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.
Determining how much memory you need | |
Determining how much LUN storage space you need | |
A high-level look at the process of planning your partitions | |
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 one or more partitions do not prevent another partition from growing in the future | |
Cases where processor cores are allocated two at a time | |
Partitions for 2-socket, 8-core EPPs | |
Partitions for 2-socket, 14-core EPPs | |
Partitions for 2-socket, 20-core EPPs | |
How to allocate the internal disk storage space of the partitionable enterprise partition platforms |