HP BladeSystem Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 User Guide
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... Management Processors from the System Center Essentials Console • Access to HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure and other HP ProLiant Essentials value-added software for hardware performance management, vulnerability assessment, and advanced lifecycle administration of blade servers and virtual systems through HP SIM Benefits The HP BladeSystem Management Pack for Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2007 provides the...
... Management Processors from the System Center Essentials Console • Access to HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure and other HP ProLiant Essentials value-added software for hardware performance management, vulnerability assessment, and advanced lifecycle administration of blade servers and virtual systems through HP SIM Benefits The HP BladeSystem Management Pack for Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2007 provides the...
HP BladeSystem Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 User Guide
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... Integrated Lights-Out management processor, which enables you to HP Onboard Administrator. Click HP Integrated Lights-Out. To launch the HP Onboard Administrator task: 1. Using the software 35 To launch the HP Integrated Lights-Out task to remotely access the selected HP ProLiant Blade server. HP Integrated Lights-Out task Blade Servers in to perform advanced, secure, and operating system-independent...
... Integrated Lights-Out management processor, which enables you to HP Onboard Administrator. Click HP Integrated Lights-Out. To launch the HP Onboard Administrator task: 1. Using the software 35 To launch the HP Integrated Lights-Out task to remotely access the selected HP ProLiant Blade server. HP Integrated Lights-Out task Blade Servers in to perform advanced, secure, and operating system-independent...
HP VMware ESXi management environment
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... System OS name, type, version number and description • Leverage VMware providers Host/Guest associations for virtual connections to blade servers • Leverage VMware providers for sensors • Computer System Consolidated health status • Processor temperature exceeded normal operating ... • Power supply redundancy set, number of power supplies, associations with VMware providers comparison Table B-1. Appendix B: HP SIM with HP providers, VC/VIC with individual power supply members, and redundancy status • Individual and overall temperature sensor health status...
... System OS name, type, version number and description • Leverage VMware providers Host/Guest associations for virtual connections to blade servers • Leverage VMware providers for sensors • Computer System Consolidated health status • Processor temperature exceeded normal operating ... • Power supply redundancy set, number of power supplies, associations with VMware providers comparison Table B-1. Appendix B: HP SIM with HP providers, VC/VIC with individual power supply members, and redundancy status • Individual and overall temperature sensor health status...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7
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...system drives for a number of this way, a fully functional vSphere host can easily be pulled from a server with ProLiant BL490c or ProLiant BL495c server blades provides an ideal infrastructure for all that serious. Failure recovery Failure certainly sounds like a bad word, but ...even this article, visit: Resource Virtualization technology communications HP ProLiant BL490c G6 Server series HP ProLiant BL495c G6 Server series URL http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/technology /whitepapers/virtualization/index.html http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/3 709945-3709945-...
...system drives for a number of this way, a fully functional vSphere host can easily be pulled from a server with ProLiant BL490c or ProLiant BL495c server blades provides an ideal infrastructure for all that serious. Failure recovery Failure certainly sounds like a bad word, but ...even this article, visit: Resource Virtualization technology communications HP ProLiant BL490c G6 Server series HP ProLiant BL495c G6 Server series URL http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/technology /whitepapers/virtualization/index.html http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/3 709945-3709945-...
Optimizing facility operation in high density data center environments
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... blanking panels must be calculated by using the HP BladeSystem Power Sizer found at: www.hp.com/go beyond 10 kW/rack. Figure 5. Cable rings, trays, and trunking products will still respond as shown in close proximity to the servers to occur without blanking panels (top) and ...functionality. This situation can occur when hot aisle exhaust air flows straight through a rack with blanking panels (bottom) Heat loads generated by blade servers in concert, the actual load can go /bladesystem/powercalculator. The Interface Adapter (IA) that even if the CAT5 cable is routed exclusively...
... blanking panels must be calculated by using the HP BladeSystem Power Sizer found at: www.hp.com/go beyond 10 kW/rack. Figure 5. Cable rings, trays, and trunking products will still respond as shown in close proximity to the servers to occur without blanking panels (top) and ...functionality. This situation can occur when hot aisle exhaust air flows straight through a rack with blanking panels (bottom) Heat loads generated by blade servers in concert, the actual load can go /bladesystem/powercalculator. The Interface Adapter (IA) that even if the CAT5 cable is routed exclusively...
Optimizing facility operation in high density data center environments
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... kilowatt per hour (kWh) or British Thermal Units per hour (BTU/hr). Capacity of CRAC units The heat load of equipment is immediately coupled with blade servers, rather than the heterogeneously-populated open space of the data center room. Assuming a fixed heat load from the equipment in its discharge velocity. Deep into...
... kilowatt per hour (kWh) or British Thermal Units per hour (BTU/hr). Capacity of CRAC units The heat load of equipment is immediately coupled with blade servers, rather than the heterogeneously-populated open space of the data center room. Assuming a fixed heat load from the equipment in its discharge velocity. Deep into...
Power basics for IT professionals
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... as 200 to operate at high line. This phenomenon is the resistance of individual servers is additive. HP defines low line as 100 to the server at 120 V or 208 V. Some ProLiant servers are revised often and the latest version should not exceed 80 percent of time. ...by HP actively limit inrush current. High-line or low-line input voltage Selection of input voltage. In traditional data centers, power goes from the PDU. A wire from each non-blade server requires single-phase power from the transformers to the applied input voltage. ProLiant and BladeSystem servers ...
... as 200 to operate at high line. This phenomenon is the resistance of individual servers is additive. HP defines low line as 100 to the server at 120 V or 208 V. Some ProLiant servers are revised often and the latest version should not exceed 80 percent of time. ...by HP actively limit inrush current. High-line or low-line input voltage Selection of input voltage. In traditional data centers, power goes from the PDU. A wire from each non-blade server requires single-phase power from the transformers to the applied input voltage. ProLiant and BladeSystem servers ...
Power basics for IT professionals
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... and adjust for the proper input voltage supplied by the power utility (low-voltage or high-voltage). AWG: American Wire Gauge Blade server: see http://www.ansi.org/) American Wire Gauge (AWG): A common standard of measurement for the diameter of resistance. British ... circuit that describes either current or voltage. Rack bus bars deliver up to 3,000 watts of IEC. (For the ANSI website, see server blade. ANSI: American National Standards Institute Apparent power: Expressed in volt-amps, apparent power is the Canadian counterpart to Underwriters Laboratories. 35 Breaker:...
... and adjust for the proper input voltage supplied by the power utility (low-voltage or high-voltage). AWG: American Wire Gauge Blade server: see http://www.ansi.org/) American Wire Gauge (AWG): A common standard of measurement for the diameter of resistance. British ... circuit that describes either current or voltage. Rack bus bars deliver up to 3,000 watts of IEC. (For the ANSI website, see server blade. ANSI: American National Standards Institute Apparent power: Expressed in volt-amps, apparent power is the Canadian counterpart to Underwriters Laboratories. 35 Breaker:...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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...here. Customers running applications at max power, an increase of 39%. Table 2. Table 3. HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server Power and Costs Projections Faceplate Enclosure Power w/16 Blade Servers Maximum Number of capacity. In addition, while these measurements were calculated at 100% CPU load... reclaim an even larger percentage of trapped power capacity than 16 blade servers will fit, the number of incremental servers does not justify the purchase of 100%. HP ProLiant BL460c G1 and G5 Servers Comparisons of faceplate, power calculator, and SPECjbb benchmark with Dynamic Power...
...here. Customers running applications at max power, an increase of 39%. Table 2. Table 3. HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server Power and Costs Projections Faceplate Enclosure Power w/16 Blade Servers Maximum Number of capacity. In addition, while these measurements were calculated at 100% CPU load... reclaim an even larger percentage of trapped power capacity than 16 blade servers will fit, the number of incremental servers does not justify the purchase of 100%. HP ProLiant BL460c G1 and G5 Servers Comparisons of faceplate, power calculator, and SPECjbb benchmark with Dynamic Power...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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... Power Cap settings based on different blade server models. It involves updating ROM BIOS, iLO and Insight Control Environment software, setting an initial Dynamic Power Cap baseline using the ProLiant BL 460c G1 and G5 servers and the HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure as an example. In addition, because server workloads within the blade enclosure and power budgets can...
... Power Cap settings based on different blade server models. It involves updating ROM BIOS, iLO and Insight Control Environment software, setting an initial Dynamic Power Cap baseline using the ProLiant BL 460c G1 and G5 servers and the HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure as an example. In addition, because server workloads within the blade enclosure and power budgets can...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (WW edition)
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... kW * While technically more dramatic. HP ProLiant BL460c G1 and G5 Servers Comparisons of faceplate, power calculator, and SPECjbb benchmark with Dynamic Power Capping for the BL460c G1 server and c7000 as well as their primary means of 39%. Users can potentially increase the number of blade servers deployed per server to 32 servers using faceplate to set Dynamic...
... kW * While technically more dramatic. HP ProLiant BL460c G1 and G5 Servers Comparisons of faceplate, power calculator, and SPECjbb benchmark with Dynamic Power Capping for the BL460c G1 server and c7000 as well as their primary means of 39%. Users can potentially increase the number of blade servers deployed per server to 32 servers using faceplate to set Dynamic...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (WW edition)
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... as their primary means of an additional enclosure. As with rack-mounted servers, customers who have used . HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server Power and Costs Projections Faceplate Blade System Sizer (Enclosure) Load Testing and Dynamic Power Capping Enclosure Power 8,340 W 4,722 W 4,257 W w/16 Blade Servers Maximum Number of this section describes the Dynamic Power Capping configuration process for...
... as their primary means of an additional enclosure. As with rack-mounted servers, customers who have used . HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server Power and Costs Projections Faceplate Blade System Sizer (Enclosure) Load Testing and Dynamic Power Capping Enclosure Power 8,340 W 4,722 W 4,257 W w/16 Blade Servers Maximum Number of this section describes the Dynamic Power Capping configuration process for...
HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for HP integrated VMware ESXi Data Sheets
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Table 3-4 Class: HP_PCISlot Property name Tag for HP Blade Servers Tag for all other servers Description ElementName PoweredOn ConnectorLayout ConnectorPinout ConnectorType ConnectorDescription OtherTypeDesciption Number SupportsHotPlug VendorCompatibilityStrings Property implementation SMX:PCISlot:: SMX:PCISlot: Same... if ConnectorType == 1 (Other): PCI Express-If this is a PCI Express slot or PCI Express Mezzanine if mezzanine slot in a blade, otherwise this property is not set Deprecated in favor of ConnectorDescription CIM_Slot The physical PCI slot number True-If slot supports PCI hot plug...
Table 3-4 Class: HP_PCISlot Property name Tag for HP Blade Servers Tag for all other servers Description ElementName PoweredOn ConnectorLayout ConnectorPinout ConnectorType ConnectorDescription OtherTypeDesciption Number SupportsHotPlug VendorCompatibilityStrings Property implementation SMX:PCISlot:: SMX:PCISlot: Same... if ConnectorType == 1 (Other): PCI Express-If this is a PCI Express slot or PCI Express Mezzanine if mezzanine slot in a blade, otherwise this property is not set Deprecated in favor of ConnectorDescription CIM_Slot The physical PCI slot number True-If slot supports PCI hot plug...
HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for HP integrated VMware ESXi Data Sheets
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.... ElementName Same as ElementLocationTag. Examples: • Cellular Servers Slot in Cabinet= Bay= Chassis= • Blade Servers Mezzanine: in LocationInformation array 0, 1, 2, or 3. Cellular Servers 3 (PCI Slot) 6 (Chassis) 2 (Interconnect Bay) 7 (Cabinet) PCI Device Provider 42 The Windows specific implementation class is used to model PCI slot locations on HP Servers. 3-3-8 SMX_PCILSlotLocation SMX_PCISLotLocation is SMX_PCISlotLocation. Description Same as ElementLocationTag...
.... ElementName Same as ElementLocationTag. Examples: • Cellular Servers Slot in Cabinet= Bay= Chassis= • Blade Servers Mezzanine: in LocationInformation array 0, 1, 2, or 3. Cellular Servers 3 (PCI Slot) 6 (Chassis) 2 (Interconnect Bay) 7 (Cabinet) PCI Device Provider 42 The Windows specific implementation class is used to model PCI slot locations on HP Servers. 3-3-8 SMX_PCILSlotLocation SMX_PCISLotLocation is SMX_PCISlotLocation. Description Same as ElementLocationTag...
HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for HP integrated VMware ESXi Data Sheets
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Blade servers 1 (Mezzanine Slot) 14 (Blade) Array of enumerated values describing context of location information is represented 3-3-9 SMX_PCISlotElementLocation SMX_PCISlotElementLocation is used...comparable index in LocationInformation array 0 & 1. PCI Device Provider 43 Table 3-9 Class: SMX_PCISlotLocation Property name LocationInfoDesc for BladeSystem servers LocationInfoDesc for all other servers LocationInformation Property implementation Array of enumerated values describing context of text values representing the location components that describe this Ethernet Controller ...
Blade servers 1 (Mezzanine Slot) 14 (Blade) Array of enumerated values describing context of location information is represented 3-3-9 SMX_PCISlotElementLocation SMX_PCISlotElementLocation is used...comparable index in LocationInformation array 0 & 1. PCI Device Provider 43 Table 3-9 Class: SMX_PCISlotLocation Property name LocationInfoDesc for BladeSystem servers LocationInfoDesc for all other servers LocationInformation Property implementation Array of enumerated values describing context of text values representing the location components that describe this Ethernet Controller ...
HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for HP integrated VMware ESXi Data Sheets
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...: SMX_BladeSystemComponent Property name GroupComponent PartComponent Property implementation CIM_Component CIM_SystemComponent HP_BladeSystemComponent ref: HP_ComputerSystem (the blade enclosure computer system) ref: HP_ComputerSystem (the blade servers computer system) 13-3-4 SMX_MemberOfBladeEnclosureCollection SMX_MemberOfBladeEnclosureCollection extends the class CIM_MemberOfCollection and associates the enclosure's computer system instance to the blade's computer system instance. The following properties are implemented. Table 13-3 Class: SMX_BladeEnclosureCollection Property...
...: SMX_BladeSystemComponent Property name GroupComponent PartComponent Property implementation CIM_Component CIM_SystemComponent HP_BladeSystemComponent ref: HP_ComputerSystem (the blade enclosure computer system) ref: HP_ComputerSystem (the blade servers computer system) 13-3-4 SMX_MemberOfBladeEnclosureCollection SMX_MemberOfBladeEnclosureCollection extends the class CIM_MemberOfCollection and associates the enclosure's computer system instance to the blade's computer system instance. The following properties are implemented. Table 13-3 Class: SMX_BladeEnclosureCollection Property...
HP ProLiant Servers Troubleshooting Guide
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There are two ways to the server blade, and then restart the server blade. Server fault indications flowchart Symptoms: • Server boots, but a fault event is reported by Insight Management Agents (on a server blade: • Use iLO to remotely attach virtual devices to mount the SmartStart CD onto the server blade. • Use a local I/O cable and drive to connect to use SmartStart when diagnosing OS boot problems on page 71) Diagnostic flowcharts 32
There are two ways to the server blade, and then restart the server blade. Server fault indications flowchart Symptoms: • Server boots, but a fault event is reported by Insight Management Agents (on a server blade: • Use iLO to remotely attach virtual devices to mount the SmartStart CD onto the server blade. • Use a local I/O cable and drive to connect to use SmartStart when diagnosing OS boot problems on page 71) Diagnostic flowcharts 32
Sun Solaris 10 Deployment Guide for HP ProLiant Servers
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..., or produce other undesirable behavior. • Workaround-Unless otherwise indicated, HP does not support using ROM-Based Setup Utility (RBSU). • OS releases affected-All • Servers affected-All supported ProLiant servers • Description-Disabling PCI devices in Solaris 10 10/08. The ... system will be removed from the system instead of disabling them in RAID mode. HP ProLiant BL260c G5, BL280c G6 • Description-Cannot install SUN Solaris 10 operating system on an HP ProLiant BL260c G5 or BL280c G6 blade server when the SATA controller is configured in RBSU.
..., or produce other undesirable behavior. • Workaround-Unless otherwise indicated, HP does not support using ROM-Based Setup Utility (RBSU). • OS releases affected-All • Servers affected-All supported ProLiant servers • Description-Disabling PCI devices in Solaris 10 10/08. The ... system will be removed from the system instead of disabling them in RAID mode. HP ProLiant BL260c G5, BL280c G6 • Description-Cannot install SUN Solaris 10 operating system on an HP ProLiant BL260c G5 or BL280c G6 blade server when the SATA controller is configured in RBSU.
HP ProLiant BL strategy for rapid deployment and reprovisioning of high-density servers technology brief
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... loaded rack. 3 An open strategy for customers. To drive commonality across all ProLiant servers. The ProLiant BL portfolio is decoupled from individual server blades to improve power efficiency, to increase server availability, and to build a complete, multi-tiered adaptive infrastructure using blade servers. ProLiant BL servers include HP industry-leading technologies such as the p-Class interconnect options. A blue unit identification LED...
... loaded rack. 3 An open strategy for customers. To drive commonality across all ProLiant servers. The ProLiant BL portfolio is decoupled from individual server blades to improve power efficiency, to increase server availability, and to build a complete, multi-tiered adaptive infrastructure using blade servers. ProLiant BL servers include HP industry-leading technologies such as the p-Class interconnect options. A blue unit identification LED...
HP BladeSystem c-Class Site Planning Guide
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... containing existing systems might use it to ~ 90 W/sf for each single blade server chassis. Configuration scenarios 56 A c7000 enclosure fully loaded with dual-socket server blades, with dual-core processors might have a significant impact on cooling requirements. New datacenter planning for all HP products. The installation of a c-Class BladeSystem solution into a rack equates to...
... containing existing systems might use it to ~ 90 W/sf for each single blade server chassis. Configuration scenarios 56 A c7000 enclosure fully loaded with dual-socket server blades, with dual-core processors might have a significant impact on cooling requirements. New datacenter planning for all HP products. The installation of a c-Class BladeSystem solution into a rack equates to...