HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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ProLiant G5 servers ML350, ML370, DL360, DL365, DL380, and DL385 All c-Class BladeSystem servers Basic Power Capping also requires 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 ...maximum power consumption. The aggregated maximum power consumption for servers through the iLO 2 or IPM interfaces. With group power capping, each with their aggregated power supply rating. Many ProLiant G5 servers are changed by the user through Insight Power Manager One of the...
ProLiant G5 servers ML350, ML370, DL360, DL365, DL380, and DL385 All c-Class BladeSystem servers Basic Power Capping also requires 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 ...maximum power consumption. The aggregated maximum power consumption for servers through the iLO 2 or IPM interfaces. With group power capping, each with their aggregated power supply rating. Many ProLiant G5 servers are changed by the user through Insight Power Manager One of the...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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... a starting point for a given server configuration. Figure 10 shows the output from the HP Power Calculator utility for a server or group of the numbers that unexpected changes in workload... or environment will still meet the power requirements for a ProLiant DL380 G5 server configured with the server power consumption at a given application load and power cap ...By setting a power cap for the servers. Additionally, the reporting features in IPM and iLO provide historical power consumption information that this one of servers running at the level needed ...
... a starting point for a given server configuration. Figure 10 shows the output from the HP Power Calculator utility for a server or group of the numbers that unexpected changes in workload... or environment will still meet the power requirements for a ProLiant DL380 G5 server configured with the server power consumption at a given application load and power cap ...By setting a power cap for the servers. Additionally, the reporting features in IPM and iLO provide historical power consumption information that this one of servers running at the level needed ...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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.... Figure 2. Rapid response of Dynamic Power Capping requires N+N power redundancy for the ProLiant DL 380 G5 server, ProLiant BL460c G1 server, and ProLiant BL460c G5 server. The first release of Dynamic Power Capping avoids circuit breaker trips No Dynamic Power Capping Dynamic ... Calculator or HP BladeSystem Sizer, and Dynamic Power Capping. Comparisons were run using the three power budgeting methods for the enclosure and redundant Onboard Administrator (OA) modules. The Onboard Administrator, working in 5 The difference in conjunction with the iLO 2 management processor, will peak...
.... Figure 2. Rapid response of Dynamic Power Capping requires N+N power redundancy for the ProLiant DL 380 G5 server, ProLiant BL460c G1 server, and ProLiant BL460c G5 server. The first release of Dynamic Power Capping avoids circuit breaker trips No Dynamic Power Capping Dynamic ... Calculator or HP BladeSystem Sizer, and Dynamic Power Capping. Comparisons were run using the three power budgeting methods for the enclosure and redundant Onboard Administrator (OA) modules. The Onboard Administrator, working in 5 The difference in conjunction with the iLO 2 management processor, will peak...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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...power provisioning cost per server. Since Dynamic Power Capping for rack-mount servers using the ProLiant BL 460c G1 and G5 servers and the HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure as their primary means of budgeting server power will be able to set Dynamic Power Capping baselines...different based on actual power usage. The first portion of other important observations to no performance loss. It involves updating ROM BIOS, iLO and Insight Control Environment software, setting an initial Dynamic Power Cap baseline using Dynamic Power Capping, go /tryinsightcontrol. Also, power reclamation...
...power provisioning cost per server. Since Dynamic Power Capping for rack-mount servers using the ProLiant BL 460c G1 and G5 servers and the HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure as their primary means of budgeting server power will be able to set Dynamic Power Capping baselines...different based on actual power usage. The first portion of other important observations to no performance loss. It involves updating ROM BIOS, iLO and Insight Control Environment software, setting an initial Dynamic Power Cap baseline using Dynamic Power Capping, go /tryinsightcontrol. Also, power reclamation...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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..., this duty cycle could be done in accordance with Rack-Mount Servers Step Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Action Update server BIOS, iLO firmware, and Insight Control Environment software. The following updates to Best Practices with actual peak power usage. If the Dynamic Power Cap is... a power estimate of supported servers): Table 4. Observe power usage using the HP Power Calculator default settings for our DL380 G5 TCO benchmark configuration (see Appendix for list of 450 Watts. • The HP Power Calculator output becomes the initial Dynamic Power Cap for your ProLiant rack-mount...
..., this duty cycle could be done in accordance with Rack-Mount Servers Step Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Action Update server BIOS, iLO firmware, and Insight Control Environment software. The following updates to Best Practices with actual peak power usage. If the Dynamic Power Cap is... a power estimate of supported servers): Table 4. Observe power usage using the HP Power Calculator default settings for our DL380 G5 TCO benchmark configuration (see Appendix for list of 450 Watts. • The HP Power Calculator output becomes the initial Dynamic Power Cap for your ProLiant rack-mount...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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... DL380 G5 Server 1 HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server 2 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5450 8 1GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 4 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 5 Configuration 2 Power Supply Units ROM Revision: P56 9/1/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 ... Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I15 iLO 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10 Fans (Rev D, 48v) 6 Power Supply Units 2 HP 1Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Modules 2 Onboard Administrator Modules Power: 208VAC Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating...
... DL380 G5 Server 1 HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server 2 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5450 8 1GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 4 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 5 Configuration 2 Power Supply Units ROM Revision: P56 9/1/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 ... Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I15 iLO 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10 Fans (Rev D, 48v) 6 Power Supply Units 2 HP 1Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Modules 2 Onboard Administrator Modules Power: 208VAC Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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Test Configuration 3-HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5430 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I23 9/29/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10 Fans (Rev...
Test Configuration 3-HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5430 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I23 9/29/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10 Fans (Rev...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (WW edition)
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... using the default settings. Based on actual power usage. HP recommends collecting and observing data for Rack-Mount Servers Required Component ROM BIOS iLO IPM component of interest. Component Requirement for at www.hp.com/go/tryinsightcontrol. Setting Dynamic Power Caps for rack-mount... servers Setting Dynamic Power Caps for your specific configuration using HP Power Calculator, and refining Dynamic Power Cap settings based on the HP Power Calculator output for our ProLiant DL380 G5 configuration, we would set the initial Dynamic Power Cap at 450 Watts....
... using the default settings. Based on actual power usage. HP recommends collecting and observing data for Rack-Mount Servers Required Component ROM BIOS iLO IPM component of interest. Component Requirement for at www.hp.com/go/tryinsightcontrol. Setting Dynamic Power Caps for rack-mount... servers Setting Dynamic Power Caps for your specific configuration using HP Power Calculator, and refining Dynamic Power Cap settings based on the HP Power Calculator output for our ProLiant DL380 G5 configuration, we would set the initial Dynamic Power Cap at 450 Watts....
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (WW edition)
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... DL380 G5 Server 1 HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server 2 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5450 8 1GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 4 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 5 Configuration 2 Power Supply Units ROM Revision: P56 9/1/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 ... Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I15 iLO 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10 Fans (Rev D, 48v) 6 Power Supply Units 2 HP 1Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Modules 2 Onboard Administrator Modules Power: 208VAC Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating...
... DL380 G5 Server 1 HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server 2 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5450 8 1GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 4 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 5 Configuration 2 Power Supply Units ROM Revision: P56 9/1/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 ... Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I15 iLO 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10 Fans (Rev D, 48v) 6 Power Supply Units 2 HP 1Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Modules 2 Onboard Administrator Modules Power: 208VAC Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating...
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Test Configuration 3-HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5430 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I23 9/29/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10 Fans (Rev...
Test Configuration 3-HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5430 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K 72GB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 Configuration ROM Revision: I23 9/29/08 iLO Revision: v1.70 pass 11 1 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 10 Fans (Rev...
Sun Solaris 10 Deployment Guide for HP ProLiant Servers
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......33 Prerequisites for creating a custom bootable ISO image 33 Creating a custom bootable ISO image 33 Optional configuration tasks ...34 Enabling iLO virtual serial port ...34 Mirroring disks with DiskSuite ...34 Unmirroring disks with DiskSuite ...36 Troubleshooting ...38 Known issues...38 Write cache... not flushed on shutdown...38 Solaris stops responding on HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server 38 RAID mode not supported ...39 Kernel Panic after disabling PCI devices in RBSU 39 Network configuration fails during ...
......33 Prerequisites for creating a custom bootable ISO image 33 Creating a custom bootable ISO image 33 Optional configuration tasks ...34 Enabling iLO virtual serial port ...34 Mirroring disks with DiskSuite ...34 Unmirroring disks with DiskSuite ...36 Troubleshooting ...38 Known issues...38 Write cache... not flushed on shutdown...38 Solaris stops responding on HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server 38 RAID mode not supported ...39 Kernel Panic after disabling PCI devices in RBSU 39 Network configuration fails during ...