Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series (PMem) test process

 Hardware environment

S7126GM2NRE, BIOS v1.00, BMC v0.27

CPU: Intel Xeon Platinum 8352Y x2 (32-core, 2.20GHz, 48M Cache, 205W)

Memory#1: Intel Optane PMem DDR4-3200 512GB (Firmware: 2.2.0.1553)

Memory#2: Hynix RDIMM DDR4-2933 32GB

 

OS: Windows Server 2019

Application: PTU v1.2

Memory population

Check DCPM firmware

Test Process:

 

AD Mode (App Direct mode)

1.      Region configuration without any error. Enter BIOS setup menu and then enter “ and then enter “Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Configuration.

2.      Enter “Provisioning” submenu.

3.      Enter “Create goal config” submenu.

4.      Leave all setting at “Default” and select “Create goal config”

5.      Select “Create goal Config” to continue.

6.      When complete, save changes and reset.

7.      Boot into Windows Server 2019 without any error.

 

PmemDisk provision without any error.

1.      Select Windows PowerShell (Admin) and then type the commands as below.

2.      Get-PmemDisk (This should not return anything.)

3.      Get-PmemUnusedRegion (This will report ununsed region. One for each CPU socket. Region 1 is CPU socket 0.)

4.      Get-PmemUnused 1 | New-PmemDisk

 

5.      Get-PmemDisk (This will show Pmem disk, DiskNumber will in very.)

Note: The disk number depends on the system have other HDDs or not. So please refer the response of Get-PmemDisk.

6.      Use “Disk Management” to check

7.      New-Partition –DiskNumber 3 –UseMaximumSize –DriveLetter E (PartitionNumber will in vary.)

8.      Format /q /y /daz E:

9.      Verify the PmemDisk created successfully and check “Disk Management” and “Device Manager” have the “Persistend memory disk(s).

 

 

 

System test

1.      AC on/off the system 10 times without any failure.

2.      DC on/off the system 10 times without any failure.

3.      Reboot the system 10 times without any failure.

 

 

Stress PmemDisk with PTU for 1 hour without any failure.

AD Read and AD Write:

1.      Goto “Edit” => Memory Test Configuration” and then check on the option “Cleanup Pmem temporary files after the test” in “General” submenu.

2.      Select cores for Pmem test and unselect Core 0 and then press “OK”

Hint: Pmem Path is DriveLeteer in New-Partition.

 

3.      Select “Pmem Test” and “AD read”.

4.      Click “3” Graph to momitor.

5.      Click Start Test. Test with 30 minutes without any error.

6.      Select “Pmem Test” and “AD Write”.

7.      Click Start Test. Test with 30 minutes without any error.

Remove Pmem Disk

1.      Select Windows PowerShell (Admin) and then type the commands as below.

2.      Clear-disk –number –RemoveData, then press “y”.

3.      Get-Pmemdisk 3 | Remove-PmemDisk, then press “y”.

4.      Get-PmemDisk to check no more disk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAQ

1.      When there’s a Namespaces exist, you have to remove it before creating a goal.

a.      Enter “Intel Optane DC Persustent Memory Configuration”

b.      Enter “Namespaces” submenu.

c.      Select NamesapceID to delete it.

d.      Select “Delete” and select “Yes” to delete Namespace