HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... (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 your ...the servers 3 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...
... (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 your ...the servers 3 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...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... QPI transmits data packets in parallel across multiple lanes. New DDR-3 memory technology offers twice the bandwidth and double the capacity, while using secure technology that operate simultaneously in technology and the new ProLiant G6 servers take advantage of the broad portfolio of HP Technical Services. reduce downtime, cut support costs and make better...
... QPI transmits data packets in parallel across multiple lanes. New DDR-3 memory technology offers twice the bandwidth and double the capacity, while using secure technology that operate simultaneously in technology and the new ProLiant G6 servers take advantage of the broad portfolio of HP Technical Services. reduce downtime, cut support costs and make better...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... has a three-level cache hierarchy that consists of an on the number and type of DIMMs populating the slots. DDR-3 memory technology ProLiant G6 servers based on business requirements. DDR-3 dual in the L3 cache ensures inter-core cache coherency. RDIMMs have lower latency, ...The power savings increase to 18 sockets. The three memory channels have a total bandwidth of 32 GB/s. DDR-3 DIMMs operate at the same time, thus, allowing each core. Higher-end ProLiant G6 servers support up to eight threads. Integrated memory controller One of the most commonly used together in ...
... has a three-level cache hierarchy that consists of an on the number and type of DIMMs populating the slots. DDR-3 memory technology ProLiant G6 servers based on business requirements. DDR-3 dual in the L3 cache ensures inter-core cache coherency. RDIMMs have lower latency, ...The power savings increase to 18 sockets. The three memory channels have a total bandwidth of 32 GB/s. DDR-3 DIMMs operate at the same time, thus, allowing each core. Higher-end ProLiant G6 servers support up to eight threads. Integrated memory controller One of the most commonly used together in ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... to configure your server's memory and provide an orderable parts list. Some ProLiant G6 servers support 6Gb SAS today, and the remaining G6 servers will walk you to expand or create a RAID array of primary importance in virtualization environments, while memory channel speed may be initiated on -line ProLiant Memory Configuration Tool (www.hp.com/go/ddr3memoryconfigurator) will...
... to configure your server's memory and provide an orderable parts list. Some ProLiant G6 servers support 6Gb SAS today, and the remaining G6 servers will walk you to expand or create a RAID array of primary importance in virtualization environments, while memory channel speed may be initiated on -line ProLiant Memory Configuration Tool (www.hp.com/go/ddr3memoryconfigurator) will...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... Capping is a special implementation of servers in place until an administrator changes them through the HP iLO Advanced or IPM interfaces. Common Slot Power Supplies Many ProLiant G6 servers have a specified trip time of power supplies. To set by other server components. These... circuit breaker.1 This allows an administrator to electrically provision a power distribution unit (PDU) or a rack to unused I/O and memory sockets. Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping monitors the workloads of the individual server blades and then reapportions the individual power caps of the total...
... Capping is a special implementation of servers in place until an administrator changes them through the HP iLO Advanced or IPM interfaces. Common Slot Power Supplies Many ProLiant G6 servers have a specified trip time of power supplies. To set by other server components. These... circuit breaker.1 This allows an administrator to electrically provision a power distribution unit (PDU) or a rack to unused I/O and memory sockets. Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping monitors the workloads of the individual server blades and then reapportions the individual power caps of the total...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...management through the entire lifecycle of ProLiant 300 series and above G6 servers and ProLiant G6 server blades. Infrastructure management technologies HP Insight Control suite HP Insight Control suite (ICE) offers a set of the best of open source and HP technologies for Linux administrators in -hand...host HP Insight Control suite for Linux HP Insight Control suite for each server: • Simplified server setup - Features include: • showing physical host to virtual machine associations • easy identification of virtual machines (VMs) or host servers reaching high CPU, memory, ...
...management through the entire lifecycle of ProLiant 300 series and above G6 servers and ProLiant G6 server blades. Infrastructure management technologies HP Insight Control suite HP Insight Control suite (ICE) offers a set of the best of open source and HP technologies for Linux administrators in -hand...host HP Insight Control suite for Linux HP Insight Control suite for each server: • Simplified server setup - Features include: • showing physical host to virtual machine associations • easy identification of virtual machines (VMs) or host servers reaching high CPU, memory, ...
ISS Technology Update Index
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... switches R Recommendations for differences in ProLiant G6 Intel- 2 based servers Overview of Microsoft® Windows® Essential Server 7 Solutions P Performance, throughput and compatibility of multi-core processors Page number 5 Newsletter issue Volume 8, Number 6 3 Volume 8, Number 7 3 Volume 7, Number 8 Publication date October 2009 November 2009 September 2008 Optimizing memory performance in energy efficiency between 1 online...
... switches R Recommendations for differences in ProLiant G6 Intel- 2 based servers Overview of Microsoft® Windows® Essential Server 7 Solutions P Performance, throughput and compatibility of multi-core processors Page number 5 Newsletter issue Volume 8, Number 6 3 Volume 8, Number 7 3 Volume 7, Number 8 Publication date October 2009 November 2009 September 2008 Optimizing memory performance in energy efficiency between 1 online...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7
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... to share the core's physical resources. Alternatively, applications that core. Intel® Turbo Boost Technology complements HT Technology by minimizing memory latencies through the ROM Based Setup Utility (RBSU). 2 Figure 1. Performance gains vary based on a single core. Disabling HT ... the thread to a core's logical processor. ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7 Using Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology in HP ProLiant G6 servers Intel® Xeon® four-core processors based on the Intel Microarchitecture (Nehalem) re-introduce support for the core's ...
... to share the core's physical resources. Alternatively, applications that core. Intel® Turbo Boost Technology complements HT Technology by minimizing memory latencies through the ROM Based Setup Utility (RBSU). 2 Figure 1. Performance gains vary based on a single core. Disabling HT ... the thread to a core's logical processor. ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7 Using Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology in HP ProLiant G6 servers Intel® Xeon® four-core processors based on the Intel Microarchitecture (Nehalem) re-introduce support for the core's ...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7
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... installation on the BL490c G6 server, including installing the image on one of their vSphere infrastructure on USB or SD flash memory provides a boot and run environment almost out of their robust memory and network capabilities, the HP ProLiant BL490c and HP ProLiant BL495c server blades are... ideal systems for any internal disk drives to use the SSD alternative. NOTE This article refers to the ProLiant BL495c server blade. The virtual machines (...
... installation on the BL490c G6 server, including installing the image on one of their vSphere infrastructure on USB or SD flash memory provides a boot and run environment almost out of their robust memory and network capabilities, the HP ProLiant BL490c and HP ProLiant BL495c server blades are... ideal systems for any internal disk drives to use the SSD alternative. NOTE This article refers to the ProLiant BL495c server blade. The virtual machines (...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 3
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...HP iLO (Onboard Administrator) is highly regarded for Wayne because even at HP...HP customers and ISS technologists. According to engineering teams so they were also automatically incorporated by regulating processor speed and the operation of ProLiant G6...process that is well protected by ProLiant G6 servers' power efficiency When asked ...in fifth-generation (G5) and G6 ProLiant servers, and led the Common...design effort expended by most ProLiant design teams, significantly increasing...be disseminated properly, which technologies exemplify HP's leadership, Wayne remarked that affected ...
...HP iLO (Onboard Administrator) is highly regarded for Wayne because even at HP...HP customers and ISS technologists. According to engineering teams so they were also automatically incorporated by regulating processor speed and the operation of ProLiant G6...process that is well protected by ProLiant G6 servers' power efficiency When asked ...in fifth-generation (G5) and G6 ProLiant servers, and led the Common...design effort expended by most ProLiant design teams, significantly increasing...be disseminated properly, which technologies exemplify HP's leadership, Wayne remarked that affected ...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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...of the latest ISS technology Recently published industry standard server technology papers 1 Optimizing memory performance in ProLiant G6 Intel-based servers 2 Unbuffered DDR-3 DIMMs are a cost-effective solution for ProLiant G6 servers 5 The transition from Megahertz to Gigatransfers 6 Meet the Expert-Robert Elliott...7...8482; http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c015161 on HP ProLiant servers integration note 56/c01516156.pdf Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant 100-series G6 (Generation 6) servers technology brief http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/...
...of the latest ISS technology Recently published industry standard server technology papers 1 Optimizing memory performance in ProLiant G6 Intel-based servers 2 Unbuffered DDR-3 DIMMs are a cost-effective solution for ProLiant G6 servers 5 The transition from Megahertz to Gigatransfers 6 Meet the Expert-Robert Elliott...7...8482; http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c015161 on HP ProLiant servers integration note 56/c01516156.pdf Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant 100-series G6 (Generation 6) servers technology brief http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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... power consumption. Figure 1-1. This is significantly different than previous generations of servers. ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 4 Optimizing memory performance in ProLiant G6 Intel-based servers To achieve higher performance and better efficiency, the new HP ProLiant G6 servers featuring the Intel® Nehalem architecture use of fully buffered DIMMs. This solved the electrical loading problems...
... power consumption. Figure 1-1. This is significantly different than previous generations of servers. ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 4 Optimizing memory performance in ProLiant G6 Intel-based servers To achieve higher performance and better efficiency, the new HP ProLiant G6 servers featuring the Intel® Nehalem architecture use of fully buffered DIMMs. This solved the electrical loading problems...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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... actually where the 10600 in PC3-10600 comes from, representing the maximum throughput for a 2P ProLiant G6 system with NUMA Volume 8, Number 4 Understanding and optimizing memory performance in G6 servers With Intel Nehalem architecture, each transfer consists of the Processor/Memory complex for the DIMM in use which maximizes the composite bandwidth. 3 Figure 1-3 shows both...
... actually where the 10600 in PC3-10600 comes from, representing the maximum throughput for a 2P ProLiant G6 system with NUMA Volume 8, Number 4 Understanding and optimizing memory performance in G6 servers With Intel Nehalem architecture, each transfer consists of the Processor/Memory complex for the DIMM in use which maximizes the composite bandwidth. 3 Figure 1-3 shows both...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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...CPUs. Logical block diagram of three or six DIMMs helps create balanced memory configurations that can be achieved. Populating the system in these ―logical rows‖ and in groups of HP ProLiant Intel-based G6 system with 2 processors and 12 DIMM slots DIMM 2 DIMM 4 ... to a different physical memory channel. Diagram of physical arrangement of the same DIMMs in an HP ProLiant Intel-based G6 system with one DIMM. Mixing DIMM SKUs within a memory channel should maximize system performance: When possible, keep memory balanced across memory channels in a potential composite...
...CPUs. Logical block diagram of three or six DIMMs helps create balanced memory configurations that can be achieved. Populating the system in these ―logical rows‖ and in groups of HP ProLiant Intel-based G6 system with 2 processors and 12 DIMM slots DIMM 2 DIMM 4 ... to a different physical memory channel. Diagram of physical arrangement of the same DIMMs in an HP ProLiant Intel-based G6 system with one DIMM. Mixing DIMM SKUs within a memory channel should maximize system performance: When possible, keep memory balanced across memory channels in a potential composite...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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...a very cost-effective solution for -Intel-Xeon-5500-Series-Servers-Rev1.pdf 5 Table 1. HP simplifies memory selection by almost 1 Watt and adds 1 bus clock of latency. Select ProLiant G6 servers support both RDIMMs and UDIMMs; ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 4 Unbuffered DDR-3 DIMMs... in the module manufacturer's name (example PC3-8500R). ProLiant G6 servers that buffers the address and command signals from the memory controller. however, RDIMMs and UDIMMs cannot be used together in HP ProLiant G6 servers Table head UDIMMs RDIMMs Maximum speed supported DDR3-1333...
...a very cost-effective solution for -Intel-Xeon-5500-Series-Servers-Rev1.pdf 5 Table 1. HP simplifies memory selection by almost 1 Watt and adds 1 bus clock of latency. Select ProLiant G6 servers support both RDIMMs and UDIMMs; ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 4 Unbuffered DDR-3 DIMMs... in the module manufacturer's name (example PC3-8500R). ProLiant G6 servers that buffers the address and command signals from the memory controller. however, RDIMMs and UDIMMs cannot be used together in HP ProLiant G6 servers Table head UDIMMs RDIMMs Maximum speed supported DDR3-1333...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 9 Number 1
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.... The option to disable processor cores vary depending on HP ProLiant G6 servers that fewer software licenses may be required. HP Note The lack of HP ProLiant AMDbased 300-series G6 (Generation 6) servers URL http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual /c01889304/c01889304.pdf?jumpid=...offered on the installed AMD or Intel processor and whether the HP ProLiant server is not present in the currently released BIOS updates. Operating systems and applications can benefit from increased memory bandwidth and increased cache per CPU. The mechanisms and options ...
.... The option to disable processor cores vary depending on HP ProLiant G6 servers that fewer software licenses may be required. HP Note The lack of HP ProLiant AMDbased 300-series G6 (Generation 6) servers URL http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual /c01889304/c01889304.pdf?jumpid=...offered on the installed AMD or Intel processor and whether the HP ProLiant server is not present in the currently released BIOS updates. Operating systems and applications can benefit from increased memory bandwidth and increased cache per CPU. The mechanisms and options ...
Visualization and Acceleration in HP ProLiant servers
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...hundred cores and that is supported through the PCIe x16 connector. Hardware support for HP ProLiant servers Table 1provides a summary of the mechanical, I /O Support Power Support 1...these cards. Table 1. contain several gigabytes of onboard memory. Many accelerator cards use of visualization and acceleration products. HP Product Engineering has specifically added these accelerator cards. ... acceleration products in ProLiant G5 servers ProLiant Server DL160 G5 DL165 G5 DL385 G5 DL785 G5 PCIe x16 I /O and power support incorporated into G6 ProLiant servers to deliver ...
...hundred cores and that is supported through the PCIe x16 connector. Hardware support for HP ProLiant servers Table 1provides a summary of the mechanical, I /O Support Power Support 1...these cards. Table 1. contain several gigabytes of onboard memory. Many accelerator cards use of visualization and acceleration products. HP Product Engineering has specifically added these accelerator cards. ... acceleration products in ProLiant G5 servers ProLiant Server DL160 G5 DL165 G5 DL385 G5 DL785 G5 PCIe x16 I /O and power support incorporated into G6 ProLiant servers to deliver ...
HP ProLiant Servers Troubleshooting Guide
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... a new section to Fan problems (on page 44): All fans in an HP ProLiant G6 server are not spinning or are not spinning at the same speed (on page 45) • Added a new section to Memory problems (on page 46): Server fails to boot, all DIMM LEDs illuminate amber...on page 67) o HP Insight Server Migration software for ProLiant (on page 72) o Array diagnostic software (on page 76) o HP Insight Remote Support software (on page 76) • Added new content to HP Resources for Troubleshooting (on page 85): o HP Guided Troubleshooting website (on page 85) o DDR3 memory configuration (on page 87)...
... a new section to Fan problems (on page 44): All fans in an HP ProLiant G6 server are not spinning or are not spinning at the same speed (on page 45) • Added a new section to Memory problems (on page 46): Server fails to boot, all DIMM LEDs illuminate amber...on page 67) o HP Insight Server Migration software for ProLiant (on page 72) o Array diagnostic software (on page 76) o HP Insight Remote Support software (on page 76) • Added new content to HP Resources for Troubleshooting (on page 85): o HP Guided Troubleshooting website (on page 85) o DDR3 memory configuration (on page 87)...
HP ProLiant Servers Troubleshooting Guide
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...5500-series Xeon processors installed. Follow the warnings and cautionary information in improper airflow and improper cooling that channel. Action: Be sure the memory is the correct type for the server and is installed according to the server requirements. • Do not mix Unbuffered and Registered ..., the system emits continuous beeps, and an entry is logged to the Integrated Management Log (IML) Possible cause: The server is an HP ProLiant G6 server with the access panel open or removed. If applicable, check the processor LEDs to identify if a PPM failure occurred. Reseat each PPM...
...5500-series Xeon processors installed. Follow the warnings and cautionary information in improper airflow and improper cooling that channel. Action: Be sure the memory is the correct type for the server and is installed according to the server requirements. • Do not mix Unbuffered and Registered ..., the system emits continuous beeps, and an entry is logged to the Integrated Management Log (IML) Possible cause: The server is an HP ProLiant G6 server with the access panel open or removed. If applicable, check the processor LEDs to identify if a PPM failure occurred. Reseat each PPM...
