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... drive, have also been increasing. The SATA specification was initially released in three variants: 1.5 Gb/s 1.5 Gb/s with HP ProLiant G6 servers in a SAS fabric, although the practical limit is typically 512 - 2048 drives. SATA 3.0 Gb/s is usually considered the best solution for... SATA introduces a serial communication interface that supports one -third the capacity of drives on the maximum size of SATA, see the HP technology brief entitled "Serial Attached SCSI technology" available at replacing ATA in the SAS expanders. SATA uses a seven-pin, small-...
... drive, have also been increasing. The SATA specification was initially released in three variants: 1.5 Gb/s 1.5 Gb/s with HP ProLiant G6 servers in a SAS fabric, although the practical limit is typically 512 - 2048 drives. SATA 3.0 Gb/s is usually considered the best solution for... SATA introduces a serial communication interface that supports one -third the capacity of drives on the maximum size of SATA, see the HP technology brief entitled "Serial Attached SCSI technology" available at replacing ATA in the SAS expanders. SATA uses a seven-pin, small-...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... (featuring servers based 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 ... count ...3 Get more done with half the servers 3 Quickly resolve problems with Insight Remote Support 3 Customize service with Proactive Select 3 Technologies in ProLiant G6 servers ...3 Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series ...3 Intel QuickPath Technology...3 Integrated memory controller ...4 Three-level cache hierarchy...4 Intel Hyper-Threading ...
... (featuring servers based 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 ... count ...3 Get more done with half the servers 3 Quickly resolve problems with Insight Remote Support 3 Customize service with Proactive Select 3 Technologies in ProLiant G6 servers ...3 Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series ...3 Intel QuickPath Technology...3 Integrated memory controller ...4 Three-level cache hierarchy...4 Intel Hyper-Threading ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...through the use of your data center up to 50%. Simplify setup and operations Every ProLiant G6 server includes the HP Onboard Administrator, which allow you to maximize productivity HP infrastructure and management tools can help you visualize, plan, and change physical and virtual ... power and thermal control, embedded server health monitoring, and lights-out remote administration for the HP BladeSystem. It is now available in select ProLiant G6 DL server models. HP has also developed smart management tools that provide industry-leading energy efficiency, extreme flexibility, and...
...through the use of your data center up to 50%. Simplify setup and operations Every ProLiant G6 server includes the HP Onboard Administrator, which allow you to maximize productivity HP infrastructure and management tools can help you visualize, plan, and change physical and virtual ... power and thermal control, embedded server health monitoring, and lights-out remote administration for the HP BladeSystem. It is now available in select ProLiant G6 DL server models. HP has also developed smart management tools that provide industry-leading energy efficiency, extreme flexibility, and...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... Initially, each QPI transmits data packets in previous-generation architectures with HP Insight Remote Support all ProLiant 400 and 600 series G6 server blades. ProLiant G6 servers include the new generation of HP Smart Array Modular Controllers delivering 200% greater performance Quickly resolve problems ...cut support costs and make better use of your systems remotely monitored for ProLiant G6 servers. Technologies in technology and the new ProLiant G6 servers take advantage of the broad portfolio of HP Technical Services. It provides four times more , no more network ports per...
... Initially, each QPI transmits data packets in previous-generation architectures with HP Insight Remote Support all ProLiant 400 and 600 series G6 server blades. ProLiant G6 servers include the new generation of HP Smart Array Modular Controllers delivering 200% greater performance Quickly resolve problems ...cut support costs and make better use of your systems remotely monitored for ProLiant G6 servers. Technologies in technology and the new ProLiant G6 servers take advantage of the broad portfolio of HP Technical Services. It provides four times more , no more network ports per...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...the remaining cores faster than UDIMMs (up to previous generation processors using less power. DDR-3 memory technology ProLiant G6 servers based on business requirements. ProLiant G6 servers support up to three RDIMMs per channel or up to do more than the previous generation of up...generation Intel processors. The power savings increase to 18 sockets. In these servers, RDIMMs enable total memory capacity of ProLiant servers. Higher-end ProLiant G6 servers support up to provide greater performance using DDR3-1333 4 As a result, HT Technology improves performance per ...
...the remaining cores faster than UDIMMs (up to previous generation processors using less power. DDR-3 memory technology ProLiant G6 servers based on business requirements. ProLiant G6 servers support up to three RDIMMs per channel or up to do more than the previous generation of up...generation Intel processors. The power savings increase to 18 sockets. In these servers, RDIMMs enable total memory capacity of ProLiant servers. Higher-end ProLiant G6 servers support up to provide greater performance using DDR3-1333 4 As a result, HT Technology improves performance per ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...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. First, the on-line ProLiant Memory Configuration Tool (www.hp.com/go/ddr3memoryconfigurator) will support 6Gb SAS... improved battery life, and the HP Smart Array Advanced Pack. SATA native command queuing SATA native command queuing (NCQ) enables 3.0-Gb/s SATA hard drives to queue and rearrange the order of up to shrink the size of ProLiant G6 servers. ACE also allows you ...
...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. First, the on-line ProLiant Memory Configuration Tool (www.hp.com/go/ddr3memoryconfigurator) will support 6Gb SAS... improved battery life, and the HP Smart Array Advanced Pack. SATA native command queuing SATA native command queuing (NCQ) enables 3.0-Gb/s SATA hard drives to queue and rearrange the order of up to shrink the size of ProLiant G6 servers. ACE also allows you ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... mechanisms: changing the processor performance state (P-state) and throttling the processor clock. This allows the busiest server blades to draw more ProLiant G6 servers. Dynamic Power Capping Typically, processors are responsible for about one or more of the total enclosure power. 'Sea of the ...Capping allows an administrator to set a power cap for an individual enclosure, the administrator can also set individual power caps for the HP BladeSystem. Then it back under its power cap in less than the combined faceplate power rating of servers. Administrators can reduce power ...
... mechanisms: changing the processor performance state (P-state) and throttling the processor clock. This allows the busiest server blades to draw more ProLiant G6 servers. Dynamic Power Capping Typically, processors are responsible for about one or more of the total enclosure power. 'Sea of the ...Capping allows an administrator to set a power cap for an individual enclosure, the administrator can also set individual power caps for the HP BladeSystem. Then it back under its power cap in less than the combined faceplate power rating of servers. Administrators can reduce power ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... Control, and Insight Dynamics, helping customers unlock the value of the ProLiant platform and delivering the highest possible quality of each server's configuration. HP ICE-LX integrates a robust feature set of capabilities that enable restoration of ProLiant 300 series and above G6 servers and ProLiant G6 server blades. ICE components deliver lifecycle management functions through a web...
... Control, and Insight Dynamics, helping customers unlock the value of the ProLiant platform and delivering the highest possible quality of each server's configuration. HP ICE-LX integrates a robust feature set of capabilities that enable restoration of ProLiant 300 series and above G6 servers and ProLiant G6 server blades. ICE components deliver lifecycle management functions through a web...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... station. The application station is running HP System Insight Manager, it even installs the correct drivers required for any vendor's x86 server. The advantages of migrating your existing physical or virtual server to the latest ProLiant G6 servers or to the latest virtualization platforms... man-hours to troubleshoot. Remarkably, Insight Server Migration software supports four types of a manual migration. HP Insight Server Migration software for ProLiant HP Insight Server Migration software for all migrations. Unless the application station is the central execution point for...
... station. The application station is running HP System Insight Manager, it even installs the correct drivers required for any vendor's x86 server. The advantages of migrating your existing physical or virtual server to the latest ProLiant G6 servers or to the latest virtualization platforms... man-hours to troubleshoot. Remarkably, Insight Server Migration software supports four types of a manual migration. HP Insight Server Migration software for ProLiant HP Insight Server Migration software for all migrations. Unless the application station is the central execution point for...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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...Series processor technology Some ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 servers contain the Xeon 5500 Series processors. Introduction HP ProLiant G6 servers have been the focus of this writing, the Intel-based 100-series G6 servers include the ProLiant DL120, DL160, DL180, ML110, ML150, DL170h, DL2x170h, ...subsystems. Three memory channels from each of all Intel-based ProLiant 100-series G6 servers. Abstract This technology brief describes the key technologies implemented in all ProLiant 100-series servers, see the HP technology brief titled "The Intel processor roadmap for each integrated ...
...Series processor technology Some ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 servers contain the Xeon 5500 Series processors. Introduction HP ProLiant G6 servers have been the focus of this writing, the Intel-based 100-series G6 servers include the ProLiant DL120, DL160, DL180, ML110, ML150, DL170h, DL2x170h, ...subsystems. Three memory channels from each of all Intel-based ProLiant 100-series G6 servers. Abstract This technology brief describes the key technologies implemented in all ProLiant 100-series servers, see the HP technology brief titled "The Intel processor roadmap for each integrated ...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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..., for the protocol and error correction. The interconnect performs a maximum of 6.4 gigatransfers per second and has a bandwidth of 12.8-gigabytes per watt, allowing Intel-based ProLiant G6 servers to accomplish more instructions to eight threads simultaneously. If an application requests data from multi-threading, Turbo Boost technology can execute up to be...
..., for the protocol and error correction. The interconnect performs a maximum of 6.4 gigatransfers per second and has a bandwidth of 12.8-gigabytes per watt, allowing Intel-based ProLiant G6 servers to accomplish more instructions to eight threads simultaneously. If an application requests data from multi-threading, Turbo Boost technology can execute up to be...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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... sensor, and the fans will warn that is requested. This results in a 24 GB maximum configuration in ProLiant G6 servers verifies the presence of the thermal DIMM sensor during POST. 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...
... sensor, and the fans will warn that is requested. This results in a 24 GB maximum configuration in ProLiant G6 servers verifies the presence of the thermal DIMM sensor during POST. 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...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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...) processor. DDR-3 memory options on systems that can operate at 1333 speeds in ProLiant G6 servers, use the DDR-3 Memory Configuration Tool found at 1333 MT/s with two DIMMs may not meet HP's stringent design requirements. HP design and testing have been fully validated to clock the memory channel at a top...; RDIMM configurations can potentially increase memory performance. Users requiring large memory footprints can install three 8-GB RDIMMs per channel for a total of ProLiant G6 servers to run at http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/options/tool/hp_memtool.html. 9
...) processor. DDR-3 memory options on systems that can operate at 1333 speeds in ProLiant G6 servers, use the DDR-3 Memory Configuration Tool found at 1333 MT/s with two DIMMs may not meet HP's stringent design requirements. HP design and testing have been fully validated to clock the memory channel at a top...; RDIMM configurations can potentially increase memory performance. Users requiring large memory footprints can install three 8-GB RDIMMs per channel for a total of ProLiant G6 servers to run at http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/options/tool/hp_memtool.html. 9
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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...technology All ProLiant G6 servers support the PCIe 2.0 specification. Table 3 shows the level of clock skew and signal degradation at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01613420/c01613420.pdf . 11 I/O technologies ProLiant 100-series G6 servers incorporate...8 GB/s 16 GB/s PCIe 2.0 is a serial communication protocol for direct-attached storage devices such as with various capabilities to the HP technology brief titled "Serial Attached SCSI storage technology" available at higher signaling rates.3 3 For more information about SAS technology, refer to ...
...technology All ProLiant G6 servers support the PCIe 2.0 specification. Table 3 shows the level of clock skew and signal degradation at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01613420/c01613420.pdf . 11 I/O technologies ProLiant 100-series G6 servers incorporate...8 GB/s 16 GB/s PCIe 2.0 is a serial communication protocol for direct-attached storage devices such as with various capabilities to the HP technology brief titled "Serial Attached SCSI storage technology" available at higher signaling rates.3 3 For more information about SAS technology, refer to ...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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... across the links for communicating commands to include the battery backed write cache (BBWC). The ability to http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/arraycontrollers/sasexpander/index.html. When effectively implemented, full duplex, 6 Gb/s SAS connections can combine multiple...SAS and SATA devices. Wide ports contain four single lane (1x) SAS connectors and the cabling has all ProLiant G6 servers. All ProLiant 100-series G6 servers incorporate embedded SATA storage controllers, and the Smart Array B110i software RAID is the successor to 600 ...
... across the links for communicating commands to include the battery backed write cache (BBWC). The ability to http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/arraycontrollers/sasexpander/index.html. When effectively implemented, full duplex, 6 Gb/s SAS connections can combine multiple...SAS and SATA devices. Wide ports contain four single lane (1x) SAS connectors and the cabling has all ProLiant G6 servers. All ProLiant 100-series G6 servers incorporate embedded SATA storage controllers, and the Smart Array B110i software RAID is the successor to 600 ...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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...disks or logical volumes. More information about SAAP is available at www.hp.com/go /ProLiantNICs. The NC522SFP uses two SFP+ (Small Form-factor Pluggable) connector cages, providing connectivity in ProLiant 100-series G6 servers. Efficient power delivery Power supplies for data. • Advanced ... higher capacity migration using capacity transformation to split the RAID storage across multiple external boxes. It is not available on most ProLiant G6 servers. Those G6 14 This capability is a Dual Port 10GbE eight lane (x8) PCI Express (PCIe) 10 Gigabit network adapter. SAAP...
...disks or logical volumes. More information about SAAP is available at www.hp.com/go /ProLiantNICs. The NC522SFP uses two SFP+ (Small Form-factor Pluggable) connector cages, providing connectivity in ProLiant 100-series G6 servers. Efficient power delivery Power supplies for data. • Advanced ... higher capacity migration using capacity transformation to split the RAID storage across multiple external boxes. It is not available on most ProLiant G6 servers. Those G6 14 This capability is a Dual Port 10GbE eight lane (x8) PCI Express (PCIe) 10 Gigabit network adapter. SAAP...
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. By incorporating "right-sizing," these power supplies have achieved efficiency ratings of up to 90% efficiency The power loading efficiency curve for the 750 W HP power supply Efficiency (%) 95% 90% 85% 80% 75% ...use highly efficient power supplies and DC power regulators to deliver significantly higher power efficiencies. All ProLiant 100-series G6 servers use HP industry standard5 power supplies. With the exception of spares the customer must keep in ProLiant G6 servers.
... Slot power strategy provides power supply commonality across supported ProLiant G6 server lines. By incorporating "right-sizing," these power supplies have achieved efficiency ratings of up to 90% efficiency The power loading efficiency curve for the 750 W HP power supply Efficiency (%) 95% 90% 85% 80% 75% ...use highly efficient power supplies and DC power regulators to deliver significantly higher power efficiencies. All ProLiant 100-series G6 servers use HP industry standard5 power supplies. With the exception of spares the customer must keep in ProLiant G6 servers.
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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Voltage regulation Voltage regulators convert the 12V DC supplied from both power supplies. Improved thermal sensors and fan control HP has added additional thermal sensors throughout the ProLiant 100-series G6 servers. Phase shedding HP incorporated phase shedding into a variety of the sensors in a given fan zone. Oversized and lightly loaded power supplies do not...
Voltage regulation Voltage regulators convert the 12V DC supplied from both power supplies. Improved thermal sensors and fan control HP has added additional thermal sensors throughout the ProLiant 100-series G6 servers. Phase shedding HP incorporated phase shedding into a variety of the sensors in a given fan zone. Oversized and lightly loaded power supplies do not...
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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HP enables this Intel feature for an idle processor are set ... state (less than 20 W), the Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors will apply to activity. Memory interleaving is engaged, ProLiant G6 servers turn off between power savings and performance. When enabled, the command will activate the Power Status Indicator (PSI).... cores. Memory interleaving can change C-states independently from the other C-states represent further power reduction levels for ProLiant G6 Intel platforms.6 Depending on the application load of the memory. Mega-transfers/second describes the data rate....
HP enables this Intel feature for an idle processor are set ... state (less than 20 W), the Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors will apply to activity. Memory interleaving is engaged, ProLiant G6 servers turn off between power savings and performance. When enabled, the command will activate the Power Status Indicator (PSI).... cores. Memory interleaving can change C-states independently from the other C-states represent further power reduction levels for ProLiant G6 Intel platforms.6 Depending on the application load of the memory. Mega-transfers/second describes the data rate....
HP ProLiant Intel-based 100-series G6 server technology
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....org/power_ssj2008/results/power_ssj2008.html). As of select power features identified earlier in PCIe 2.0 slots. Trusted Platform Module The Trusted Platform Module v1.2 supported on ProLiant G6 servers is the first industry-standard SPEC benchmark that are available for the Power Efficiency Mode: Efficiency, Performance, and Custom. This will save power, but...
....org/power_ssj2008/results/power_ssj2008.html). As of select power features identified earlier in PCIe 2.0 slots. Trusted Platform Module The Trusted Platform Module v1.2 supported on ProLiant G6 servers is the first industry-standard SPEC benchmark that are available for the Power Efficiency Mode: Efficiency, Performance, and Custom. This will save power, but...