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4 Preparing Individual Nodes
This chapter describes how to prepare individual nodes in the HP XC hardware configuration.
The following topics are addressed:
• “Firmware Requirements and Dependencies” (page 59)
• “Ethernet Port Connections on the Head Node” (page 61)
• “General Hardware Preparations for All Cluster Platforms” (page 61)
• “Setting the Onboard Administrator Password” (page 62)
• “Preparing the Hardware for CP3000 (Intel Xeon with EM64T) Systems” (page 63)
• “Preparing the Hardware for CP3000BL Systems” (page 84)
• “Preparing the Hardware for CP4000 (AMD Opteron) Systems” (page 87)
• “Preparing the Hardware for CP4000BL Systems” (page 119)
• “Preparing the Hardware for CP6000 (Intel Itanium) Systems” (page 122)
• “Preparing the Hardware for CP6000BL Systems” (page 136)
4.1 Firmware Requirements and Dependencies
Before installing the HP XC System Software, verify that all hardware components are installed
with the minimum firmware versions listed in the master firmware list. You can find this list
from the following Web page:
http://docs.hp.com/en/linuxhpc.html
Look in the associated hardware documentation for instructions about how to verify or upgrade
the firmware for each component.
Table 4-1 lists the firmware dependencies of individual hardware components in an HP XC
system.
Table 4-1 Firmware Dependencies
Firmware DependencyHardware Component
CP3000
Lights-out 100i management (LO-100i), system BIOSHP ProLiant DL140 G2
LO-100i, system BIOSHP ProLiant DL140 G3
LO-100i, system BIOSHP ProLiant DL160 G5
Integrated lights out (iLO), system BIOSHP ProLiant DL360 G4
iLO, system BIOSHP ProLiant DL360 G4p
iLO2, system BIOSHP ProLiant DL360 G5
iLO, system BIOSHP ProLiant DL380 G4
iLO2, system BIOSHP ProLiant DL380 G5
iLO2, system BIOSHP ProLiant DL580 G4
iLO2, system BIOSHP ProLiant DL580 G5
CP3000BL
iLO2, system BIOS, Onboard Administrator (OA)HP ProLiant BL2x220c G5
iLO2, system BIOS, Onboard Administrator (OA)HP ProLiant BL260c G5
iLO2, system BIOS, Onboard Administrator (OA)HP ProLiant BL460c
iLO2, system BIOS, OAHP ProLiant BL480c
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