6 Making the Initial System Settings
    1.  6.1 Setting the Password Policy
    2.  6.2 Setting a User Account and Password
    3. Click 6.3 Configuring the Telnet/SSH Service
    4.  6.4 Configuring the HTTPS Service
    5. Click 6.5 Configuring the XSCF Network
    6.  6.6 Configuring Memory Mirroring
    7.  6.7 Creating a Physical Partition Configuration List (PCL)
    8.  6.8 Confirming That a System Board (PSB) is Assigned to a Physical Partition (PPAR)
    9.  6.9 Setting a CPU Operational Mode for the Physical Partition
    10.  6.10 Synchronizing the Physical Partition (PPAR) Time and XSCF Time
    11. Click 6.11 Registering a CPU Activation Key
    12.  6.12 Assigning CPU Core Resources
    13.  6.13 Starting and Stopping a Physical Partition (PPAR)
    14. Click 6.14 Saving Configuration Information
  8. Appendix A Troubleshooting
    1.  A.1 Understanding the Usual Problems and Their Corrective Actions
    2. Click A.2 Understanding Commands for Troubleshooting
  9. Appendix B Setup Command Workflow
  10. Appendix C Installation Procedure Checklist

6.7 Creating a Physical Partition Configuration List (PCL)


6.7 Creating a Physical Partition Configuration List (PCL)
A physical partition (PPAR) consists of physical system boards (PSBs). In the physical partition, the hardware resources of a physical system board (PSB) can be assigned to logical system boards (LSB).
Use the showpcl command to check a physical partition configuration list (PCL), and use the setpcl command to set a PCL.
For an explanation of the setpcl command options, see the setpcl command man page or the Fujitsu SPARC M12 and Fujitsu M10/SPARC M10 XSCF Reference Manual.
For the SPARC M10-4, the physical partition configuration information is already set. For the SPARC M10-4, only the configuration policy can be set.
  1. Physical system board (PSB)
    The PSB consists of all physical components mounted on a SPARC M10 System chassis such as CPUs and memory. For the SPARC M10-4, a CPU memory unit (containing the <CMUL> on the bottom and the <CMUU> on top) is a physical system board (PSB). The other devices that are treated as physical system boards (PSBs) may include PCIe cards and disk devices. Sometimes, a physical unit of hardware being added/removed/replaced is described as a physical system board (PSB).
  2. Logical system board (LSB)
    The LSB is a logical unit name assigned to a physical system board (PSB). Each physical partition has a set of logical system boards (LSBs) assigned to it. A logical system board number is used to control how resources such as kernel memory are assigned to each logical domain.
  3. System board
    This term is used to describe hardware resources in operations such as configuring or displaying a physical partition.
  1. Execute the showpcl command to check a physical partition configuration list (PCL).
XSCF> showpcl -a
PPAR-ID LSB PSB Status
00 Powered Off
00 00-0
  1. Execute the setpcl command to set the configuration policy for all physical partitions as a whole.
XSCF> setpcl -p ppar_id -s policy=value
  1. In value, specify fru (part), psb (system board), or system (all physical partitions as a whole) as the degradation unit. The default setting is fru.

    The following example sets the configuration policy to "All physical partitions" for physical partition 0.
XSCF> setpcl -p 0 -s policy=system
  1. Execute the showpcl command, and confirm the set physical partition configuration list (PCL).
XSCF> showpcl -v -a
PPAR-ID LSB PSB Status No-Mem No-IO Cfg-policy
00 Powered Off
System
00 00-0 False False
01 -
02 -
03 -
04 -
05 -

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