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Overview of the HP Integrity rx2600, rx4640, and rx5670
servers
A technical white paper from HP
Executive summary.....................................................................................................................................3
Introducing the Intel Itanium 2 processor.......................................................................................................3
Itanium 2-based HP Integrity rx2600, rx4640, and rx5670 servers ................................................................3
HP Integrity rx2600 server at a glance .....................................................................................................3
HP Integrity rx2600 details .....................................................................................................................4
HP Integrity rx2600 product specifications ............................................................................................4
Physical and environmental specifications .............................................................................................5
Mechanical design and packaging of the HP Integrity rx2600 server ...........................................................6
Racking density......................................................................................................................................6
Standalone pedestal configuration ...........................................................................................................7
Workstation or server? Here's how to choose ............................................................................................7
Comparing the HP Workstation zx6000 with the HP Integrity rx2600 ..........................................................7
HP Integrity rx4640 server at a glance .....................................................................................................8
HP Integrity rx4640 details .....................................................................................................................9
HP Integrity rx4640 product specifications ............................................................................................9
Physical and environmental specifications ...........................................................................................10
Mechanical design and packaging of the HP Integrity rx4640 ..................................................................10
Racking density....................................................................................................................................11
High-availability slider rails ...................................................................................................................11
Cabinet spacing requirements ...............................................................................................................11
Standalone (Rackless) configuration .......................................................................................................11
HP Integrity rx5670 server at a glance ...................................................................................................12
HP Integrity rx5670 details ...................................................................................................................12
HP Integrity rx5670 product specifications ..........................................................................................12
Physical and environmental specifications ...........................................................................................13
Mechanical design and packaging of the HP Integrity rx5670 ..................................................................14
Racking density....................................................................................................................................14
High-availability slider rails ...................................................................................................................15
Cabinet spacing requirements ...............................................................................................................15
Standalone/Deskside configuration........................................................................................................15
In-box upgrade from PA-RISC servers......................................................................................................15
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    HP Integrity rx2600 details ........................4 HP Integrity rx2600 product specifications ....................4 Physical and environmental specifications .....................5 Mechanical design and packaging of the HP Integrity rx2600 server ............6 Racking density............................6 Standalone pedestal configuration ......................7 Workstation or server? Here’s how to choose ....................7 Comparing the HP Workstation zx6000 with the HP Integrity rx2600 ............7...
  • Page 2 Overview of the HP zx1 Chipset ......................15 Features and benefits of the HP zx1 Chipset ..................17 Architectural overview of the HP Integrity rx2600 server ................17 Architectural overview of the HP Integrity rx4640 ..................18 Architectural overview of the HP Integrity rx5670 ..................19 Extensible firmware interface .........................19...

  • Page 3: Executive Summary

    HP Integrity rx2600 server at a glance The HP Integrity rx2600 is the industry’s first 2-way Itanium 2–based server. It has a sleek 2U footprint, but it can be equipped with up to two 1.5 GHz Intel Itanium 2 processors loaded with 6 MB of on-chip L3 cache and as much as 24 GB of RAM.

  • Page 4: Hp Integrity Rx2600 Details

    ® And there’s a full range of HP storage peripherals and I/O adapters to complete the package. Figure 1. The HP Integrity rx2600 server can be installed in a rack or as a standalone unit HP Integrity rx2600 details HP Integrity rx2600 product specifications •...

  • Page 5: Physical And Environmental Specifications

    • Removable media – One slimline media bay for optional IDE optical drives – Choice of 16X DVD-ROM or 16X/10X/40X CD-RW (also reads DVD) • Core I/O interconnect ports – Gigabit-TX LAN with RJ-45 connector (10/100/1000BT autosensing) – 10/100BT LAN with RJ-45 connector and Wake-on-LAN capability –...

  • Page 6: Mechanical Design And Packaging Of The Hp Integrity Rx2600 Server

    1.75 inches) per server, up to 20 systems can be installed into a single 2-meter HP cabinet. The rx2600 is supported in HP Rack System/E and 10000 series racks. The rx2600 is also supported in a variety of third-party, non-HP racks and cabinets.

  • Page 7: Standalone Pedestal Configuration

    Standalone pedestal configuration The rx2600 is also available in a standalone configuration when a cabinet is not desired. The standalone system is ideal for an office environment, under a desk, or on a shelf. The standalone configuration uses a stylish tower mounting shell, with the system simply placed inside this shell.

  • Page 8: Hp Integrity Rx4640 Server At A Glance

    (available in 1H 2004), which doubles the Intel Itanium 2 processor density without requiring more power or space. The rx4640 was designed to be easy to install, service, and maintain. It fits easily into HP 9000 server racks, Compaq ProLiant racks and many third-party racks using side-mounted slides and a cable management arm that install quickly without tools.

  • Page 9: Hp Integrity Rx4640 Details

    HP Integrity rx4640 details HP Integrity rx4640 product specifications • Central processor – 1, 2, 3, or 4 Intel Itanium 2 processors at 1.3 GHz or 1.5 GHz • Cache (all on-chip) – 16 KB instruction and 16 KB data level 1 cache –...

  • Page 10: Physical And Environmental Specifications

    The server is partitioned into two main electrical partitions—the system partition, including baseboard, CPU board, and memory carrier board; and the I/O partition, consisting of PCI-X I/O slots, core I/O, and the management processor. Figure 4. Major components of the HP Integrity rx4640 server...

  • Page 11: Racking Density

    2-meter rack cabinet. The rx4640 is supported in HP Rack System/E, 10000 series, 9000 series and 7000 series rack cabinets. The rx5670 is also supported in a variety of third-party, non-HP racks and cabinets. Refer to the HP Server Configuration Guide for the latest list of qualified third-party racks.

  • Page 12: Hp Integrity Rx5670 Server At A Glance

    “built” by a board-swap, in-chassis upgrade from an existing RISC server. In fact, any HP rp5400, rp5430, rp5450, rp5470, or HP 9000 L-Class server can be upgraded to an rx5670! This allows HP PA-RISC customers to quickly upgrade their investment to the Intel Itanium 2 microarchitecture.

  • Page 13: Physical And Environmental Specifications

    • Chipset – HP zx1 Chipset – 105-nanosecond memory latency – 6.4 GB/s system bus bandwidth – 4.0 GB/s aggregate I/O bandwidth • Expansion slots – 3 PCI-X on independent buses, 64-bit 133 MHz – 6 PCI-X on 3 shared buses, 64-bit 66 MHz –...

  • Page 14: Mechanical Design And Packaging Of The Hp Integrity Rx5670

    2-meter HP cabinet. The rx5670 is supported in HP Rack System/E and 10000 series racks. The rx5670 is also supported in a variety of third-party, non-HP racks and cabinets. Refer to the HP Server Configuration Guide for the latest list of qualified third-party racks.

  • Page 15: High-Availability Slider Rails

    During product installation and servicing, a total of 32 inches (82 cm) of free space is needed at the front of the cabinet. The depth of HP Rack System/E cabinets is 39 inches (99 cm). Therefore, a minimum of 87 inches (221 cm) of total space is needed for each cabinet during normal operation.
  • Page 16 • The HP zx1 Chipset I/O adapter chip is a scalable solution designed to support PCI-X, PCI, and AGP bus architectures. It provides a scalable I/O implementation for a wide variety of systems. The rx2600, rx4640, and rx5670 do not deploy AGP graphics bus technology. AGP is available in the HP Workstations zx2000 and zx6000, which also employ the HP zx1 Chipset.

  • Page 17: Features And Benefits Of The Hp Zx1 Chipset

    Architectural overview of the HP Integrity rx2600 server The HP Integrity rx2600 server supports either one or two Intel Itanium 2 processors linked to the HP zx1 Chipset memory and I/O controller through a 200 MHz, double-pumped 128-bit front-side system bus. Total bandwidth on the system bus is 6.4 GB/s.

  • Page 18: Architectural Overview Of The Hp Integrity Rx4640

    Architectural overview of the HP Integrity rx4640 The HP Integrity rx4640 supports one, two, three, or four Intel Itanium 2 processors linked to the zx1 memory and I/O controller through a 200 MHz, double-pumped 128-bit system bus. Total bandwidth on the system bus is 6.4 GB/s.

  • Page 19: Architectural Overview Of The Hp Integrity Rx5670

    Architectural overview of the HP Integrity rx5670 The HP Integrity rx5670 supports one, two, three, or four Intel Itanium 2 processors linked to the zx1 memory and I/O controller through a 200 MHz, double-pumped 128-bit system bus. Total bandwidth on the system bus is 6.4 GB/s.

  • Page 20: Baseboard Management Controller

    EFI images. The EFI system firmware may search the \EFI directory of the EFI system partition, EFI volume, to find possible EFI images that can be loaded. (The HP-UX boot loader is one example of an EFI image.) Baseboard management controller The baseboard management controller provides ease of system management.

  • Page 21: Built For High Availability

    High-availability chassis infrastructure (power and cooling) Fans in the rx5670, rx4640, and rx2600 provide excellent cooling, pulling cool air from the front of the unit, flowing the air back over internal system components, and then discharging heated air out the back of the server.

  • Page 22: Hot-Plug Disk Drives

    Hot-plug disk drives The rx5670 supports up to four SCSI disks, the rx4640 supports up to two, and the rx2600 supports up to three. All disks are accessible from the front of the system and can be removed (or hot-plugged) while the server continues to run.

  • Page 23: Comprehensive Error Logs

    TCP/UDP, and OpenView Operations center (OPC) messaging. Fault management events can be viewed directly on the server, or through HP Insight Manager, which can aggregate information from multiple systems in the data center.

  • Page 24: Added Options With Hp Support

    Organization. In this case, HP can take responsibility for monitoring, filtering, and trending the events and taking action on items that need attention. At the premium end of HP’s Support offerings, customers can also sign up to receive services from HP’s High Availability Observatory (HAO) organization. The HAO provides continuous and proactive monitoring of the customer’s environment via a dedicated and private ISDN network.

  • Page 25: Conclusion

    HP offers a pair of powerful servers based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor and featuring the new HP zx1 Chipset. The rx2600 server utilizes one or two Intel Itanium 2 processors and up to 24 gigabytes of memory;...
  • Page 26 © Copyright 2003 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty.

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