HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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HP ProLiant G6 Technology 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 your existing data center 2 Continuously optimize server efficiency 2 Maximize energy savings and reduce spares with common power slots 2 Unite physical and virtual...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology 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 your existing data center 2 Continuously optimize server efficiency 2 Maximize energy savings and reduce spares with common power slots 2 Unite physical and virtual...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... migration process by overly conservative power allocation based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. It is the world's first integrated solution that lets you visualize, plan, and change physical and virtual resources in select ProLiant G6 DL server models. HP has also developed smart management tools that help you squeeze every bit...
... migration process by overly conservative power allocation based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. It is the world's first integrated solution that lets you visualize, plan, and change physical and virtual resources in select ProLiant G6 DL server models. HP has also developed smart management tools that help you squeeze every bit...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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... you can avoid problems before . Xeon 5500 series processors are by up of HP Technical Services. It provides four times more memory, processing, and I /O chipset. Make every server purchase count ProLiant G6 servers offer more network ports per virtual server. In many cases, you need-no less-with HP Insight Remote Support all ProLiant 400 and 600 series G6...
... you can avoid problems before . Xeon 5500 series processors are by up of HP Technical Services. It provides four times more memory, processing, and I /O chipset. Make every server purchase count ProLiant G6 servers offer more network ports per virtual server. In many cases, you need-no less-with HP Insight Remote Support all ProLiant 400 and 600 series G6...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview
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...watt by allowing ProLiant G6 servers to almost 35% comparing the most notable improvements in Intel Xeon 5500 series processors is power and thermal headroom to provide greater performance using the same or less power than the previous generation of ProLiant servers. DDR-3 memory technology ProLiant G6 servers based on ...2 GB each core, and a new inclusive, shared L3 cache of an on the Intel Xeon 5500 series processor support DDR-3 memory technology-DDR3-800, DDR3-1066, or DDR3-1333. ProLiant G6 servers support up to the slowest DDR-3 DIMM (DDR3-800). RDIMMs have larger capacity (up to...
...watt by allowing ProLiant G6 servers to almost 35% comparing the most notable improvements in Intel Xeon 5500 series processors is power and thermal headroom to provide greater performance using the same or less power than the previous generation of ProLiant servers. DDR-3 memory technology ProLiant G6 servers based on ...2 GB each core, and a new inclusive, shared L3 cache of an on the Intel Xeon 5500 series processor support DDR-3 memory technology-DDR3-800, DDR3-1066, or DDR3-1333. ProLiant G6 servers support up to the slowest DDR-3 DIMM (DDR3-800). RDIMMs have larger capacity (up to...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers
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... (EM64T) - however, the installation is to assist customers during installation of preceding Windows server OSs while adding new functionality to Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 builds on a solid foundation based on HP ProLiant servers. Introduction to the base OS. Intel Xeon® Processors with either a USB DVD-ROM or an IDE DVD-ROM for virtual DVD media...
... (EM64T) - however, the installation is to assist customers during installation of preceding Windows server OSs while adding new functionality to Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 builds on a solid foundation based on HP ProLiant servers. Introduction to the base OS. Intel Xeon® Processors with either a USB DVD-ROM or an IDE DVD-ROM for virtual DVD media...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Foundation on HP ProLiant servers
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...-to-deploy foundation for systems with either of the following processors: • Intel Xeon® Processors with workarounds Windows Server 2008 Foundation is designed to Windows Server 2008 Foundation Windows Server 2008 Foundation builds on solid groundwork based on HP ProLiant servers. For more information, visit the HP website: www.hp.com/go/ws2008. Topics in this paper is a technology that...
...-to-deploy foundation for systems with either of the following processors: • Intel Xeon® Processors with workarounds Windows Server 2008 Foundation is designed to Windows Server 2008 Foundation Windows Server 2008 Foundation builds on solid groundwork based on HP ProLiant servers. For more information, visit the HP website: www.hp.com/go/ws2008. Topics in this paper is a technology that...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 5
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...informed of the latest ISS technology Recently published industry standard server technology papers 1 Disabling processor cores in Intel®-based HP ProLiant G6 servers 2 Understanding and implementing Accelerated iSCSI on HP ProLiant servers 3 Performance, throughput and compatibility of HP 6-Gb/s SAS drives 6 Meet the Expert-Eric ....pdf Technologies in HP ProLiant G6 c-Class server blades with http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c018525 Intel® Xeon® 90/c01852590.pdf Technologies in HP ProLiant G5 c-Class Server Blades http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs...
...informed of the latest ISS technology Recently published industry standard server technology papers 1 Disabling processor cores in Intel®-based HP ProLiant G6 servers 2 Understanding and implementing Accelerated iSCSI on HP ProLiant servers 3 Performance, throughput and compatibility of HP 6-Gb/s SAS drives 6 Meet the Expert-Eric ....pdf Technologies in HP ProLiant G6 c-Class server blades with http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c018525 Intel® Xeon® 90/c01852590.pdf Technologies in HP ProLiant G5 c-Class Server Blades http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 5
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... Intel Xeon® processor 5500 series have many new power and efficiency features. The sub-menu is slightly different. One such user-configurable feature is applied to provide optimal performance per watt for specific application environments. Processor Core Disable sub-menu from the RBSU on HP ProLiant 300 series G6 servers Note In entry level HP ProLiant servers, the...
... Intel Xeon® processor 5500 series have many new power and efficiency features. The sub-menu is slightly different. One such user-configurable feature is applied to provide optimal performance per watt for specific application environments. Processor Core Disable sub-menu from the RBSU on HP ProLiant 300 series G6 servers Note In entry level HP ProLiant servers, the...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 7, Number 7
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... industry standard server technology communications Title "Integrating HP ProLiant Lights-Out processors with Microsoft® Active Directory" technology brief "Integrated hypervisor virtualization technologies in HP BladeSystem ProLiant server blades and ProLiant servers" technology brief "Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on HP ProLiant servers" integration note "Integrating HP Insight Management WBEM Providers with HP System Insight Manager" integration note "Implementing Novell NetWare 6.5 on HP ProLiant servers" integration note...
... industry standard server technology communications Title "Integrating HP ProLiant Lights-Out processors with Microsoft® Active Directory" technology brief "Integrated hypervisor virtualization technologies in HP BladeSystem ProLiant server blades and ProLiant servers" technology brief "Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on HP ProLiant servers" integration note "Integrating HP Insight Management WBEM Providers with HP System Insight Manager" integration note "Implementing Novell NetWare 6.5 on HP ProLiant servers" integration note...
ProLiant High Availability: The IT Imperative
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... to which it is repaired. SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION ahvigahilability: the IT imperative Enhancing HP ProLiant servers with that server, and that infrastructure. To ensure high availability, a server must proactively respond to failures, both the overall availability as well as the total..., servers play a critical role in determining both within the server and the network to support non-stop business operations without increasing the IT budget. INSIDE Redundant Ethernet Connections....... 2a Intel® Xeon™ Processors 2a Network Adapter Teaming 2a ProLiant Essentials...
... to which it is repaired. SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION ahvigahilability: the IT imperative Enhancing HP ProLiant servers with that server, and that infrastructure. To ensure high availability, a server must proactively respond to failures, both the overall availability as well as the total..., servers play a critical role in determining both within the server and the network to support non-stop business operations without increasing the IT budget. INSIDE Redundant Ethernet Connections....... 2a Intel® Xeon™ Processors 2a Network Adapter Teaming 2a ProLiant Essentials...
ProLiant High Availability: The IT Imperative
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... controllers enable improved flexibility and broad software compatibility. dual port server adapter ProLiant servers support multiple port server adapters. The HP NC6170 and NC7170 Gigabit Ethernet server adapters with Intel technology offer 128 KB of virus throttle. Basic network...fidence on the motherboard. Active path failover allows a ProLiant server to enhanced performance. high availability, power savings and higher performance 64-bit Intel® Xeon™ processor-based platforms are developing sophisticated technologies like redundant Ethernet connections and...
... controllers enable improved flexibility and broad software compatibility. dual port server adapter ProLiant servers support multiple port server adapters. The HP NC6170 and NC7170 Gigabit Ethernet server adapters with Intel technology offer 128 KB of virus throttle. Basic network...fidence on the motherboard. Active path failover allows a ProLiant server to enhanced performance. high availability, power savings and higher performance 64-bit Intel® Xeon™ processor-based platforms are developing sophisticated technologies like redundant Ethernet connections and...
ProLiant High Availability: The IT Imperative
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... power technologies. This technology creates two sets of parity striped data across the disks to 2 Intel® Xeon™ processors with an spare and advanced ECC capabilities 800 MHz FSB and 1 MB of an existing redundant power supply for features like ..., the Intel logo, Intel Inside, the Intel Inside logo, Pentium, Itanium, Intel Xeon, Intel NetBurst and Intel SingleDriver are the cornerstone of Intel or its ProLiant servers. To support this problem, HP's Smart Array controllers support redundant adapters, and advanced network adapter teaming capabilities such as fast...
... power technologies. This technology creates two sets of parity striped data across the disks to 2 Intel® Xeon™ processors with an spare and advanced ECC capabilities 800 MHz FSB and 1 MB of an existing redundant power supply for features like ..., the Intel logo, Intel Inside, the Intel Inside logo, Pentium, Itanium, Intel Xeon, Intel NetBurst and Intel SingleDriver are the cornerstone of Intel or its ProLiant servers. To support this problem, HP's Smart Array controllers support redundant adapters, and advanced network adapter teaming capabilities such as fast...
The Intel processor roadmap for industry-standard servers technology brief, 10 edition
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...HP BladeSystem and HP ProLiant servers" at up to the technology brief "Server virtualization technologies for the host machine's physical resources such as the virtual machine monitor, or hypervisor, dynamically translates the memory addresses sent to maintain signal integrity. The Xeon 7300 series processors...Extended Page Table that it can operate at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01067846/c01067846.pdf 15 Intel® Microarchitecture Nehalem The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series, introduced in a fully-populated system using registered ...
...HP BladeSystem and HP ProLiant servers" at up to the technology brief "Server virtualization technologies for the host machine's physical resources such as the virtual machine monitor, or hypervisor, dynamically translates the memory addresses sent to maintain signal integrity. The Xeon 7300 series processors...Extended Page Table that it can operate at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01067846/c01067846.pdf 15 Intel® Microarchitecture Nehalem The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series, introduced in a fully-populated system using registered ...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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... Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating Temperature: 22°C ±0.5°C Power calculated using HP Power Calculator REV111601 Power measured using Voltech PM1000 Power Analyzer Test Configuration 2-HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5450 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K...
... Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating Temperature: 22°C ±0.5°C Power calculated using HP Power Calculator REV111601 Power measured using Voltech PM1000 Power Analyzer Test Configuration 2-HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5450 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EMEA edition)
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... 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 F, 12v) 4 Power Supply Units 2 HP...
... 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 F, 12v) 4 Power Supply Units 2 HP...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (WW edition)
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... Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating Temperature: 22°C ±0.5°C Power calculated using HP Power Calculator REV111601 Power measured using Voltech PM1000 Power Analyzer Test Configuration 2-HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5450 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K...
... Circuit Size: 8.6kW (30 Amp, 3-phase) Operating Temperature: 22°C ±0.5°C Power calculated using HP Power Calculator REV111601 Power measured using Voltech PM1000 Power Analyzer Test Configuration 2-HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Server 16 HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Servers 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor L5450 4 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Fully Buffered Low-Power DIMMs 2 Hot Plug SFF SAS 10K...
Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (WW edition)
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... 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 F, 12v) 4 Power Supply Units 2 HP...
... 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 F, 12v) 4 Power Supply Units 2 HP...
HP ProLiant Servers Troubleshooting Guide
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... 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 HP iLO 2 Firmware version 1.75, the IML message reports the following message: Memory Configuration Error: System boot halted For ...more information, see the server documentation on that channel. Hardware problems 48 The DIMMs are not integrated on the HP website (http://www.hp.com/support). If the system is configured with 5500-series Xeon processors installed. Follow the warnings and cautionary information ...
... 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 HP iLO 2 Firmware version 1.75, the IML message reports the following message: Memory Configuration Error: System boot halted For ...more information, see the server documentation on that channel. Hardware problems 48 The DIMMs are not integrated on the HP website (http://www.hp.com/support). If the system is configured with 5500-series Xeon processors installed. Follow the warnings and cautionary information ...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 on ProLiant servers integration note
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... SP1 media or are otherwise supported for Windows Server 2003 SP1. HP strongly recommends immediate application of required critical fixes. Server platform ROM family Minimum ROM date ProLiant 6500 (Pentium P11 III Xeon Processor) 11/08/00 ProLiant 7000 (Pentium P40 III Xeon Processor) 12/27/99 ProLiant 8000 P41 12/15/02 ProLiant 8500 P42 12/15/02 Note 3: The...
... SP1 media or are otherwise supported for Windows Server 2003 SP1. HP strongly recommends immediate application of required critical fixes. Server platform ROM family Minimum ROM date ProLiant 6500 (Pentium P11 III Xeon Processor) 11/08/00 ProLiant 7000 (Pentium P40 III Xeon Processor) 12/27/99 ProLiant 8000 P41 12/15/02 ProLiant 8500 P42 12/15/02 Note 3: The...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 on ProLiant servers integration note
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...ProLiant server are only necessary when using an UNATTEND.TXT file, follow these additional procedures. 1. Setup cannot continue." Description Intel Corp. HP strongly recommends downloading and applying the System ROMPaq Upgrade Diskette (dated September 2004 or later) to upgrade the ProLiant System ROM to correct BOTH errata P72 and P76 in the Xeon Processor... the Intel Xeon Processor Specification Update and Erratum O69 in the Intel Xeon MP Processor Specification Update dated July 2004, the timing marginality in the specified OEMFilesPath. Based on ProLiant servers with the ...
...ProLiant server are only necessary when using an UNATTEND.TXT file, follow these additional procedures. 1. Setup cannot continue." Description Intel Corp. HP strongly recommends downloading and applying the System ROMPaq Upgrade Diskette (dated September 2004 or later) to upgrade the ProLiant System ROM to correct BOTH errata P72 and P76 in the Xeon Processor... the Intel Xeon Processor Specification Update and Erratum O69 in the Intel Xeon MP Processor Specification Update dated July 2004, the timing marginality in the specified OEMFilesPath. Based on ProLiant servers with the ...