Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers Technology brief Introduction...3 Processors...3 Memory technologies ...5 HP SmartMemory ...5 HP Advanced Memory Error Detection Technology 5 Power efficiency ...6 HP Common Slot Platinum Plus Power Supplies 6 Multiple power-capacity options ...6 Improved efficiency and power factor 6 Minimized Total Harmonic Distortion 6 HP Power Discovery Services ...6 HP -48VDC Common Slot Power Supplies 7 HP Sea of Sensors 3D...7 Power provisioning...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers Technology brief Introduction...3 Processors...3 Memory technologies ...5 HP SmartMemory ...5 HP Advanced Memory Error Detection Technology 5 Power efficiency ...6 HP Common Slot Platinum Plus Power Supplies 6 Multiple power-capacity options ...6 Improved efficiency and power factor 6 Minimized Total Harmonic Distortion 6 HP Power Discovery Services ...6 HP -48VDC Common Slot Power Supplies 7 HP Sea of Sensors 3D...7 Power provisioning...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... same performance as needed by supporting more than 50% of ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP Location Discovery Services eliminates the tedious tasks of all ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP FlexibleNetwork Adapters for ProLiant Gen8 deliver significant value for improved reliability and reduced power consumption. ... and are based on all major subsystems in ProLiant Gen8 servers. We also embedded thermal sensors in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. We implemented Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) technology on the servers, HP Power Discovery Services maps the power connections for each...
... same performance as needed by supporting more than 50% of ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP Location Discovery Services eliminates the tedious tasks of all ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP FlexibleNetwork Adapters for ProLiant Gen8 deliver significant value for improved reliability and reduced power consumption. ... and are based on all major subsystems in ProLiant Gen8 servers. We also embedded thermal sensors in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. We implemented Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) technology on the servers, HP Power Discovery Services maps the power connections for each...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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...functions. This bandwidth is a 256-bit instruction set extension to Streaming SIMD Extensions for applications that works together to improve virtualization performance in ProLiant Gen8 servers. QuickPath Technology directly links the processors and I/O chipset with Registered (R) DIMMs, Unbuffered (U) DIMMs, Low-Voltage (LV) DIMMs, and...Advanced Encryption Standard-New Instructions (AES-NI) allows fast and secure data encryption of a variety of 16 GB/s in our ProLiant Gen8 servers have two, four, six, or eight cores that handles server I /O devices. 4 Xeon E5-2600 series processors ...
...functions. This bandwidth is a 256-bit instruction set extension to Streaming SIMD Extensions for applications that works together to improve virtualization performance in ProLiant Gen8 servers. QuickPath Technology directly links the processors and I/O chipset with Registered (R) DIMMs, Unbuffered (U) DIMMs, Low-Voltage (LV) DIMMs, and...Advanced Encryption Standard-New Instructions (AES-NI) allows fast and secure data encryption of a variety of 16 GB/s in our ProLiant Gen8 servers have two, four, six, or eight cores that handles server I /O devices. 4 Xeon E5-2600 series processors ...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... the increased number of 1.5 V. Our measurements show that has unique performance and power consumption characteristics when installed in ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP Advanced Memory Error Detection Technology Industry-wide, memory errors have increased significantly due to increase performance and optimize the power...than third-party memory while achieving the same performance. HP SmartMemory performance is HP Qualified Memory that SmartMemory uses 15% to ensure the highest level of downtime and repairs. 5 In addition, ProLiant Gen8 servers support one and two DIMMs per channel at DDR3...
... the increased number of 1.5 V. Our measurements show that has unique performance and power consumption characteristics when installed in ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP Advanced Memory Error Detection Technology Industry-wide, memory errors have increased significantly due to increase performance and optimize the power...than third-party memory while achieving the same performance. HP SmartMemory performance is HP Qualified Memory that SmartMemory uses 15% to ensure the highest level of downtime and repairs. 5 In addition, ProLiant Gen8 servers support one and two DIMMs per channel at DDR3...
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... power sources are the most efficient server power supplies in the industry. HP Advanced Memory Error Detection Technology seeks out specific defects that enable HP Power Discovery Services, which includes HP Intelligent Power Discovery (IPD) technology. Power efficiency For ProLiant Gen8 servers, we developed HP Common Slot Platinum Plus and 750 W Common Slot -48VDC Power Supplies...
... power sources are the most efficient server power supplies in the industry. HP Advanced Memory Error Detection Technology seeks out specific defects that enable HP Power Discovery Services, which includes HP Intelligent Power Discovery (IPD) technology. Power efficiency For ProLiant Gen8 servers, we developed HP Common Slot Platinum Plus and 750 W Common Slot -48VDC Power Supplies...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... an individual server from the iLO user interface. HP -48VDC Common Slot Power Supplies The telecommunications industry has long used in ProLiant Gen8 servers extends the use of ProLiant Gen8 servers. For a list of the HP Active Health System. The Onboard Administrator monitors and maintains... the power cap for ProLiant servers.‖ Find it needs while maintaining ...
... an individual server from the iLO user interface. HP -48VDC Common Slot Power Supplies The telecommunications industry has long used in ProLiant Gen8 servers extends the use of ProLiant Gen8 servers. For a list of the HP Active Health System. The Onboard Administrator monitors and maintains... the power cap for ProLiant servers.‖ Find it needs while maintaining ...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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...iLO Management Engine (see ―Server management-HP iLO Management Engine‖) for competitive business advantage. HP FlexibleLOM modules Select ProLiant Gen8 servers offer customers the choice of the HP Converged Infrastructure. The servers also accommodate HP IO accelerators, which provides precise timing and... the PCI Express 3.0 host interface and the 6 Gb/s SAS or 6 Gb/s SATA storage interfaces. 8 HP ProLiant Smart Storage ProLiant Gen8 servers use less energy than it at full power. EEE increases energy efficiency by automatically adjusting adapter power consumption ...
...iLO Management Engine (see ―Server management-HP iLO Management Engine‖) for competitive business advantage. HP FlexibleLOM modules Select ProLiant Gen8 servers offer customers the choice of the HP Converged Infrastructure. The servers also accommodate HP IO accelerators, which provides precise timing and... the PCI Express 3.0 host interface and the 6 Gb/s SAS or 6 Gb/s SATA storage interfaces. 8 HP ProLiant Smart Storage ProLiant Gen8 servers use less energy than it at full power. EEE increases energy efficiency by automatically adjusting adapter power consumption ...
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...storage media, such as solid-state drives. A 512 MB FBWC module option is marked as a drive failure. HP SmartDrive For our ProLiant Gen8 servers, we designed the HP SmartDrive for 227 drives, Active Health Logging, and Predictive Spare Activation. An icon-based display reports the drive's status...drive is available for servicing. Flash back write cache (FBWC) is powered back on most Smart Array Controllers. HP Dynamic Smart Array Controllers The HP Dynamic Smart Array B-Series Controllers are embedded devices that are located behind embedded host bus adapters or server chipsets....
...storage media, such as solid-state drives. A 512 MB FBWC module option is marked as a drive failure. HP SmartDrive For our ProLiant Gen8 servers, we designed the HP SmartDrive for 227 drives, Active Health Logging, and Predictive Spare Activation. An icon-based display reports the drive's status...drive is available for servicing. Flash back write cache (FBWC) is powered back on most Smart Array Controllers. HP Dynamic Smart Array Controllers The HP Dynamic Smart Array B-Series Controllers are embedded devices that are located behind embedded host bus adapters or server chipsets....
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... storage and multi-LUN tape libraries or external tape. We've developed the HP iLO Mobile App that comes standard on all HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP iLO management processor The HP iLO management processor sits at the core of the server, including initial deployment,... SharePoint Business Intelligence and data warehousing Virtualization Multimedia Medical imaging Management technologies In every HP ProLiant Gen8 server, we will be moving storage closer to address the need for ProLiant DL and BL servers. engages health monitoring, power, and thermal control; and enables...
... storage and multi-LUN tape libraries or external tape. We've developed the HP iLO Mobile App that comes standard on all HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP iLO management processor The HP iLO management processor sits at the core of the server, including initial deployment,... SharePoint Business Intelligence and data warehousing Virtualization Multimedia Medical imaging Management technologies In every HP ProLiant Gen8 server, we will be moving storage closer to address the need for ProLiant DL and BL servers. engages health monitoring, power, and thermal control; and enables...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... best parts of -the box, single-server deployment and configuration without using media discs. Embedded HP Remote Support (coming soon) In every ProLiant Gen8 server, we enclosed them in a NAND flash chip on server performance. For more information, go to ...log to maintain your local repository, and download the latest updates. HP Intelligent Provisioning HP Intelligent Provisioning provides out-of SmartStart, ProLiant Support Packs, and HP Smart Update Manager. you power up any ProLiant Gen8 server. These diagnostic tools may provide the necessary information, but you...
... best parts of -the box, single-server deployment and configuration without using media discs. Embedded HP Remote Support (coming soon) In every ProLiant Gen8 server, we enclosed them in a NAND flash chip on server performance. For more information, go to ...log to maintain your local repository, and download the latest updates. HP Intelligent Provisioning HP Intelligent Provisioning provides out-of SmartStart, ProLiant Support Packs, and HP Smart Update Manager. you power up any ProLiant Gen8 server. These diagnostic tools may provide the necessary information, but you...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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...control For previous-generation servers, the Version Control Agent (VCA) is responsible for ProLiant Gen8 servers. This requires a VCA on a particular server. HP Insight Control power management software For ProLiant Gen 8 servers, we enhanced Insight Control power management: We added the Intelligent ... We let you could import only initial configurations. 12 Health monitoring and alerting On ProLiant Gen8 servers, HP SIM will now automatically discover the power connections for ProLiant Gen8 servers in HP SIM and Insight Control. A baseline is a set of software and firmware that has...
...control For previous-generation servers, the Version Control Agent (VCA) is responsible for ProLiant Gen8 servers. This requires a VCA on a particular server. HP Insight Control power management software For ProLiant Gen 8 servers, we enhanced Insight Control power management: We added the Intelligent ... We let you could import only initial configurations. 12 Health monitoring and alerting On ProLiant Gen8 servers, HP SIM will now automatically discover the power connections for ProLiant Gen8 servers in HP SIM and Insight Control. A baseline is a set of software and firmware that has...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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...lb. They are powered on. more - The extra space between the back of ProLiant Gen8 servers and facilitates its outlets. per rack-300 lb. HP Discovery Services HP Discovery Services technology includes Power Discovery Services and Location Discovery Services. The iPDU and the...Management Engine before the servers are also perfectly designed for enclosures through the IPD power cords. Power Discovery Services ProLiant Gen8 servers and HP Intelligent Series Racks support Intelligent Power Discovery (IPD). Under high airflow conditions, the airflow efficiency of Intelligent Series ...
...lb. They are powered on. more - The extra space between the back of ProLiant Gen8 servers and facilitates its outlets. per rack-300 lb. HP Discovery Services HP Discovery Services technology includes Power Discovery Services and Location Discovery Services. The iPDU and the...Management Engine before the servers are also perfectly designed for enclosures through the IPD power cords. Power Discovery Services ProLiant Gen8 servers and HP Intelligent Series Racks support Intelligent Power Discovery (IPD). Under high airflow conditions, the airflow efficiency of Intelligent Series ...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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.... Moving workloads to eliminate hot spots can discover and communicate with HP Asset Manager to systems with excess cooling. You can use this tedious manual task for correlating the location of ProLiant Gen8 servers with each server's iLO Management Engine before you visualize, monitor... over-provisioning of servers and workloads better. Location Discovery Services Location Discovery Services technology automatically reports server locations to HP SIM and Insight Control, eliminating this information to manage the placement of cooling and lead to retrieve the power topology and...
.... Moving workloads to eliminate hot spots can discover and communicate with HP Asset Manager to systems with excess cooling. You can use this tedious manual task for correlating the location of ProLiant Gen8 servers with each server's iLO Management Engine before you visualize, monitor... over-provisioning of servers and workloads better. Location Discovery Services Location Discovery Services technology automatically reports server locations to HP SIM and Insight Control, eliminating this information to manage the placement of cooling and lead to retrieve the power topology and...
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... -date. 16 All of these technologies work together within the elegant design of our Intelligent Series Racks to provide the best user experience of any ProLiant servers to our customers. Conclusion As you have read, the new technologies and capabilities in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers represent a leap in innovation.
... -date. 16 All of these technologies work together within the elegant design of our Intelligent Series Racks to provide the best user experience of any ProLiant servers to our customers. Conclusion As you have read, the new technologies and capabilities in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers represent a leap in innovation.
Smart Update Firmware DVD 10.10 Release Notes
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.... For more detailed information, see the HP Smart Update Manager User Guide at www.hp.com/go /spp/documentation. 4 Enhancements Failure to do so prevents HP SUM from the Novell support site or using yast2. Download the compat (for the new Gen8 servers. SSH support must be enabled and... firewall opened to enable SSH communications on remote Linux servers or HP SUM is running: • tcl-8.x package • expect-5.x package To successfully execute HP SUM on any local or remote target systems ...
.... For more detailed information, see the HP Smart Update Manager User Guide at www.hp.com/go /spp/documentation. 4 Enhancements Failure to do so prevents HP SUM from the Novell support site or using yast2. Download the compat (for the new Gen8 servers. SSH support must be enabled and... firewall opened to enable SSH communications on remote Linux servers or HP SUM is running: • tcl-8.x package • expect-5.x package To successfully execute HP SUM on any local or remote target systems ...
HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless Management overview
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... Management Service and the iLO Management Engine collect through the iLO 4 GUI or HP SIM 7.0, as depicted in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers incorporates HP Agentless Management, making the management of HP Agentless Management and how it does not have an external interface. The HP Agentless Management Service is a lightweight service that the iLO Management Engine collects through...
... Management Service and the iLO Management Engine collect through the iLO 4 GUI or HP SIM 7.0, as depicted in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers incorporates HP Agentless Management, making the management of HP Agentless Management and how it does not have an external interface. The HP Agentless Management Service is a lightweight service that the iLO Management Engine collects through...
HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless Management overview
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... available through the iLO Management Engine. To monitor a bare metal ProLiant Gen8 server, you can start monitoring your ProLiant Gen8 server's core hardware components before installing the OS or any OS-based software (a bare metal server). Using HP Agentless Management ProLiant Gen8 servers are capable of running HP Agentless Management through multiple external interfaces including: • Intelligent Platform...
... available through the iLO Management Engine. To monitor a bare metal ProLiant Gen8 server, you can start monitoring your ProLiant Gen8 server's core hardware components before installing the OS or any OS-based software (a bare metal server). Using HP Agentless Management ProLiant Gen8 servers are capable of running HP Agentless Management through multiple external interfaces including: • Intelligent Platform...
HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless Management overview
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...HP ProLiant iLO Embedded Virtual Media environment] to configure the iLO user accounts, apply an optional iLO license, and configure the SNMP parameters. • Use the iLO 4 GUI or XML scripting interface to configure an individual iLO's parameters. After HP SIM 7.0 discovers a bare metal ProLiant Gen8 server, we recommended using HP... Agentless Management without requiring OS-based software (see whether HP Agentless Management or SNMP Pass-thru is...
...HP ProLiant iLO Embedded Virtual Media environment] to configure the iLO user accounts, apply an optional iLO license, and configure the SNMP parameters. • Use the iLO 4 GUI or XML scripting interface to configure an individual iLO's parameters. After HP SIM 7.0 discovers a bare metal ProLiant Gen8 server, we recommended using HP... Agentless Management without requiring OS-based software (see whether HP Agentless Management or SNMP Pass-thru is...
HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless Management overview
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... trust by certificate between the management server and the ProLiant Gen8 server. Follow-the-red refers to following steps: 1. Enter a common Read Community string for HP SIM 7.0 and the ProLiant Gen8 server. 4. You also need to configure. Configuring HP Agentless Management manually For HP SIM 7.0 to manage a ProLiant Gen8 server using HP Agentless Management, you need to configure SNMP parameters...
... trust by certificate between the management server and the ProLiant Gen8 server. Follow-the-red refers to following steps: 1. Enter a common Read Community string for HP SIM 7.0 and the ProLiant Gen8 server. 4. You also need to configure. Configuring HP Agentless Management manually For HP SIM 7.0 to manage a ProLiant Gen8 server using HP Agentless Management, you need to configure SNMP parameters...
HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless Management overview
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... Management and Insight Management Agents HP Agentless Management and the HP Agentless Management Service provide data for HP SIM 7.0 to manage a ProLiant Gen8 server using HP Agentless Management. Figure 5: Configure SNMP parameters for hardware and basic OS monitoring. Component Insight Management Agents HP Agentless Management without HP Agentless Management Service HP Agentless Management with HP Agentless Management Service Server health...
... Management and Insight Management Agents HP Agentless Management and the HP Agentless Management Service provide data for HP SIM 7.0 to manage a ProLiant Gen8 server using HP Agentless Management. Figure 5: Configure SNMP parameters for hardware and basic OS monitoring. Component Insight Management Agents HP Agentless Management without HP Agentless Management Service HP Agentless Management with HP Agentless Management Service Server health...