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Software Support
The ATCA-7360 blade can be congured with a variety
of software offerings, from rmware-only to fully
integrated and veried software operating environ-
ments.
FIRMWARE
Firmware-only blade-level support is offered for
customers taking on the integration and verication
responsibilities. It provides all the boot and IPMC
rmware required for an ATCA blade.
The BIOS rmware includes support for:
Unied Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
Power management support, ACPI 3.0b
Multiple boot options including:
cLocal and external hard disks
cOn-board ash disk
cExternal USB boot media
cPXE boot via ATCA base interface
ciSCSI boot via ATCA base interface with operating
systems supporting UEFI
RAID 0/1 support via LSI SAS BIOS extension
Serial redirection of the BIOS console
Serial over LAN of the BIOS console via ATCA base
interface
BIOS upgrade via local host
INTELLIGENT PLATFORM MANAGEMENT CONTROL
The ATCA-7360 features an intelligent platform
management controller (IPMC). The IPMC is a
management subsystem providing monitoring, event
logging, and recovery control. The IPMC serves as the
gateway for management applications to access the
platform hardware. Features include:
Compliance with PICMG 3.0 and IPMI 1.5
Rollback capability or IPMC image upgrade failed
Firmware (BIOS, IPMC, FPGA, FRU) upgradable
from IPMI interface (IPMB) and/or locally, or via
Basic Blade Services (BBS) rmware upgrade utility
Support for serial port redirection over LAN
interface (IPMI 2.0 compliant)
SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS
Red Hat RHEL 5.5 certied
Wind River PNE LE 3.0
Prepared for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008
Compatible with Windows Server 2003 x86
Prepared for VMware ESX/ESXi (requires VGA
module)
To better exploit the CPU and I/O resources of the
blade, RHEL 5.5 supports CPU and I/O virtualization
using XEN/KVM. In addition RHEL 5.5 provides code
for enabling the processor power management to
help enhancing energy efciency of the blade.
Emerson ATCA blades can be congured with optional
software that includes Basic Blade Services. When
integrated in one of the Emerson ATCA Centellis™
platforms, the ATCA-7360 comes complete with, and
is veried with, Wind River PNE 3.0. This distribution
comes with all Linux Support Packages (LSPs) to
support Emerson ATCA blades as well as user applica-
tions. Basic Blades Services (BBS) software is provided
to enable a set of ATCA hardware and software
components into a fully integrated and veried
telecom platform – the Centellis platform. This
platform is ready for customers HA middleware and
application environment.
Basic Blade Services include:
Hardware Platform Management including local
IPMC, LED, E-Keying and blade extraction software
Firmware upgrade utility
Local management access (CLI)
RELEVANT STANDARDS
Linux Foundation
Service Availability Forum™ (SA Forum)
cHardware Platform Interface (HPI) – HPI-B.02
Please check with your local sales contact for availabil-
ity of supported Centellis™ platforms.
Rear Transition Modules
Several RTM variants are available to support different
I/O congurations at the RTM faceplate.
RTM-ATCA-7360 includes:
One (1) USB 2.0 interface
Six (6) Gigabit Ethernet interfaces,
10/100/1000Base-T, RJ-45 connector
Two (2) SAS interfaces, SFF-8470 connector
Disk bay for one (1) hot-swappable hard disk, 2.5”
RTM-ATCA-7360-L includes:
One (1) USB 2.0 interface
Two (2) Gigabit Ethernet interfaces,
10/100/1000Base-T, RJ-45 connector
Two (2) SAS interfaces, SFF-8470 connector
Disk bay for one (1) hot-swappable hard disk, 2.5”