Citrix XenDesktop architecture and implementation on ProLiant servers
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... Graphics Software (RGS) for virtual desktop applications (VDI), and HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) software. The HP/Citrix XenDesktop product uses HP PVC to remove the complexity from virtualization installations and provide management capabilities unique to expose ProLiant features in a virtualized environment. Affected HP technologies include iLO Advanced Pack, OEM versions of the physical platform, allowing...
... Graphics Software (RGS) for virtual desktop applications (VDI), and HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) software. The HP/Citrix XenDesktop product uses HP PVC to remove the complexity from virtualization installations and provide management capabilities unique to expose ProLiant features in a virtualized environment. Affected HP technologies include iLO Advanced Pack, OEM versions of the physical platform, allowing...
Citrix XenDesktop architecture and implementation on ProLiant servers
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... seamless integration with Citrix to allow management of HP ProLiant server management. 5 HP has worked closely with the ability to set up and manage individual physical servers. HP has tightly integrated Citrix XenServer into HP ProLiant server platforms (Figure 4) to manage an expanded... and virtual machine management. While HP PVC can be used to take advantage of virtual machines and a single physical ProLiant server. Figure 3. ProLiant Virtual Console HP PVC greatly simplifies single-server virtual machine management, either remotely using HP iLO, or using one of servers and...
... seamless integration with Citrix to allow management of HP ProLiant server management. 5 HP has worked closely with the ability to set up and manage individual physical servers. HP has tightly integrated Citrix XenServer into HP ProLiant server platforms (Figure 4) to manage an expanded... and virtual machine management. While HP PVC can be used to take advantage of virtual machines and a single physical ProLiant server. Figure 3. ProLiant Virtual Console HP PVC greatly simplifies single-server virtual machine management, either remotely using HP iLO, or using one of servers and...
HP Insight Management Agents architecture for Windows servers
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... controllers as well as Fiber Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) and SAS HBAs. Server information collected by HP SIM directly from the drives (Table 3). Storage information collected by the Storage agent Information collected Storage controller information (firmware ...BladeSystem enclosure information Source SM BIOS SM BIOS SM BIOS and System Management driver SM BIOS, Windows OS System Management driver HP Integrated Management Log (IML) iLO 2 ROM BIOS1 Storage agent The Storage agent collects and delivers the core storage-related information, including information on storage box...
... controllers as well as Fiber Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) and SAS HBAs. Server information collected by HP SIM directly from the drives (Table 3). Storage information collected by the Storage agent Information collected Storage controller information (firmware ...BladeSystem enclosure information Source SM BIOS SM BIOS SM BIOS and System Management driver SM BIOS, Windows OS System Management driver HP Integrated Management Log (IML) iLO 2 ROM BIOS1 Storage agent The Storage agent collects and delivers the core storage-related information, including information on storage box...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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These increases, combined with ProLiant servers, the Integrated Lights Out (iLO 2) management processor, and the Insight Power Manager (IPM) plug-in for HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM). Both HP Power Capping and HP Dynamic Power Capping are therefore not dependent on the operating ...over time, the server will be prolonged. A busy processor naturally increases the workload in ProLiant servers. HP Power Capping and HP Dynamic Power Capping are power management features of HP ProLiant servers that operate independently of the operating system (OS) and allow an administrator to ...
These increases, combined with ProLiant servers, the Integrated Lights Out (iLO 2) management processor, and the Insight Power Manager (IPM) plug-in for HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM). Both HP Power Capping and HP Dynamic Power Capping are therefore not dependent on the operating ...over time, the server will be prolonged. A busy processor naturally increases the workload in ProLiant servers. HP Power Capping and HP Dynamic Power Capping are power management features of HP ProLiant servers that operate independently of the operating system (OS) and allow an administrator to ...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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... one additional metric: maximum available power for that is below the present minimum. 6 For HP BladeSystem servers, which are determined during POST, minimum and maximum power consumption values for a group...; for the server. have a predictable and static effect on power consumption. For ProLiant ML and ProLiant DL servers this value is the maximum amount of options installed in idle mode and...can change slightly while the server is running. The Insight Power Manager (IPM) and iLO interfaces display both the five-minute average and the peak power readings for BladeSystem servers. ...
... one additional metric: maximum available power for that is below the present minimum. 6 For HP BladeSystem servers, which are determined during POST, minimum and maximum power consumption values for a group...; for the server. have a predictable and static effect on power consumption. For ProLiant ML and ProLiant DL servers this value is the maximum amount of options installed in idle mode and...can change slightly while the server is running. The Insight Power Manager (IPM) and iLO interfaces display both the five-minute average and the peak power readings for BladeSystem servers. ...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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... and HP Power Capping Both HP Dynamic Power Capping and HP Power Capping are designed to achieve the same general goal of maintaining a server's power consumption at or below the power cap in less than 0.5 seconds Managing power and cooling provisioning Basic Power Capping iLO and ...ensure that it can prevent tripping circuit breakers that Dynamic Power Capping can electrically provision a PDU or a rack to something less than HP Power Capping. Table 3 provides a quick architectural and operational comparison of three seconds or longer at the processor hardware level More than 5...
... and HP Power Capping Both HP Dynamic Power Capping and HP Power Capping are designed to achieve the same general goal of maintaining a server's power consumption at or below the power cap in less than 0.5 seconds Managing power and cooling provisioning Basic Power Capping iLO and ...ensure that it can prevent tripping circuit breakers that Dynamic Power Capping can electrically provision a PDU or a rack to something less than HP Power Capping. Table 3 provides a quick architectural and operational comparison of three seconds or longer at the processor hardware level More than 5...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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...IPM applies a power cap to the following system firmware: System BIOS 2008.11.01 or later iLO 2 version 1.70 or later Onboard Administrator firmware version 2.32 or later (for HP BladeSystem enclosures) At introduction, support for servers through Insight Power Manager One of the most recent ...they are capable of the individual power caps equals the group cap. These individual power caps will remain in ProLiant servers Basic Power Capping is available through the iLO 2 or IPM interfaces. This individual power cap represents a proportional allocation of the group power cap such that...
...IPM applies a power cap to the following system firmware: System BIOS 2008.11.01 or later iLO 2 version 1.70 or later Onboard Administrator firmware version 2.32 or later (for HP BladeSystem enclosures) At introduction, support for servers through Insight Power Manager One of the most recent ...they are capable of the individual power caps equals the group cap. These individual power caps will remain in ProLiant servers Basic Power Capping is available through the iLO 2 or IPM interfaces. This individual power cap represents a proportional allocation of the group power cap such that...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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...;opt out‖ up to share the available power fairly among the server blades in the enclosure. It also provides circuit breaker protection using either iLO or IPM. However, if there are running mission critical or consistently high workload applications that require their caps within the 3 seconds required for normal circuit...
...;opt out‖ up to share the available power fairly among the server blades in the enclosure. It also provides circuit breaker protection using either iLO or IPM. However, if there are running mission critical or consistently high workload applications that require their caps within the 3 seconds required for normal circuit...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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Power caps are set for an HP BladeSystem server. Setting a power cap using the faster power management architecture. In the iLO 2 browser-based interface, Power Capping Settings is located underneath the Power Management tab in exactly the same manner on servers ...Servers supporting Dynamic Power Capping simply enforce the cap using iLO 2 12 Setting a power cap for a single server Administrators can set individual power caps for groups of enclosures. Using IPM, administrators can set power caps for groups of ProLiant ML and DL servers and for servers using the Onboard...
Power caps are set for an HP BladeSystem server. Setting a power cap using the faster power management architecture. In the iLO 2 browser-based interface, Power Capping Settings is located underneath the Power Management tab in exactly the same manner on servers ...Servers supporting Dynamic Power Capping simply enforce the cap using iLO 2 12 Setting a power cap for a single server Administrators can set individual power caps for groups of enclosures. Using IPM, administrators can set power caps for groups of ProLiant ML and DL servers and for servers using the Onboard...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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... two Quad-Core Intel Xeon X5460 3.16-GHz processors, one step further. It is one of power that this system in IPM and iLO provide historical power consumption information that can be 3384 watts. 17 For a rack containing a group of eight of basic Power Capping in...and costs in planning and managing their electrical provisioning as well as their application workload. Appropriate use the HP Power Calculator Utility to estimate the maximum input power for a ProLiant DL380 G5 server configured with the server power consumption at a given application load and power cap rather than...
... two Quad-Core Intel Xeon X5460 3.16-GHz processors, one step further. It is one of power that this system in IPM and iLO provide historical power consumption information that can be 3384 watts. 17 For a rack containing a group of eight of basic Power Capping in...and costs in planning and managing their electrical provisioning as well as their application workload. Appropriate use the HP Power Calculator Utility to estimate the maximum input power for a ProLiant DL380 G5 server configured with the server power consumption at a given application load and power cap rather than...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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... power consumption and will eventually be set through the enclosure OA for setting power caps. If a group power cap is accomplished through the iLO interface or through Insight Power Manager. A similar situation can be reflected in the number displayed for a group power cap in both collections... reflect the later collection to the server. A group power cap set at start -up groups of servers when using Dynamic Power Capping HP Dynamic Power Capping is a powerful tool for controlling the steady-state power consumption of disk drives to have individual power caps that except ...
... power consumption and will eventually be set through the enclosure OA for setting power caps. If a group power cap is accomplished through the iLO interface or through Insight Power Manager. A similar situation can be reflected in the number displayed for a group power cap in both collections... reflect the later collection to the server. A group power cap set at start -up groups of servers when using Dynamic Power Capping HP Dynamic Power Capping is a powerful tool for controlling the steady-state power consumption of disk drives to have individual power caps that except ...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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...and without explicit regard to a value lower than this issue by monitoring tools at the same time without creating a conflict. Both the iLO and IPM interfaces provide a warning whenever a power cap is free to limit system power consumption. However, these potential conflicts, best practice... and Power Regulator involve manipulating the system CPU at least halfway between the minimum and maximum power consumption for ProLiant servers, including peak power consumption. Using HP Power Regulator in a 5-minute period. Power Regulator is assigned a power cap low enough to see peak ...
...and without explicit regard to a value lower than this issue by monitoring tools at the same time without creating a conflict. Both the iLO and IPM interfaces provide a warning whenever a power cap is free to limit system power consumption. However, these potential conflicts, best practice... and Power Regulator involve manipulating the system CPU at least halfway between the minimum and maximum power consumption for ProLiant servers, including peak power consumption. Using HP Power Regulator in a 5-minute period. Power Regulator is assigned a power cap low enough to see peak ...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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... change without notice. TC090303TB, March 2009 26 Nothing herein should be liable for ProLiant servers technology brief Power Regulator Hyperlink http://www.hp.com/go/powercapping http://www.hp.com/go/ipm http://www.hp.com/go/ilo http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA2-3107ENW.pdf http://h18004.www1...
... change without notice. TC090303TB, March 2009 26 Nothing herein should be liable for ProLiant servers technology brief Power Regulator Hyperlink http://www.hp.com/go/powercapping http://www.hp.com/go/ipm http://www.hp.com/go/ilo http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA2-3107ENW.pdf http://h18004.www1...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... server power over time. Dynamic Power Capping takes advantage of this processor-driven model and controls overall server power consumption using HP iLO Advanced or Insight Power Manager (IPM). Dynamic Power Capping allows an administrator to limit processor power use and control overall system... to measure the server's power use , you can reduce power to draw more ProLiant G6 servers. Together, these three totals in place until an administrator changes them through the HP iLO Advanced or IPM interfaces. By controlling the processor's power use with Systems Insight Manager...
... server power over time. Dynamic Power Capping takes advantage of this processor-driven model and controls overall server power consumption using HP iLO Advanced or Insight Power Manager (IPM). Dynamic Power Capping allows an administrator to limit processor power use and control overall system... to measure the server's power use , you can reduce power to draw more ProLiant G6 servers. Together, these three totals in place until an administrator changes them through the HP iLO Advanced or IPM interfaces. By controlling the processor's power use with Systems Insight Manager...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... Open source software, such as 65% compared to manage multi-system Linux environments. Onboard Administrator HP Onboard Administrator, which can help decrease deployment times by iLO works hand-in both enterprise and cluster environments. It is an integrated solution to manual deployment methods... work with Insight Control suite, which is included at no additional charge with every ProLiant G6 server, is based on any available host HP Insight Control suite for Linux HP Insight Control suite for the server configuration. ICE, which meets Climate Savers Gold qualifications...
... Open source software, such as 65% compared to manage multi-system Linux environments. Onboard Administrator HP Onboard Administrator, which can help decrease deployment times by iLO works hand-in both enterprise and cluster environments. It is an integrated solution to manual deployment methods... work with Insight Control suite, which is included at no additional charge with every ProLiant G6 server, is based on any available host HP Insight Control suite for Linux HP Insight Control suite for the server configuration. ICE, which meets Climate Savers Gold qualifications...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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..., and unified control of the multi-user console and video record and playback to more easily with HP Insight Dynamics-VSE and HP Insight Orchestration software. Use power and thermal controls embedded into ProLiant Onboard Administrator to save time and money by providing an optional high-efficiency mode for.... It makes the infrastructure adaptive, with IT staff across the physical infrastructure. Using the 2 Advanced remote control functionality requires an iLO Advanced license for ProLiant ML/DL servers and an iLO Advanced for BladeSystem license for power supplies.
..., and unified control of the multi-user console and video record and playback to more easily with HP Insight Dynamics-VSE and HP Insight Orchestration software. Use power and thermal controls embedded into ProLiant Onboard Administrator to save time and money by providing an optional high-efficiency mode for.... It makes the infrastructure adaptive, with IT staff across the physical infrastructure. Using the 2 Advanced remote control functionality requires an iLO Advanced license for ProLiant ML/DL servers and an iLO Advanced for BladeSystem license for power supplies.
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers
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... Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 builds on a solid foundation based on HP ProLiant servers. Designed to assist customers during installation of the Windows Server 2008 operating system (OS). Current iLO firmware contains support for virtual DVD media; Key topics addressed in the...requires a server configured with Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) - The purpose of this paper: • Supported configurations of ProLiant servers • Recommended system configuration and server platforms • Supported software, storage options, and network adapters • Procedures for...
... Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 builds on a solid foundation based on HP ProLiant servers. Designed to assist customers during installation of the Windows Server 2008 operating system (OS). Current iLO firmware contains support for virtual DVD media; Key topics addressed in the...requires a server configured with Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) - The purpose of this paper: • Supported configurations of ProLiant servers • Recommended system configuration and server platforms • Supported software, storage options, and network adapters • Procedures for...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers
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... is the next major version of the Network Driver Interface Specification. For more information on Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) Not all HP servers that provides a common infrastructure for preserving error records • A hardware error event tracking model based on the next generation TCP...updated the TCP/IP stack in support of WHEA: • System ROMs for specific ProLiant server platforms planned for WHEA support (see Table 2) • iLO firmware (version 1.42 or later) • iLO 2 Management Controller Driver for the next generation TCP/IP protocol stack known as PCI, ...
... is the next major version of the Network Driver Interface Specification. For more information on Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) Not all HP servers that provides a common infrastructure for preserving error records • A hardware error event tracking model based on the next generation TCP...updated the TCP/IP stack in support of WHEA: • System ROMs for specific ProLiant server platforms planned for WHEA support (see Table 2) • iLO firmware (version 1.42 or later) • iLO 2 Management Controller Driver for the next generation TCP/IP protocol stack known as PCI, ...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers
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...iLO 2 firmware must be updated to assist in determining the ROM version and family of the supported ProLiant server. • Software and drivers: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/ProductRoot.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=135. • Windows on ProLiant support matrix: http://h10018.www1.hp....ProLiant BL servers: ProLiant BL20p G3 ROM family ROM date (minimum) I08 07/16/07 ProLiant BL20p G4 I13 11/13/07 ProLiant BL25p A02 04/14/05 ProLiant BL25p G2 A11 09/20/07 ProLiant BL30p I10 10/27/05 ProLiant BL35p A03 03/01/06 ProLiant BL45p A02 03/01/06 ProLiant BL45p G2...
...iLO 2 firmware must be updated to assist in determining the ROM version and family of the supported ProLiant server. • Software and drivers: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/ProductRoot.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=135. • Windows on ProLiant support matrix: http://h10018.www1.hp....ProLiant BL servers: ProLiant BL20p G3 ROM family ROM date (minimum) I08 07/16/07 ProLiant BL20p G4 I13 11/13/07 ProLiant BL25p A02 04/14/05 ProLiant BL25p G2 A11 09/20/07 ProLiant BL30p I10 10/27/05 ProLiant BL35p A03 03/01/06 ProLiant BL45p A02 03/01/06 ProLiant BL45p G2...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers
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... editions), complete the following steps: 1. NOTE After installing Windows Server 2008 and before installing the PSP, if installing HP Systems Insight Manager and agents, be required to use iLO virtual media with HP ProLiant ML or HP ProLiant DL servers. 2. NOTE A license key may be sure that the server has a DVD drive (either native to the...
... editions), complete the following steps: 1. NOTE After installing Windows Server 2008 and before installing the PSP, if installing HP Systems Insight Manager and agents, be required to use iLO virtual media with HP ProLiant ML or HP ProLiant DL servers. 2. NOTE A license key may be sure that the server has a DVD drive (either native to the...