============================================================================= HP OpenVMS Enablement Kit for Integrity Server Blades and VMS84I_UPDATE-V0200 Release Notes ============================================================================= 1 KIT NAME: VMS84I_UPDATE-V0200 2 KIT DESCRIPTION: 2.1 Installation Rating: INSTALL_1 : To be installed by all customers for HP Integrity server blades and HP Integrity server systems. HP's support service is available only if INSTALL_1 is applied. 2.2 Reboot Requirement: Reboot Required. HP strongly recommends that a reboot is performed immediately after kit installation to avoid system instability. If you have other nodes in your OpenVMS cluster, they must also be rebooted in order to make use of the new image(s). If it is not possible or convenient to reboot the entire cluster at this time, a rolling re-boot may be performed. 2.3 Version(s) of OpenVMS to which this kit may be applied: OpenVMS Version 8.4 for Integrity servers 2.4 New functionality or new hardware support provided: Yes. For details, see Section 5. 3 KITS SUPERSEDED BY THIS KIT: - VMS84I_UPDATE-V0100 4 KIT DEPENDENCIES: 4.1 The following remedial kit(s), or later, must be installed BEFORE installation of this, or any required kit: - OpenVMS Version 8.4 kit 4.2 In order to receive all the corrections listed in this kit, the following remedial kits, or later, should also be installed: - None. 5 NEW FUNCTIONALITY AND/OR NEW HARDWARE SUPPORT This update kit supports the Intel Itanium 9300 processor series based HP Integrity server blades. It includes BL860c i2, BL870c i2, and BL890c i2 server blades. These blades are supported on the HP c-class c3000 and c7000 enclosures. 5.1 New Functionality addressed in This kit 5.1.1 New features Supported on BL8x0c i2 server blades: Following new features are supported on BL8x0c i2 server blades: o Enhancements to USB: BL8x0c i2 server blades support high speed boot from vMedia or USB devices. You will notice reduced boot time using vMedia or USB on BL8x0c i2 server blades as compared to HP Integrity servers. OpenVMS supports Intel ICH10 south bridge based low/full speed Universal Host Controller Interface (UHCI). The driver for this UHCI controller is SYS$UHCIDRIVER.EXE. o Memory disk boot: Memory disk boot support is added for 10 GB LAN on motherboard (LOM) based InfoServer boot. Memory disk boot flags must be specified while booting a 10 GB LOM based on InfoServer. The other boot options and boot mechanisms remain same as that of the HP Integrity servers. o RAD support on HP Integrity server blades: OpenVMS supports Resource Affinity Domain (RAD) on HP Integrity server blades (BL8x0c i2 server blades). BL8x0c i2 server blades introduces Socket Local Memory (SLM) and provides five memory interleaved configuration, which is supported on OpenVMS systems. On these Integrity server systems, memory can be either configured as SLM, Interleaved memory (ILM) or a combination of both SLM and ILM. Each SLM and ILM is treated as single RAD. Supported memory interleaved configurations are as follows: - MaxUMA (100% ILM; 0% SLM) - MostlyUMA (87.5% ILM; 12.5% SLM) - Balanced (50% ILM; 50% SLM) - MostlyNUMA (12.5% ILM; 87.5% SLM) - MaxNUMA (0% ILM; 100% SLM) The default memory interleaved configuration is MostlyNUMA. System memory interleaved configuration can be changed at the EFI shell using the "memconfig -mi