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SPARC M8 and SPARC M7 Servers Installation Guide

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Updated: September 2017
 
 

SPARC M8-8 and SPARC M7-8 Servers DCUs

A SPARC M8-8 or SPARC M7-8 server factory-configured as one PDomain contains a single DCU containing up to eight CMIOUs. A SPARC M8-8 or SPARC M7-8 server factory-configured as two PDomains contains two DCUs, and each DCU contains up to four CMIOUs. Each CMIOU contains 1 processor, 16 DIMM slots, and 3 PCIe expansion slots.

While you cannot reconfigure the DCUs in SPARC M8-8 or SPARC M7-8 servers like you can in SPARC M7-16 servers, you will see the DCU term in the Oracle ILOM user interface and in system messages.

image:Figure showing the SPARC M8-8 and SPARC M7-8 server DCUs.

Each DCU can contain the following CMIOUs.

DCU
Available CMIOUs
SPARC M8-8 server (One PDomain)
DCU0
CMIOU0, CMIOU1, CMIOU2, CMIOU3, CMIOU4, CMIOU5, CMIOU6, CMIOU7
SPARC M8-8 server (Two PDomains)
DCU0
CMIOU0, CMIOU1, CMIOU2, CMIOU3
DCU1
CMIOU4, CMIOU5, CMIOU6, CMIOU7
SPARC M7-8 server (One PDomain)
DCU0
CMIOU0, CMIOU1, CMIOU2, CMIOU3, CMIOU4, CMIOU5, CMIOU6, CMIOU7
SPARC M7-8 server (Two PDomains)
DCU0
CMIOU0, CMIOU1, CMIOU2, CMIOU3
DCU1
CMIOU4, CMIOU5, CMIOU6, CMIOU7

Note -  Both the SPARC M8-8 and SPARC M7-8 servers capable of two PDomains can contain a DCU0 fully-populated with CMIOUs and an empty DCU1. In this configuration, DCU1 would be available for future expansion.

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