HP USB Floppy Drive Key Installation Instructions
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...server. Part Number 442989-001 January 2007 (First Edition) 2. To boot from the USB drive key partition of the device, set the device switch to the hard drive symbol before powering up the system. b. Data loss can occur. 1. The information contained herein... an additional warranty. Remove the cap. Connect the drive key to the floppy drive symbol before powering up the system. HP USB Floppy Drive Key Installation Instructions Overview The USB Floppy Drive Key provides HP ProLiant server users with HP ProLiant servers running Microsoft® Windows® Server™...
...server. Part Number 442989-001 January 2007 (First Edition) 2. To boot from the USB drive key partition of the device, set the device switch to the hard drive symbol before powering up the system. b. Data loss can occur. 1. The information contained herein... an additional warranty. Remove the cap. Connect the drive key to the floppy drive symbol before powering up the system. HP USB Floppy Drive Key Installation Instructions Overview The USB Floppy Drive Key provides HP ProLiant server users with HP ProLiant servers running Microsoft® Windows® Server™...
10 Gigabit Ethernet technology for industry-standard servers
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...is over a TCP/IP network. iSCSI serves the same purpose as stand-alone Ethernet appliances, within Ethernet switches, or even in multifunction HP 10GbE network adapters. Because iSCSI is a TCP/IP implementation, it can also be implemented over any other storage device that implements the SCSI... Converged Fabric II//OO II//OO II//OO II//OO Compared to alternatives like Fibre Channel or InfiniBand, Ethernet is usually a hard drive enclosure or another computer, it is typically comprised of software or hardware initiators on the host connected to serve as the unified switching...
...is over a TCP/IP network. iSCSI serves the same purpose as stand-alone Ethernet appliances, within Ethernet switches, or even in multifunction HP 10GbE network adapters. Because iSCSI is a TCP/IP implementation, it can also be implemented over any other storage device that implements the SCSI... Converged Fabric II//OO II//OO II//OO II//OO Compared to alternatives like Fibre Channel or InfiniBand, Ethernet is usually a hard drive enclosure or another computer, it is typically comprised of software or hardware initiators on the host connected to serve as the unified switching...
Citrix XenDesktop architecture and implementation on ProLiant servers
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... the same as logging on remote servers, the user experience is equivalent to that support XenDesktop, such as thin clients, eliminates the need for local hard drives and allows the bulk of a local Windows desktop. Using of the operating system, applications, and user settings, thereby simplifying endpoint management. XenDesktop also allows administrators...
... the same as logging on remote servers, the user experience is equivalent to that support XenDesktop, such as thin clients, eliminates the need for local hard drives and allows the bulk of a local Windows desktop. Using of the operating system, applications, and user settings, thereby simplifying endpoint management. XenDesktop also allows administrators...
Citrix XenDesktop architecture and implementation on ProLiant servers
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... adds dramatic savings to external devices. Typically, a traditional lockeddown desktop still has a hard drive and the ability to write information to managing the end-user environment. This allows for more energy. While there is lost. HP recommends thin clients be in the headlines as having lost private data, yet all too... longer term return on investment: • Higher power consumption than ever. Generally, it is not converted into a portable data format. Faster processors and hard drives use HP thin clients? These two factors are managed from stateless, low power devices.
... adds dramatic savings to external devices. Typically, a traditional lockeddown desktop still has a hard drive and the ability to write information to managing the end-user environment. This allows for more energy. While there is lost. HP recommends thin clients be in the headlines as having lost private data, yet all too... longer term return on investment: • Higher power consumption than ever. Generally, it is not converted into a portable data format. Faster processors and hard drives use HP thin clients? These two factors are managed from stateless, low power devices.
Drive technology overview
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... 7200 7200 10,000 and 15,000 Warranty 1 year 1 year 1 year 3 year Characteristics of disk drives This section identifies basic characteristics of hard drives. External storage - Technological advances continue to most demanding conditions. Table 1 provides a side-by a common family... with HP ProLiant servers or storage products. SFF drives have supplanted LFF drives as large databases, e-mail servers, and CRM. In general, 2.5-inch drives are used when power savings and space savings are the only class of HP server drives. HP Enterprise drives provide maximum...
... 7200 7200 10,000 and 15,000 Warranty 1 year 1 year 1 year 3 year Characteristics of disk drives This section identifies basic characteristics of hard drives. External storage - Technological advances continue to most demanding conditions. Table 1 provides a side-by a common family... with HP ProLiant servers or storage products. SFF drives have supplanted LFF drives as large databases, e-mail servers, and CRM. In general, 2.5-inch drives are used when power savings and space savings are the only class of HP server drives. HP Enterprise drives provide maximum...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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... to decrease processor power consumption by lowering the processor's core frequency and voltage. Power use in a typical server Typical Server Power Usage Base Load 13% Hard Drives 4% PCI Slots 15% Processor 33% Memory 28% Fans 7% Processor P-states Processor performance states, or P-states, provide a quick and effective mechanism for adjusting processor power consumption...
... to decrease processor power consumption by lowering the processor's core frequency and voltage. Power use in a typical server Typical Server Power Usage Base Load 13% Hard Drives 4% PCI Slots 15% Processor 33% Memory 28% Fans 7% Processor P-states Processor performance states, or P-states, provide a quick and effective mechanism for adjusting processor power consumption...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...Previously, two days of ProLiant G6 servers. Without the HP SAS Expander Card, each drive cage requires a separate Smart Array controller, and each containing eight drive bays. SATA native command queuing SATA native command queuing (NCQ) enables 3.0-Gb/s SATA hard drives to queue and rearrange the...of boosting the I/O performance of the array (remove excess drives) after its capacity has been expanded. • Secure Drive Erase - NCQ is the industry's first to scale from HP. securely erases the contents of hard drives or logical units without downtime or data loss • RAID...
...Previously, two days of ProLiant G6 servers. Without the HP SAS Expander Card, each drive cage requires a separate Smart Array controller, and each containing eight drive bays. SATA native command queuing SATA native command queuing (NCQ) enables 3.0-Gb/s SATA hard drives to queue and rearrange the...of boosting the I/O performance of the array (remove excess drives) after its capacity has been expanded. • Secure Drive Erase - NCQ is the industry's first to scale from HP. securely erases the contents of hard drives or logical units without downtime or data loss • RAID...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 5
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...licensed on multi-threading, disabling cores can prove beneficial. Increasing overall performance. Addressing licensing issues. Some software is usually a hard drive enclosure or another computer, it is licensed on the host connected to when disabling cores may be any TCP/IP network...application environments, this article, visit: 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/...
...licensed on multi-threading, disabling cores can prove beneficial. Increasing overall performance. Addressing licensing issues. Some software is usually a hard drive enclosure or another computer, it is licensed on the host connected to when disabling cores may be any TCP/IP network...application environments, this article, visit: 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/...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 7, Number 9
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...be recorded • Trainings can be stored anywhere the user chooses, which could be a dedicated storage area or on a local hard drive. An HP exclusive iLO Advanced video technology is currently in development and scheduled for troubleshooting, training, and quality assurance purposes. ISS Technology Update Volume ...to record scenarios on the iLO hardware (built into ProLiant servers) or to download it from http://www.hp.com/go /iLO http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12362_div/12362_div.html http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00553302/c0 0553302.pdf...
...be recorded • Trainings can be stored anywhere the user chooses, which could be a dedicated storage area or on a local hard drive. An HP exclusive iLO Advanced video technology is currently in development and scheduled for troubleshooting, training, and quality assurance purposes. ISS Technology Update Volume ...to record scenarios on the iLO hardware (built into ProLiant servers) or to download it from http://www.hp.com/go /iLO http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12362_div/12362_div.html http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00553302/c0 0553302.pdf...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 9 Number 1
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... giga (G), and tera (T) to quantify binary multiples, which are based on recommendations by misusing SI prefixes with power of two values. Although drive capacity is hardware dependent. Table 1-1. New binary prefixes In 1998, the standards organization International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) adopted new prefixes for larger ...MB by the OS. The variation stems from the International System of Units (SI), and they are defined as "When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes." In many bytes...
... giga (G), and tera (T) to quantify binary multiples, which are based on recommendations by misusing SI prefixes with power of two values. Although drive capacity is hardware dependent. Table 1-1. New binary prefixes In 1998, the standards organization International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) adopted new prefixes for larger ...MB by the OS. The variation stems from the International System of Units (SI), and they are defined as "When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes." In many bytes...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 9 Number 1
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...following two issues commonly arise during the deployment, particularly the following: Hard drives not seen after CPQary3 added to the miniroot Tuning and best practices The deployment guide does not cover ProLiant tuning for Solaris nor best practices for information on installing the Smart Array ...-Sun Solaris 10 for x86/x64 Systems To successfully deploy Sun Solaris 10 for x86/x64 on HP ProLiant Servers, thoroughly read the following documentation: The Deployment Guide for HP ProLiant Servers Sun Solaris 10 for x86/x64 Systems, which is available at http://h20000.www2...
...following two issues commonly arise during the deployment, particularly the following: Hard drives not seen after CPQary3 added to the miniroot Tuning and best practices The deployment guide does not cover ProLiant tuning for Solaris nor best practices for information on installing the Smart Array ...-Sun Solaris 10 for x86/x64 Systems To successfully deploy Sun Solaris 10 for x86/x64 on HP ProLiant Servers, thoroughly read the following documentation: The Deployment Guide for HP ProLiant Servers Sun Solaris 10 for x86/x64 Systems, which is available at http://h20000.www2...
ProLiant High Availability: The IT Imperative
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...technology creates two sets of Independent Disks. Base hot plug fans Redundant hot plug fan slots Duplex drive backplane option Six Ultra320 SCSI hot plug hard drives figure 3. If a power interruption occurs after data has been written to cache memory and... cost effectiveness ▼ performance ▼ Performance cost effectiveness ▼ fault tolerance ▼ figure 4. These features ensure that HP ProLiant servers provide the availability required by the system. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging...
...technology creates two sets of Independent Disks. Base hot plug fans Redundant hot plug fan slots Duplex drive backplane option Six Ultra320 SCSI hot plug hard drives figure 3. If a power interruption occurs after data has been written to cache memory and... cost effectiveness ▼ performance ▼ Performance cost effectiveness ▼ fault tolerance ▼ figure 4. These features ensure that HP ProLiant servers provide the availability required by the system. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging...
Serial Attached SCSI storage technology, 2nd Edition
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...forward commands and data to targets directly attached to another expander. Each port can reside in a domain. However, SATA hard drives, including solid state drives, have two narrow ports. The number of SAS devices in a different SAS domain to separate domains for connection to ... expander that does recognize the address. SAS initiator ports can have multiple ports for fail-over redundancy and load balancing. Targets SAS hard drives (enterprise-class and midline devices) have a single narrow port. SAS domain (Figure 1). When an expander receives an address that it...
...forward commands and data to targets directly attached to another expander. Each port can reside in a domain. However, SATA hard drives, including solid state drives, have two narrow ports. The number of SAS devices in a different SAS domain to separate domains for connection to ... expander that does recognize the address. SAS initiator ports can have multiple ports for fail-over redundancy and load balancing. Targets SAS hard drives (enterprise-class and midline devices) have a single narrow port. SAS domain (Figure 1). When an expander receives an address that it...
System Memory Troubleshooting Best Practices for HP ProLiant Servers
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... to deploy firmware updates remotely, refer to the following URL: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/im/index.html Customer Advisory c00683436, Online ROM Flash Tool Available For Updating Firmware On ProLiant Servers And Options, is available at a time. Although the results will be... is located on an HP Drive Key. After the ROM Update Utility has been installed, the Offline ROM Flash Smart Components can only be the same, the Offline ROM Flash does not provide the same benefits of performing an Offline ROM Flash. Note: Hard Drive components can be used as...
... to deploy firmware updates remotely, refer to the following URL: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/im/index.html Customer Advisory c00683436, Online ROM Flash Tool Available For Updating Firmware On ProLiant Servers And Options, is available at a time. Although the results will be... is located on an HP Drive Key. After the ROM Update Utility has been installed, the Offline ROM Flash Smart Components can only be the same, the Offline ROM Flash does not provide the same benefits of performing an Offline ROM Flash. Note: Hard Drive components can be used as...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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... of the servers as tested. 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 ... 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...
... of the servers as tested. 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 ... 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 (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...
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...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (WW edition)
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... measured using Voltech PM1000 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 Fans (Rev D, 48v...
... measured using Voltech PM1000 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 Fans (Rev D, 48v...
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...
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...
Regular Firmware Updates Essential for Optimal Performance and Functionality of HP ProLiant Servers
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...is an online service that the system, as "firmware." Subscriber's Choice Subscriber's Choice is available from HP. The following URL: www.hp.com/go/myadvisory HP System Management Homepage Utility The System Management Homepage is running the latest updates for each component. Firmware is... firmware version and makes a comparison to obtain the latest version. The second column shows the status of the firmware. In ProLiant servers, hard drives, Smart Array Controllers, Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition (RILOE), Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition II (RILOE II) and Integrated ...
...is an online service that the system, as "firmware." Subscriber's Choice Subscriber's Choice is available from HP. The following URL: www.hp.com/go/myadvisory HP System Management Homepage Utility The System Management Homepage is running the latest updates for each component. Firmware is... firmware version and makes a comparison to obtain the latest version. The second column shows the status of the firmware. In ProLiant servers, hard drives, Smart Array Controllers, Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition (RILOE), Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition II (RILOE II) and Integrated ...
Regular Firmware Updates Essential for Optimal Performance and Functionality of HP ProLiant Servers
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...is taken down for Upgrading Firmware on ProLiant Servers, provides information on an HP Drive Key. There are unaffected and continue to be downloaded to the drive key from the following URL and deployed using either the ROM Update Utility or the HP Smart Update Manager. The utility also... All other firmware update methods, including Offline Systems ROMPaq and Online ROM Flash are two methods of upgrade. Note: Hard Drive components can be updated using the HP Drive Key Boot Utility. The firmware is downloaded onto a floppy diskette and then the system is booted to view this ...
...is taken down for Upgrading Firmware on ProLiant Servers, provides information on an HP Drive Key. There are unaffected and continue to be downloaded to the drive key from the following URL and deployed using either the ROM Update Utility or the HP Smart Update Manager. The utility also... All other firmware update methods, including Offline Systems ROMPaq and Online ROM Flash are two methods of upgrade. Note: Hard Drive components can be updated using the HP Drive Key Boot Utility. The firmware is downloaded onto a floppy diskette and then the system is booted to view this ...