HP rx7640 Integrity Server - System Views

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HP rx7640 Integrity Server - System Views

	Front View with Bezel
	Front View without Bezel
	Right Front View
	Left-Rear View
	Internal Disk Devices
	System Backplane
	Cell Board

Front View with Bezel

Figure 1: Server (Front View With Bezel)

Front View without Bezel

Figure 2: Server (Front View Without Bezel)

1 - Hard Disk Drives

2 - Bulk Power Supplies

3 - Front OLR Fans

4 - PCI Power Supplies

5 - Removable Media Drive

6 - Power Switch

The mass storage section located in the front enables access to the 3.5-inch hard drives without removal of the bezel. This is especially helpful when the system is mounted in the lowest position in a rack. The mass storage bay also accommodates one 5.25-inch removable media device.

The front panel display board, containing LEDs and the system power switch, is located directly above the 5.25-inch removable media bay. Below the mass storage section and behind the removable front bezel are two PCI-X power supplies. The bulk power supply section is partitioned by a sealed metallic enclosure located in the bottom of the package. This enclosure houses the N+1 fully redundant BPSs. Install these power supplies from the front of the server after removing the front bezel.

Right Front View

Figure 3: Right Front View

1 - Cell Boards

2 - Bulk Power Supplies

3 - PCI Power Supplies

4 - Front Panel Display Board

5 - PCI-X cards

Access the PCI-X card section, located toward the rear, by removing the top cover. The PCI card bulkhead connectors are located at the rear top. The PCI OLR fan modules are located in front of the PCI-X cards. These six 9.2-cm fans are housed in plastic carriers.

They are configured in two rows of three fans. Four OLR system fan modules, externally attached to the chassis, are 15-cm (6.5-inch) fans. Two fans are mounted on the front surface of the chassis and two are mounted on the rear surface.

The cell boards are accessed from the right side of the chassis behind a removable side cover. The two MP/SCSI core I/O boards are positioned vertically at the rear of the chassis.

The two hot-pluggable N+1 redundant bulk power supplies provide a wide input voltage range. They are installed in the front of the chassis, directly under the front fans. A cable harness that connects from the rear of the BPSs to the system backplane provides DC power distribution.

Access the system backplane by removing the left side cover. The system backplane hinges from the lower edge and is anchored at the top with two jack screws.

The SCSI ribbon-cable assembly routes from the mass storage area and routes to the backside of the system backplane and for connection to the MP/SCSI card, and to the AB 290A LAN/SCSI PCI-X cards..

Left-Rear View

Figure 4: Left-Rear View

1 - System backplane

2 - MP/SCSI Core I/O

3 - AC Power Receptacles

4 - Jack Screws

Internal Disk Devices

Figure 5: Disk Drive and DVD Drive Location

1 - Drive 0-1 Path: 0/0/0/3/ 0.6.0

2 - Drive 0-2 Path: 0/ 0/1/1 /0/4/ 1.5.0

3 - Drive 1-2 Path: 1/ 0/1/1 /0/4/ 1.6.0

4 - Drive 1-1 Path: 1/0/0/3/ 0.6.0

5 - Slimline DVD Drive Path: 0/0/ 0/3/1 .2.0

6 - DVD/DAT/ Slimline DVD Drive Path: 1/0/ 0/3/1 .2.0

System Backplane

Figure 6: System Backplane Block Diagram

1 - Bulk Power Supply

2 - Cell board 0

3 - Cell board 1

4 - PCI-X backplane

5 - MP Core I/O MP/SCSI

6 - MP Core I/O MP/SCSI

7 - System backplane

The system backplane contains the following components:

• The system clock generation logic
• The system reset generation logic
• DC-to-DC converters
• Power monitor logic
• Two local bus adapter (LBA) chips that create internal PCI buses for communicating with the core I/O card

The backplane also contains connectors for attaching the cell boards, the PCI-X backplane, MP/SCSI core I/O boards, SCSI cables, bulk power, chassis fans, the front panel display, intrusion switches, and the system scan card. Unlike Superdome or the HP Integrity rx8640, there are no Crossbar Chips (XBC) on the system backplane.

The “crossbar-less�? back-to-back CC connection increases performance. Only half of the MP/SCSI core I/O board set connects to the system backplane. The MP/SCSI boards plug into the backplane, while the LAN/SCSI boards plug into the PCI-X backplane.

System Bacplane to PCI-X Backplane Connectivity

The PCI-X backplane uses two connectors for the SBA link bus and two connectors for the high speed data signals and the manageability signals.

SBA link bus signals are routed through the system backplane to the cell controller on each corresponding cell board.

The high speed data signals are routed from the SBA chips on the PCI-X backplane to the two LBA PCI bus controllers on the system backplane.

Clocks and Reset

The system backplane contains reset and clock circuitry that propagates through the whole system. The central clocks drive all major chip set clocks. Therefore, these circuits represent a system wide single point of failure.

I/O Subsystem

The cell board to the PCI-X board path runs from the CC to the SBA, from the SBA to the ropes, from the ropes to the LBA, and from the LBA to the PCI slots seen in Figure 1-12. The CC on cell board 0 and cell board 1 communicates through an SBA over the SBA link. The SBA link consists of both an inbound and an outbound link with an effective bandwidth of approximately 11.5 GB/sec. The SBA converts the SBA link protocol into “ropes.�? A rope is defined as a high-speed, point-to-point data bus. The SBA can support up to 16 of these high-speed bi-directional rope links for a total aggregate bandwidth of approximately 11.5 GB/sec.

Cell Board

Figure 7: Cell Board

The cell board contains the processors, main memory, and the CC application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) which interfaces the processors and memory with the I/O, and to other cell boards in the server. The CC is the heart of the cell board, providing a crossbar connection that enables communication with the other cell board in the system.

It connects to the processor dependent hardware (PDH) and micro controller hardware. Each cell board holds up to four processor modules and 16 memory DIMMs. One or two cell boards can be installed in the server. A cell board can be selectively powered off for adding processors, memory or maintenance of the cell board, without affecting cells in other configured partitions.