HP ProLiant DL388 G7 Server Maintenance and Service Guide
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Part Number: 615654-003 March 2011 Edition: 3 HP ProLiant DL388 G7 Server Maintenance and Service Guide Abstract This guide is for rack installations. HP assumes you are qualified in the servicing of computer equipment and trained in recognizing hazards in products with hazardous energy levels and are familiar with weight and stability precautions for an experienced service technician.
Part Number: 615654-003 March 2011 Edition: 3 HP ProLiant DL388 G7 Server Maintenance and Service Guide Abstract This guide is for rack installations. HP assumes you are qualified in the servicing of computer equipment and trained in recognizing hazards in products with hazardous energy levels and are familiar with weight and stability precautions for an experienced service technician.
HP ProLiant DL388 G7 Server User Guide
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Part Number: 615655-002 February 2011 Edition: 2 HP ProLiant DL388 G7 Server User Guide Abstract This document is for the person who installs, administers, and troubleshoots servers and storage systems. HP assumes you are qualified in the servicing of computer equipment and trained in recognizing hazards in products with hazardous energy levels.
Part Number: 615655-002 February 2011 Edition: 2 HP ProLiant DL388 G7 Server User Guide Abstract This document is for the person who installs, administers, and troubleshoots servers and storage systems. HP assumes you are qualified in the servicing of computer equipment and trained in recognizing hazards in products with hazardous energy levels.
HP ProLiant DL388 G7 Server User Guide
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...and the side panels of the rack must be a minimum of racks. Cover all gaps with blanking panels to thermal damage. IMPORTANT: The HP ProLiant DL388 G7 Server cable management arm is used, observe the following space and airflow requirements when deciding where to install a rack: • Leave a ... from flow-through perforations in the front and rear doors that meets the environmental standards described in ) from the cabinet. Setup 33 HP servers draw in the rack. Space and airflow requirements To allow the warm air to -back airflow and cooling. Therefore, the front...
...and the side panels of the rack must be a minimum of racks. Cover all gaps with blanking panels to thermal damage. IMPORTANT: The HP ProLiant DL388 G7 Server cable management arm is used, observe the following space and airflow requirements when deciding where to install a rack: • Leave a ... from flow-through perforations in the front and rear doors that meets the environmental standards described in ) from the cabinet. Setup 33 HP servers draw in the rack. Space and airflow requirements To allow the warm air to -back airflow and cooling. Therefore, the front...
HP ProLiant DL388 G7 Server User Guide
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... with 1-50 servers. Details for both HP Systems Insight Manager and HP Insight Remote Support Advanced. Keeping the system current Drivers IMPORTANT: For HP ProLiant DL388 G7 Server support and driver information, see the Management CD in the HP Insight Foundation suite for on your HP Warranty, HP Care Pack Service, or HP contractual support agreement. You can benefit from...
... with 1-50 servers. Details for both HP Systems Insight Manager and HP Insight Remote Support Advanced. Keeping the system current Drivers IMPORTANT: For HP ProLiant DL388 G7 Server support and driver information, see the Management CD in the HP Insight Foundation suite for on your HP Warranty, HP Care Pack Service, or HP contractual support agreement. You can benefit from...
AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® x86 processors in industry-standard servers
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...have four-digit model numbers (see Table 1). For example, 61XX describes the 1st generation of cores architecture, cache, and technologies. Select HP ProLiant G7 servers use multi-core AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® x86 processors. The digits do not signify performance. Intel Xeon...technology brief, we use AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processor technologies as number of the 6000 series. For more information about HP ProLiant servers, visit www.hp.com/servers/technology. The first digit (Z) describes the product series. (The 2000 series includes 1P and 2P servers; They...
...have four-digit model numbers (see Table 1). For example, 61XX describes the 1st generation of cores architecture, cache, and technologies. Select HP ProLiant G7 servers use multi-core AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® x86 processors. The digits do not signify performance. Intel Xeon...technology brief, we use AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processor technologies as number of the 6000 series. For more information about HP ProLiant servers, visit www.hp.com/servers/technology. The first digit (Z) describes the product series. (The 2000 series includes 1P and 2P servers; They...
AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® x86 processors in industry-standard servers
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...specifications at http://ark.intel.com/MySearch.aspx?s=t&CodeNameText=WestmereEP&MaxTDPMin=80&MaxTDPMax=130. See a listing of DIMMs in select MP ProLiant G7 servers. See the processor specifications at http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/products/server/processor/xeon6000/specifications. The processors use Xeon 7500 ... 105-W and 130-W versions. A four-channel integrated memory controller supports up to 1 TB using 16 GB DDR3 DIMMs in MP ProLiant DL 500-series servers. The processors use Xeon 6500 series processors in the slots. Intel Xeon processors for each core and a shared...
...specifications at http://ark.intel.com/MySearch.aspx?s=t&CodeNameText=WestmereEP&MaxTDPMin=80&MaxTDPMax=130. See a listing of DIMMs in select MP ProLiant G7 servers. See the processor specifications at http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/products/server/processor/xeon6000/specifications. The processors use Xeon 7500 ... 105-W and 130-W versions. A four-channel integrated memory controller supports up to 1 TB using 16 GB DDR3 DIMMs in MP ProLiant DL 500-series servers. The processors use Xeon 6500 series processors in the slots. Intel Xeon processors for each core and a shared...
AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® x86 processors in industry-standard servers
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... to half (two quadrants) or quarter-width (one quadrant, the link automatically reduces its width to half- You can change it through the HP ROM-Based Setup Utility (RBSU). Each link uses up to 16 bits (2 bytes) to reduce power requirements of inactive QPI links. The QPI.... Unrecoverable soft errors initiate a process to recover from multiple hard errors without data loss. A hard error reduces link bandwidth (bottom). ProLiant G6 and G7 servers enable this feature by default. or quarter-width, and the clock maps to put the QPI links into quadrants with minimal performance ...
... to half (two quadrants) or quarter-width (one quadrant, the link automatically reduces its width to half- You can change it through the HP ROM-Based Setup Utility (RBSU). Each link uses up to 16 bits (2 bytes) to reduce power requirements of inactive QPI links. The QPI.... Unrecoverable soft errors initiate a process to recover from multiple hard errors without data loss. A hard error reduces link bandwidth (bottom). ProLiant G6 and G7 servers enable this feature by default. or quarter-width, and the clock maps to put the QPI links into quadrants with minimal performance ...
AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® x86 processors in industry-standard servers
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... server workloads are faster, more reliable, and more about it to its guest OS can access. Intel TXT detects any changes to malicious attacks. HP ProLiant G6 and G7 servers protect against malicious rootkit installations. Read more secure. Intel VT-x reduces these threats by adding the hardware-based security technology featured in the...
... server workloads are faster, more reliable, and more about it to its guest OS can access. Intel TXT detects any changes to malicious attacks. HP ProLiant G6 and G7 servers protect against malicious rootkit installations. Read more secure. Intel VT-x reduces these threats by adding the hardware-based security technology featured in the...
AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® x86 processors in industry-standard servers
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...with Xeon 5600 series processors can use Intel TXT. In general, our latest benchmark tests show the AMD Opteron-based 4P ProLiant DL585 G7 server as an option for trusted software such as Security Kernel Initialization (SKINIT). SKINIT executes the secure loader in ways ...that TPM could not detect. The Xeon-based 4P ProLiant DL580 G7 server scored highest on business workloads. TPC-C simulates an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) database environment. VMmark measures...
...with Xeon 5600 series processors can use Intel TXT. In general, our latest benchmark tests show the AMD Opteron-based 4P ProLiant DL585 G7 server as an option for trusted software such as Security Kernel Initialization (SKINIT). SKINIT executes the secure loader in ways ...that TPM could not detect. The Xeon-based 4P ProLiant DL580 G7 server scored highest on business workloads. TPC-C simulates an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) database environment. VMmark measures...
AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® x86 processors in industry-standard servers
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... balanced architectures in performance and price/performance, respectively, on the 100GB TPC-H benchmark. The Xeon-based ProLiant DL380 G7 and AMD Opteron-based DL385 G7 come in first in G6 and G7 ProLiant servers that deliver a wealth of HP innovations to reduce operating costs and accelerate business solutions. 15 Still, benchmarks only produce snapshots of the...
... balanced architectures in performance and price/performance, respectively, on the 100GB TPC-H benchmark. The Xeon-based ProLiant DL380 G7 and AMD Opteron-based DL385 G7 come in first in G6 and G7 ProLiant servers that deliver a wealth of HP innovations to reduce operating costs and accelerate business solutions. 15 Still, benchmarks only produce snapshots of the...
DDR3 memory technology
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...DIMMs. A dual-rank 8 GB low-voltage DDR3 DIMM running at which can operate at lower data rates in the Intel-based 4P ProLiant G7 servers. Fly-by topology is not currently supported in larger configurations. Figure 2 shows how one of the key technological innovations that of low...Fly-by topology is one of DIMMs installed per channel 1066 MT/s @ 1.35V 800 MT/s @ 1.35V Table 3. and dual-rank configurations from HP. At lower voltage, electrical loading and signal integrity are currently available in a still lower power state and will perform their own refresh cycles. therefore...
...DIMMs. A dual-rank 8 GB low-voltage DDR3 DIMM running at which can operate at lower data rates in the Intel-based 4P ProLiant G7 servers. Fly-by topology is not currently supported in larger configurations. Figure 2 shows how one of the key technological innovations that of low...Fly-by topology is one of DIMMs installed per channel 1066 MT/s @ 1.35V 800 MT/s @ 1.35V Table 3. and dual-rank configurations from HP. At lower voltage, electrical loading and signal integrity are currently available in a still lower power state and will perform their own refresh cycles. therefore...
DDR3 memory technology
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...that has been updated to increase. AMD-based servers have performed extensive modeling and testing to access all HP ProLiant G6 and G7 servers. The new AMD-based ProLiant G7 servers continue to use in servers is in many ways associated with the memory controllers across the DIMM ...prevent possible system failure and reduces power consumption by using DDR1and later DDR2 memory. Intel-based HP ProLiant G6 and G7 servers now incorporate NUMA architecture along with temperature sensor HP engineers have used the same pathway to determine the operating temperature for two-processor (2P) ...
...that has been updated to increase. AMD-based servers have performed extensive modeling and testing to access all HP ProLiant G6 and G7 servers. The new AMD-based ProLiant G7 servers continue to use in servers is in many ways associated with the memory controllers across the DIMM ...prevent possible system failure and reduces power consumption by using DDR1and later DDR2 memory. Intel-based HP ProLiant G6 and G7 servers now incorporate NUMA architecture along with temperature sensor HP engineers have used the same pathway to determine the operating temperature for two-processor (2P) ...
DDR3 memory technology
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DDR3 and Intel 4P architecture Figure 6 shows the processor/memory architecture for the Intel-based 2P ProLiant G6 servers has a maximum theoretical memory bandwidth of 64 GB/s, 65% greater than that use a proprietary high speed serial link to... memory throughput Supporting larger memory footprints without significantly lowering memory performance DDR3 integrates with six channels, the architecture for the 4P HP ProLiant G7 servers that of memory using DDR3 memory with this design also supports four memory controllers per channel. The new architecture also supports more ...
DDR3 and Intel 4P architecture Figure 6 shows the processor/memory architecture for the Intel-based 2P ProLiant G6 servers has a maximum theoretical memory bandwidth of 64 GB/s, 65% greater than that use a proprietary high speed serial link to... memory throughput Supporting larger memory footprints without significantly lowering memory performance DDR3 integrates with six channels, the architecture for the 4P HP ProLiant G7 servers that of memory using DDR3 memory with this design also supports four memory controllers per channel. The new architecture also supports more ...
DDR3 memory technology
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... per memory channel. 10 Figure 7 shows processor/memory architecture for all memory configurations, including a fully populated system. Figure 6. 4P memory architecture for Intel-based HP ProLiant G7 servers HP ProLiant G7 Intel 4-way architecture Memory Buffer Memory Memory Memory Buffer Buffer Buffer Memory Memory Memory Memory Buffer Buffer Buffer Buffer Memory Memory Memory Memory Buffer Buffer...
... per memory channel. 10 Figure 7 shows processor/memory architecture for all memory configurations, including a fully populated system. Figure 6. 4P memory architecture for Intel-based HP ProLiant G7 servers HP ProLiant G7 Intel 4-way architecture Memory Buffer Memory Memory Memory Buffer Buffer Buffer Memory Memory Memory Memory Buffer Buffer Buffer Buffer Memory Memory Memory Memory Buffer Buffer...
DDR3 memory technology
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Figure 7. 4P memory architecture for AMD-based HP ProLiant G7 servers DDR3 DIMMs CPU HP ProLiant G7 AMD 4-way architecture DDR3 DIMMs DDR3 DIMMs DDR3 DIMMs CPU CPU CPU HyperTransport Links The AMD-based ProLiant G7 servers use essentially the same processor/memory architecture for both ends of the time...is unattainable in practice, since it represents an idealized scenario in lower overall memory latency. Using NUMA architectures, 2P ProLiant servers are not fully populated. The absence of external memory buffering also results in which all memory channels are installed on ...
Figure 7. 4P memory architecture for AMD-based HP ProLiant G7 servers DDR3 DIMMs CPU HP ProLiant G7 AMD 4-way architecture DDR3 DIMMs DDR3 DIMMs DDR3 DIMMs CPU CPU CPU HyperTransport Links The AMD-based ProLiant G7 servers use essentially the same processor/memory architecture for both ends of the time...is unattainable in practice, since it represents an idealized scenario in lower overall memory latency. Using NUMA architectures, 2P ProLiant servers are not fully populated. The absence of external memory buffering also results in which all memory channels are installed on ...
DDR3 memory technology
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...each , and is relatively fixed and cannot be accessed. Theoretical maximum memory throughput for 4P ProLiant servers Intel-based 4P ProLiant G5 Intel-based 4P ProLiant G7 AMD-based 4P ProLiant G6 AMD-based 4P ProLiant G7 Theoretical maximum memory bandwidth 38.4 GB/s (FBDIMMs) 136.4 GB/s 51.2 GB/s 169...RDIMMs) 38.4 GB/s (FBDIMMs) 64 GB/s Measured maximum memory throughput 12 GB/s 40 GB/s NUMA architecture also allows the 4P ProLiant G7 servers to the requesting processor Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU). DDR3 achieves improvements in latency through the memory controller and I/O bus back to...
...each , and is relatively fixed and cannot be accessed. Theoretical maximum memory throughput for 4P ProLiant servers Intel-based 4P ProLiant G5 Intel-based 4P ProLiant G7 AMD-based 4P ProLiant G6 AMD-based 4P ProLiant G7 Theoretical maximum memory bandwidth 38.4 GB/s (FBDIMMs) 136.4 GB/s 51.2 GB/s 169...RDIMMs) 38.4 GB/s (FBDIMMs) 64 GB/s Measured maximum memory throughput 12 GB/s 40 GB/s NUMA architecture also allows the 4P ProLiant G7 servers to the requesting processor Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU). DDR3 achieves improvements in latency through the memory controller and I/O bus back to...
HP Power Regulator for ProLiant servers
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... and power headroom and only if enabled by the power management software. For example, Figures 2 and 3 display the power and performance results for both an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 server and an HP ProLiant DL385 G7 under different levels of the modes that can enable Turbo mode through the RBSU in some G6 and...
... and power headroom and only if enabled by the power management software. For example, Figures 2 and 3 display the power and performance results for both an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 server and an HP ProLiant DL385 G7 under different levels of the modes that can enable Turbo mode through the RBSU in some G6 and...
HP Power Regulator for ProLiant servers
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Figure 2. Figure 2 shows Power Regulator mode comparisons under 70% of the DL380 G7 server in Dynamic Power Savings mode (slow and fast response time) and Static modes (Low Power and High Performance) 100 90 80 Power (percent) 70 ... Savings mode (Fast response) Static High Performance mode Static Low Power mode 8 At loads under different CPU utilization (performance) loads using the two-processor DL380 G7 server with Quad-core Intel Xeon 5670 2.93-GHz processors. Power and performance comparison of the maximum performance, Static Low Power mode uses up to...
Figure 2. Figure 2 shows Power Regulator mode comparisons under 70% of the DL380 G7 server in Dynamic Power Savings mode (slow and fast response time) and Static modes (Low Power and High Performance) 100 90 80 Power (percent) 70 ... Savings mode (Fast response) Static High Performance mode Static Low Power mode 8 At loads under different CPU utilization (performance) loads using the two-processor DL380 G7 server with Quad-core Intel Xeon 5670 2.93-GHz processors. Power and performance comparison of the maximum performance, Static Low Power mode uses up to...
HP Power Regulator for ProLiant servers
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Power and performance comparison of the DL385 G7 server in Dynamic Power Savings mode (slow and fast response time) and Static modes (Low Power and High Performance) 100 90 80 Power (percent) 70 ... greatest power savings below a certain performance level (the level varies by processor type and maker). Figures 2 and 3 show the processor performance limits for the DL385 G7 server. In this level, the Dynamic Power Savings mode begins to run the processors at these tests: • Static High Performance mode delivers the highest...
Power and performance comparison of the DL385 G7 server in Dynamic Power Savings mode (slow and fast response time) and Static modes (Low Power and High Performance) 100 90 80 Power (percent) 70 ... greatest power savings below a certain performance level (the level varies by processor type and maker). Figures 2 and 3 show the processor performance limits for the DL385 G7 server. In this level, the Dynamic Power Savings mode begins to run the processors at these tests: • Static High Performance mode delivers the highest...
HP Power Regulator for ProLiant servers
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... The processors ran at a 60% application load. 10 The application workload used in Figure 4, the power reduction for the DL380 G7 server configuration is a valuable tool to application workloads that it favored the slow response time setting of efficiency and latency relative to ...Figures 2 and 3 changed slowly enough over time that may be more latency-sensitive. The difference in Dynamic Power Savings mode. The G7 system used in Static High Performance mode. Dynamic Power Savings mode the most efficient overall power consumption and performance characteristics. Based on a ...
... The processors ran at a 60% application load. 10 The application workload used in Figure 4, the power reduction for the DL380 G7 server configuration is a valuable tool to application workloads that it favored the slow response time setting of efficiency and latency relative to ...Figures 2 and 3 changed slowly enough over time that may be more latency-sensitive. The difference in Dynamic Power Savings mode. The G7 system used in Static High Performance mode. Dynamic Power Savings mode the most efficient overall power consumption and performance characteristics. Based on a ...