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2-6 SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000 Servers Overview Guide • December 2010

2.3 Resource Management

Both midrange servers provide four means of managing the server’s resources:

■ Dynamic Reconfiguration

■ PCI Hot-Plug

■ Capacity on Demand (COD)

■ Zones

2.3.1 Dynamic Reconfiguration

Dynamic reconfiguration (DR) enables hardware resources on system boards to be

added and removed dynamically without stopping system operation. DR thus

enables optimal relocation of system resources. Using the DR function enables

additions or distributions of resources as required for job expansions or new jobs,

and it can be used for the following purposes.

■ Effective use of system resources – By reserving some resources, the reserved

resources can be added according to changes in the workload occurring daily,

monthly, or annually. This enables flexible resource allocations on the system that

needs to operate 24 hours a day, every day of the year in accordance with changes

in the amount of data and the workload.

■ Active replacement of system resources – If a failure occurs in a CPU for a domain

that has been configured with system resources of multiple system boards, the DR

function enables the faulty CPU to be isolated dynamically without stopping the

system. For details on DR, refer to the SPARC Enterprise

M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 Servers Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) User’s Guide

2.3.2 PCI Hot-Plug

You can insert and remove PCI cards for certain PCIe and PCI-X hot-plug controllers

while the server is running. Before you can remove a PCI card, you must first

unconfigure and disconnect it using the Oracle Solaris cfgadm(1M) command. For

more information, refer to the SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000 Servers Service Manual.

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