1 NS2300 System Overview
The characteristics of a NS2300 system are:
Intel® Itanium® / NSE-AGProcessor / Processor Model
42U and 36URack
16 GB, 32 GB, or 48 GBMain memory
2 or 4 (4 processor maximum)Supported processor configurations
Supported CLuster I/O Modules (CLIMs)
• Storage CLIMs
• IP CLIMs for Ethernet
• Telco CLIMs for Ethernet (M3UA protocol)
Up to 6 CLIMs using these possible combinations:Maximum CLIMs
• Up to 4 Storage CLIMs (two pairs)
• Up to 2 IP CLIMs if there are 0 Telco CLIMs
• Up to 2 Telco CLIMs if there are 0 IP CLIMs
Minimum CLIMs
• 0 IP CLIMs
• 0 Telco CLIMs
• 2 Storage CLIMs
A Storage CLIM pair supports a maximum of 4 SAS disk
enclosures (applies to all Storage CLIMs)
Maximum SAS disk enclosures
100 per Storage CLIM pairMaximum SAS disk drives
2 required (one each for X and Y fabrics)Maximum VIO enclosures
4 embedded Ethernet ports (one port is reserved for OSM)Maximum embedded Ethernet connectivity per VIO
enclosure
4 optional expanded Ethernet ports (copper/optical)Maximum expanded Ethernet connectivity per VIO
enclosure (optional)
Supported via Storage CLIMEnterprise Storage System (ESS) support
Not supportedFibre Channel to SCSI router support
Not supportedI/O Adapter Module (IOAM) enclosures
Not supportedFibre Channel disk modules (FCDMs)
Not supportedConnection to NonStop ServerNet Clusters
Not supportedConnection to NonStop S-series I/O
NS2300 standard and optional hardware describes the NS2300 system hardware. Because
NS2300 systems offer flexibility in how hardware is distributed in the rack, configurations can
vary. Figure 1 shows an example configuration.
8 NS2300 System Overview
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