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... infrastructure 10 Conclusion...12 Appendix: TCO Test Configurations and Supported Servers 13 Test Configuration 1-HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server 13 Test Configuration 2-HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Server 13 Test Configuration 3-HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server 14 Supported Servers and Enclosures...14 For more information...15 Feedback...15 HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server 6 Case 2. Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper Executive Summary ...2 Introduction ...2 Poor Power...
... infrastructure 10 Conclusion...12 Appendix: TCO Test Configurations and Supported Servers 13 Test Configuration 1-HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server 13 Test Configuration 2-HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Server 13 Test Configuration 3-HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server 14 Supported Servers and Enclosures...14 For more information...15 Feedback...15 HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server 6 Case 2. Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper Executive Summary ...2 Introduction ...2 Poor Power...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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... of Dynamic Power Capping. The first release of setting the Dynamic Power Cap for individual servers, the IT administrator sets a cap for the entire HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure. Instead of Dynamic Power Capping requires N+N power redundancy for each blade ...208V) when budgeting power via three methods: power supply faceplate, HP Power Calculator or HP BladeSystem Sizer, and Dynamic Power Capping. The Dynamic Power Cap for the ProLiant DL 380 G5 server, ProLiant BL460c G1 server, and ProLiant BL460c G5 server. The difference in conjunction with the iLO 2 management processor,...
... of Dynamic Power Capping. The first release of setting the Dynamic Power Cap for individual servers, the IT administrator sets a cap for the entire HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure. Instead of Dynamic Power Capping requires N+N power redundancy for each blade ...208V) when budgeting power via three methods: power supply faceplate, HP Power Calculator or HP BladeSystem Sizer, and Dynamic Power Capping. The Dynamic Power Cap for the ProLiant DL 380 G5 server, ProLiant BL460c G1 server, and ProLiant BL460c G5 server. The difference in conjunction with the iLO 2 management processor,...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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...Measure Peak Power Consumption and Cap: Server power consumption was measured at maximum performance on the configuration of the server and the anticipated intensity of the server workload as measured by CPU utilization. HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server Comparisons of faceplate, power calculator, and...benchmark with the same configuration used for the power calculator estimate. HP ProLiant DL 380 G5 Power and Costs Projections Faceplate Power Calculator Server Power Maximum Number of Servers in Circuit Power Provisioning Cost Per Server @ $25k per circuit from 7servers, using faceplate, to ...
...Measure Peak Power Consumption and Cap: Server power consumption was measured at maximum performance on the configuration of the server and the anticipated intensity of the server workload as measured by CPU utilization. HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server Comparisons of faceplate, power calculator, and...benchmark with the same configuration used for the power calculator estimate. HP ProLiant DL 380 G5 Power and Costs Projections Faceplate Power Calculator Server Power Maximum Number of Servers in Circuit Power Provisioning Cost Per Server @ $25k per circuit from 7servers, using faceplate, to ...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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... with Dynamic Power Capping for a usable total of 8.6 kW of 8,340 W 16Blade Server* Blade System Sizer (Enclosure) 4,722W 28 Blade Servers Load Testing and Dynamic Power Capping 4,257 W 32 Blade Servers 7 HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server Power and Costs Projections Faceplate Enclosure Power w/16 Blade Servers Maximum Number of capacity. In addition, while these measurements were calculated at...
... with Dynamic Power Capping for a usable total of 8.6 kW of 8,340 W 16Blade Server* Blade System Sizer (Enclosure) 4,722W 28 Blade Servers Load Testing and Dynamic Power Capping 4,257 W 32 Blade Servers 7 HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server Power and Costs Projections Faceplate Enclosure Power w/16 Blade Servers Maximum Number of capacity. In addition, while these measurements were calculated at...
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... with refinement of HP Insight Control Environment. First, while the increase in number of server per circuit is also a free trial for rack-mount servers using the ProLiant BL 460c G1 and G5 servers and the HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure as the HP Power Calculator or HP BladeSystem Sizer to ...reclaim additional power capacity by setting caps lower than 16 blade servers will probably result in little to ...
... with refinement of HP Insight Control Environment. First, while the increase in number of server per circuit is also a free trial for rack-mount servers using the ProLiant BL 460c G1 and G5 servers and the HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure as the HP Power Calculator or HP BladeSystem Sizer to ...reclaim additional power capacity by setting caps lower than 16 blade servers will probably result in little to ...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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...; First, download and apply the following updates to your HP ProLiant server (see Appendix), our configuration yields a power estimate of 450 Watts. • The HP Power Calculator output becomes the initial Dynamic Power Cap for your specific configuration using the HP Power Calculator default settings for our DL380 G5 TCO benchmark configuration (see Appendix for each...
...; First, download and apply the following updates to your HP ProLiant server (see Appendix), our configuration yields a power estimate of 450 Watts. • The HP Power Calculator output becomes the initial Dynamic Power Cap for your specific configuration using the HP Power Calculator default settings for our DL380 G5 TCO benchmark configuration (see Appendix for each...
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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 ...208VAC Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating Temperature: 22°C ±0.5°C Power calculated using HP Power Calculator REV111601 Power 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...
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 ...208VAC Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating Temperature: 22°C ±0.5°C Power calculated using HP Power Calculator REV111601 Power 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...
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... Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating Temperature: 22°C ±0.5°C Power calculated using HP BladeSystem Sizer v3.4.1 Power measured using Voltech PM1000 Power Analyzer Supported Servers and Enclosures Dynamic Power Capping supported on the following servers and enclosures: HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure HP ProLiant BL 2x220 G5 server HP ProLiant BL260 G5 server HP ProLiant BL460c G1 server HP ProLiant BL460c G5 server HP ProLiant BL495c G5 server HP ProLiant BL685 G5 server HP ProLiant DL360 G5 server HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server 14
... Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating Temperature: 22°C ±0.5°C Power calculated using HP BladeSystem Sizer v3.4.1 Power measured using Voltech PM1000 Power Analyzer Supported Servers and Enclosures Dynamic Power Capping supported on the following servers and enclosures: HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure HP ProLiant BL 2x220 G5 server HP ProLiant BL260 G5 server HP ProLiant BL460c G1 server HP ProLiant BL460c G5 server HP ProLiant BL495c G5 server HP ProLiant BL685 G5 server HP ProLiant DL360 G5 server HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server 14
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (WW edition)
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... 1. HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server 6 Case 2. HP ProLiant BL460c G1 and G5 Servers 7 Best Practices for Implementing Dynamic Power Capping 8 Setting Dynamic Power Caps for rack-mount servers 9 Setting Dynamic Power Cap with HP BladeSystem infrastructure 10 Conclusion...12 Appendix: TCO Test Configurations and Supported Servers 13 Test Configuration 1-HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server 13 Test Configuration 2-HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Server 13 Test Configuration 3-HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server 14 Supported Servers...
... 1. HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server 6 Case 2. HP ProLiant BL460c G1 and G5 Servers 7 Best Practices for Implementing Dynamic Power Capping 8 Setting Dynamic Power Caps for rack-mount servers 9 Setting Dynamic Power Cap with HP BladeSystem infrastructure 10 Conclusion...12 Appendix: TCO Test Configurations and Supported Servers 13 Test Configuration 1-HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server 13 Test Configuration 2-HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Server 13 Test Configuration 3-HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server 14 Supported Servers...
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....org/. 6 Faceplate value represents the maximum possible input power required for the ProLiant DL 380 G5 server, ProLiant BL460c G1 server, and ProLiant BL460c G5 server. HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server Comparisons of the data-gathering exercise appear in Circuit Power Provisioning Cost Per Server @ $25k per server, a decrease of the server workload as measured by CPU utilization. The SpecJBB benchmark was then applied to...
....org/. 6 Faceplate value represents the maximum possible input power required for the ProLiant DL 380 G5 server, ProLiant BL460c G1 server, and ProLiant BL460c G5 server. HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server Comparisons of the data-gathering exercise appear in Circuit Power Provisioning Cost Per Server @ $25k per server, a decrease of the server workload as measured by CPU utilization. The SpecJBB benchmark was then applied to...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (WW edition)
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... workloads do not consistently run at typical CPU loads may be able to $6,719 per server, most dramatic decrease in Circuit Power Provisioning $13,438 $9,733 $7,679 Cost Per Server @ $25k per server, a decrease of 39%. HP ProLiant BL460c G1 and G5 Servers Comparisons of faceplate, power calculator, and SPECjbb benchmark with Dynamic Power Capping for a typical...
... workloads do not consistently run at typical CPU loads may be able to $6,719 per server, most dramatic decrease in Circuit Power Provisioning $13,438 $9,733 $7,679 Cost Per Server @ $25k per server, a decrease of 39%. HP ProLiant BL460c G1 and G5 Servers Comparisons of faceplate, power calculator, and SPECjbb benchmark with Dynamic Power Capping for a typical...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (WW edition)
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...total of 8.6kW of this section described the same process for HP BladeSystem infrastructure using the ProLiant BL 460c G1 and G5 servers and the HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure as the HP Power Calculator or HP BladeSystem Sizer to make when looking at different rates, setting ...Best Practices for Implementing Dynamic Power Capping Establishing the dynamic power capping settings for rack-mount servers using Dynamic Power Capping, go to no performance loss. HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server Power and Costs Projections Faceplate Blade System Sizer (Enclosure) Load Testing and Dynamic Power ...
...total of 8.6kW of this section described the same process for HP BladeSystem infrastructure using the ProLiant BL 460c G1 and G5 servers and the HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure as the HP Power Calculator or HP BladeSystem Sizer to make when looking at different rates, setting ...Best Practices for Implementing Dynamic Power Capping Establishing the dynamic power capping settings for rack-mount servers using Dynamic Power Capping, go to no performance loss. HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server Power and Costs Projections Faceplate Blade System Sizer (Enclosure) Load Testing and Dynamic Power ...
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...for our ProLiant DL380 G5 configuration, we would set the initial Dynamic Power Cap at 450 Watts. • Using Insight Control Environment, observe peak power usage for a period of 450 Watts. • The HP Power Calculator output becomes the initial Dynamic Power Cap for each server IPM update... on our TCO benchmarking, we would adjust our Dynamic Power Cap downward to 368 Watts. • Finally, continue to your HP ProLiant server (see Appendix), our configuration yields a power estimate of time that the peak power consumption value observed represents the true peak power usage...
...for our ProLiant DL380 G5 configuration, we would set the initial Dynamic Power Cap at 450 Watts. • Using Insight Control Environment, observe peak power usage for a period of 450 Watts. • The HP Power Calculator output becomes the initial Dynamic Power Cap for each server IPM update... on our TCO benchmarking, we would adjust our Dynamic Power Cap downward to 368 Watts. • Finally, continue to your HP ProLiant server (see Appendix), our configuration yields a power estimate of time that the peak power consumption value observed represents the true peak power usage...
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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 ...208VAC Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating Temperature: 22°C ±0.5°C Power calculated using HP Power Calculator REV111601 Power 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...
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 ...208VAC Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating Temperature: 22°C ±0.5°C Power calculated using HP Power Calculator REV111601 Power 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...
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... Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating Temperature: 22°C ±0.5°C Power calculated using HP BladeSystem Sizer v3.4.1 Power measured using Voltech PM1000 Power Analyzer Supported Servers and Enclosures Dynamic Power Capping supported on the following servers and enclosures: HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure HP ProLiant BL 2x220 G5 server HP ProLiant BL260 G5 server HP ProLiant BL460c G1 server HP ProLiant BL460c G5 server HP ProLiant BL495c G5 server HP ProLiant BL685 G5 server HP ProLiant DL360 G5 server HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server 14
... Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating Temperature: 22°C ±0.5°C Power calculated using HP BladeSystem Sizer v3.4.1 Power measured using Voltech PM1000 Power Analyzer Supported Servers and Enclosures Dynamic Power Capping supported on the following servers and enclosures: HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure HP ProLiant BL 2x220 G5 server HP ProLiant BL260 G5 server HP ProLiant BL460c G1 server HP ProLiant BL460c G5 server HP ProLiant BL495c G5 server HP ProLiant BL685 G5 server HP ProLiant DL360 G5 server HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server 14
Delivering an Adaptive Infrastructure with the HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture
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... scalability, reliability, and flexibility. Figure 5. HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure - For example, in a c7000 enclosure. each with 16 halfheight server blades, the aggregate bandwidth is a software application that provides management capabilities for the G5 product - Resilience and availability BladeSystem c-Class... such as the ProLiant BL2x220c, up to the signal midplane and high reliability. The NonStop signal midplane and separate power backplane have no active components (Figure 5). storage, or I/O option blades. can scale server blade management by pooling...
... scalability, reliability, and flexibility. Figure 5. HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure - For example, in a c7000 enclosure. each with 16 halfheight server blades, the aggregate bandwidth is a software application that provides management capabilities for the G5 product - Resilience and availability BladeSystem c-Class... such as the ProLiant BL2x220c, up to the signal midplane and high reliability. The NonStop signal midplane and separate power backplane have no active components (Figure 5). storage, or I/O option blades. can scale server blade management by pooling...
Configuring the HP ProLiant Server BIOS for Low-Latency Applications
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...disabling Memory Pre-Failure Notification does not disable the Advanced ECC mode or correction of the ProLiant server. Supported AMP modes depend on HP ProLiant G6 servers and server blades with InfiniBand mezzanine cards installed, upgrade the InfiniBand mezzanine card firmware. Because of ...errors are required. Select the installed OS. 3. Disabling Processor Power and Utilization Monitoring provides the greatest benefit in HP ProLiant G1 through G5 server blades with Intel® Xeon® processors. Disabling Memory Pre-Failure Notification has a much smaller effect because this...
...disabling Memory Pre-Failure Notification does not disable the Advanced ECC mode or correction of the ProLiant server. Supported AMP modes depend on HP ProLiant G6 servers and server blades with InfiniBand mezzanine cards installed, upgrade the InfiniBand mezzanine card firmware. Because of ...errors are required. Select the installed OS. 3. Disabling Processor Power and Utilization Monitoring provides the greatest benefit in HP ProLiant G1 through G5 server blades with Intel® Xeon® processors. Disabling Memory Pre-Failure Notification has a much smaller effect because this...
Configuring the HP ProLiant Server BIOS for Low-Latency Applications
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... one method available for configuring these options on HP ProLiant G5 servers and HP ProLiant G6 servers that utilize Intel® Xeon® processors. Obtaining SSSTK IMPORTANT: SSSTK v.2.20c or later is the only method available for configuring HP ProLiant G6 servers that utilize AMD Opteron™ processors. This ...in earlier versions does not provide the required functionality. Unpack the archive in HP ProLiant 300 Series or above G5, G6, or G7 servers and server blades depend on the server generation and on the Online ROM Flash Component page. BIOS configuration methods The...
... one method available for configuring these options on HP ProLiant G5 servers and HP ProLiant G6 servers that utilize Intel® Xeon® processors. Obtaining SSSTK IMPORTANT: SSSTK v.2.20c or later is the only method available for configuring HP ProLiant G6 servers that utilize AMD Opteron™ processors. This ...in earlier versions does not provide the required functionality. Unpack the archive in HP ProLiant 300 Series or above G5, G6, or G7 servers and server blades depend on the server generation and on the Online ROM Flash Component page. BIOS configuration methods The...