Case Study: Recovering from Memory Faults
In this case study, the system administrator, Bill Landis, is responsible for maintaining system availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the Silicon Valley Hospital's billing system. Based on past experience, he wants a system for which system components, such as CPU and memory, can be replaced without the need to bring down the system. Bill has a Sun Enterprise 10000 server, which has dynamic reconfiguration capabilities. To take advantage of Sun's dynamic reconfiguration, Bill is configuring his system memory so that it can be taken offline and replaced in the event of a board failure.
Verifying Configuration
The system's real memory is divided into memory banks, which become ineligible for dynamic ...
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