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This section provides a description of the AMC124 Routing and Management CPUs and the RMC110 (µRTM). The AMC124 can also be configured as Application CPU cards that may be configured in a DSC 8000 Control Shelf, along with Routing and Management CPUs.
Do not remove both Management CPUs in slots 2 and 13 or Routing CPUs in slots 3 and 12 at the same time. If you remove either the Management CPUs or the Routing CPU in the aforementioned slots, it should be done during a maintenance window. Otherwise, the system may not perform as expected.
When replacing a RMC110 µRTM or installing a new AMC124 CPU and an RMC110 µRTM, ensure that you have the RTM with the appropriate number of SSDs.
The Slot Monitor software that resides on the Management CPU cards helps you through the process of inserting or extracting a card, including hot-swapping system cards [refer to DSC 8000 Servicing Field Replaceable Units (FRUs)]. Whenever you are inserting or extracting a system card, the Slot Monitor sends a card insert or extract request to the appropriate managing software on the respective card and to all the applications that are connected to this card. When the applications have acknowledged the request, the card’s managing software ensures that all processes are stopped.
The AMC124 is an AdvancedMC™ (AMC) single board computer that is based on the 64-bit Quad-Core Intel®Xeon® LC5528 2.13 GHz processor, and is designed to run very high performance applications that require multi-threaded operations, large amounts of memory, and/or storage access.
The AMC124 is presented as a double-wide, mid-size (148.8 x 28.95 x 181.5 mm) form factor, and complies with a variety of PICMG specifications (AMC124 Faceplate and RMC110 μRTM Faceplate show the physical connections to the AMC671 and RMC670 [µRTM), respectively].
I/O functions for this card are provided by the RMC110 µRTM, see RMC110 (µRTM).
The AMC124 can be hot-swap serviced without the need to remove cabling on the RMC110 μRTM.
This card can be used as a Management or Routing CPU in the DSC 8000 and can be placed in the following slots in the DSC 8000 chassis:
AMC124 Faceplate
The RMC110 MicroTCA.4 Rear Transition Module (μRTM) provides I/O connectivity to the Routing and Management CPUs (see the following figure).
The RMC110 μRTM is double-wide, mid-size (148.8 x 28.95 x 181.5 mm) card that complies with PICMG specifications MicroTCA.1 and MicroTCA.4. This card is an independent hot-swappable device.
The DSC is designed to provide the following storage on the RMC110 μRTM:
Management CPU μRTMs
RMC110 μRTM Faceplate