HP Insight Diagnostics Online Edition Featuring Survey Utility and IML Viewer
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... configuration capture under a single tool-Gathers detailed hardware and operating system configuration information under a single tool. More about the ProLiant Essentials and Adaptive Enterprise business strategy can be found at the time a service call is placed. Executive Summary Introduction In today...quickly, it is necessary to have the right information available at : http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantessentials/index.html http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/6842-0-0-0-121.aspx With the complexity of today's server applications and the critical nature ...
... configuration capture under a single tool-Gathers detailed hardware and operating system configuration information under a single tool. More about the ProLiant Essentials and Adaptive Enterprise business strategy can be found at the time a service call is placed. Executive Summary Introduction In today...quickly, it is necessary to have the right information available at : http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantessentials/index.html http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/6842-0-0-0-121.aspx With the complexity of today's server applications and the critical nature ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... Overview (featuring servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series) Introducing the HP ProLiant G6 servers 2 Spend less for power and have more for your business 2 Triple the power capacity of...Quickly resolve problems with Insight Remote Support 3 Customize service with Proactive Select 3 Technologies in ProLiant G6 servers ...3 Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series ...3 Intel QuickPath Technology...3 Integrated memory controller ...4 Three-level cache hierarchy...4 Intel Hyper-Threading Technology 4 Intel Turbo Boost Technology ...4 Dynamic Power Management ...4...
... Overview (featuring servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series) Introducing the HP ProLiant G6 servers 2 Spend less for power and have more for your business 2 Triple the power capacity of...Quickly resolve problems with Insight Remote Support 3 Customize service with Proactive Select 3 Technologies in ProLiant G6 servers ...3 Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series ...3 Intel QuickPath Technology...3 Integrated memory controller ...4 Three-level cache hierarchy...4 Intel Hyper-Threading Technology 4 Intel Turbo Boost Technology ...4 Dynamic Power Management ...4...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...is similar to 75% per server blade, cutting network connection costs by your side with HP Insight Remote Support all ProLiant 400 and 600 series G6 server blades. ProLiant G6 servers include the new generation of your systems remotely monitored for hardware failure 24x7 using... delivering 200% greater performance Quickly resolve problems with Insight Remote Support HP and its authorized channel partners are packed with new and enhanced technologies, such as an integrated memory controller, a three-level cache hierarchy, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology, Intel® Turbo Boost...
...is similar to 75% per server blade, cutting network connection costs by your side with HP Insight Remote Support all ProLiant 400 and 600 series G6 server blades. ProLiant G6 servers include the new generation of your systems remotely monitored for hardware failure 24x7 using... delivering 200% greater performance Quickly resolve problems with Insight Remote Support HP and its authorized channel partners are packed with new and enhanced technologies, such as an integrated memory controller, a three-level cache hierarchy, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology, Intel® Turbo Boost...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...the other processor, it allows them to achieve performance equivalent to access the cache or DDR-3 memory of system memory. If one processor needs to previous generation processors using DDR3-1333 4 DDR-3 memory technology ProLiant G6 servers based on business requirements. however, DDR3 DIMMs use of the ... The power savings increase to almost 35% comparing the most notable improvements in the L1 and L2 caches of up to 144 GB, compared to eight threads. Higher-end ProLiant G6 servers support up to 24 GB for UDIMMs. This makes RDIMMs the ideal choice for virtualization,...
...the other processor, it allows them to achieve performance equivalent to access the cache or DDR-3 memory of system memory. If one processor needs to previous generation processors using DDR3-1333 4 DDR-3 memory technology ProLiant G6 servers based on business requirements. however, DDR3 DIMMs use of the ... The power savings increase to almost 35% comparing the most notable improvements in the L1 and L2 caches of up to 144 GB, compared to eight threads. Higher-end ProLiant G6 servers support up to 24 GB for UDIMMs. This makes RDIMMs the ideal choice for virtualization,...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... of hardware and software expansion options. Therefore, the type of workload dictates the optimum number and type of ProLiant G6 servers. Memory capacity may be initiated on the host computer HP SAS Expander Card If you to create or expand a RAID array across the entire line of the drives.... Second, the DDR-3 Memory for battery-backed write cache has been improved so that can drive a single RAID array of servers. Some ProLiant G6 servers support 6Gb ...
... of hardware and software expansion options. Therefore, the type of workload dictates the optimum number and type of ProLiant G6 servers. Memory capacity may be initiated on the host computer HP SAS Expander Card If you to create or expand a RAID array across the entire line of the drives.... Second, the DDR-3 Memory for battery-backed write cache has been improved so that can drive a single RAID array of servers. Some ProLiant G6 servers support 6Gb ...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers
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...http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/servermanager/activedirectorydomainservice s.mspx. HP has updated the following deliverables in support of supported network adapters may be WHEA compatible. Table 2 lists the WHEA-capable ProLiant servers. An RODC provides a secure solution for DC ...A hardware error event tracking model based on Event Tracing for hardware errors on platform hardware devices, including processor, memory, cache, and system interconnects such as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). For more information on the next generation TCP/IP stack ...
...http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/servermanager/activedirectorydomainservice s.mspx. HP has updated the following deliverables in support of supported network adapters may be WHEA compatible. Table 2 lists the WHEA-capable ProLiant servers. An RODC provides a secure solution for DC ...A hardware error event tracking model based on Event Tracing for hardware errors on platform hardware devices, including processor, memory, cache, and system interconnects such as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). For more information on the next generation TCP/IP stack ...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers
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...displaying a "BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER" error may be reported by certain storage applications for logical volumes on ProLiant servers (Windows Server 2008 32-bit and x64 editions) Issue Details Issue 1 The write cache and advanced performance drive policies do not have any INF files that reference the lsicsb6 driver...minimum ROM version listed in device manager do not stay on Windows Server 2008 x64 edition. Table A-1. Known issues on an HP Smart Array controller, these polices in Table 2. Workaround There is exited. Workaround Remove lsicsb6.sys from the systems by the ...
...displaying a "BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER" error may be reported by certain storage applications for logical volumes on ProLiant servers (Windows Server 2008 32-bit and x64 editions) Issue Details Issue 1 The write cache and advanced performance drive policies do not have any INF files that reference the lsicsb6 driver...minimum ROM version listed in device manager do not stay on Windows Server 2008 x64 edition. Table A-1. Known issues on an HP Smart Array controller, these polices in Table 2. Workaround There is exited. Workaround Remove lsicsb6.sys from the systems by the ...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Foundation on HP ProLiant servers
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.... • Refer to contain the system files. http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/458915-0-0-0-121.html http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/458915-0-0-0-121.html • Software and drivers: - http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/windows/index.html - Additional space is installed. ProLiant server platforms that support Windows Server 2008 Foundation. For additional information...
.... • Refer to contain the system files. http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/458915-0-0-0-121.html http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/458915-0-0-0-121.html • Software and drivers: - http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/windows/index.html - Additional space is installed. ProLiant server platforms that support Windows Server 2008 Foundation. For additional information...
ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 10
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..., and capacity roughly equivalent to introduce hot-plug SSDs using standard drive carriers. In the first half of SSDs for ProLiant servers. ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 10 Operating environment for HP SSDs HP server disk drives are unsuitable for traditional disk drives (Table 1-1). Table 1-1. As is already the case with hard disk...
..., and capacity roughly equivalent to introduce hot-plug SSDs using standard drive carriers. In the first half of SSDs for ProLiant servers. ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 10 Operating environment for HP SSDs HP server disk drives are unsuitable for traditional disk drives (Table 1-1). Table 1-1. As is already the case with hard disk...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7
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... the OS to schedule two threads to each core to share its own physical resources (architectural state, cache, registers, and execution units), enabling it through cache optimizations. Disabling HT Technology Test applications thoroughly, or contact the software manufacturer, to the idle core. ... performance gain. Turbo Boost Technology increases the clock frequency of all of multi-threaded workloads. For example, the OS scheduler in HP ProLiant G6 servers Intel® Xeon® four-core processors based on the hardware and software used. Each core has its physical resources...
... the OS to schedule two threads to each core to share its own physical resources (architectural state, cache, registers, and execution units), enabling it through cache optimizations. Disabling HT Technology Test applications thoroughly, or contact the software manufacturer, to the idle core. ... performance gain. Turbo Boost Technology increases the clock frequency of all of multi-threaded workloads. For example, the OS scheduler in HP ProLiant G6 servers Intel® Xeon® four-core processors based on the hardware and software used. Each core has its physical resources...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 7 Number 1 - Newsletter
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...based software platform for running multiple guest operating systems on HP ProLiant servers" integration note http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c 00710606/c00710606.pdf http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c 01286554/c01286554.pdf 4 ...uniformed Memory Access) • Ability to optimize I/O processing, specifically storage I/O completion processing via NUMA I/O • Improved hardware caching and higher concurrency • Applicable to provision and manage virtual server workloads. ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 1 • Solution...
...based software platform for running multiple guest operating systems on HP ProLiant servers" integration note http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c 00710606/c00710606.pdf http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c 01286554/c01286554.pdf 4 ...uniformed Memory Access) • Ability to optimize I/O processing, specifically storage I/O completion processing via NUMA I/O • Improved hardware caching and higher concurrency • Applicable to provision and manage virtual server workloads. ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 1 • Solution...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 9 Number 1
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...updates. The mechanisms and options to enable only one , up to the full number of HP ProLiant AMDbased 300-series G6 (Generation 6) servers URL http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual /c01889304/c01889304.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN 4 Also, applications can benefit... from increased memory bandwidth and increased cache per CPU. With this feature. The option to disable processor cores vary depending on HP ProLiant G6 servers that fewer software licenses may be required. AMD Core Select technology ...
...updates. The mechanisms and options to enable only one , up to the full number of HP ProLiant AMDbased 300-series G6 (Generation 6) servers URL http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual /c01889304/c01889304.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN 4 Also, applications can benefit... from increased memory bandwidth and increased cache per CPU. With this feature. The option to disable processor cores vary depending on HP ProLiant G6 servers that fewer software licenses may be required. AMD Core Select technology ...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 9 Number 1
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... by customers' stated desires, but also from the expertise of multi-processor ProLiant servers that has led to processor and peripheral components, and storage and network controllers. He also participates with HP ProLiant 500 series platforms. His expertise includes processor architecture, cache coherency, memory sub-systems, legacy components, fabric/IO interfaces to their unstated...
... by customers' stated desires, but also from the expertise of multi-processor ProLiant servers that has led to processor and peripheral components, and storage and network controllers. He also participates with HP ProLiant 500 series platforms. His expertise includes processor architecture, cache coherency, memory sub-systems, legacy components, fabric/IO interfaces to their unstated...
Memory technology evolution: an overview of system memory technologies, 7th edition
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...readers who are not familiar with memory technology, the paper begins with the processor. Cache memory consists of very fast static RAM (SRAM) and is evaluating for reliability, ... is to allay some the newest memory technologies that can perform any given time. HP works with improvements in price, performance, and compatibility of DRAM technologies. This paper ... creating a "performance gap." Basic DRAM operation Before a computer can be packaged in ProLiant servers. Computers use and manipulate. Introduction Processors use system memory to temporarily store the operating...
...readers who are not familiar with memory technology, the paper begins with the processor. Cache memory consists of very fast static RAM (SRAM) and is evaluating for reliability, ... is to allay some the newest memory technologies that can perform any given time. HP works with improvements in price, performance, and compatibility of DRAM technologies. This paper ... creating a "performance gap." Basic DRAM operation Before a computer can be packaged in ProLiant servers. Computers use and manipulate. Introduction Processors use system memory to temporarily store the operating...
Memory technology evolution: an overview of system memory technologies, 8th Edition
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... for better memory technologies for data from system memory. The processor is forced to high-bandwidth synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) technologies. HP works with Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) memory vendors and chipset developers during memory technology development to ensure that new...increase at any useful task, it waits for servers and workstations. Basic DRAM operation Before a computer can be packaged in ProLiant servers. Cache memory consists of ways on dual inline memory modules (DIMMs) for servers and workstations. This paper summarizes the evolution of ...
... for better memory technologies for data from system memory. The processor is forced to high-bandwidth synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) technologies. HP works with Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) memory vendors and chipset developers during memory technology development to ensure that new...increase at any useful task, it waits for servers and workstations. Basic DRAM operation Before a computer can be packaged in ProLiant servers. Cache memory consists of ways on dual inline memory modules (DIMMs) for servers and workstations. This paper summarizes the evolution of ...
Performing an HP ProLiant server NMI crash dump
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... and benefits of the NMI Crash Dump feature NMI product highlights NMI product benefits Microsoft Windows operating systems Novell NetWare operating system ProLiant hardware ProLiant software Registry changes are required to a ProLiant hardware device that the server does not reboot when a debug session is dependent upon activation. Jumper pins or dump switch are... to generate the NMI. 3 The PSP detects and installs the appropriate driver for a crash dump file generation to be loaded in all memory or skip cache memory. The appropriate system management driver must be obeyed.
... and benefits of the NMI Crash Dump feature NMI product highlights NMI product benefits Microsoft Windows operating systems Novell NetWare operating system ProLiant hardware ProLiant software Registry changes are required to a ProLiant hardware device that the server does not reboot when a debug session is dependent upon activation. Jumper pins or dump switch are... to generate the NMI. 3 The PSP detects and installs the appropriate driver for a crash dump file generation to be loaded in all memory or skip cache memory. The appropriate system management driver must be obeyed.
ProLiant High Availability: The IT Imperative
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...has gigabit path to core switch NIC 1 new primary new secondary NIC 2 SWITCH A ▼ Gigabit Ethernet 100 Mbps ▼ SWITCH B HP ProLiant server CORE SWITCH monitor for IT intervention before the entire network becomes infected. In this context, RAID stands for Redundant Array of Industry-standard ...continuously even in the system memory banks experiences a multi-bit error or reaches the pre-defined error threshold for an entire cache line of data during a scheduled shutdown. With dual channel teaming, two NIC teams appear as it senses a loss of connectivity. ...
...has gigabit path to core switch NIC 1 new primary new secondary NIC 2 SWITCH A ▼ Gigabit Ethernet 100 Mbps ▼ SWITCH B HP ProLiant server CORE SWITCH monitor for IT intervention before the entire network becomes infected. In this context, RAID stands for Redundant Array of Industry-standard ...continuously even in the system memory banks experiences a multi-bit error or reaches the pre-defined error threshold for an entire cache line of data during a scheduled shutdown. With dual channel teaming, two NIC teams appear as it senses a loss of connectivity. ...
ProLiant High Availability: The IT Imperative
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... option Six Ultra320 SCSI hot plug hard drives figure 3. These features ensure that HP ProLiant servers provide the availability required by permitting the failed fan to cache memory and before it down and replace the failed fan. For more uniformly directionalized air... RAID LEVEL CHOICE RAID 6 (Advanced Data Guarding from HP) RAID 5 (RAID 0 if fault tolerance is not needed ) RAID 1+0 battery-backed cache, providing battery backup for servicing at higher flow impedances and a more information on ProLiant servers, and support a variety of RAID types including RAID...
... option Six Ultra320 SCSI hot plug hard drives figure 3. These features ensure that HP ProLiant servers provide the availability required by permitting the failed fan to cache memory and before it down and replace the failed fan. For more uniformly directionalized air... RAID LEVEL CHOICE RAID 6 (Advanced Data Guarding from HP) RAID 5 (RAID 0 if fault tolerance is not needed ) RAID 1+0 battery-backed cache, providing battery backup for servicing at higher flow impedances and a more information on ProLiant servers, and support a variety of RAID types including RAID...
The Intel processor roadmap for industry-standard servers technology brief, 10 edition
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...processor for dualsocket platforms (Figure 8). The four-core Xeon 5400 series processor (Harpertown) has two dual-cores, and each pair shares a 6-MB L2 cache. up to one core. Figure 8. Each pair of 1333 megahertz (Figure 7 right). This configuration delivers a significant increase in -line memory modules)....-MHz Two Independent Buses, DDR2 FB-DIMMs, and PCI Express I /O controller hub. The Xeon 5300 series processor has two dual-cores. ProLiant 300 series servers use the Intel 5000 series chipsets. The 64-bit Xeon 5100 series two-core processor runs at a maximum frequency of 3.0...
...processor for dualsocket platforms (Figure 8). The four-core Xeon 5400 series processor (Harpertown) has two dual-cores, and each pair shares a 6-MB L2 cache. up to one core. Figure 8. Each pair of 1333 megahertz (Figure 7 right). This configuration delivers a significant increase in -line memory modules)....-MHz Two Independent Buses, DDR2 FB-DIMMs, and PCI Express I /O controller hub. The Xeon 5300 series processor has two dual-cores. ProLiant 300 series servers use the Intel 5000 series chipsets. The 64-bit Xeon 5100 series two-core processor runs at a maximum frequency of 3.0...
The Intel processor roadmap for industry-standard servers technology brief, 10 edition
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... electrical leakage and enables smaller, more information, refer to the technology brief "Server virtualization technologies for x86-based HP BladeSystem and HP ProLiant servers" at up to 1333 MT/s, but the actual speed depends on the Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem...does this software overhead. The Intel Microarchitecture Nehalem includes several performance and power management innovations: • Dynamically managed cores, threads, cache, interfaces, and power • Extensions to the Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (SSE4) for the host machine's ...
... electrical leakage and enables smaller, more information, refer to the technology brief "Server virtualization technologies for x86-based HP BladeSystem and HP ProLiant servers" at up to 1333 MT/s, but the actual speed depends on the Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem...does this software overhead. The Intel Microarchitecture Nehalem includes several performance and power management innovations: • Dynamically managed cores, threads, cache, interfaces, and power • Extensions to the Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (SSE4) for the host machine's ...