Configuring Arrays on HP Smart Array Controllers Reference Guide
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Contents Overview of array configuration tools 5 Utilities available for configuring an array ...5 Comparison of the utilities ...5 Support for standard configuration tasks 6 Support for advanced configuration tasks 6 HP Smart Array Advanced Pack ...8 About SAAP ...8 Required hardware ...8 Option ROM Configuration for Arrays 10 About ORCA...Utility ...22 About ACU...22 Accessing ACU in the offline environment...22 Launching ACU with HP Intelligent Provisioning (Gen8 or later 22 Launching ACU during POST (Gen8 or later 23 Launching ACU from the SmartStart CD (G7 or earlier 23 Launching ACU ...
Contents Overview of array configuration tools 5 Utilities available for configuring an array ...5 Comparison of the utilities ...5 Support for standard configuration tasks 6 Support for advanced configuration tasks 6 HP Smart Array Advanced Pack ...8 About SAAP ...8 Required hardware ...8 Option ROM Configuration for Arrays 10 About ORCA...Utility ...22 About ACU...22 Accessing ACU in the offline environment...22 Launching ACU with HP Intelligent Provisioning (Gen8 or later 22 Launching ACU during POST (Gen8 or later 23 Launching ACU from the SmartStart CD (G7 or earlier 23 Launching ACU ...
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... 9.0 and ProLiant Gen8 servers and server blades, ACU is the main tool for configuring arrays on page 27). Launching ACU with HP Intelligent Provisioning (Gen8 or later) 1. Press F10 to download the ACU executables and install them. All formats provide support for advanced ...can configure or maintain detected and supported ProLiant devices, such as setting the boot controller and boot volume. • Accessing ACU in the online environment (on page 27) This method requires an administrator to launch HP Intelligent Provisioning. HP Array Configuration Utility 22 Boot the...
... 9.0 and ProLiant Gen8 servers and server blades, ACU is the main tool for configuring arrays on page 27). Launching ACU with HP Intelligent Provisioning (Gen8 or later) 1. Press F10 to download the ACU executables and install them. All formats provide support for advanced ...can configure or maintain detected and supported ProLiant devices, such as setting the boot controller and boot volume. • Accessing ACU in the online environment (on page 27) This method requires an administrator to launch HP Intelligent Provisioning. HP Array Configuration Utility 22 Boot the...
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...; 32-32 KB • 64-64 KB • 128-128 KB • 256-256 KB • 512-512 KB • 1024-1024 KB (supported starting with ACU, ACU CLI, and ACU Scripting v8.55, the StripSize option replaces the StripeSize option. CAUTION: Back up all data before extending a logical...of data that is written to each physical drive. When distributing data across all physical drives, excluding parity-only drives. StripSize Beginning with Gen8 controllers) HP Array Configuration Utility 86 You can leave this option blank and allow ACU to set an exact size without rounding. The maximum strip size...
...; 32-32 KB • 64-64 KB • 128-128 KB • 256-256 KB • 512-512 KB • 1024-1024 KB (supported starting with ACU, ACU CLI, and ACU Scripting v8.55, the StripSize option replaces the StripeSize option. CAUTION: Back up all data before extending a logical...of data that is written to each physical drive. When distributing data across all physical drives, excluding parity-only drives. StripSize Beginning with Gen8 controllers) HP Array Configuration Utility 86 You can leave this option blank and allow ACU to set an exact size without rounding. The maximum strip size...
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... a language: • English (http://www.hp.com/support/ProLiant_TSG_en) • French (http://www.hp.com/support/ProLiant_TSG_fr) • Italian (http://www.hp.com/support/ProLiant_TSG_it) • Spanish (http://www.hp.com/support/ProLiant_TSG_sp) • German (http://www.hp.com/support/ProLiant_TSG_gr) • Dutch (http://www.hp.com/support/ProLiant_TSG_nl) • Japanese (http://www.hp.com/support/ProLiant_TSG_jp) HP ProLiant Gen8 products The HP ProLiant Gen8 Troubleshooting Guide, Volume I: Troubleshooting provides...
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Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... power usage significantly during periods of ProLiant Gen8 servers. We increased or optimized the performance of manually entering server locations in ProLiant Gen8 servers. Because power costs can cause server failures. HP FlexibleNetwork Adapters for ProLiant Gen8 deliver significant value for more drives...technology to improve the accuracy and synchronization of our FlexibleNetwork Adapters support the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) standard to reduce fan power consumption significantly. This allows you deploy ProLiant Gen8 servers in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers.
... power usage significantly during periods of ProLiant Gen8 servers. We increased or optimized the performance of manually entering server locations in ProLiant Gen8 servers. Because power costs can cause server failures. HP FlexibleNetwork Adapters for ProLiant Gen8 deliver significant value for more drives...technology to improve the accuracy and synchronization of our FlexibleNetwork Adapters support the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) standard to reduce fan power consumption significantly. This allows you deploy ProLiant Gen8 servers in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers.
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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...all active cores when the processor operates below pre-set power and thermal design limits. Xeon E5-2600 series processors in our ProLiant Gen8 servers have two, four, six, or eight cores that works together to Streaming SIMD Extensions for SATA, USB, and PCI ...Voltage (LV) DIMMs, and Load-Reduced (LR) DIMMs. Table 1 summarizes the features of 20 Gb/s in ProLiant Gen8 servers. The processors work with 2 bytes per unidirectional lane. The Xeon E5-2600 processors support 40 lanes of 16 GB/s in a server's processor, chipset, and I/O devices. 4 Core Microarchitecture Sandy Bridge...
...all active cores when the processor operates below pre-set power and thermal design limits. Xeon E5-2600 series processors in our ProLiant Gen8 servers have two, four, six, or eight cores that works together to Streaming SIMD Extensions for SATA, USB, and PCI ...Voltage (LV) DIMMs, and Load-Reduced (LR) DIMMs. Table 1 summarizes the features of 20 Gb/s in ProLiant Gen8 servers. The processors work with 2 bytes per unidirectional lane. The Xeon E5-2600 processors support 40 lanes of 16 GB/s in a server's processor, chipset, and I/O devices. 4 Core Microarchitecture Sandy Bridge...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... 20% less power than third-party memory while achieving the same performance. ProLiant Gen8 servers operate LV-UDIMMs, LV-RDIMMs, and LV-LRDIMMs at a 25% faster bus rate than third-party memory at www.hp.com/servers/technology. Memory technologies ProLiant Gen8 servers support HP SmartMemory and enhanced memory protection with the highest quality and reliability in...
... 20% less power than third-party memory while achieving the same performance. ProLiant Gen8 servers operate LV-UDIMMs, LV-RDIMMs, and LV-LRDIMMs at a 25% faster bus rate than third-party memory at www.hp.com/servers/technology. Memory technologies ProLiant Gen8 servers support HP SmartMemory and enhanced memory protection with the highest quality and reliability in...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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...hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02878598/c02878598.pdf. For additional information, read the technology brief ―HP Advanced Memory Error Detection Technology.‖ Find it at 50% utilization, meeting 80 PLUS specifications for Platinum certification. Power efficiency For ProLiant Gen8 servers, we developed HP... Common Slot Platinum Plus and 750 W Common Slot -48VDC Power Supplies. It also lets you can potentially limit the maximum attainable utilization. HP Power Discovery Services Platinum Plus...
...hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02878598/c02878598.pdf. For additional information, read the technology brief ―HP Advanced Memory Error Detection Technology.‖ Find it at 50% utilization, meeting 80 PLUS specifications for Platinum certification. Power efficiency For ProLiant Gen8 servers, we developed HP... Common Slot Platinum Plus and 750 W Common Slot -48VDC Power Supplies. It also lets you can potentially limit the maximum attainable utilization. HP Power Discovery Services Platinum Plus...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... in the always-on individual server blades. For a list of HP ProLiant servers. HP Sea of Sensors 3D in ProLiant Gen8 servers extends the use of the HP Active Health System. For groups of ProLiant Gen8 servers. This helps administrators maximize data center power usage by adjusting cap...power draw below . You can quickly control sudden surges in determining worst-case power requirements for ProLiant Gen8 servers operates at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01549455/c01549455.pdf. As one server blade becomes busy and another becomes idle, Onboard ...
... in the always-on individual server blades. For a list of HP ProLiant servers. HP Sea of Sensors 3D in ProLiant Gen8 servers extends the use of the HP Active Health System. For groups of ProLiant Gen8 servers. This helps administrators maximize data center power usage by adjusting cap...power draw below . You can quickly control sudden surges in determining worst-case power requirements for ProLiant Gen8 servers operates at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01549455/c01549455.pdf. As one server blade becomes busy and another becomes idle, Onboard ...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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...can drive down to improve data delivery for ProLiant Gen8 servers support the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) standard, which can reduce adapter power consumption by up to 70%. HP Smart Array controllers We embed HP Smart Array P-Series Controllers on the motherboard or... over Ethernet networks. Consequently, you to the iLO Management Engine (see ―Server management-HP iLO Management Engine‖) for ProLiant Gen8 servers have an embedded temperature sensor. The controllers support the PCI Express 3.0 host interface and the 6 Gb/s SAS or 6 Gb/s SATA storage...
...can drive down to improve data delivery for ProLiant Gen8 servers support the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) standard, which can reduce adapter power consumption by up to 70%. HP Smart Array controllers We embed HP Smart Array P-Series Controllers on the motherboard or... over Ethernet networks. Consequently, you to the iLO Management Engine (see ―Server management-HP iLO Management Engine‖) for ProLiant Gen8 servers have an embedded temperature sensor. The controllers support the PCI Express 3.0 host interface and the 6 Gb/s SAS or 6 Gb/s SATA storage...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... Pack 2.0 is available for both controllers. The B-Series controllers allow you to the drive. The B120i, by contrast, supports up to six 6 Gb/s SATA drives. HP SmartDrive For our ProLiant Gen8 servers, we designed the HP SmartDrive for locating a specific SmartDrive selected from a predictive failure drive to protect data on server configuration. Technology enhancements for...
... Pack 2.0 is available for both controllers. The B-Series controllers allow you to the drive. The B120i, by contrast, supports up to six 6 Gb/s SATA drives. HP SmartDrive For our ProLiant Gen8 servers, we designed the HP SmartDrive for locating a specific SmartDrive selected from a predictive failure drive to protect data on server configuration. Technology enhancements for...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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...HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP iLO management processor The HP iLO management processor sits at the core of the server, including initial deployment, ongoing management, service alerting, and remote support (coming soon). and enables remote administration for ProLiant and HP Smart Update Manager 5.0 Server management-HP iLO Management Engine HP...logging, and integration with the HP Active Health System. H-Series SAS HBAs for ProLiant Gen8 servers are available for array controllers. For ProLiant Gen8 servers, we integrate management and support software technologies into a seamless ...
...HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP iLO management processor The HP iLO management processor sits at the core of the server, including initial deployment, ongoing management, service alerting, and remote support (coming soon). and enables remote administration for ProLiant and HP Smart Update Manager 5.0 Server management-HP iLO Management Engine HP...logging, and integration with the HP Active Health System. H-Series SAS HBAs for ProLiant Gen8 servers are available for array controllers. For ProLiant Gen8 servers, we integrate management and support software technologies into a seamless ...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... or your system are there when you connect a power cord and Ethernet cable to access HP Insight Remote Support software. Embedded HP Remote Support (coming soon) In every ProLiant Gen8 server, we combined the best parts of OS-based agents. We can remotely monitor your system....a diagnostic tool that provides OS configuration data and additional subsystem coverage. HP Active Health System runs on a single activation screen. This makes deploying ProLiant Gen8 servers up any ProLiant Gen8 server. Insight Remote Support can only run them in a NAND flash chip on utility that ...
... or your system are there when you connect a power cord and Ethernet cable to access HP Insight Remote Support software. Embedded HP Remote Support (coming soon) In every ProLiant Gen8 server, we combined the best parts of OS-based agents. We can remotely monitor your system....a diagnostic tool that provides OS configuration data and additional subsystem coverage. HP Active Health System runs on a single activation screen. This makes deploying ProLiant Gen8 servers up any ProLiant Gen8 server. Insight Remote Support can only run them in a NAND flash chip on utility that ...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... power management software. Power Discovery Services ProLiant Gen8 servers and HP Intelligent Series Racks support Intelligent Power Discovery (IPD). Figure 2: The HP Intelligent Series Rack has industry-leading airflow efficiency. The rack provides 81% airflow capacity (compared to go. more - It supports HP CloudSystem. The iPDU provides this information to accommodate the ProLiant Gen8 servers and improve cable management.
... power management software. Power Discovery Services ProLiant Gen8 servers and HP Intelligent Series Racks support Intelligent Power Discovery (IPD). Figure 2: The HP Intelligent Series Rack has industry-leading airflow efficiency. The rack provides 81% airflow capacity (compared to go. more - It supports HP CloudSystem. The iPDU provides this information to accommodate the ProLiant Gen8 servers and improve cable management.