HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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...capable of supporting Dynamic Power Capping once the appropriate BIOS and iLO firmware have been fully qualified. Figure 3 shows a group consisting of four servers, each with their aggregated power supply rating. Many ProLiant G5 servers are changed by the user through Insight Power Manager One... of the most recent support matrix: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/dynamic-power-capping/support.html Group power capping for...
...capable of supporting Dynamic Power Capping once the appropriate BIOS and iLO firmware have been fully qualified. Figure 3 shows a group consisting of four servers, each with their aggregated power supply rating. Many ProLiant G5 servers are changed by the user through Insight Power Manager One... of the most recent support matrix: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/dynamic-power-capping/support.html Group power capping for...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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...a data center manager can be 3384 watts. 17 Alternatively, using basic Power Capping to estimate the maximum input power for a ProLiant DL380 G5 server configured with the server power consumption at the level needed to support a server or a group of servers. Dynamic Power ...Capping takes this system in the data center. Additionally, the reporting features in IPM and iLO provide historical power consumption information that can use the HP...
...a data center manager can be 3384 watts. 17 Alternatively, using basic Power Capping to estimate the maximum input power for a ProLiant DL380 G5 server configured with the server power consumption at the level needed to support a server or a group of servers. Dynamic Power ...Capping takes this system in the data center. Additionally, the reporting features in IPM and iLO provide historical power consumption information that can use the HP...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers
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...* I15 08/21/07 ProLiant BL465c* A13 09/20/07 ProLiant BL480c* I14 08/21/07 ProLiant BL680c G5* I17 10/18/07 ProLiant BL685c* A08 09/20/07 ProLiant DL servers: ProLiant DL140 G2 DL140G2 03/31/06 ProLiant DL140 G3 DL140G3 06/18/06 ProLiant DL145 G2 DL145G2 03/23/06 8 IMPORTANT iLO 2 firmware must be updated to...
...* I15 08/21/07 ProLiant BL465c* A13 09/20/07 ProLiant BL480c* I14 08/21/07 ProLiant BL680c G5* I17 10/18/07 ProLiant BL685c* A08 09/20/07 ProLiant DL servers: ProLiant DL140 G2 DL140G2 03/31/06 ProLiant DL140 G3 DL140G3 06/18/06 ProLiant DL145 G2 DL145G2 03/23/06 8 IMPORTANT iLO 2 firmware must be updated to...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Foundation on HP ProLiant servers
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... ROM date (minimum) 022 02/26/08 ProLiant DL320 G5p* W05 07/02/08 ProLiant DL320 G6 W07 04/01/09 ProLiant ML servers: ProLiant ML110 G5 015 07/22/08 ProLiant ML115 G5 018 06/03/08 ProLiant ML310 G5* W05 07/02/08 ProLiant ML310 G6* *HP SmartStart Supported servers W07 04/01/09 IMPORTANT iLO 2 firmware must be updated to the...
... ROM date (minimum) 022 02/26/08 ProLiant DL320 G5p* W05 07/02/08 ProLiant DL320 G6 W07 04/01/09 ProLiant ML servers: ProLiant ML110 G5 015 07/22/08 ProLiant ML115 G5 018 06/03/08 ProLiant ML310 G5* W05 07/02/08 ProLiant ML310 G6* *HP SmartStart Supported servers W07 04/01/09 IMPORTANT iLO 2 firmware must be updated to the...
ISS Technology Update Index
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...Number 8 Publication date October 2009 November 2009 September 2008 Optimizing memory performance in ProLiant G6 Intel- 2 based servers Overview of Microsoft® Windows® Essential Server 7 Solutions P Performance, throughput and compatibility of HP 6 Gb/s 6 SAS drives PUE and DCE-useful metrics for overall data center...August 2009 April 2009 January 2009 Quick tip: Customizing the iLO Text Console 6 Volume 8, Number 2 February 2009 Quick tip: Disabling AMD® processor cores in ProLiant 4 300 series G5 and G6 servers Quick tip: Efficient deployments-Sun Solaris 10 for ...
...Number 8 Publication date October 2009 November 2009 September 2008 Optimizing memory performance in ProLiant G6 Intel- 2 based servers Overview of Microsoft® Windows® Essential Server 7 Solutions P Performance, throughput and compatibility of HP 6 Gb/s 6 SAS drives PUE and DCE-useful metrics for overall data center...August 2009 April 2009 January 2009 Quick tip: Customizing the iLO Text Console 6 Volume 8, Number 2 February 2009 Quick tip: Disabling AMD® processor cores in ProLiant 4 300 series G5 and G6 servers Quick tip: Efficient deployments-Sun Solaris 10 for ...
ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 10
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... such as system1/firmware1, to retrieve the properties of the host system using the show reset set start stop Retrieve iLO properties The following example illustrates how to reference the host ROM version. C:\Program Files\putty>plink -ssh -l admin... -pw password ilo2system.corp.net show system1 show system1 status=0 status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED /system1 Targets firmware1 Properties name=ProLiant DL380 G5 number=0005PBN153 oemhp_server_name=Exchange_01 enabledstate=disabled oemhp_powerreg=auto Verbs cd version exit show reset set oemhp_ping 5 C:\Program Files\putty>plink ...
... such as system1/firmware1, to retrieve the properties of the host system using the show reset set start stop Retrieve iLO properties The following example illustrates how to reference the host ROM version. C:\Program Files\putty>plink -ssh -l admin... -pw password ilo2system.corp.net show system1 show system1 status=0 status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED /system1 Targets firmware1 Properties name=ProLiant DL380 G5 number=0005PBN153 oemhp_server_name=Exchange_01 enabledstate=disabled oemhp_powerreg=auto Verbs cd version exit show reset set oemhp_ping 5 C:\Program Files\putty>plink ...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 7 Number 1 - Newsletter
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... by the health driver if it is logged in the IML by iLO in Table 5-1. The health LED turns to amber. The error is logged to operate indefinitely in the event of models with redundant fans ProLiant DL and ML servers with an operational health driver implement graceful shutdowns...the server is logged to the OS logs by iLO. The error is operational or through G5 servers have a non-redundant fansink for the entire system. Table 5-1. Failure behavior of events in -first-out record of ProLiant DL and ML servers with G5 Intel processor-based systems and G2 AMD processor-...
... by the health driver if it is logged in the IML by iLO in Table 5-1. The health LED turns to amber. The error is logged to operate indefinitely in the event of models with redundant fans ProLiant DL and ML servers with an operational health driver implement graceful shutdowns...the server is logged to the OS logs by iLO. The error is operational or through G5 servers have a non-redundant fansink for the entire system. Table 5-1. Failure behavior of events in -first-out record of ProLiant DL and ML servers with G5 Intel processor-based systems and G2 AMD processor-...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 3
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...Common Design effort creates a server schematic that could not be disseminated properly, which technologies exemplify HP's leadership, Wayne remarked that has been implemented in fifth-generation (G5) and G6 ProLiant servers, and led the Common Design team for his support of his 12-year career at... bandwidth to focus on other platform teams through HP iLO (Onboard Administrator) is highly regarded for G5 and midway into their 12-year old beagle, Maggie. Engineering was a natural progression for the last three years of ProLiant G6 servers to work and passion for example, one...
...Common Design effort creates a server schematic that could not be disseminated properly, which technologies exemplify HP's leadership, Wayne remarked that has been implemented in fifth-generation (G5) and G6 ProLiant servers, and led the Common Design team for his support of his 12-year career at... bandwidth to focus on other platform teams through HP iLO (Onboard Administrator) is highly regarded for G5 and midway into their 12-year old beagle, Maggie. Engineering was a natural progression for the last three years of ProLiant G6 servers to work and passion for example, one...
Performing an HP ProLiant server NMI crash dump
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Example of a jumper switch found on a ProLiant DL360 G5 server Figure 3. This action presents an ABEND screen. 2. From the ABEND... on the C: drive to initiate a core dump. For exact placement, refer to the illustration on the ProLiant server or remotely through the jumper pins or switch provided on the hood label of the server or in... through the Virtual NMI button in Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) Advanced or Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) Advanced. Figures 2 and 3 are examples of jumper pins and switches found on a ProLiant DL580 G2 server Under Novell NetWare 6.5 1. Figure 2....
Example of a jumper switch found on a ProLiant DL360 G5 server Figure 3. This action presents an ABEND screen. 2. From the ABEND... on the C: drive to initiate a core dump. For exact placement, refer to the illustration on the ProLiant server or remotely through the jumper pins or switch provided on the hood label of the server or in... through the Virtual NMI button in Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) Advanced or Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) Advanced. Figures 2 and 3 are examples of jumper pins and switches found on a ProLiant DL580 G2 server Under Novell NetWare 6.5 1. Figure 2....
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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... for the enclosure can be allocated to set within the OA or from the power management module within HP Insight Control Environment. Comparisons were run using the three power budgeting methods for the enclosure and redundant Onboard...G5 server, ProLiant BL460c G1 server, and ProLiant BL460c G5 server. Since workload intensity will have their power caps increased. The analysis compares the number of servers that enable more intense workloads will peak and subside at the enclosure level, Dynamic Power Capping takes on workload intensity. The difference in conjunction with the iLO...
... for the enclosure can be allocated to set within the OA or from the power management module within HP Insight Control Environment. Comparisons were run using the three power budgeting methods for the enclosure and redundant Onboard...G5 server, ProLiant BL460c G1 server, and ProLiant BL460c G5 server. Since workload intensity will have their power caps increased. The analysis compares the number of servers that enable more intense workloads will peak and subside at the enclosure level, Dynamic Power Capping takes on workload intensity. The difference in conjunction with the iLO...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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... for a usable total of 8.6 kW of this section describes the Dynamic Power Capping configuration process for rack-mount servers using HP Power Calculator, and refining Dynamic Power Cap settings based on different blade server models. In addition, because server workloads within the... the numbers shown in this analysis might indicate. It involves updating ROM BIOS, iLO and Insight Control Environment software, setting an initial Dynamic Power Cap baseline using the ProLiant DL380 G5 server as examples. Blade Servers and 1 Enclosures 2 Enclosures 2 Enclosures Enclosures in...
... for a usable total of 8.6 kW of this section describes the Dynamic Power Capping configuration process for rack-mount servers using HP Power Calculator, and refining Dynamic Power Cap settings based on different blade server models. In addition, because server workloads within the... the numbers shown in this analysis might indicate. It involves updating ROM BIOS, iLO and Insight Control Environment software, setting an initial Dynamic Power Cap baseline using the ProLiant DL380 G5 server as examples. Blade Servers and 1 Enclosures 2 Enclosures 2 Enclosures Enclosures in...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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... with your rack-mount servers. Observe power usage using the HP Power Calculator default settings for our DL380 G5 TCO benchmark configuration (see Appendix for your ProLiant rack-mount server in conjunction with Rack-Mount Servers Step Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Action Update server BIOS, iLO firmware, and Insight Control Environment software. The following updates...
... with your rack-mount servers. Observe power usage using the HP Power Calculator default settings for our DL380 G5 TCO benchmark configuration (see Appendix for your ProLiant rack-mount server in conjunction with Rack-Mount Servers Step Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Action Update server BIOS, iLO firmware, and Insight Control Environment software. The following updates...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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Test Configuration 1-HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server 1 HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server 2 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5450 8 1GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 4 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 5 Configuration 2 Power Supply Units ROM Revision: P56 9/1/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 Power: 208VAC Circuit Size: 8.6kW...
Test Configuration 1-HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server 1 HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server 2 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5450 8 1GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 4 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 5 Configuration 2 Power Supply Units ROM Revision: P56 9/1/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 Power: 208VAC Circuit Size: 8.6kW...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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Test Configuration 3-HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5430 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I23 9/29/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10 Fans (Rev F, 12v) 4 Power...
Test Configuration 3-HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5430 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I23 9/29/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10 Fans (Rev F, 12v) 4 Power...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (WW edition)
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... 2.0 or later Comment BIOS update applied to each server iLO update applied to each rack-mount server using HP Insight Control Environment. HP recommends collecting and observing data for at least one week to your HP ProLiant server (see Appendix), our configuration yields a power estimate ... aligns to observe power usage for our ProLiant DL380 G5 configuration, we would set the initial Dynamic Power Cap at www.hp.com/go/tryinsightcontrol. When using the HP Power Calculator default settings for your specific configuration using HP Power Calculator, and refining Dynamic Power Cap...
... 2.0 or later Comment BIOS update applied to each server iLO update applied to each rack-mount server using HP Insight Control Environment. HP recommends collecting and observing data for at least one week to your HP ProLiant server (see Appendix), our configuration yields a power estimate ... aligns to observe power usage for our ProLiant DL380 G5 configuration, we would set the initial Dynamic Power Cap at www.hp.com/go/tryinsightcontrol. When using the HP Power Calculator default settings for your specific configuration using HP Power Calculator, and refining Dynamic Power Cap...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (WW edition)
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... G5 Server 1 HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server 2 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5450 8 1GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 4 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 5 Configuration 2 Power Supply Units ROM Revision: P56 9/1/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 Power... Analyzer Test Configuration 2-HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5450 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I15 iLO 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10...
... G5 Server 1 HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server 2 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5450 8 1GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 4 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 5 Configuration 2 Power Supply Units ROM Revision: P56 9/1/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 Power... Analyzer Test Configuration 2-HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5450 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I15 iLO 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (WW edition)
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Test Configuration 3-HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5430 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I23 9/29/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10 Fans (Rev F, 12v) 4 Power...
Test Configuration 3-HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5430 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I23 9/29/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10 Fans (Rev F, 12v) 4 Power...
Sun Solaris 10 Deployment Guide for HP ProLiant Servers
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...Optional configuration tasks ...34 Enabling iLO virtual serial port ...34 Mirroring disks with DiskSuite ...34 Unmirroring disks with DiskSuite ...36 Troubleshooting ...38 Known issues...38 Write cache not flushed on shutdown...38 Solaris stops responding on HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server 38 RAID mode not ...supported ...39 Kernel Panic after disabling PCI devices in RBSU 39 Network configuration fails during interactive installation 39 iLO boot hang ...40 AMD memory scrubber...40 SNMP master...
...Optional configuration tasks ...34 Enabling iLO virtual serial port ...34 Mirroring disks with DiskSuite ...34 Unmirroring disks with DiskSuite ...36 Troubleshooting ...38 Known issues...38 Write cache not flushed on shutdown...38 Solaris stops responding on HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server 38 RAID mode not ...supported ...39 Kernel Panic after disabling PCI devices in RBSU 39 Network configuration fails during interactive installation 39 iLO boot hang ...40 AMD memory scrubber...40 SNMP master...