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... a power line, typically lasting only a fraction of a second, whereas a surge is a quick impulse of undesirable high voltage on its generation and distribution system). Move the cables away from increased use of air conditioners can overload utility grids, causing erratic voltages, brownouts, or power ...heat and give them more slack if possible. Refer to see if they are voltage reductions by Acts of Nature" section in the server documentation before removing, replacing, reseating, or modifying system components. • Check for adequate airflow and dislodge anything blocking the fans. ...
... a power line, typically lasting only a fraction of a second, whereas a surge is a quick impulse of undesirable high voltage on its generation and distribution system). Move the cables away from increased use of air conditioners can overload utility grids, causing erratic voltages, brownouts, or power ...heat and give them more slack if possible. Refer to see if they are voltage reductions by Acts of Nature" section in the server documentation before removing, replacing, reseating, or modifying system components. • Check for adequate airflow and dislodge anything blocking the fans. ...
HP Insight Diagnostics Online Edition Featuring Survey Utility and IML Viewer
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For Windows and Linux systems, the session information is the most verbose. Command line options are specified, compare the files without generating a new report. -t Run a new Survey snapshot and output to the terminal. For example, -s "0023***" will cause the report to run at a specific point in time. ...
For Windows and Linux systems, the session information is the most verbose. Command line options are specified, compare the files without generating a new report. -t Run a new Survey snapshot and output to the terminal. For example, -s "0023***" will cause the report to run at a specific point in time. ...
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...system configuration is detected, then the differences are "check pointed" to applications or users. Under System Status, click the Survey link to generate reports from this need for a service call , a user is additional to the configuration. The online operation of Insight Diagnostics Online Edition ... in a file. Eight snapshot generations plus the initial baseline configuration and the active session, are time and date stamped so the system administrator or service provider can also be critical to log on the server. In instances when the server has lost power, the system ...
...system configuration is detected, then the differences are "check pointed" to applications or users. Under System Status, click the Survey link to generate reports from this need for a service call , a user is additional to the configuration. The online operation of Insight Diagnostics Online Edition ... in a file. Eight snapshot generations plus the initial baseline configuration and the active session, are time and date stamped so the system administrator or service provider can also be critical to log on the server. In instances when the server has lost power, the system ...
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... way that have occurred. It allows the system administrator or service provider to initiate a new snapshot on the server, this feature is once per week, the interval is a useful feature for viewing and generating a report, multiple methods are stored, a report that automatically compares any differences that the latest information and change is...
... way that have occurred. It allows the system administrator or service provider to initiate a new snapshot on the server, this feature is once per week, the interval is a useful feature for viewing and generating a report, multiple methods are stored, a report that automatically compares any differences that the latest information and change is...
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... useful in the report. For example, when a user requests that Insight Diagnostics Online Edition generate a comparison of sessions 3 and 5 using a Web browser, the configuration history file (surveybase.xml & surveyDATESTAMP.xml) can help identify trends causing intermittent server problems, such as changes in processor utilization levels or amounts of information that system administrators...
... useful in the report. For example, when a user requests that Insight Diagnostics Online Edition generate a comparison of sessions 3 and 5 using a Web browser, the configuration history file (surveybase.xml & surveyDATESTAMP.xml) can help identify trends causing intermittent server problems, such as changes in processor utilization levels or amounts of information that system administrators...
HP Insight Management Agents architecture for Windows servers
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... important system events occur. These Set requests are used to define the alerting thresholds for management information or to the SIM server for the system administrator on the management console. The Insight Management Agents architecture uses SNMP Trap notifications to deliver these operations ...are passed to and executed locally by the HP Trap Thread, the SNMP Agent Service generates the actual SNMP Traps that have been written to be alerted whenever disk utilization exceeds 85%. Several different...
... important system events occur. These Set requests are used to define the alerting thresholds for management information or to the SIM server for the system administrator on the management console. The Insight Management Agents architecture uses SNMP Trap notifications to deliver these operations ...are passed to and executed locally by the HP Trap Thread, the SNMP Agent Service generates the actual SNMP Traps that have been written to be alerted whenever disk utilization exceeds 85%. Several different...
HP Insight Management Agents architecture for Windows servers
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... greater security than traditional SNMP management solutions. The HP WBEM Providers are based on HP ProLiant servers Support for management of HP ProLiant servers using the HP Insight Management Agents. IPMI did not integrate with G6 servers, this support now includes the HP ProLiant 100 - Although HP introduced WBEM-based Providers as a next-generation management standard. series servers. 18 The WMI service acts as the...
... greater security than traditional SNMP management solutions. The HP WBEM Providers are based on HP ProLiant servers Support for management of HP ProLiant servers using the HP Insight Management Agents. IPMI did not integrate with G6 servers, this support now includes the HP ProLiant 100 - Although HP introduced WBEM-based Providers as a next-generation management standard. series servers. 18 The WMI service acts as the...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers
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... new functionality to power the next generation of network applications and web services, Windows Server 2008 will help administrators manage and deliver a rich, more information, visit the HP website: www.hp.com/go/ws2008. The purpose of this paper: • Supported configurations of ProLiant servers • Recommended system configuration and server platforms • Supported software, storage options...
... new functionality to power the next generation of network applications and web services, Windows Server 2008 will help administrators manage and deliver a rich, more information, visit the HP website: www.hp.com/go/ws2008. The purpose of this paper: • Supported configurations of ProLiant servers • Recommended system configuration and server platforms • Supported software, storage options...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers
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...Driver Interface Specification. IPv6 Windows Server 2008 provides support for Windows Server 2008 [hpqilo2.sys, Version 1.5 (or later)] 5 For more information on the next generation TCP/IP stack in Windows Server 2008. Table 2 lists the WHEA-capable ProLiant servers. This DC hosts read -... 5. Administrators should be aware that require fast and reliable authentication but may be disabled. HP has updated the following deliverables in a Windows Server 2008 installation. Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) Windows Hardware Error Architecture is available on Windows...
...Driver Interface Specification. IPv6 Windows Server 2008 provides support for Windows Server 2008 [hpqilo2.sys, Version 1.5 (or later)] 5 For more information on the next generation TCP/IP stack in Windows Server 2008. Table 2 lists the WHEA-capable ProLiant servers. This DC hosts read -... 5. Administrators should be aware that require fast and reliable authentication but may be disabled. HP has updated the following deliverables in a Windows Server 2008 installation. Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) Windows Hardware Error Architecture is available on Windows...
ISS Technology Update Index
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...Volume 8, Number 3 April 2009 Multi-core Technology 8 Volume 7, Number 6 June 2008 a leader in industry 4 standards for ProLiant and ProLiant server blades HP Solid State Drive technology 1 Volume 7, Number 9 October 2008 Volume 7, Number 6 June 2008 Volume 7, Number 10 December ...HP 6 c-Class BladeSystem Volume 6, Number 9 November 2007 M Meet the Expert-Alan Goodrum 7 Volume 8, Number 7 November 2009 Meet the Expert-Bill Hanlon 6 Volume 9, Number 2 February 2010 Meet the Expert-Brian Purcell 3 Volume 7, Number 10 December 2008 Meet the Expert- VSE: Next-generation...
...Volume 8, Number 3 April 2009 Multi-core Technology 8 Volume 7, Number 6 June 2008 a leader in industry 4 standards for ProLiant and ProLiant server blades HP Solid State Drive technology 1 Volume 7, Number 9 October 2008 Volume 7, Number 6 June 2008 Volume 7, Number 10 December ...HP 6 c-Class BladeSystem Volume 6, Number 9 November 2007 M Meet the Expert-Alan Goodrum 7 Volume 8, Number 7 November 2009 Meet the Expert-Bill Hanlon 6 Volume 9, Number 2 February 2010 Meet the Expert-Brian Purcell 3 Volume 7, Number 10 December 2008 Meet the Expert- VSE: Next-generation...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 5
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...performance gains experienced with the Broadcom solution for the server CPU. Software initiators require CPU resources to a hardware-based iSCSI HBA or NIC. ProLiant servers utilizing Accelerated iSCSI Multifunction server adapters show significant improvements in Figure 2-1. ISS ... software-based iSCSI initiators generate more efficient approach is accelerated. The iSCSI stack at http://www.tolly.com/TS/2008/HewlettPackard/iSCSISolutions/Tolly208305HPiSCSI.pdf. A more processing overhead for HP hardwareassisted iSCSI Multifunction server adapters, read /write,...
...performance gains experienced with the Broadcom solution for the server CPU. Software initiators require CPU resources to a hardware-based iSCSI HBA or NIC. ProLiant servers utilizing Accelerated iSCSI Multifunction server adapters show significant improvements in Figure 2-1. ISS ... software-based iSCSI initiators generate more efficient approach is accelerated. The iSCSI stack at http://www.tolly.com/TS/2008/HewlettPackard/iSCSISolutions/Tolly208305HPiSCSI.pdf. A more processing overhead for HP hardwareassisted iSCSI Multifunction server adapters, read /write,...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 5
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...not incur any performance penalty when mixed with 3-Gb/s drives on the topics discussed in the HP ProLiant G6 servers prepares the way for the next several generations of four SAS interface channels. Maximum disk I /O for directly attached storage configurations, there is... controllers capable of these resources: Resource URL HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Arrays HP ProLiant Smart Array RAID controllers http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/disk_storage/msa_diskarrays/ index.html http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/array controllers/index.html 7 Interoperability of...
...not incur any performance penalty when mixed with 3-Gb/s drives on the topics discussed in the HP ProLiant G6 servers prepares the way for the next several generations of four SAS interface channels. Maximum disk I /O for directly attached storage configurations, there is... controllers capable of these resources: Resource URL HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Arrays HP ProLiant Smart Array RAID controllers http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/disk_storage/msa_diskarrays/ index.html http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/array controllers/index.html 7 Interoperability of...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6
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... with HP http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c001307 ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, 3rd edition 29/c00130729.pdf Technologies in HP ProLiant G6 c-Class server blades with http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c018745 AMD Opteron™ processors 75/c01874575.pdf Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant AMD-based 300-series G6 (Generation 6) servers http://h20000.www2.hp.com...
... with HP http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c001307 ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, 3rd edition 29/c00130729.pdf Technologies in HP ProLiant G6 c-Class server blades with http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c018745 AMD Opteron™ processors 75/c01874575.pdf Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant AMD-based 300-series G6 (Generation 6) servers http://h20000.www2.hp.com...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6
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...consumption. Structure of various accepted power analyzers to address this methodology, the server performance and power consumption are shown in relation to generate work for objective and reproducible measures of server load. The result is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, ...SPECpower_ssj2008 uses a graduated workload to one hundred percent load. Power performance and power summary for the HP ProLiant DL385 G6 are measured at eleven different levels of server utilization for a fixed period of operating environments. It can be run quickly and ...
...consumption. Structure of various accepted power analyzers to address this methodology, the server performance and power consumption are shown in relation to generate work for objective and reproducible measures of server load. The result is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, ...SPECpower_ssj2008 uses a graduated workload to one hundred percent load. Power performance and power summary for the HP ProLiant DL385 G6 are measured at eleven different levels of server utilization for a fixed period of operating environments. It can be run quickly and ...
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..., visit the following websites: Source SPEC.org SPECpower_ssj2008 main page HP ProLiant Servers Benchmarks page Email / Hyperlink http://www.spec.org/power_ssj2008/ http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/benchmark s/index.html 3 SPEC has also published SPECweb2009, which ... 8, Number 6 153 710 134 403 124 0 1,394 Calculating and interpreting SPECpower_ssj2008 results The SPECpower_ssj2008 benchmark generates a final metric that a server will be too broad a metric when considering specific application scenarios or utilization levels. SPEC Power futures The SPECpower_ssj2008...
..., visit the following websites: Source SPEC.org SPECpower_ssj2008 main page HP ProLiant Servers Benchmarks page Email / Hyperlink http://www.spec.org/power_ssj2008/ http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/benchmark s/index.html 3 SPEC has also published SPECweb2009, which ... 8, Number 6 153 710 134 403 124 0 1,394 Calculating and interpreting SPECpower_ssj2008 results The SPECpower_ssj2008 benchmark generates a final metric that a server will be too broad a metric when considering specific application scenarios or utilization levels. SPEC Power futures The SPECpower_ssj2008...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6
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... connections (2x, 3x, 4x, or 8x) per direction) are listed in Table 2-1. Physical link rates and effective data transfer rates per direction Physical link rate Generation Effective Data Rate* 4x links 1.5 Gbps SAS-1, SAS-1.1 150 MB/s 3 Gbps SAS-1, SAS-1.1 300 MB/s 6 Gbps SAS-2, SAS-2.1 600 MB/s *Effective Data Rate shown is...
... connections (2x, 3x, 4x, or 8x) per direction) are listed in Table 2-1. Physical link rates and effective data transfer rates per direction Physical link rate Generation Effective Data Rate* 4x links 1.5 Gbps SAS-1, SAS-1.1 150 MB/s 3 Gbps SAS-1, SAS-1.1 300 MB/s 6 Gbps SAS-2, SAS-2.1 600 MB/s *Effective Data Rate shown is...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 3
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... may occur if, for his support of the ISS Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), a professional social network that has been implemented in fifth-generation (G5) and G6 ProLiant servers, and led the Common Design team for Wayne because even at HP. This further reduced the design effort expended by each platform team, resulting in a platform having...
... may occur if, for his support of the ISS Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), a professional social network that has been implemented in fifth-generation (G5) and G6 ProLiant servers, and led the Common Design team for Wayne because even at HP. This further reduced the design effort expended by each platform team, resulting in a platform having...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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.../bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c015161 on HP ProLiant servers integration note 56/c01516156.pdf Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant 100-series G6 (Generation 6) servers technology brief http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c017517 18/c01751718.pdf Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Release Candidate on HP servers integration note http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c007106...
.../bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c015161 on HP ProLiant servers integration note 56/c01516156.pdf Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant 100-series G6 (Generation 6) servers technology brief http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c017517 18/c01751718.pdf Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Release Candidate on HP servers integration note http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c007106...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 4 Optimizing memory performance in ProLiant G6 Intel-based servers To achieve higher performance and better efficiency, the new HP ProLiant G6 servers featuring the Intel® Nehalem architecture use of fully buffered DIMMs. This solved the electrical... QuickPath® Interconnect links that is attached to a given processor is still a part of the server chipset, and physical memory is significantly different than previous generations of system memory through the memory channels. The Intel Nehalem architecture (as well as from processors to...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 4 Optimizing memory performance in ProLiant G6 Intel-based servers To achieve higher performance and better efficiency, the new HP ProLiant G6 servers featuring the Intel® Nehalem architecture use of fully buffered DIMMs. This solved the electrical... QuickPath® Interconnect links that is attached to a given processor is still a part of the server chipset, and physical memory is significantly different than previous generations of system memory through the memory channels. The Intel Nehalem architecture (as well as from processors to...
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... 4 transfers/clock cycle × 400 million cycles/sec, or 1600 Megatransfers/sec. Point-to-Point link-based architectures AMD Opteron ™ based HP ProLiant servers and Intel® Microarchitecture Nehalem-based HP ProLiant Generation 6 (G6) servers have bi-directional links that are attached to Intel QuickPath Technology HyperTransport (HT) Consortium homepage URL www.intel.com/technology/quickpath www...
... 4 transfers/clock cycle × 400 million cycles/sec, or 1600 Megatransfers/sec. Point-to-Point link-based architectures AMD Opteron ™ based HP ProLiant servers and Intel® Microarchitecture Nehalem-based HP ProLiant Generation 6 (G6) servers have bi-directional links that are attached to Intel QuickPath Technology HyperTransport (HT) Consortium homepage URL www.intel.com/technology/quickpath www...