Planning Your Partitions

Partition planning is essentially deciding how you want to slice up a given enterprise partition platform into multiple operating environments—that is, multiple partitions. The following information describes planning that you should do before your ClearPath Forward product arrives and even before you order it, to ensure that your fabric environment meets the needs of your applications.

Memory Planning

Determining how much memory you need

LUN Planning

Determining how much LUN storage space you need

Overview of Partition Planning

A high-level look at the process of planning your partitions

Partition Chassis

Description of partition chassis and their relationship to the enterprise partition platform

Visual Aid for Understanding Chassis and Cores They Can Include

A visual aid that explains which chassis include which cores

Ensuring a Partition Can Grow in the Future

Ensuring one or more partitions do not prevent another partition from growing in the future

2-Socket, 20-Core EPP and Multi-Core Granularity

Cases where processor cores are allocated two at a time

Chassis Configurations for a 2-Socket, 8-Core EPP

Partitions for 2-socket, 8-core EPPs

Chassis Configurations for a 2-Socket, 14-Core EPP

Partitions for 2-socket, 14-core EPPs

Chassis Configurations for a 2-Socket, 20-Core EPP

Partitions for 2-socket, 20-core EPPs

Allocating Internal Storage Among Partitions

How to allocate the internal disk storage space of the partitionable enterprise partition platforms