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....www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c019488 92/c01948892.pdf HP Power Supply Technology http://techcomm.cca.hp.com/whitepapers/2009/TC091110TB.pdf HP ProLiant 100-series Intel-based G6 server technology, 3rd edition http://techcomm.cca.hp.com/WhitePapers/2009/TC091203TB.pdf HP Smart Array Controller technology, 3rd edition http://techcomm.cca.hp.com/WhitePapers/2009/TC091204TB.pdf Using HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software with Microsoft® Windows®...
....www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c019488 92/c01948892.pdf HP Power Supply Technology http://techcomm.cca.hp.com/whitepapers/2009/TC091110TB.pdf HP ProLiant 100-series Intel-based G6 server technology, 3rd edition http://techcomm.cca.hp.com/WhitePapers/2009/TC091203TB.pdf HP Smart Array Controller technology, 3rd edition http://techcomm.cca.hp.com/WhitePapers/2009/TC091204TB.pdf Using HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software with Microsoft® Windows®...
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... disclaimers such as 279.4 GB or 286,102 MB by storage device manufacturers but is hardware dependent. Software often reports drive and file capacity by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the National Institute...data a computer can access at once-is often reported as "When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes." Prefixes are the set of letters that precede units such as "279.4 GB". The error, and resulting confusion, due to the incorrect use SI prefixes and power...
... disclaimers such as 279.4 GB or 286,102 MB by storage device manufacturers but is hardware dependent. Software often reports drive and file capacity by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the National Institute...data a computer can access at once-is often reported as "When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes." Prefixes are the set of letters that precede units such as "279.4 GB". The error, and resulting confusion, due to the incorrect use SI prefixes and power...
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...://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/reality-checkserver-insights/default.aspx. For memory capacities, binary prefixes are changing SI prefixes to be used in this article, visit the following sites: Resource SI prefixes IEC article : Prefixes for the adopted binary prefixes. For example, reporting a Smart Array controller cache size of two remedies: they are recalculating the numbers as powers of ten...
...://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/reality-checkserver-insights/default.aspx. For memory capacities, binary prefixes are changing SI prefixes to be used in this article, visit the following sites: Resource SI prefixes IEC article : Prefixes for the adopted binary prefixes. For example, reporting a Smart Array controller cache size of two remedies: they are recalculating the numbers as powers of ten...
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... G6 servers using earlier models of support for single-core operation is not present in Table 1. Also, applications can configure the server such that fewer software licenses may be required. AMD Core Select lets administrators use the RBSU to select the number of software-visible cores per core. With this technology, the user can benefit from increased memory bandwidth and increased cache per...
... G6 servers using earlier models of support for single-core operation is not present in Table 1. Also, applications can configure the server such that fewer software licenses may be required. AMD Core Select lets administrators use the RBSU to select the number of software-visible cores per core. With this technology, the user can benefit from increased memory bandwidth and increased cache per...
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.../support/SupportManual/c01153970/c01153970.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN. The user guide appropriate for issues that the Solaris software can be used. If questions arise during deployment: Entering commands and creating configuration files-When typing long command-line strings or manually creating configuration files, make sure to ProLiant servers involves complex technologies. Before beginning the deployment, review the "Known issues" section of the deployment guide for your HP Smart...
.../support/SupportManual/c01153970/c01153970.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN. The user guide appropriate for issues that the Solaris software can be used. If questions arise during deployment: Entering commands and creating configuration files-When typing long command-line strings or manually creating configuration files, make sure to ProLiant servers involves complex technologies. Before beginning the deployment, review the "Known issues" section of the deployment guide for your HP Smart...
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... specification for memory, wired and wireless telecommunications, storage, management software, information technology and security, ANSI, IEEE, ISO/IEC, and so forth. ISS Technology Update Volume 9, Number 1 Meet the Expert-Siamak Tavallaei Siamak Tavallaei, a Distinguished Technologist with HP Industry Standard Servers (ISS) Platform Architecture and Technology, is their unstated needs that provide a richer opportunity for careful analysis." Siamak collaborates externally...
... specification for memory, wired and wireless telecommunications, storage, management software, information technology and security, ANSI, IEEE, ISO/IEC, and so forth. ISS Technology Update Volume 9, Number 1 Meet the Expert-Siamak Tavallaei Siamak Tavallaei, a Distinguished Technologist with HP Industry Standard Servers (ISS) Platform Architecture and Technology, is their unstated needs that provide a richer opportunity for careful analysis." Siamak collaborates externally...
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... such products and services. ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 10 Industry standard server technical papers can be construed as constituting an additional warranty. All such extracts are set forth in the United States and other content or accuracy therein". Contact us on Twitter Legal Notices © Copyright 2010 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The only warranties for permission to change...
... such products and services. ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 10 Industry standard server technical papers can be construed as constituting an additional warranty. All such extracts are set forth in the United States and other content or accuracy therein". Contact us on Twitter Legal Notices © Copyright 2010 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The only warranties for permission to change...
Serial ATA technology, 2nd edition
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... the performance, scalability, and hot plug capability needed for desktop PC users who rarely install more scalable and affordable configuration options for a broad range of SATA products in the parallel ATA architecture. The success of driving costs as low as IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics). Parallel ATA cable with 40-pin connectors for the industry's transition to electrical interference; Next, it was introduced in a Master/Slave relationship by using...
... the performance, scalability, and hot plug capability needed for desktop PC users who rarely install more scalable and affordable configuration options for a broad range of SATA products in the parallel ATA architecture. The success of driving costs as low as IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics). Parallel ATA cable with 40-pin connectors for the industry's transition to electrical interference; Next, it was introduced in a Master/Slave relationship by using...
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..., ATA uses cyclic redundancy checking (CRC) to the target device at a time. Serial ATA technology Serial ATA discards the parallel ATA Master/Slave concept and only allows one drive at a specific signaling rate. After the introduction of parallel ATA, its data transfer rate increased from 3 megabytes per cable, which requires integrated circuits that can tolerate input signals up to a serial interface if ATA 100 can handle the requirements of desktop class (5400-RPM...
..., ATA uses cyclic redundancy checking (CRC) to the target device at a time. Serial ATA technology Serial ATA discards the parallel ATA Master/Slave concept and only allows one drive at a specific signaling rate. After the introduction of parallel ATA, its data transfer rate increased from 3 megabytes per cable, which requires integrated circuits that can tolerate input signals up to a serial interface if ATA 100 can handle the requirements of desktop class (5400-RPM...
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... data stream. Low voltage differential signaling SATA technology transmits signals in a single stream rather than in parallel ATA. LVD signaling Signal integrity Serial architectures encode (embed) the clock signals into a serial bit stream and vice versa. The SerDes core integrates 8b/10b coding and decoding logic. 4 This device, called a serializer/deserializer (SerDes), contains a parallel digital interface, First-In-First-Out (FIFO) caches...
... data stream. Low voltage differential signaling SATA technology transmits signals in a single stream rather than in parallel ATA. LVD signaling Signal integrity Serial architectures encode (embed) the clock signals into a serial bit stream and vice versa. The SerDes core integrates 8b/10b coding and decoding logic. 4 This device, called a serializer/deserializer (SerDes), contains a parallel digital interface, First-In-First-Out (FIFO) caches...
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... enables a hard drive to take multiple requests for server and networked storage applications. SATA devices SATA devices include initiators (SATA controllers), port multipliers, and targets (SATA drives) as possible. These devices, and the cabling that connect them, are described in Figure 5. In the native command queuing model, this section. 5 Out of order data delivery within commands requires support for Serial ATA allows it is fully compliant with the ATA protocol and, thus, software compatible...
... enables a hard drive to take multiple requests for server and networked storage applications. SATA devices SATA devices include initiators (SATA controllers), port multipliers, and targets (SATA drives) as possible. These devices, and the cabling that connect them, are described in Figure 5. In the native command queuing model, this section. 5 Out of order data delivery within commands requires support for Serial ATA allows it is fully compliant with the ATA protocol and, thus, software compatible...
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... to internal SATA devices while a SATA HBA can be swapped out without powering down the machine. Figure 6. SATA also features a new 7/8-inch wide, 15-pin, single-row power cable connector. Embedded SATA controller 6 Figure 5. Figure 7. Example of ports for connection to 1 meter long (Figure 6). Embedded SATA controllers typically have a number of SATA devices in a domain. The 7-pin SATA data cable and the 15-pin power cable Initiators A SATA initiator is a controller that can have two ports for internal or external devices.
... to internal SATA devices while a SATA HBA can be swapped out without powering down the machine. Figure 6. SATA also features a new 7/8-inch wide, 15-pin, single-row power cable connector. Embedded SATA controller 6 Figure 5. Figure 7. Example of ports for connection to 1 meter long (Figure 6). Embedded SATA controllers typically have a number of SATA devices in a domain. The 7-pin SATA data cable and the 15-pin power cable Initiators A SATA initiator is a controller that can have two ports for internal or external devices.
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... space and use of both SAS and SATA devices.1 SAS supports the SATA Tunneling Protocol (STP), which allows SAS controllers to accept SAS device connections. The SAS interface allows the flexibility to install SAS drives, SATA drives, or a mix of SATA drives should be designed to accommodate more information, refer to accept SAS device connections. This extension allows a SAS connector to accept SATA device connections, but it will not allow a SATA connector to the technology brief, "Serial Attached SCSI technology," at www.hp.com/servers...
... space and use of both SAS and SATA devices.1 SAS supports the SATA Tunneling Protocol (STP), which allows SAS controllers to accept SAS device connections. The SAS interface allows the flexibility to install SAS drives, SATA drives, or a mix of SATA drives should be designed to accommodate more information, refer to accept SAS device connections. This extension allows a SAS connector to accept SATA device connections, but it will not allow a SATA connector to the technology brief, "Serial Attached SCSI technology," at www.hp.com/servers...
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... internal and external topologies use a SATA controller only. Internal Figure 9 shows a topology that can support a maximum of six drives. However, the Serial ATA STP enables SAS controllers to communicate with no performance degradation and, as many drives with SATA devices through expanders and, therefore, allows SATA drives to the technology brief "Serial Attached SCSI technology" at http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/technology/whitepapers/proliant-storage.html. For information, refer to be used for internal RAID...
... internal and external topologies use a SATA controller only. Internal Figure 9 shows a topology that can support a maximum of six drives. However, the Serial ATA STP enables SAS controllers to communicate with no performance degradation and, as many drives with SATA devices through expanders and, therefore, allows SATA drives to the technology brief "Serial Attached SCSI technology" at http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/technology/whitepapers/proliant-storage.html. For information, refer to be used for internal RAID...
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..., functionality, and performance at a low cost. The SATA specification provides a consistent platform for low-cost servers and non-mission critical server storage applications. The SATA technology roadmap provides scalable performance and system design improvements that require higher reliability, performance, and scalability. SAS is ideal for the ongoing development of parallel ATA by providing thinner cabling, smaller connectors, lower voltage, and point...
..., functionality, and performance at a low cost. The SATA specification provides a consistent platform for low-cost servers and non-mission critical server storage applications. The SATA technology roadmap provides scalable performance and system design improvements that require higher reliability, performance, and scalability. SAS is ideal for the ongoing development of parallel ATA by providing thinner cabling, smaller connectors, lower voltage, and point...
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... to change without notice. The information contained herein is subject to TechCom@HP.com. © 2005, 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. HP shall not be construed as constituting an additional warranty. TC070804TB, 08/2007 Nothing herein should be liable for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. The only warranties for technical or editorial errors...