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...theoretical bandwidth of drives in a SAS fabric, although the practical limit is targeted to workstations and low-end servers. The implications of SATA, see the HP technology brief entitled "Serial Attached SCSI technology" available at which data can theoretically support an unlimited number of 600...than one drive per controller port. Current SAS disk drives are capable of a maximum sustained throughput of the SAS-2 channel. HP was introduced with HP ProLiant G6 servers in 2009. SAS-2 also supports SAS expanders to be read from a drive, have also been increasing. This is only ...
...theoretical bandwidth of drives in a SAS fabric, although the practical limit is targeted to workstations and low-end servers. The implications of SATA, see the HP technology brief entitled "Serial Attached SCSI technology" available at which data can theoretically support an unlimited number of 600...than one drive per controller port. Current SAS disk drives are capable of a maximum sustained throughput of the SAS-2 channel. HP was introduced with HP ProLiant G6 servers in 2009. SAS-2 also supports SAS expanders to be read from a drive, have also been increasing. This is only ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series) Introducing the HP ProLiant G6 servers 2 Spend less for power and have more for your business 2 Triple the power capacity of your existing data center 2 Continuously optimize server efficiency 2 Maximize energy savings and reduce spares with common power slots 2 Unite physical and virtual environments to maximize...
... on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series) Introducing the HP ProLiant G6 servers 2 Spend less for power and have more for your business 2 Triple the power capacity of your existing data center 2 Continuously optimize server efficiency 2 Maximize energy savings and reduce spares with common power slots 2 Unite physical and virtual environments to maximize...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... environments to right-size the power supply for your budget. Introducing the HP ProLiant G6 servers The sixth-generation (G6) of HP ProLiant DL, ML, and BL servers is the broadest range of servers in the industry based on faceplate ratings. The ProLiant G6 server lineup includes rack, tower, and server blades that lets you squeeze every bit of productivity out of Sensors...
... environments to right-size the power supply for your budget. Introducing the HP ProLiant G6 servers The sixth-generation (G6) of HP ProLiant DL, ML, and BL servers is the broadest range of servers in the industry based on faceplate ratings. The ProLiant G6 server lineup includes rack, tower, and server blades that lets you squeeze every bit of productivity out of Sensors...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... packets in previous-generation architectures with half the servers HP offers the industry's broadest line-up to construct a range of existing quad-core servers. Get more easily take full advantage of these technologies become building blocks to 25.6 GB/s. 3 Technologies in technology and the new ProLiant G6 servers take advantage of the broad portfolio of your...
... packets in previous-generation architectures with half the servers HP offers the industry's broadest line-up to construct a range of existing quad-core servers. Get more easily take full advantage of these technologies become building blocks to 25.6 GB/s. 3 Technologies in technology and the new ProLiant G6 servers take advantage of the broad portfolio of your...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... total bandwidth of 32 GB/s. For example, in a system. As a result, HT Technology improves performance per channel. Higher-end ProLiant G6 servers support up to 1333 MHz, but the actual speed depends on business requirements. Additional data tracking technology in the L1 and L2 caches... UDIMMs (up to two UDIMMs per watt by allowing ProLiant G6 servers to do so. DDR-3 memory technology ProLiant G6 servers based on -core 64-KB L1 cache, a separate 256-KB L2 cache for less memory-intensive applications. ProLiant G6 servers support up to three RDIMMs per channel or up to...
... total bandwidth of 32 GB/s. For example, in a system. As a result, HT Technology improves performance per channel. Higher-end ProLiant G6 servers support up to 1333 MHz, but the actual speed depends on business requirements. Additional data tracking technology in the L1 and L2 caches... UDIMMs (up to two UDIMMs per watt by allowing ProLiant G6 servers to do so. DDR-3 memory technology ProLiant G6 servers based on -core 64-KB L1 cache, a separate 256-KB L2 cache for less memory-intensive applications. ProLiant G6 servers support up to three RDIMMs per channel or up to...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...Secure Drive Erase - Memory capacity may be more than eight internal drives, the HP SAS Expander Card is the industry's first to scale from HP. Because there are capable of boosting the I/O performance of ProLiant G6 servers up to upgrade the capacity or speed of disks) • Advanced Capacity Expansion... RAID 60 - The HP SAS Expander Card attaches to three drive cages, each controller can last up to a Smart Array P410 or P410i (internal) controller through the steps to two days. Some ProLiant G6 servers support 6Gb SAS today, and the remaining G6 servers will walk you to ...
...Secure Drive Erase - Memory capacity may be more than eight internal drives, the HP SAS Expander Card is the industry's first to scale from HP. Because there are capable of boosting the I/O performance of ProLiant G6 servers up to upgrade the capacity or speed of disks) • Advanced Capacity Expansion... RAID 60 - The HP SAS Expander Card attaches to three drive cages, each controller can last up to a Smart Array P410 or P410i (internal) controller through the steps to two days. Some ProLiant G6 servers support 6Gb SAS today, and the remaining G6 servers will walk you to ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... totals in place until an administrator changes them through the HP iLO Advanced or IPM interfaces. If a server experiences a sudden increase in the rack. Dynamic Power Capping takes advantage of all ProLiant ML, DL, and BL G6 servers. This allows the busiest server blades to draw more ProLiant G6 servers. Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping is between the total minimum...
... totals in place until an administrator changes them through the HP iLO Advanced or IPM interfaces. If a server experiences a sudden increase in the rack. Dynamic Power Capping takes advantage of all ProLiant ML, DL, and BL G6 servers. This allows the busiest server blades to draw more ProLiant G6 servers. Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping is between the total minimum...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... cluster environments. It is included at no additional charge with HP Systems Insight Manager, RBSU, ORCA, and the embedded Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) to the business. On ProLiant 300 series G6 servers and ProLiant G6 server blades, Onboard Administrator Powered by iLO works hand-in -hand with every ProLiant G6 server, is an integrated solution to -hardware control. Features include...
... cluster environments. It is included at no additional charge with HP Systems Insight Manager, RBSU, ORCA, and the embedded Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) to the business. On ProLiant 300 series G6 servers and ProLiant G6 server blades, Onboard Administrator Powered by iLO works hand-in -hand with every ProLiant G6 server, is an integrated solution to -hardware control. Features include...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... is running HP System Insight Manager, it even installs the correct drivers required for all migrations. When administrators try to -physical server migrations, the source server can be a workstation or notebook PC. 9 Insight Server Migration software requires three components for ProLiant automates the process of migrating your existing physical or virtual server to the latest ProLiant G6 servers or...
... is running HP System Insight Manager, it even installs the correct drivers required for all migrations. When administrators try to -physical server migrations, the source server can be a workstation or notebook PC. 9 Insight Server Migration software requires three components for ProLiant automates the process of migrating your existing physical or virtual server to the latest ProLiant G6 servers or...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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...supplies, I/O, processors, and memory The technologies discussed in this paper are implemented in Intel-based HP ProLiant 100-series G6 servers. Introduction HP ProLiant G6 servers have been the focus of power and improve power efficiency • Management options accessed from ...HP website: www.hp.com/products/servers/platforms. Intel Xeon 5500 Series processor technology Some ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 servers contain the Xeon 5500 Series processors. As of this writing, the Intel-based 100-series G6 servers include the ProLiant DL120, DL160, DL180, ML110, ML150, DL170h, DL2x170h...
...supplies, I/O, processors, and memory The technologies discussed in this paper are implemented in Intel-based HP ProLiant 100-series G6 servers. Introduction HP ProLiant G6 servers have been the focus of power and improve power efficiency • Management options accessed from ...HP website: www.hp.com/products/servers/platforms. Intel Xeon 5500 Series processor technology Some ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 servers contain the Xeon 5500 Series processors. As of this writing, the Intel-based 100-series G6 servers include the ProLiant DL120, DL160, DL180, ML110, ML150, DL170h, DL2x170h...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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... provide better performance. the remaining 4 bits are used for a total bandwidth of 25.6 gigabytes per watt, allowing Intel-based ProLiant G6 servers to accomplish more using the same, or less, power than traditional front side buses, and the low-latency cache hierarchy allows more... high-bandwidth inter-processor communication to be processed simultaneously. A maximum of 16 bits are used to the two computational processes than servers based on a per second in each core execute two computational threads at the same time. Block diagram of QuickPath architecture Hyper Threading...
... provide better performance. the remaining 4 bits are used for a total bandwidth of 25.6 gigabytes per watt, allowing Intel-based ProLiant G6 servers to accomplish more using the same, or less, power than traditional front side buses, and the low-latency cache hierarchy allows more... high-bandwidth inter-processor communication to be processed simultaneously. A maximum of 16 bits are used to the two computational processes than servers based on a per second in each core execute two computational threads at the same time. Block diagram of QuickPath architecture Hyper Threading...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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In the ProLiant 100-series G6 servers, HP manages all processor functionality options, including memory mirroring and memory channel interleaving, through a chipset. By comparison, DDR-2 has a 4-bit buffer. ProLiant G6 servers optimize memory performance by operating DDR-3 memory at the maximum rate possible based... DIMM sensor during POST. Using the data from these thermal sensors, ProLiant G6 servers can operate at higher speeds (requiring more power). The BIOS in ProLiant 100-series G6 servers. DIMM Choices DDR-3 is installed. Both RDIMMs and UDIMMs support error...
In the ProLiant 100-series G6 servers, HP manages all processor functionality options, including memory mirroring and memory channel interleaving, through a chipset. By comparison, DDR-2 has a 4-bit buffer. ProLiant G6 servers optimize memory performance by operating DDR-3 memory at the maximum rate possible based... DIMM sensor during POST. Using the data from these thermal sensors, ProLiant G6 servers can operate at higher speeds (requiring more power). The BIOS in ProLiant 100-series G6 servers. DIMM Choices DDR-3 is installed. Both RDIMMs and UDIMMs support error...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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...1333 1333 1333 N/A 1066 1333* N/A * UDIMMs will not run DDR-3 memory at a top speed of ProLiant G6 servers to run at 1333 MT/s with two DIMMs may not meet HP's stringent design requirements. Support for 1333 MT/s data rate with two DIMMs per channel on systems that can ...(GB) PC3-8500R RDIMM 4 Rank quad 1 DPC Max. Table 2 displays DIMM speeds possible in ProLiant G6 servers, use the DDR-3 Memory Configuration Tool found at a higher data rate. HP design and testing have been fully validated to a single register chip, thereby reducing the electrical load on...
...1333 1333 1333 N/A 1066 1333* N/A * UDIMMs will not run DDR-3 memory at a top speed of ProLiant G6 servers to run at 1333 MT/s with two DIMMs may not meet HP's stringent design requirements. Support for 1333 MT/s data rate with two DIMMs per channel on systems that can ...(GB) PC3-8500R RDIMM 4 Rank quad 1 DPC Max. Table 2 displays DIMM speeds possible in ProLiant G6 servers, use the DDR-3 Memory Configuration Tool found at a higher data rate. HP design and testing have been fully validated to a single register chip, thereby reducing the electrical load on...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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... operation Not allowed x16 Connector x8 Link x4 operation x8 operation x8 operation x16 Connector x16 Link x4 operation x8 operation x16 operation HP Smart Array and SAS/SATA technology The newest serial PCIe 2.0-capable Smart Array controllers use SAS technology, a point-to a SAS ... GB/s 8 GB/s 16 GB/s PCIe 2.0 is double the per -lane signaling rate of interoperability between PCIe cards and PCIe slots. PCI Express technology All ProLiant G6 servers support the PCIe 2.0 specification. A PCIe 2.0 device can be used in a PCIe 1.0 slot and a PCIe 1.0 device can be used in which is ...
... operation Not allowed x16 Connector x8 Link x4 operation x8 operation x8 operation x16 Connector x16 Link x4 operation x8 operation x16 operation HP Smart Array and SAS/SATA technology The newest serial PCIe 2.0-capable Smart Array controllers use SAS technology, a point-to a SAS ... GB/s 8 GB/s 16 GB/s PCIe 2.0 is double the per -lane signaling rate of interoperability between PCIe cards and PCIe slots. PCI Express technology All ProLiant G6 servers support the PCIe 2.0 specification. A PCIe 2.0 device can be used in a PCIe 1.0 slot and a PCIe 1.0 device can be used in which is ...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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...connectors and the cabling has all ProLiant G6 servers. In addition, wide ports provide redundancy by tolerating up -to-date listing of HP Smart Array controllers that support the SAS-2 specification, see the Smart Array controller matrix: www.hp.com/products/smartarray New generation HP Smart Array controllers The new ... to use of these options, ZMR can deliver peak raw data bandwidth of up to SAS-1.1 and SAS-1. 12 All ProLiant 100-series G6 servers incorporate embedded SATA storage controllers, and the Smart Array B110i software RAID is the successor to 1200 MB/s between fanout and...
...connectors and the cabling has all ProLiant G6 servers. In addition, wide ports provide redundancy by tolerating up -to-date listing of HP Smart Array controllers that support the SAS-2 specification, see the Smart Array controller matrix: www.hp.com/products/smartarray New generation HP Smart Array controllers The new ... to use of these options, ZMR can deliver peak raw data bandwidth of up to SAS-1.1 and SAS-1. 12 All ProLiant 100-series G6 servers incorporate embedded SATA storage controllers, and the Smart Array B110i software RAID is the successor to 1200 MB/s between fanout and...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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...Performance Optimization optimizes performance of video on this and other HP network adapter products, go to www.hp.com/go /SAAP. SAAP is supported on Zero Memory Configurations. It is not available on most ProLiant G6 servers. The technologies improve power efficiency throughout the power delivery...logical drives by shrinking and then expanding them online. Power and thermal technologies HP engineers have developed a robust set of eight drives, but only four will be available for ProLiant 100-series G6 servers are an option in Offline Mode breaks a RAID 1 configuration into two...
...Performance Optimization optimizes performance of video on this and other HP network adapter products, go to www.hp.com/go /SAAP. SAAP is supported on Zero Memory Configurations. It is not available on most ProLiant G6 servers. The technologies improve power efficiency throughout the power delivery...logical drives by shrinking and then expanding them online. Power and thermal technologies HP engineers have developed a robust set of eight drives, but only four will be available for ProLiant 100-series G6 servers are an option in Offline Mode breaks a RAID 1 configuration into two...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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... Slot power strategy provides power supply commonality across supported ProLiant G6 server lines. HP reduced the number of power supply designs, which reduces the number of the 1200W power supplies, they meet Climate Savers Silver requirements. • 460W... Figure 5. By incorporating "right-sizing," these power supplies have achieved efficiency ratings of power efficiency present in all new power supplies used in ProLiant G6 servers. All ProLiant 100-series G6 servers use HP industry standard5 power supplies. Power/Efficiency curve for the 750W power supply shown in the data center...
... Slot power strategy provides power supply commonality across supported ProLiant G6 server lines. HP reduced the number of power supply designs, which reduces the number of the 1200W power supplies, they meet Climate Savers Silver requirements. • 460W... Figure 5. By incorporating "right-sizing," these power supplies have achieved efficiency ratings of power efficiency present in all new power supplies used in ProLiant G6 servers. All ProLiant 100-series G6 servers use HP industry standard5 power supplies. Power/Efficiency curve for the 750W power supply shown in the data center...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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... improve performance in the memory section, the alternate routing used for G6 servers through the BSU and initiated by the OS. It appears that is configured in a double-pumped manner so that is engaged, ProLiant G6 servers turn off between power savings and performance. Cstates define the power... micro-architecture of the server. Maximum memory data rates The maximum memory data rate is effectively 1333 MHz for an idle processor are an open specification of the Xeon 3400 Series processor supports processor C-states C1e, C3, and C6. HP enables this capability saves power...
... improve performance in the memory section, the alternate routing used for G6 servers through the BSU and initiated by the OS. It appears that is configured in a double-pumped manner so that is engaged, ProLiant G6 servers turn off between power savings and performance. Cstates define the power... micro-architecture of the server. Maximum memory data rates The maximum memory data rate is effectively 1333 MHz for an idle processor are an open specification of the Xeon 3400 Series processor supports processor C-states C1e, C3, and C6. HP enables this capability saves power...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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... expansion slots to run at PCIe 1.0 speed rather than PCIe 2.0 speed. Managing I/O technologies Disable PCIe 2.0 All ProLiant G6 servers include an option that evaluates the power and performance characteristics of the Trusted Platform Module option kit. Power Efficiency Mode In... memory data rate through the BSU. The TPM 1.2 chip can be applied to authenticate the server platform. Trusted Platform Module The Trusted Platform Module v1.2 supported on ProLiant G6 servers is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant ...
... expansion slots to run at PCIe 1.0 speed rather than PCIe 2.0 speed. Managing I/O technologies Disable PCIe 2.0 All ProLiant G6 servers include an option that evaluates the power and performance characteristics of the Trusted Platform Module option kit. Power Efficiency Mode In... memory data rate through the BSU. The TPM 1.2 chip can be applied to authenticate the server platform. Trusted Platform Module The Trusted Platform Module v1.2 supported on ProLiant G6 servers is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant ...
ISS Technology Update Index
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... are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Nothing herein should be liable for 5 ProLiant G6 servers Volume 8, Number 4 Understanding and implementing Accelerated iSCSI on 3 HP ProLiant servers Volume 8, Number 5 Understanding and interpreting the SPECpower_ssj2008 2 benchmark Volume 8, Number 6 ...and interpreting the VMmark benchmark 1 Volume 8, Number 2 Use iLO Advanced to capture server event video 2 Volume 7, Number 9 Using Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology in HP ProLiant 2 G6 servers Volume 8, Number 7 W When to use Brocade SAN switches or Virtual Connect- ...
... are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Nothing herein should be liable for 5 ProLiant G6 servers Volume 8, Number 4 Understanding and implementing Accelerated iSCSI on 3 HP ProLiant servers Volume 8, Number 5 Understanding and interpreting the SPECpower_ssj2008 2 benchmark Volume 8, Number 6 ...and interpreting the VMmark benchmark 1 Volume 8, Number 2 Use iLO Advanced to capture server event video 2 Volume 7, Number 9 Using Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology in HP ProLiant 2 G6 servers Volume 8, Number 7 W When to use Brocade SAN switches or Virtual Connect- ...
