Compaq 221050-001 - ProLiant - 5000R User manual

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Configuring the Compaq ProLiant 5000 for

Microsoft Windows NT Server Environments

White Paper

416A/0696

June 1996

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Configuring the Compaq Proliant 5000 for

Microsoft Windows NT Server Environments

First Edition (June 1996)

Document Number 416A/0696

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Configuring the Compaq

ProLiant 5000 for Microsoft

Windows NT Server

Environments

This white paper is intended for Compaq Field Systems Engineers (FSEs),

Resellers, and customers who install and maintain Microsoft Windows NT

Server on Compaq systems. The white paper provides guidelines and

configuration information to help you optimally configure a Compaq

ProLiant 5000 server with Microsoft Windows NT Server environments.

Additional information on the Compaq ProLiant 5000 hardware and options

can be found in the technical document, Configuring the Compaq ProLiant

5000 for Peak Performance, Document # 301A/0696.

This document focuses on:

■ Optimal configuration of PCI and EISA devices

❏ Primary PCI Bus

❏ Secondary PCI Bus

❏ EISA Bus

❏ PCI bus bridging

■ Recommendations for configuring and optimizing the ProLiant 5000

in a Microsoft Windows NT Server environment:

❏ Initial setup and configuration information that will provide you

with the information you need to achieve the optimal

performance advantages of the Pentium Pro processor

❏ Information to assist you in expanding the configuration as your

needs grow

■ Compaq Support Software for Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 (SSD)

❏ Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) Multiprocessor Support

❏ SMART-2 Drive Array Support

❏ Compaq Array Configuration Utility for Windows NT

❏ SCSI Controller Support

❏ Network Controller Support

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2Configuring the Compaq ProLiant 5000 for Microsoft Windows NT Environments

❏ ProLiant Storage System Support

❏ Systems Management Support

❏ Compaq Standby and Online Recovery Server Option Support

❏ Uninterruptible Power Supply Support

Compaq ProLiant 5000

The Compaq ProLiant 5000 is the first in a new generation of the Compaq

ProLiant family of high performance servers. The ProLiant 5000 includes

new features and design to achieve performance advantages and use unique

characteristics of Intel Pentium Pro processors and PCI bus architecture.

The ProLiant 5000 server design includes the following new features:

■ Support for the Intel Pentium Pro processors and the Intel 82450GX

chip set.

❏ 166 MHz processors, each with 16KB Level 1 cache and an

integrated 512KB Level 2 cache.

❏ 200 MHz processors, each with an integrated 16KB Level 1

cache and an integrated 256KB Level 2 cache.

■ Optimization for enhanced PCI performance.

■ Support for dual-peer PCI buses.

❏ Primary PCI Bus

❏ Secondary PCI Bus

■ Supports a bridged EISA bus off the primary PCI bus.

■ Support for DIMM memory technology.

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Optimizing PCI and EISA Devices

Compaq has conducted extensive testing to determine optimal

configurations for achieving high performance and ease of use at the initial

installation of a ProLiant 5000 system. These test include integrating the

ProLiant 5000 with network operating system software, such as Windows

NT Server, and installing additional peripherals when the need arises.

This section contains Compaq recommendations for configuring the

ProLiant 5000 server to achieve optimal Windows NT Server performance.

The dual-peer PCI buses capabilities of the ProLiant 5000 server provide

high-bandwidth I/O with two buses operating simultaneously. Dual-peer PCI

buses provide an aggregate bandwidth of 267 MB/s. The I/O board has two

Pentium Pro-to-PCI bridge controllers. The controllers connect the primary

and secondary PCI buses to the host bus. The primary and secondary buses

each have assigned functions.

The configuration recommendations presented in this document focus on:

■ Primary and secondary PCI bus configurations

■ Bridged controllers and the implications of adding additional bridged

controllers

Primary PCI Bus

■ Supports dedicated PCI slots 5-8.

■ Supports the EISA bridged bus.

❏ Supports up to three EISA slots (one dedicated, two shared

EISA/PCI).

❏ Supports integrated EISA peripherals (video, timers,

keyboard, mouse).

Secondary PCI Bus

■ Supports PCI on shared slots 2 and 3 and dedicated slot 4.

■ Supports the Integrated 32-Bit Fast-Wide SCSI-2 controller.

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4Configuring the Compaq ProLiant 5000 for Microsoft Windows NT Environments

What is a Bridge?

A PCI bridge connects two independent PCI computer buses together and

allows the buses to communicate with each other. By creating hierarchical

PCI buses, the PCI bridge overcomes the electrical loading limits of the PCI

bus.

PCI Bus Numbering

PCI buses are assigned PCI bus numbers beginning with Bus # 0 for the

primary PCI bus (Slots 5-8) and Bus # 1 for the secondary PCI bus (Slots 2-

4).

PCI bus numbering changes depending on how many PCI bridged

controllers are installed (ex: SMART-2/P Controller) and whether they are

installed in the primary or secondary PCI bus, and slot order of each bus.

For example, in the default factory configuration (Table 1), the SMART-2/P

controller is installed in the primary PCI bus (Slot 5), the SMART-2/P is a

PCI bridged controller causing the bus numbering to change. As stated

previously, the default bus numbers for the ProLiant 5000 without any

bridged PCI controllers installed is Bus # 0 for the primary PCI bus and Bus

# 1 for the secondary PCI bus; adding the SMART-2/P controller to the

primary PCI Bus causes the bus numbers to change to Bus # 0 for the

primary PCI bus, Bus # 1 for the SMART-2/P bridged PCI bus, and Bus # 2

for the secondary PCI bus.

Compaq tested the installation and configuration of bridged PCI controllers

and recommends that the configuration tables (Tables 1-6) be utilized to

minimize the possibility of changing the bus numbers and causing device

drivers such as the NETFLX3.SYS to fail when loading. The failure is due to

the initial bus number used while configuring the PCI NetFlex-3 controller

and adding a bridged controller that changes the bus number of the PCI bus

that the NetFlex-3 controller is installed in. Windows NT does not update

the network interface card configuration which causes any network interface

card to fail during device driver initialization.

Any time additional bridged PCI controllers are added or removed from the

primary bus of an existing configuration, the secondary PCI bus number

changes requiring the network interface controllers to be reconfigured

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Following the recommended configuration tables minimizes the possibility

of this occurring and having to reconfigure the NetFlex-3 controller and also

gives the best performance configuration by dividing the bus load.

Factory Configuration

Table 1 describes the factory configuration with one Netelligent 10/100 TX

PCI UTP network interface controller (NIC) installed in the secondary PCI

bus (Slots 2-4) and one SMART-2 SCSI Controller installed in the primary

PCI bus (Slots 5-8).

Table 1

Factory Configuration, Array Models

Device

Bus

Slot

10/100 TX PCI UTP Controller

Secondary

SMART-2/P Array Controller

Primary

Adding Additional Devices

Tables 2 through 6 show recommended configurations to utilize as many as

four SMART-2/P Array Controllers and two Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI

UTP Controllers.

Table 2

Recommended Three-Controller Configuration

One 10/100 TX PCI UTP Controller, Two SMART-2 Array Controllers

Device

Bus

Slot

10/100 TX PCI UTP Controller

Secondary

SMART-2/P Array Controller

Primary

SMART-2/P Array Controller

Secondary

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6Configuring the Compaq ProLiant 5000 for Microsoft Windows NT Environments

Table 3

Recommended Three-Controller Configuration

Two 10/100 TX PCI UTP Controllers, One SMART-2 Array Controller

Device

Bus

Slot

10/100 TX PCI UTP Controller

Secondary

SMART-2/P Array Controller

Primary

10/100 TX PCI UTP Controller

Primary

Table 4

Recommended Four-Controller Configuration

Two 10/100 TX PCI UTP Controllers, Two SMART-2 Array Controllers

Device

Bus

Slot

10/100 TX PCI UTP Controller

Secondary

SMART-2/P Array Controller

Primary

10/100 TX PCI UTP Controller

Primary

SMART-2/P Array Controller

Secondary

Table 5

Recommended Five-Controller Configuration

Two 10/100 TX PCI UTP Controller, Three SMART-2 Array Controllers

Device

Bus

Slot

10/100 TX PCI UTP Controller

Secondary

SMART-2/P Array Controller

Primary

SMART-2/P Array Controller

Secondary

10/100 TX PCI UTP Controller

Primary

SMART-2/P Array Controller

Secondary

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Table 6

Recommended Six-Controller Configuration

Two 10/100 TX PCI UTP Controllers, Four SMART-2 Array Controllers

Device

Bus

Slot

10/100 TX PCI UTP Controller

Secondary

SMART-2/P Array Controller

Primary

SMART-2/P Array Controller

Secondary

10/100 TX PCI UTP Controller

Primary

SMART-2/P Array Controller

Secondary

SMART-2/P Array Controller

Primary

In Table 6, by adding the SMART-2/P controller to the primary PCI bus

(Slot 7), the PCI bus number of the secondary PCI bus changes causing the

NETFLX3.SYS device driver to fail while attempting to load.

The following steps highlight the process to correct the issue:

■ Double-click the Network icon from the Control Panel, record

pertinent information on the network adapters (IP address, etc.)

■ Close the Network Settings dialog box.

■ Double-click the Compaq Net icon to launch the Compaq Advanced

Network Control Utility from the Control Panel.

❏ Highlight the failing adapter and select the Uninstall option.

❏ Highlight the adapter again and select the Install option.

■ Close the Compaq Advanced Network Control Utility dialog box.

■ Enter the information (IP address, etc.) recorded earlier on the

network interface card being reinstalled in the Network Settings

dialog box..

■ Shutdown and reboot the server.

NOTE: Any time additional bridged PCI controllers are added or removed from the

primary bus of an existing configuration, the secondary PCI bus number changes,

requiring the network interface controllers to be reconfigured.

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8Configuring the Compaq ProLiant 5000 for Microsoft Windows NT Environments

Compaq Support Software for

Windows NT

The Compaq SSD for Windows NT 1.18 contains 2 diskettes. The first

diskette contains all the main setup installation files and the following

drivers for Windows NT 3.51 and the Compaq ProLiant 5000:

■ Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)

■ SCSI (32-Bit SCSI-2 Controllers and Drive Array Controllers)

■ Network (NetFlex Family of Controllers)

■ System Management

The second diskette contains the following drivers:

■ Online and Standby Recovery Server

■ Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

■ Remote Insight Management

NOTE: All Compaq device drivers are available on the Compaq Software Support

Diskette (SSD) v1.18 or later, refer the NTREADME.HLP file included on the

SSD for installation instructions.

Hardware Abstraction Layer Multiprocessor

Support

This section provides an overview of the Hardware Abstraction Layer

support for the Compaq ProLiant 5000. The Compaq ProLiant 5000 is a

Multiprocessor Specification-based server and takes advantage of additional

capabilities provided by Intel MPS capable processors. The HAL is a layer

of software that interacts directly with the computers hardware and is one of

the modular components that make up the Windows NT operating system.

The Microsoft Multiprocessor HAL (HALMPS.DLL) included with

Windows NT will function on the Compaq ProLiant 5000 server and

provides basic HAL functionality

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