December 2011
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
13h 30m
English
book
Power Systems Enterprise Servers with PowerVM Virtualization and RAS
by Dino Quintero, JinHoon Baek, Guillermo Diez, Hassan Elsetohy, Debra Francis, Bing He, Rajesh Jeyapaul, Anil Kalavakolanu, Tejaswini Kaujalgi, David Kgabo, Ricardo Puig, Vani Ramagiri
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Chapter 2. Exploring RAS and virtualization features in more detail 23
affected components for this function are processors, L2/L3 cache lines, memory, and I/O
adapters.
2.2.3 First Failure Data Capture (FFDC)
IBM Power Systems servers First Failure Data Capture ensures that when a fault is detected
in the system, the root cause is isolated in the first appearance of the problem without
needing any additional tests or reproducing the problem. FFDC relies on built-in checkers to
capture and identify error conditions. FFDC is the technique that is used to check all the
components in the system Central Electronic Complex (CEC): processors, memory buffers,
and I/O controllers.
First Failure Data Capture (FFDC) is a serviceability technique where ...
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