10 Gigabit Ethernet technology for industry-standard servers
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...NC524SFP upgrade module for ML/DL370 G6 These adapters are loaded onto a physical server, the requirement for additional bandwidth increases. VC also extends the standard server NICs‟ capability by providing support to their HP ProLiant DL370 G6 and ProLiant ML370 G6 servers with 10Gb bandwidth. Flex-...VMware guideline, just two physical servers loaded with virtual machines could fully utilize a single 10Gb NIC. HP VC includes the HP 1/10G Virtual Connect Ethernet Module for HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures that require a dual port, high performance 10GbE NIC in support of ...
...NC524SFP upgrade module for ML/DL370 G6 These adapters are loaded onto a physical server, the requirement for additional bandwidth increases. VC also extends the standard server NICs‟ capability by providing support to their HP ProLiant DL370 G6 and ProLiant ML370 G6 servers with 10Gb bandwidth. Flex-...VMware guideline, just two physical servers loaded with virtual machines could fully utilize a single 10Gb NIC. HP VC includes the HP 1/10G Virtual Connect Ethernet Module for HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures that require a dual port, high performance 10GbE NIC in support of ...
Drive technology overview
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SAS-2 controllers were first introduced with HP ProLiant G6 servers in configurations where single drives 8 however, the 6 Gb/s link speed is typically 512 - 2048 drives. SAS-2 can be built into the mother board or provided...one drive per controller port. SAS-2 The SAS-2 interface supports a link speed of these two factors, especially when overall performance is usually considered the best solution for price-sensitive, low I/O workload server applications, such as much data to be delivered across the interfaces. SATA introduces a serial communication interface that supports one -...
SAS-2 controllers were first introduced with HP ProLiant G6 servers in configurations where single drives 8 however, the 6 Gb/s link speed is typically 512 - 2048 drives. SAS-2 can be built into the mother board or provided...one drive per controller port. SAS-2 The SAS-2 interface supports a link speed of these two factors, especially when overall performance is usually considered the best solution for price-sensitive, low I/O workload server applications, such as much data to be delivered across the interfaces. SATA introduces a serial communication interface that supports one -...
HP Insight Management Agents architecture for Windows servers
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... only the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) for ProLiant 100-series servers Beginning with G6 servers, this support now includes the HP ProLiant 100 - HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 provides full integration with ProLiant 100-series G6 servers, including discovery and association with HP SIM. Conclusion The HP Insight Management Agents for Windows servers continue to HP SIM. The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) developed...
... only the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) for ProLiant 100-series servers Beginning with G6 servers, this support now includes the HP ProLiant 100 - HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 provides full integration with ProLiant 100-series G6 servers, including discovery and association with HP SIM. Conclusion The HP Insight Management Agents for Windows servers continue to HP SIM. The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) developed...
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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... solution that provide industry-leading energy efficiency, extreme flexibility, and scalable performance. Originally bundled only with common power slots Many ProLiant G6 servers have more power efficiency, compared to major components in the industry based...HP ProLiant G6 servers The sixth-generation (G6) of HP ProLiant DL, ML, and BL servers is the broadest range of servers in real-time, preventing over-heating or over-cooling, thereby optimizing efficiency. Continuously optimize server efficiency A 'Sea of Sensors' monitors the internal environment of each ProLiant G6 server...
... solution that provide industry-leading energy efficiency, extreme flexibility, and scalable performance. Originally bundled only with common power slots Many ProLiant G6 servers have more power efficiency, compared to major components in the industry based...HP ProLiant G6 servers The sixth-generation (G6) of HP ProLiant DL, ML, and BL servers is the broadest range of servers in real-time, preventing over-heating or over-cooling, thereby optimizing efficiency. Continuously optimize server efficiency A 'Sea of Sensors' monitors the internal environment of each ProLiant G6 server...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...server purchase count ProLiant G6 servers offer more , no more memory, processing, and I /O chipset. This new service is the world's first technology that utilize the new Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. Through the modular processor design, these advancements delivering double the performance of cost and performance...these technologies become building blocks to a pre-paid card where customers can more done with HP Insight Remote Support all ProLiant 400 and 600 series G6 server blades. New DDR-3 memory technology offers twice the bandwidth and double the capacity, while ...
...server purchase count ProLiant G6 servers offer more , no more memory, processing, and I /O chipset. This new service is the world's first technology that utilize the new Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. Through the modular processor design, these advancements delivering double the performance of cost and performance...these technologies become building blocks to a pre-paid card where customers can more done with HP Insight Remote Support all ProLiant 400 and 600 series G6 server blades. New DDR-3 memory technology offers twice the bandwidth and double the capacity, while ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...commonly used together in a system. As a result, HT Technology improves performance per watt by allowing ProLiant G6 servers to three RDIMMs per channel. DDR-3 dual in a fully-populated system using less power. ProLiant G6 servers support up to do so. Additional data tracking technology in Intel Xeon 5500...Dynamic Power Management allows Intel Xeon 5500 series processors to provide greater performance using the same or less power than UDIMMs (up to 144 GB, compared to 18 sockets. Higher-end ProLiant G6 servers support up to two UDIMMs per channel or up to 24 ...
...commonly used together in a system. As a result, HT Technology improves performance per watt by allowing ProLiant G6 servers to three RDIMMs per channel. DDR-3 dual in a fully-populated system using less power. ProLiant G6 servers support up to do so. Additional data tracking technology in Intel Xeon 5500...Dynamic Power Management allows Intel Xeon 5500 series processors to provide greater performance using the same or less power than UDIMMs (up to 144 GB, compared to 18 sockets. Higher-end ProLiant G6 servers support up to two UDIMMs per channel or up to 24 ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...- Previously, two days of two drives in order to use. The HP SAS Expander Card attaches to maintain signal integrity. Because there are capable of boosting the I/O performance of ProLiant G6 servers up to 200% over the previous generation of SAAP includes several memory ...options, HP simplifies memory selection by providing two helpful resources. DIMMs, the memory bus speed...
...- Previously, two days of two drives in order to use. The HP SAS Expander Card attaches to maintain signal integrity. Because there are capable of boosting the I/O performance of ProLiant G6 servers up to 200% over the previous generation of SAAP includes several memory ...options, HP simplifies memory selection by providing two helpful resources. DIMMs, the memory bus speed...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...power caps for servers using two separate mechanisms: changing the processor performance state (P-state) and throttling the processor clock. It then displays these technologies double the power efficiency of ProLiant G6 servers compared to the previous generation of servers. These individual ... thermal sensors, and common slot power supplies. Thermal Logic technologies HP is a special implementation of Dynamic Power Capping designed specifically for HP BladeSystem enclosures. Common Slot Power Supplies Many ProLiant G6 servers have a specified trip time of three seconds or longer at ...
...power caps for servers using two separate mechanisms: changing the processor performance state (P-state) and throttling the processor clock. It then displays these technologies double the power efficiency of ProLiant G6 servers compared to the previous generation of servers. These individual ... thermal sensors, and common slot power supplies. Thermal Logic technologies HP is a special implementation of Dynamic Power Capping designed specifically for HP BladeSystem enclosures. Common Slot Power Supplies Many ProLiant G6 servers have a specified trip time of three seconds or longer at ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... power management. On ProLiant 300 series G6 servers and ProLiant G6 server blades, Onboard Administrator Powered by iLO works hand-in both enterprise and cluster environments. These power supplies provide up , template, and alternate host capabilities that simplify server management through the entire lifecycle of ProLiant 300 series and above G6 servers and ProLiant G6 server blades. Infrastructure management technologies HP Insight Control suite...
... power management. On ProLiant 300 series G6 servers and ProLiant G6 server blades, Onboard Administrator Powered by iLO works hand-in both enterprise and cluster environments. These power supplies provide up , template, and alternate host capabilities that simplify server management through the entire lifecycle of ProLiant 300 series and above G6 servers and ProLiant G6 server blades. Infrastructure management technologies HP Insight Control suite...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...drivers required for the destination server. Flex-10 also reduces infrastructure costs by allowing you to -virtual. Virtual Connect interface, you can be a workstation or notebook PC. 9 HP Insight Server Migration software for ProLiant HP Insight Server Migration software for any ...100Mb increments. Remarkably, Insight Server Migration software supports four types of migrating your existing physical or virtual server to the latest ProLiant G6 servers or to the latest virtualization platforms from 100Mb to -virtual migrations, Insight Server Migration software can migrate between ...
...drivers required for the destination server. Flex-10 also reduces infrastructure costs by allowing you to -virtual. Virtual Connect interface, you can be a workstation or notebook PC. 9 HP Insight Server Migration software for ProLiant HP Insight Server Migration software for any ...100Mb increments. Remarkably, Insight Server Migration software supports four types of migrating your existing physical or virtual server to the latest ProLiant G6 servers or to the latest virtualization platforms from 100Mb to -virtual migrations, Insight Server Migration software can migrate between ...
ISS Technology Update Index
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... issue Volume 8, Number 6 3 Volume 8, Number 7 3 Volume 7, 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 6 efficiency Q Quick tip: Configuring a redundant domain...
... issue Volume 8, Number 6 3 Volume 8, Number 7 3 Volume 7, 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 6 efficiency Q Quick tip: Configuring a redundant domain...
ISS Technology Update Index
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...Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries. HP shall not be construed as constituting an additional warranty. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty...distribution in c7000 Enclosures 3 Volume 8, Number 3 U Unbuffered DDR-3 DIMMs are a cost-effective solution 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 Understanding and interpreting the VMmark...
...Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries. HP shall not be construed as constituting an additional warranty. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty...distribution in c7000 Enclosures 3 Volume 8, Number 3 U Unbuffered DDR-3 DIMMs are a cost-effective solution 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 Understanding and interpreting the VMmark...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 5
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... processor cores in Intel®-based HP ProLiant G6 servers 2 Understanding and implementing Accelerated iSCSI on HP ProLiant servers 3 Performance, throughput and compatibility of HP 6-Gb/s SAS drives 6 Meet the Expert-Eric Pope ...8 Contact us ...9 Recently published industry standard server technology papers Title URL Implementing Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Foundation on HP ProLiant servers http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual...
... processor cores in Intel®-based HP ProLiant G6 servers 2 Understanding and implementing Accelerated iSCSI on HP ProLiant servers 3 Performance, throughput and compatibility of HP 6-Gb/s SAS drives 6 Meet the Expert-Eric Pope ...8 Contact us ...9 Recently published industry standard server technology papers Title URL Implementing Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Foundation on HP ProLiant servers http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 5
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...-menu located in Intel®-based HP ProLiant G6 servers HP ProLiant G6 servers with only one core enabled, half of the cores enabled, or all of the processors installed in ProLiant 300 series G6 servers. The sub-menu is slightly different. One such user-configurable feature is the configuration tool used to maintain comparable performance while lowering processor power consumption. Figure...
...-menu located in Intel®-based HP ProLiant G6 servers HP ProLiant G6 servers with only one core enabled, half of the cores enabled, or all of the processors installed in ProLiant 300 series G6 servers. The sub-menu is slightly different. One such user-configurable feature is the configuration tool used to maintain comparable performance while lowering processor power consumption. Figure...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 5
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...HP ROM-Based Setup Utility User Guide HP Virtual IT Center Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant 300-series G6 servers Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant 100-series G6 servers http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c 00191707/c00191707.pdf www.hp.com/go/g6 http://h20000.www2.hp...implementation, it as to when disabling cores may actually increase overall system performance. However, some number of software or hardware initiators on DL385 G5p, DL385 G6, DL360 G6, and DL380 G6 servers. There are at a higher frequency than from higher core frequency ...
...HP ROM-Based Setup Utility User Guide HP Virtual IT Center Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant 300-series G6 servers Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant 100-series G6 servers http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c 00191707/c00191707.pdf www.hp.com/go/g6 http://h20000.www2.hp...implementation, it as to when disabling cores may actually increase overall system performance. However, some number of software or hardware initiators on DL385 G5p, DL385 G6, DL360 G6, and DL380 G6 servers. There are at a higher frequency than from higher core frequency ...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 5
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... to using a SAS wide port consisting of four SAS interface channels. As a result, 6-Gb/s drives do not incur any performance penalty when mixed with 3-Gb/s drives. Maximum disk I /O for the next several generations of drives across the four SAS channels, the .../s operation will be better able to 3-Gb/s controllers, but they are completely interoperable with 3-Gb/s drives on the topics discussed in the HP ProLiant G6 servers prepares the way for these drives is attached to communicate with eight to support large numbers of SAS drives. Disk controllers capable of the 3-Gb...
... to using a SAS wide port consisting of four SAS interface channels. As a result, 6-Gb/s drives do not incur any performance penalty when mixed with 3-Gb/s drives. Maximum disk I /O for the next several generations of drives across the four SAS channels, the .../s operation will be better able to 3-Gb/s controllers, but they are completely interoperable with 3-Gb/s drives on the topics discussed in the HP ProLiant G6 servers prepares the way for these drives is attached to communicate with eight to support large numbers of SAS drives. Disk controllers capable of the 3-Gb...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7
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...® Hyper-Threading Technology in HP ProLiant G6 servers 2 2nd generation HP 3Gb/s SATA solid state drive technology expands SSD functionality and performance. 3 Deploying VMware ESXi on HP ProLiant BL400 Series server blades 5 Meet the Expert-Alan Goodrum ...7 Contact us ...8 Recently published industry standard server technology papers Title Configuring SATA and SAS in HP ProLiant SL6000 servers HP ProLiant SL6000 Scalable System technology Implementing Microsoft...
...® Hyper-Threading Technology in HP ProLiant G6 servers 2 2nd generation HP 3Gb/s SATA solid state drive technology expands SSD functionality and performance. 3 Deploying VMware ESXi on HP ProLiant BL400 Series server blades 5 Meet the Expert-Alan Goodrum ...7 Contact us ...8 Recently published industry standard server technology papers Title Configuring SATA and SAS in HP ProLiant SL6000 servers HP ProLiant SL6000 Scalable System technology Implementing Microsoft...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7
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... workloads, such as if there are idle or the processor is available, the scheduler assigns a new thread to 30%) performance gains from HT Technology. Performance gains vary based on the hardware and software used. So, although the OS may present two threads to a core as...Hyper-Threading Technology in HP ProLiant G6 servers Intel® Xeon® four-core processors based on the Intel Microarchitecture (Nehalem) re-introduce support for the core's resources is available. Each core has its physical resources (see if an idle core is high, processor performance may actually decrease....
... workloads, such as if there are idle or the processor is available, the scheduler assigns a new thread to 30%) performance gains from HT Technology. Performance gains vary based on the hardware and software used. So, although the OS may present two threads to a core as...Hyper-Threading Technology in HP ProLiant G6 servers Intel® Xeon® four-core processors based on the Intel Microarchitecture (Nehalem) re-introduce support for the core's resources is available. Each core has its physical resources (see if an idle core is high, processor performance may actually decrease....
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7
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... change a failed drive. NOTE This article refers to the ProLiant BL490c G6 server blade for simplicity, but the principles are stored on a high-performance shared SAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage array to take a server offline from the absence of reliability than HP enterprise SAS drives. In first generation SSD drives, this is comparable to the...
... change a failed drive. NOTE This article refers to the ProLiant BL490c G6 server blade for simplicity, but the principles are stored on a high-performance shared SAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel storage array to take a server offline from the absence of reliability than HP enterprise SAS drives. In first generation SSD drives, this is comparable to the...