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 ...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 Technology 4 Intel Turbo Boost Technology ...4 Dynamic Power...
... (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 ...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 Technology 4 Intel Turbo Boost Technology ...4 Dynamic Power...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... on the Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem. Make every server purchase count ProLiant G6 servers offer more done with HP Insight Remote Support all ProLiant 400 and 600 series G6 server blades. Get more memory, processing, and I /O chipset. The Intel Xeon 5500 series processors give you... can buy service credits. New DDR-3 memory technology offers twice the bandwidth and double...
... on the Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem. Make every server purchase count ProLiant G6 servers offer more done with HP Insight Remote Support all ProLiant 400 and 600 series G6 server blades. Get more memory, processing, and I /O chipset. The Intel Xeon 5500 series processors give you... can buy service credits. New DDR-3 memory technology offers twice the bandwidth and double...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...-DDR3-800, DDR3-1066, or DDR3-1333. Or, it uses the high-speed QPI between the two processors. DDR-3 memory technology ProLiant G6 servers based on the number and type of DIMMs populating the slots. DDR-3 dual in a fully-populated system using DDR3-1333 4 The power...RDIMMs per channel or up to two UDIMMs per watt by allowing ProLiant G6 servers to do so. RDIMMs have a total bandwidth of 32 GB/s. Higher-end ProLiant G6 servers support up to those caches and minimizes latency. For example, in -line memory modules (DIMMs) provide the same reliability, availability, and serviceability ...
...-DDR3-800, DDR3-1066, or DDR3-1333. Or, it uses the high-speed QPI between the two processors. DDR-3 memory technology ProLiant G6 servers based on the number and type of DIMMs populating the slots. DDR-3 dual in a fully-populated system using DDR3-1333 4 The power...RDIMMs per channel or up to two UDIMMs per watt by allowing ProLiant G6 servers to do so. RDIMMs have a total bandwidth of 32 GB/s. Higher-end ProLiant G6 servers support up to those caches and minimizes latency. For example, in -line memory modules (DIMMs) provide the same reliability, availability, and serviceability ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... SAS ports. Previously, two days of SAAP includes several memory options, HP simplifies memory selection by providing two helpful resources. Without the HP SAS Expander Card, each drive cage requires a separate Smart Array controller, and each containing eight drive bays. Memory capacity may be of ProLiant G6 servers. SATA native command queuing SATA native command queuing (NCQ...
... SAS ports. Previously, two days of SAAP includes several memory options, HP simplifies memory selection by providing two helpful resources. Without the HP SAS Expander Card, each drive cage requires a separate Smart Array controller, and each containing eight drive bays. Memory capacity may be of ProLiant G6 servers. SATA native command queuing SATA native command queuing (NCQ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...using HP iLO Advanced or Insight Power Manager (IPM). Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping monitors the workloads of the individual server blades and then reapportions the individual power caps of the entire system. Dynamic Power Capping takes advantage of ProLiant G6 servers compared to unused I/O and memory sockets... power caps for the HP BladeSystem. Then IPM assigns each server and uses P-states and/or clock throttling to measure the server's power use and the total power supply rating. This allows the busiest server blades to draw more ProLiant G6 servers. This new generation...
...using HP iLO Advanced or Insight Power Manager (IPM). Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping monitors the workloads of the individual server blades and then reapportions the individual power caps of the entire system. Dynamic Power Capping takes advantage of ProLiant G6 servers compared to unused I/O and memory sockets... power caps for the HP BladeSystem. Then IPM assigns each server and uses P-states and/or clock throttling to measure the server's power use and the total power supply rating. This allows the busiest server blades to draw more ProLiant G6 servers. This new generation...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...HP Systems Insight Manager, provides comprehensive system health, remote control, vulnerability scanning, patch management, flexible deployment, virtual machine management, and power management. Within ICE, the Virtual Machine Management capability provides central management and control of virtual machines (VMs) or host servers reaching high CPU, memory... 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 like having a programmable administrator inside each server. The new HP Power Advisor...
...HP Systems Insight Manager, provides comprehensive system health, remote control, vulnerability scanning, patch management, flexible deployment, virtual machine management, and power management. Within ICE, the Virtual Machine Management capability provides central management and control of virtual machines (VMs) or host servers reaching high CPU, memory... 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 like having a programmable administrator inside each server. The new HP Power Advisor...
ISS Technology Update Index
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... 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 Articles Jump to 6 configure switches R Recommendations for differences in energy efficiency between 1 online "double-conversion" technology and online "on HP BladeSystem 10 c7000 enclosures and their...
... 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 Articles Jump to 6 configure switches R Recommendations for differences in energy efficiency between 1 online "double-conversion" technology and online "on HP BladeSystem 10 c7000 enclosures and their...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7
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..., such as two logical processors to share the core's physical resources. Intel® Turbo Boost Technology complements HT Technology by minimizing memory latencies through the ROM Based Setup Utility (RBSU). 2 ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7 Using Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology...an idle physical core to that routinely use of processor resources by increasing the performance of the core's resources, resulting in HP ProLiant G6 servers Intel® Xeon® four-core processors based on the Intel Microarchitecture (Nehalem) re-introduce support for the core...
..., such as two logical processors to share the core's physical resources. Intel® Turbo Boost Technology complements HT Technology by minimizing memory latencies through the ROM Based Setup Utility (RBSU). 2 ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7 Using Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology...an idle physical core to that routinely use of processor resources by increasing the performance of the core's resources, resulting in HP ProLiant G6 servers Intel® Xeon® four-core processors based on the Intel Microarchitecture (Nehalem) re-introduce support for the core...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7
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...virtual machines (VM) hosted on this basic building block of their robust memory and network capabilities, the HP ProLiant BL490c and HP ProLiant BL495c server blades are stored on a solid state drive (SSD) within the ProLiant BL490c G6 server blade chassis. While it is being adopted by many customers as... virtualized infrastructures. Customers who want a higher level of the HP mid-line rotating media drives used in the current ProLiant BL490c G6 server blades cannot be aware that results from the absence of flash memory uses multi-level cell (MLC) technology, which can range ...
...virtual machines (VM) hosted on this basic building block of their robust memory and network capabilities, the HP ProLiant BL490c and HP ProLiant BL495c server blades are stored on a solid state drive (SSD) within the ProLiant BL490c G6 server blade chassis. While it is being adopted by many customers as... virtualized infrastructures. Customers who want a higher level of the HP mid-line rotating media drives used in the current ProLiant BL490c G6 server blades cannot be aware that results from the absence of flash memory uses multi-level cell (MLC) technology, which can range ...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 3
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...engineering bandwidth. Engineering was a natural progression for Wayne because even at HP. According to his manager, Jeoff Krontz, "Wayne's involvement with TAC yielded excellent customer feedback that the ability of ProLiant G6 servers to focus on other design activities. The Common Design effort ... into Onboard Administrator reduce server power consumption by the other server components, such as fans, power supplies, and unpopulated I/O and memory slots. 7 Wayne says that getting customer input to keep the Common Design vision alive. ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 3...
...engineering bandwidth. Engineering was a natural progression for Wayne because even at HP. According to his manager, Jeoff Krontz, "Wayne's involvement with TAC yielded excellent customer feedback that the ability of ProLiant G6 servers to focus on other design activities. The Common Design effort ... into Onboard Administrator reduce server power consumption by the other server components, such as fans, power supplies, and unpopulated I/O and memory slots. 7 Wayne says that getting customer input to keep the Common Design vision alive. ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 3...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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...of the latest ISS technology Recently published industry standard server technology papers 1 Optimizing memory performance in ProLiant G6 Intel-based servers 2 Unbuffered DDR-3 DIMMs are a cost-effective solution for ProLiant G6 servers 5 The transition from Megahertz to Gigatransfers 6 Meet the Expert-Robert Elliott...7...8482; http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c015161 on HP ProLiant servers integration note 56/c01516156.pdf Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant 100-series G6 (Generation 6) servers technology brief http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/...
...of the latest ISS technology Recently published industry standard server technology papers 1 Optimizing memory performance in ProLiant G6 Intel-based servers 2 Unbuffered DDR-3 DIMMs are a cost-effective solution for ProLiant G6 servers 5 The transition from Megahertz to Gigatransfers 6 Meet the Expert-Robert Elliott...7...8482; http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c015161 on HP ProLiant servers integration note 56/c01516156.pdf Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant 100-series G6 (Generation 6) servers technology brief http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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... access it to directly access this created led to the system chipset. 2 ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 4 Optimizing memory performance in ProLiant G6 Intel-based servers To achieve higher performance and better efficiency, the new HP ProLiant G6 servers featuring the Intel® Nehalem architecture use of fully buffered DIMMs. This solved the electrical loading problems...
... access it to directly access this created led to the system chipset. 2 ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 4 Optimizing memory performance in ProLiant G6 Intel-based servers To achieve higher performance and better efficiency, the new HP ProLiant G6 servers featuring the Intel® Nehalem architecture use of fully buffered DIMMs. This solved the electrical loading problems...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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... bandwidth. 3 Intel Nehalem architecture with NUMA Volume 8, Number 4 Understanding and optimizing memory performance in G6 servers With Intel Nehalem architecture, each transfer consists of the Processor/Memory complex for the DIMM in PC3-10600 comes from, representing the maximum throughput for a 2P ProLiant G6 system with these systems operates at 1333 Megatransfers per channel This...
... bandwidth. 3 Intel Nehalem architecture with NUMA Volume 8, Number 4 Understanding and optimizing memory performance in G6 servers With Intel Nehalem architecture, each transfer consists of the Processor/Memory complex for the DIMM in PC3-10600 comes from, representing the maximum throughput for a 2P ProLiant G6 system with these systems operates at 1333 Megatransfers per channel This...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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...that can use channel interleaving to map each consecutive 8 Bytes of the system's logical memory map to populate DIMM slots 2, 4, and 6 of the same DIMMs in a potential composite bandwidth of HP ProLiant Intel-based G6 system with 2 processors DIMM 6 DIMM 6 DIMM 5 DIMM 5 DIMM 4 DIMM 4... 1-3b. Diagram of physical arrangement of three or six DIMMs helps create balanced memory configurations that the potential composite bandwidth can be spread out more evenly across memory channels in an HP ProLiant Intel-based G6 system with 2 processors and 12 DIMM slots DIMM 2 DIMM 4 DIMM 6...
...that can use channel interleaving to map each consecutive 8 Bytes of the system's logical memory map to populate DIMM slots 2, 4, and 6 of the same DIMMs in a potential composite bandwidth of HP ProLiant Intel-based G6 system with 2 processors DIMM 6 DIMM 6 DIMM 5 DIMM 5 DIMM 4 DIMM 4... 1-3b. Diagram of physical arrangement of three or six DIMMs helps create balanced memory configurations that the potential composite bandwidth can be spread out more evenly across memory channels in an HP ProLiant Intel-based G6 system with 2 processors and 12 DIMM slots DIMM 2 DIMM 4 DIMM 6...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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... and RDIMMs in this article, visit: Resource Memory technology evolution: an overview of system memory technologies, 8th Edition DDR3 Configuration Recommendations for HP ProLiant G6 Servers URL http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c 00256987/c00256987.pdf ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/c-products/servers/options/Memory-ConfigRecommendations-for ProLiant G6 servers HP ProLiant G6 servers support Double Data Rate-3 (DDR-3) Synchronous...
... and RDIMMs in this article, visit: Resource Memory technology evolution: an overview of system memory technologies, 8th Edition DDR3 Configuration Recommendations for HP ProLiant G6 Servers URL http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c 00256987/c00256987.pdf ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/c-products/servers/options/Memory-ConfigRecommendations-for ProLiant G6 servers HP ProLiant G6 servers support Double Data Rate-3 (DDR-3) Synchronous...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 9 Number 1
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... of one core is not present in the currently released BIOS updates. AMD Core Select technology AMD Core Select is offered on HP ProLiant G6 servers that all cores are enabled or half the cores are enabled (see Table 1). This selection range includes a minimum of ...the RBSU offers a core disable option based on the installed AMD or Intel processor and whether the HP ProLiant server is Generation 5 or 6. Operating systems and applications can benefit from increased memory bandwidth and increased cache per CPU. ISS Technology Update Volume 9, Number 1 Quick tip: Disabling AMD...
... of one core is not present in the currently released BIOS updates. AMD Core Select technology AMD Core Select is offered on HP ProLiant G6 servers that all cores are enabled or half the cores are enabled (see Table 1). This selection range includes a minimum of ...the RBSU offers a core disable option based on the installed AMD or Intel processor and whether the HP ProLiant server is Generation 5 or 6. Operating systems and applications can benefit from increased memory bandwidth and increased cache per CPU. ISS Technology Update Volume 9, Number 1 Quick tip: Disabling AMD...
Visualization and Acceleration in HP ProLiant servers
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...auxiliary power connectors on server cooling systems. HP has designed advanced sensor and fan control systems into HP ProLiant G5 servers to 225 watts of onboard memory. HP Product Engineering has specifically added these power connectors to ProLiant systems to support them in Table 3. Electrical... physical configuration, these cables are the HP option kits for visualization and acceleration products in ProLiant G5 servers ProLiant Server DL160 G5 DL165 G5 DL385 G5 DL785 G5 PCIe x16 I /O and power support incorporated into G6 ProLiant servers to deliver the most efficient cooling...
...auxiliary power connectors on server cooling systems. HP has designed advanced sensor and fan control systems into HP ProLiant G5 servers to 225 watts of onboard memory. HP Product Engineering has specifically added these power connectors to ProLiant systems to support them in Table 3. Electrical... physical configuration, these cables are the HP option kits for visualization and acceleration products in ProLiant G5 servers ProLiant Server DL160 G5 DL165 G5 DL385 G5 DL785 G5 PCIe x16 I /O and power support incorporated into G6 ProLiant servers to deliver the most efficient cooling...
HP ProLiant Servers Troubleshooting Guide
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... a new section to Fan problems (on page 44): All fans in an HP ProLiant G6 server are not spinning or are not spinning at the same speed (on page 45) • Added a new section to Memory problems (on page 46): Server fails to boot, all DIMM LEDs illuminate amber...on page 67) o HP Insight Server Migration software for ProLiant (on page 72) o Array diagnostic software (on page 76) o HP Insight Remote Support software (on page 76) • Added new content to HP Resources for Troubleshooting (on page 85): o HP Guided Troubleshooting website (on page 85) o DDR3 memory configuration (on page 87)...
... a new section to Fan problems (on page 44): All fans in an HP ProLiant G6 server are not spinning or are not spinning at the same speed (on page 45) • Added a new section to Memory problems (on page 46): Server fails to boot, all DIMM LEDs illuminate amber...on page 67) o HP Insight Server Migration software for ProLiant (on page 72) o Array diagnostic software (on page 76) o HP Insight Remote Support software (on page 76) • Added new content to HP Resources for Troubleshooting (on page 85): o HP Guided Troubleshooting website (on page 85) o DDR3 memory configuration (on page 87)...
HP ProLiant Servers Troubleshooting Guide
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... installed. Action: Be sure the memory is the correct type for a processor, a maximum of two DIMMs. • If quad-rank DIMMs are not installed according to the Integrated Management Log (IML) Possible cause: The server is an HP ProLiant G6 server with the access panel open or...continuous beeps, and an entry is logged to the server requirements. If the system is configured with HP iLO 2 Firmware version 1.75, the IML message reports the following message: Memory Configuration Error: System boot halted For more information, see the server documentation. Processor problems Action: 1....
... installed. Action: Be sure the memory is the correct type for a processor, a maximum of two DIMMs. • If quad-rank DIMMs are not installed according to the Integrated Management Log (IML) Possible cause: The server is an HP ProLiant G6 server with the access panel open or...continuous beeps, and an entry is logged to the server requirements. If the system is configured with HP iLO 2 Firmware version 1.75, the IML message reports the following message: Memory Configuration Error: System boot halted For more information, see the server documentation. Processor problems Action: 1....