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Step 1: Choose a Configuration and Determine Hardware Requirements  



Unlike previous AlphaServer platforms, on the ES47/ES80/GS1280 Galaxy partitions are set up outside the SRM console and there are no environment variables to set.OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3-2 supports the maximum configurations for the AlphaServer systems listed in ES47/ES80/GS1280 Configurations.

Some shared memory and private memory is used for each partition; the minimum amount of memory is as required by OpenVMS.

Table 1   ES47/ES80/GS1280 Configurations
ES47 ES80 GS1280/8 GS1280/16 GS1280/32
2 instances
4 instances with embedded IO
2 instances
4 instances
(4 IO7 ports required)
8 4P instances (8 IO7 ports required)
2, 2P SBBs
4, 2P SBBs
1, 8P SBB
2, 8P SBBs
4, 8P SBBs
4 CPUs
8 CPUs
8 CPUs
16 CPUs
32 CPUs


 
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