Appliance Hardware Platforms
BMC Atrium Discovery is no longer supplied on physical platforms, it is supplied as a virtual appliance which is described in the Virtual Appliance section, or as a kickstart DVD which can be installed onto your own hardware.
The BMC Atrium Discovery appliance platforms are:
- Dell PowerEdge R710
- HP ProLiant DL380 G6 (Intel)
- Other x86-64 based hardware that is supported by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (64-bit only). Your hardware must equal or exceed the specification of the HP Proliant DL380 G6 hardware previously shipped as a hardware appliance.
A facility for installation on a 32 bit machine is not available.
The HP ProLiant DL380 G6 is no longer produced by Hewlett Packard.
Links to the relevant sites are provided below:
BMC Atrium Discovery Production Specification
The current preferred and previous hardware platforms are described below.
Note, only servers can be used in a production environment. Workstations and laptops are not up to production specification.
Current preferred hardware platform
The production specification for the Dell PowerEdge R710 appliance is shown in the table below. This is the preferred production appliance hardware. If you are installing BMC Atrium Discovery from a kickstart DVD using the dellr710 option, this specification must be used.
Component |
Description |
|---|---|
Server |
Dell PowerEdge R710 |
Chassis |
2U Standard Rack Mount |
CPU |
2 x Intel Xeon E5620 Processor (2.40GHz, 4C, 12M Cache, 5.86 GT/s QPI, 80W TDP,Turbo, HT, DDR3-1066MHz) or better. |
RAM |
Dell 24GB Memory for 2CPU (6x4GB Dual Rank LV RDIMMs) 1333MHz or better. |
Disk Controller |
PERC H700 Integrated RAID Controller, 512MB NV Cache, For x8 Backplane |
Disks |
2 x 146GB SAS 6Gbps 10k 2.5" HD Hot Plug – RAID1 configuration for the Operating System and Applications. |
Power Supply |
2 x High Output Redundant Power Supply 870W, Performance BIOS Setting. |
Older hardware platform
The production specification for the HP ProLiant DL380 G6 appliance is shown in the table below. If you are installing BMC Atrium Discovery from a kickstart DVD using the hpdl380g6 option, this specification must be used.
Component |
Description |
|---|---|
Server |
HP ProLiant DL380 G6 |
Chassis |
2U Standard Rack Mount |
CPU |
2 x Intel Xeon E5520 2.26GHz (8MB Intel Smart Cache) or better. |
RAM |
HP 18GB PC3-10600 (3x4GB & 3x2GB Kits DDR3-1333) or better. |
Disk Controller |
HP SFF SAS |
Disks |
2 x 146GB SAS 10,000rpm – RAID1 configuration for the Operating System and Applications. |
Power Supply |
2 x Hot Swap Redundant Power Supply 460W 12 Volt. |
The virtual appliance is also used in production. See Virtual Appliance delivery for more information.
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