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Nec Computers SAS - Confidential - 06-2008 - FlexPower -

FlexPower Manager Introduction

A single user Interface will allow you to configure all the flexpower components.By Default :Ip address : 192.168.150.150User : Admin – Password : Admin

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FlexPower Manager Features

Browser-based user interface

Provides tools for:

System configuration

System monitoring and management

Server Compute Module remote control

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FlexPower Manager Minimum Requirements

Remote ClientMicrosoft* Internet Explorer 7 or 6 SP1 or Mozilla* Firefox 2

Java* Runtime Environment version 6 update 1 or above (Available on the Express Builder)

Adobe* Flash Player version 9 ( Not Mandatory)

FlexPower ManagerConfigure the storage subsystem with at least one virtual drive

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FlexPower Manager Login

Default IP Address 192.168.150.150

Default User admin

Default Passwordadmin

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FlexPower Manager User Interface

Top Menu

Main Body

Left Navigation Menu

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FlexPower Manager Left Navigation

System System configuration screens

ReportsEvent information

System configuration information

System health information

SettingsCMM configuration screens

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System Menu

System Menu

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FlexPower Manager Server Compute Module View

Select Chassis Front tab or Servers in left navigation paneClick on a serverActions menu options vary with server power state Information tabs

GeneralEventsSensorsVirtual Drives

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FlexPower Manager Server Actions Menu

Server Powered OffPower On

Remote KVM & CD

Identify

BIOS Settings

Server Powered OnChanges Power On to Power Off

Adds Reset Remote Serial Console

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FlexPower Manager Remote KVM Characteristics

Remote keyboard video and mouse functions for server compute modules

One session per server

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FlexPower Manager Storage Configuration View

Select Storage menu tab or Storage in the left navigation pane

Actions menu options vary with storage configuration

Information tabs vary with storage configuration

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FlexPower Manager Storage Pool Characteristics

A group of one or more physical drives

Number of drives selected defines levels of RAID support

The foundation for virtual drives

At least one storage pool must be configured

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FlexPower Manager Virtual Drive Characteristics

Provides server level storageContained within a single storage poolAssigned to a single serverEasily reassignedCan be assigned any RAID level that is supported by the host storage pool

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FlexPower Manager Hot Spare Characteristics

Assigned at storage pool level

Provide failover support for physical drives

Dedicated Hot Spare:Assigned to a specific storage pool

Global Hot Spare:Failover support for all compatible storage pools

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FlexPower Manager Storage Control Module View

Select the Chassis Back menu tabClick on the Storage Control ModuleActions menu options

ResetExpansion Port

Information TabsGeneralEventsExpansion PortBattery

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FlexPower ManagerDual Controller Mode

When in dual controller Mode you have a new option when creating a virtual disk : » Controller Afffinity.

To install an operating system affinity MUST be

set to SCM1.

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FlexPower ManagerDual Controlle/Operating System Point of View

When a second Storage Controller Module is installed, each Compute Module is presented with two paths to the same virtual disk; however, only one path can ever be active at a time.

After Windows has been installed, updated Storport and MPIO device drivers must be installed to manage these multiple paths and to provide failover to an alternate path in the event of a failure of the currently active path.Those Drivers are available on Express Builder Minimum revision 16.1.0

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FlexPower ManagerAffinity Settings

Once installed affinity can be changed

FlexPower Manager – Expansion Port

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- This port is managed under the Storage control Module

- This port can be configured to be accessed by one or several compute Module

- This port will support only Tape Libraries

- Be carefull when a tape library is connected to this Port only one compute module will have to be configured in the « expansion port » section.

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FlexPower Manager Switch Module View

Select Chassis Back tab or Switches in left navigation paneSelect a switchActions menu options

Edit PortsResetAdvanced UI

Information tabsGeneralEventsPorts

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FlexPower Manager Switch: Edit Ports Interface

Direct access to port configuration from Server ControlEnable/disable external switch portsModify speed settings for external ports Add/remove VLAN port assignmentEnable/disable Spanning Tree on external ports

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FlexPower Manager Switch: Advanced UI Features

Launches from within Server Control

Provides advanced configuration options for switch

Diagnostics

Traffic control

Access control

Performance

VLANs

Spanning Tree

Link Aggregation

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Report Menu

Report Menu

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FlexPower Manager Collecting System Information

Reporting Options

Storage Layout : Wich Disks is connectedt to wich server ?

Events : All events from all systems in the Flexpower sorted by date/description/severity/User

Dashboard : Default Page providing the main informations ( System Health, Temperature, Power Load, …)

Diagnostics : Provide system Tools ( including System Internal Communication test, capture service Data,…)

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Settings Menu

Settings Menu

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FlexPower Manager Configuring the Chassis Management Module

Configuration Options

Storage Menu : Activate or deactivate Hdd Write Back Cache.

IP Configuration : Set the Ip of Management Port

Date/Time : Set the local Time of your Flexpower.

SNMP : Set the Trap destination from Your Flexpower ( Snmp Strings,….)

Users : Enable Administrator to modify, create, delete Users.

Event Policies : Enable It Administrator to configure event severity and notification Process.

Notification : Provide the administrator the capability to set system alert notification destination.

Langage : Set the language used for the help menu

Feature Activation : Allow you to enable additionnal features by entering a key to purchase

Firmware : Upgrade the whole system ( Management Module, Storage Module, Bios Bmc, …) in one place

Restore settings : Enable to save parameters such as Network or password. Enable to reset to factory default.

Feature activation

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This is the place where customer can enter key to get optional features such as Shared Lun or Lun copier. The customer needs to buy those keys.

Optionnal Feature :Shared Lun

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The Shared LUN feature allows more than one server to read and write to a virtual drive (also known as LUN) at the same time. The ability to read/write to a shared drive is required for applications such as clustering or virtual machine migration.

Optionnal Feature :Storage Management Pack

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• What is it?Enables local copies of any LUN (Virtual Drive). Firmware dependent whether compute modules can be on or off to copy the virtual drive.Simplifies tasks such as

(a) creating a local copy of a data LUN (b) creating a new OS LUN (which can be assigned to a new

compute module as the boot LUN), by copying an existing LUN which already has an OS installed in it

• What are the benefits?– Local back up – Operating System provisioning/deployment– Non-Production Environment testing– Off-line and on-line RAID morphing

Optionnal Feature :Storage Management Pack

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Optionnal Feature :Advanced Management Pack

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• What is it?Provides support for import/export of all CMM settings from one chassis to another, LDAP support for user authentication and SYSLOG support

What are the benefits?Ability to deploy multiple chassis* with the same configuration information (including storage configuration)Export configuration from one chassis as a zip file and import to ‘n’ number of chassisBase FW versions must match as well as the physical storage configuration (i.e. same drive type & same number of drives)Integration with existing LDAP implementations for seamless user authentication Support for forwarding all events to SYSLOG for external mining by Linux based tools

Optionnal Feature :Advanced Management Pack

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Support

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Logs

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In order to do a diagnostic three differents logs needs to be asked to the customer. Those logs will be mandatory when raising a case to the COE attention :

1 - Reports => Diagnostics => Test => System information report

2 - Reports => Diagnostics => Service data => Complete system diagnostics 3 - Reports => Events => fichier XML

System Information Report

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This log will give us a summary of the customer’s configuration in a readable HTML format.

When pressing « system information report it will get the information and ask a place to save the file. ( In a zip file called « diagout.user.htm.zip »

Complete System Diagnostic

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This log will give us a summary of the customer’s detailled configuration.

When pressing « complete system diagnostics » it will get the information and ask a place to save the file. ( In a zip file called « diagout.htm.zip ».This files is automatically protected by a password that can’t be provided.

Event Logs

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The events section shows all the history of events that happened on all components. By selecting « Export all » customer can send them to us in XML format.

UFU Firmware

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The firmware section allow us to update the UFU (Unified Firmware Update. This will update ALL flexpower component at once ( Bios, BMC, Storage and network switch, Etc…). This update will require a reboot of the main component, reboot that customer can schedule himself.

UFU Update

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Be carefull when updating from previous revisions it has to be done step by step you need to have specific minimum revision ( For example to update to latest revision 6.1 you need minimum revision 2.7, etc….)

With every UFU revision an UFU decoder is delivered, please make sure you consult it

Some UFU revision added specific feature ( Shared Lun appeared in revision 2.6…)

For every external library issue please make sure customer has UFU 6.1 minimum

Drivers

When having an issue please make sure you have not only the latest UFU but also newest drivers. There are often updated on NEC Website. ( Under Servers/Blade section)

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