Starfire DR-Detach Details
The software mechanism by which Dynamic Reconfiguration reduces resources available to the operating system is called detaching (see FIGURE 8-8).
Figure 8-8. DR-Detaching a Single System Board from a DSD
The DR-Detach process requires you to do strategic planning because it reduces the overall CPU and memory resources available to the DSD, and it may involve removing I/O interfaces that are critical to the operation of the machine. Before removing a system board, it is critical that all on-board I/O devices be closed since I/O drivers will fail to detach when an application has open device instances.
Note that removing ...
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