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Notice how carefully the ports and cables are allocated to the virtual I/O server.
Figure 4-2 Setting up the Power7 to provide redundancy
4.2 Hardware planning
Physical hardware planning involves the placement of the hardware components to ensure
that the RAS features, as well as the virtualization features, can be exploited. Certain
reliability features are embedded within the server. There is no need to cater for them. These
reliability features include processes, reliability retries, caches, memory, such as chipkill, and
clock cards. The system takes care of these ...