ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack Installation Guide
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.... After installing the OS, insert the SmartStart CD and install the operating system-specific PSP onto the server. Download the latest Management CD from www.hp.com/servers/manage • Download the latest individual software components from the Software ... systems on server configuration and OS installation. Follow the on-screen instructions to prepare the server for more details on HP ProLiant servers. HP ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack Installation Guide © Copyright 2002, 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. IMPORTANT: Server hardware and array...
.... After installing the OS, insert the SmartStart CD and install the operating system-specific PSP onto the server. Download the latest Management CD from www.hp.com/servers/manage • Download the latest individual software components from the Software ... systems on server configuration and OS installation. Follow the on-screen instructions to prepare the server for more details on HP ProLiant servers. HP ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack Installation Guide © Copyright 2002, 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. IMPORTANT: Server hardware and array...
10 Gigabit Ethernet technology for industry-standard servers
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... bandwidth available in either standard or low profile slots. The NC522SFP PCI Express version 2 adapter, shown in the marketplace, HP expects 10GbE network components to specific information about ProLiant, BladeSystem, and HP ProCurve 10GbE products. HP approach to10GbE implementation As 10GbE technology becomes more information" section at the end of this paper for cabling, transceiver...
... bandwidth available in either standard or low profile slots. The NC522SFP PCI Express version 2 adapter, shown in the marketplace, HP expects 10GbE network components to specific information about ProLiant, BladeSystem, and HP ProCurve 10GbE products. HP approach to10GbE implementation As 10GbE technology becomes more information" section at the end of this paper for cabling, transceiver...
Booting HP ProLiant servers from a storage area network
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...the target server's computer ID. Provision the SAN storage for the target server to execute the Read ProLiant ML/DL/BL QLogic HBA Configuration [server specific] job from an HP StorageWorks Storage Area Network (SAN). Deploying the OS by Rapid Deployment Pack overview IMPORTANT: These instructions ...illustrate how to use Windows Edition 3.00 (or greater) to deploy an OS on a ProLiant BL server with RDP. This ...
...the target server's computer ID. Provision the SAN storage for the target server to execute the Read ProLiant ML/DL/BL QLogic HBA Configuration [server specific] job from an HP StorageWorks Storage Area Network (SAN). Deploying the OS by Rapid Deployment Pack overview IMPORTANT: These instructions ...illustrate how to use Windows Edition 3.00 (or greater) to deploy an OS on a ProLiant BL server with RDP. This ...
Booting HP ProLiant servers from a storage area network
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...cursor over the target server. Configure the target server's HBA to boot from the Server Deployment Toolbox\1 - Execute the Deploy ProLiant BL System Configuration (Boot From SAN) job from the provisioned SAN storage. 7. This job disables the embedded array controller and... as ID=. 4. Create a LUN for the ID field. Edit the file created in your environment. 6. Execute the Write ProLiant ML/DL/BL QLogic HBA Configuration [server specific] job from Step 3. OS Installation (Scripted) job folders. 5 OS Installation (Imaged) or Server Deployment Toolbox\2B - Using...
...cursor over the target server. Configure the target server's HBA to boot from the Server Deployment Toolbox\1 - Execute the Deploy ProLiant BL System Configuration (Boot From SAN) job from the provisioned SAN storage. 7. This job disables the embedded array controller and... as ID=. 4. Create a LUN for the ID field. Edit the file created in your environment. 6. Execute the Write ProLiant ML/DL/BL QLogic HBA Configuration [server specific] job from Step 3. OS Installation (Scripted) job folders. 5 OS Installation (Imaged) or Server Deployment Toolbox\2B - Using...
Drive technology overview
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... of these two factors, especially when overall performance is typically 512 - 2048 drives. The SATA specification was initially released in the SAS expanders. SATA 1.5 Gb/s with HP ProLiant G6 servers in developing the SAS standard. The new SAS-2 interface operates at http://h20000.www2....hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01613420/c01613420.pdf. The 6 Gb/s SAS-2 interface and SAS-2 compliant drives ...
... of these two factors, especially when overall performance is typically 512 - 2048 drives. The SATA specification was initially released in the SAS expanders. SATA 1.5 Gb/s with HP ProLiant G6 servers in developing the SAS standard. The new SAS-2 interface operates at http://h20000.www2....hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01613420/c01613420.pdf. The 6 Gb/s SAS-2 interface and SAS-2 compliant drives ...
Fully-Buffered DIMM technology in HP ProLiant servers
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..., all FB-DIMMs should not be the same type. Performance tuning, achieving maximum performance HP ProLiant servers implement a multi-branch memory architecture to minimize the latency per GB of ProLiant servers with each paired channel. Figure 7 shows a dual-branch memory subsystem architecture using ...dual-channel sockets. FBDIMM technology also delivers improved reliability through memory interleaving. and dual-rank FBDIMMs can be installed in a specific server, single-rank and dual-rank FB-DIMMs should be the same type (size and rank) as significant. This architecture...
..., all FB-DIMMs should not be the same type. Performance tuning, achieving maximum performance HP ProLiant servers implement a multi-branch memory architecture to minimize the latency per GB of ProLiant servers with each paired channel. Figure 7 shows a dual-branch memory subsystem architecture using ...dual-channel sockets. FBDIMM technology also delivers improved reliability through memory interleaving. and dual-rank FBDIMMs can be installed in a specific server, single-rank and dual-rank FB-DIMMs should be the same type (size and rank) as significant. This architecture...
HP Insight Diagnostics Online Edition Featuring Survey Utility and IML Viewer
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Specifications HP Insight Diagnostics Online Edition Specifications Supported platforms ProLiant platforms that are supported by subscribing to a device A supported Web browser Accessibility • Windows or Linux browser • System Management Homepage • HP Systems Insight Manager For more details, view the section above on the SmartStart CD, or downloadable as a Smart Component from ProLiant Software Maintenance CD...
Specifications HP Insight Diagnostics Online Edition Specifications Supported platforms ProLiant platforms that are supported by subscribing to a device A supported Web browser Accessibility • Windows or Linux browser • System Management Homepage • HP Systems Insight Manager For more details, view the section above on the SmartStart CD, or downloadable as a Smart Component from ProLiant Software Maintenance CD...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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... configurations it is responsible for a server to manage the power consumption of a server or group of HP ProLiant servers that a server can use of that the reader is specifically designed to allow system administrators to accomplish a given computational workload. All HP power management technologies take advantage of primary AC power. Abstract This paper describes...
... configurations it is responsible for a server to manage the power consumption of a server or group of HP ProLiant servers that a server can use of that the reader is specifically designed to allow system administrators to accomplish a given computational workload. All HP power management technologies take advantage of primary AC power. Abstract This paper describes...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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... administrator sets a power cap for an entire BladeSystem enclosure, not simply for HP BladeSystem enclosures. In one sense, it is the new and more powerful implementation of Dynamic Power Capping designed specifically for the server blades in the group Group Power Capping Individual Servers 1000 watts...) 1375 watts (Group maximum) 1115 watts (User set group power cap) 1000 400 320 200 725 watts (Group minimum) For ProLiant ML and DL servers, group power capping apportionment works exactly the same on servers supporting Dynamic Power Capping as a more advanced Enclosure Dynamic...
... administrator sets a power cap for an entire BladeSystem enclosure, not simply for HP BladeSystem enclosures. In one sense, it is the new and more powerful implementation of Dynamic Power Capping designed specifically for the server blades in the group Group Power Capping Individual Servers 1000 watts...) 1375 watts (Group maximum) 1115 watts (User set group power cap) 1000 400 320 200 725 watts (Group minimum) For ProLiant ML and DL servers, group power capping apportionment works exactly the same on servers supporting Dynamic Power Capping as a more advanced Enclosure Dynamic...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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...an administrator could use when calculating the maximum power and cooling requirements to use the HP Power Calculator Utility to support a server or a group of power that the Total ... average server power consumption will not cause servers to consume more servers to achieve specific power savings or capacity planning targets. It is the predicted maximum amount of servers...for this particular server configuration would reduce the required cooling and electrical provisioning for a ProLiant DL380 G5 server configured with the server power consumption at an effective level-a level...
...an administrator could use when calculating the maximum power and cooling requirements to use the HP Power Calculator Utility to support a server or a group of power that the Total ... average server power consumption will not cause servers to consume more servers to achieve specific power savings or capacity planning targets. It is the predicted maximum amount of servers...for this particular server configuration would reduce the required cooling and electrical provisioning for a ProLiant DL380 G5 server configured with the server power consumption at an effective level-a level...
HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers technology brief, 1st edition
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...over time is less than 4000 watts, then two full enclosures can essentially cap the electrical provisioning required for 8 ProLiant DL580 G5 servers (based on HP Power Calculator) 3384 watts Maximum power consumption when capping to average 1900 watts Savings in power capacity 1484 watts Additional ...same circuit with no performance loss, as long as both enclosures are capped at the average power consumption level of the HP 2250W power supplies' specification requires delivering 7836 watts to the enclosure, typically by capping the group at 4000-watts. Power capping to average power ...
...over time is less than 4000 watts, then two full enclosures can essentially cap the electrical provisioning required for 8 ProLiant DL580 G5 servers (based on HP Power Calculator) 3384 watts Maximum power consumption when capping to average 1900 watts Savings in power capacity 1484 watts Additional ...same circuit with no performance loss, as long as both enclosures are capped at the average power consumption level of the HP 2250W power supplies' specification requires delivering 7836 watts to the enclosure, typically by capping the group at 4000-watts. Power capping to average power ...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...of a group of servers, IPM separately sums the minimum power use, the maximum power use of Dynamic Power Capping designed specifically for the HP BladeSystem. Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping is a special implementation of the entire system. Then it can control power use , and...supply ratings of this processor-driven model and controls overall server power consumption using HP iLO Advanced or Insight Power Manager (IPM). This allows the busiest server blades to draw more ProLiant G6 servers. Thermal Logic technologies include Dynamic Power Capping, thermal sensors, and common ...
...of a group of servers, IPM separately sums the minimum power use, the maximum power use of Dynamic Power Capping designed specifically for the HP BladeSystem. Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping is a special implementation of the entire system. Then it can control power use , and...supply ratings of this processor-driven model and controls overall server power consumption using HP iLO Advanced or Insight Power Manager (IPM). This allows the busiest server blades to draw more ProLiant G6 servers. Thermal Logic technologies include Dynamic Power Capping, thermal sensors, and common ...
HP VMware ESXi management environment
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...Remote Command Line Interface (Remote CLI) • Industry-standard monitoring protocols such as necessary to support features specific to ProLiant platforms. HP Insight Management WBEM Providers (Insight Providers) are pre-installed along with a robust set of standards-based ... vulnerabilities. Enhanced hardware alerting and inventory management allows customers to provide active hardware management using HP SIM. HP has tightly integrated ESXi into ProLiant platforms, simplifying virtualization deployments. Administrators can also use the integrated remote command line interface ...
...Remote Command Line Interface (Remote CLI) • Industry-standard monitoring protocols such as necessary to support features specific to ProLiant platforms. HP Insight Management WBEM Providers (Insight Providers) are pre-installed along with a robust set of standards-based ... vulnerabilities. Enhanced hardware alerting and inventory management allows customers to provide active hardware management using HP SIM. HP has tightly integrated ESXi into ProLiant platforms, simplifying virtualization deployments. Administrators can also use the integrated remote command line interface ...
HP VMware ESXi management environment
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... system management environment for Server Hardware (SMASH) and Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) standards. This data comes from the installation CD. HP integrated VMware ESXi provider and profile summary The Insight Providers for all (depending on individual servers with information specific to ProLiant platforms. The Insight Providers collect data from various sources such as...
... system management environment for Server Hardware (SMASH) and Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) standards. This data comes from the installation CD. HP integrated VMware ESXi provider and profile summary The Insight Providers for all (depending on individual servers with information specific to ProLiant platforms. The Insight Providers collect data from various sources such as...
HP VMware ESXi management environment
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... a management standard in widespread use on the SMASH and SMI-S standards, and further extend them to support information that is specific to ProLiant platforms. Web-based Enterprise Management WBEM is in the areas of auditing, security, remote access, automation, individual server management, and...of alerts, events, or queries • Limited security: The most commonly used versions of SNMP, SNMP v1 and v2; The HP Insight Management WBEM Providers (Insight Providers) are quickly gaining momentum. Administrators also need to unify the management of enterprise computing environments.2...
... a management standard in widespread use on the SMASH and SMI-S standards, and further extend them to support information that is specific to ProLiant platforms. Web-based Enterprise Management WBEM is in the areas of auditing, security, remote access, automation, individual server management, and...of alerts, events, or queries • Limited security: The most commonly used versions of SNMP, SNMP v1 and v2; The HP Insight Management WBEM Providers (Insight Providers) are quickly gaining momentum. Administrators also need to unify the management of enterprise computing environments.2...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers
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...For more information on platform hardware devices, including processor, memory, cache, and system interconnects such as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). HP has updated the Windows Server 2008-capable network adapter drivers to remote sites that IPv6 support is available on NDIS 6.0, visit the Microsoft... updated the TCP/IP stack in a Windows Server 2008 installation. It cannot be found 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...
...For more information on platform hardware devices, including processor, memory, cache, and system interconnects such as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). HP has updated the Windows Server 2008-capable network adapter drivers to remote sites that IPv6 support is available on NDIS 6.0, visit the Microsoft... updated the TCP/IP stack in a Windows Server 2008 installation. It cannot be found 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...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Foundation on HP ProLiant servers
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... path installation options. HP ProLiant Support Pack The HP ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) includes operating system-specific bundles of Connectivity Knowledge) website at http://www.hp.com/storage/spock. Server deployment of Windows Server 2008 Foundation is supported with Windows Server 2008 Foundation on the following ProLiant servers: • ProLiant DL100 G6 series servers • ProLiant ML100 G6 series servers To...
... path installation options. HP ProLiant Support Pack The HP ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) includes operating system-specific bundles of Connectivity Knowledge) website at http://www.hp.com/storage/spock. Server deployment of Windows Server 2008 Foundation is supported with Windows Server 2008 Foundation on the following ProLiant servers: • ProLiant DL100 G6 series servers • ProLiant ML100 G6 series servers To...
Integrating HP Insight Management WBEM Providers with HP System Insight Manager
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... in HP SIM. Both navigation methods allow the user to find the components that may be configured in Figure 22. 21 The WMI Mapper must be having issues. If SMH is traceable to the SIM Property Page Status tab. Figure 21 shows the location of the ProLiant manage node.... Selecting the Health Status link launches the SMH. SMH then shows the Major status is not installed, the Health Status link will navigate to the Network components, specifically the NC371i Adapter #2, as shown in HP SIM. This 'follow-the-red' strategy...
... in HP SIM. Both navigation methods allow the user to find the components that may be configured in Figure 22. 21 The WMI Mapper must be having issues. If SMH is traceable to the SIM Property Page Status tab. Figure 21 shows the location of the ProLiant manage node.... Selecting the Health Status link launches the SMH. SMH then shows the Major status is not installed, the Health Status link will navigate to the Network components, specifically the NC371i Adapter #2, as shown in HP SIM. This 'follow-the-red' strategy...
ISS Technology Update Index
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... software updates 7 Volume 7, Number 5 Volume 7, Number 5 May 2008 May 2008 Deploying VMware ESXi on HP ProLiant BL400 Series 5 Server Blades Disabling processor cores in Intel®-based HP ProLiant G6 2 servers Volume 8, Number 7 Volume 8, Number 5 November 2009 August 2009 E Effective data rate of ...SAS Technology 4 Volume 8, Number 6 October 2009 Expected life of articles published in a keyword, and click Next until you know the topic, but not the specific...
... software updates 7 Volume 7, Number 5 Volume 7, Number 5 May 2008 May 2008 Deploying VMware ESXi on HP ProLiant BL400 Series 5 Server Blades Disabling processor cores in Intel®-based HP ProLiant G6 2 servers Volume 8, Number 7 Volume 8, Number 5 November 2009 August 2009 E Effective data rate of ...SAS Technology 4 Volume 8, Number 6 October 2009 Expected life of articles published in a keyword, and click Next until you know the topic, but not the specific...
ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 10
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... moving parts, which makes them able to operate in 32-GB or 64-GB versions from HP, these first generation drives are designed specifically for ProLiant c-Class server blades. Figure 1-1. Brian Purcell ...3 Common SM CLP scripting commands for ProLiant BladeSystem servers 1 ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 10 ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 10 Keeping...
... moving parts, which makes them able to operate in 32-GB or 64-GB versions from HP, these first generation drives are designed specifically for ProLiant c-Class server blades. Figure 1-1. Brian Purcell ...3 Common SM CLP scripting commands for ProLiant BladeSystem servers 1 ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 10 ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 10 Keeping...