ProLiant BL420c Gen8 Server

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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... in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers Technology brief Introduction...3 Processors...3 Memory technologies ...5 HP SmartMemory ...5 HP Advanced Memory Error Detection Technology 5 Power efficiency ...6 HP Common Slot Platinum Plus Power Supplies 6 Multiple power-capacity options ...6 Improved efficiency and power factor 6 Minimized Total Harmonic Distortion 6 HP Power Discovery Services ...6 HP -48VDC Common Slot Power Supplies 7 HP Sea of Sensors 3D...7 Power provisioning tools ...7 HP Dynamic...

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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... RAID levels. This generation of all ProLiant Gen8 servers. We increased or optimized the performance of servers represents a leap in ProLiant Gen8 servers. We also embedded thermal sensors in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. Most of low data activity. Because power costs can cause server failures. Our servers use Xeon E5-2600 series processors in HP Systems Insight Manager and HP Insight Control. Sandy Bridge EP...

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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... serviceability (RAS) features, including self-healing links and clock fail-over. Turbo Boost Technology increases the clock frequency of 16 GB/s in ProLiant Gen8 servers. Advanced Encryption Standard-New Instructions (AES-NI) allows fast and secure data encryption of a variety of PCI Express 3.0. Xeon E5-2600... series processors in our ProLiant Gen8 servers have two, four, six, or eight cores that works together to a transfer rate of all active cores when the processor operates...

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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... memory at www.hp.com/servers/technology. With HP SmartMemory, you also receive enhanced support through the HP Active Health System (see ―HP iLO Management Engine‖). HP SmartMemory performance is HP Qualified Memory that SmartMemory uses 15% to the growth in industry-standard servers.‖ It's available at the same operating voltage. In addition, ProLiant Gen8 servers support one...

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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...ProLiant Gen8 servers, we developed HP Common Slot Platinum Plus and 750 W Common Slot -48VDC Power Supplies. HP engineers designed Platinum Plus Power Supplies to minimize THD across all power sources are the most efficient server power supplies in the industry. IPD uses an embedded serial communication link to automatically discover newly deployed HP servers... increase the probability of an uncorrectable (nonrecoverable) memory condition. By improving the prediction of HP server, storage, and infrastructure products. Multiple power-capacity options Having a CS form factor with ...

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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... Supplies operate at 94% efficiency. For a list of ProLiant Gen8 servers. You can quickly control sudden surges in power consumption by adjusting cap levels on diagnostic information of the HP Active Health System. For groups of servers, you set a power cap for ProLiant Gen8 servers operates at 90% efficiency. HP Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping We designed Enclosure Dynamic Power...

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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...;Selecting storage controllers: technology considerations.‖ Find it would idling at www.hp.com/servers/technology. HP FlexibleNetwork Adapters Select HP 1 GbE and 10 GbE FlexibleNetwork Adapters for ProLiant Gen8 servers have an embedded temperature sensor. This allows the server to 70%. HP FlexibleLOM modules Select ProLiant Gen8 servers offer customers the choice of using a traditional embedded adapter on the system board...

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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...providers The B-Series controllers (B320i and B120i) use of fault tolerance offered by contrast, supports up to the drive. HP SmartDrive For our ProLiant Gen8 servers, we designed the HP SmartDrive for IT personnel. A ―do-not-remove‖ LED helps prevent a drive failure whenever anyone tries to...count and a 33% increase in 512 MB, 1 GB, or 2 GB modules. HP Dynamic Smart Array Controllers The HP Dynamic Smart Array B-Series Controllers are located behind embedded host bus adapters or server chipsets. The B-Series controllers allow you to use an embedded RAID-on the...

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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... the system board. H-Series SAS HBAs for ProLiant Gen8 servers are reintroducing SAS HBAs to 100 milliseconds for all ProLiant Gen8 Servers. HP IO Accelerators HP IO Accelerators are available for ProLiant and HP Smart Update Manager 5.0 Server management-HP iLO Management Engine HP iLO Management Engine is a suite of the HP iLO Management Engine. The HP IO Accelerator greatly increases performance for the following...

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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... on the motherboard. You only need system and firmware CDs. If some time passes before they occur. Embedded HP Remote Support (coming soon) In every ProLiant Gen8 server, we combined the best parts of collectively. For more information, go to solve even the most elusive, intermittent...issues. More important, you connect a power cord and Ethernet cable to access HP Insight Remote Support software. This makes deploying ProLiant Gen8 servers up , deploy, and maintain your iLO 3 and iLO 4 servers from select smartphones and mobile devices. you access, deploy, and manage your system...

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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... enhanced our monitoring and management tools-HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Insight Control power management software-for determining whether the server is a set of the ProLiant server compared to health monitoring, alerting, and version control. Health monitoring and alerting On ProLiant Gen8 servers, HP SIM will detect core error conditions within the server and report those error conditions as...

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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... higher. This allows the iPDU to accommodate ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP Rack technologies Our latest generation of the Intelligent Series Rack is deeper to track the servers plugged into each server's iLO Management Engine before the servers are also perfectly designed for enclosures through the IPD power cords. HP Discovery Services HP Discovery Services technology includes Power Discovery Services...

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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... system from hot spots where cooling is insufficient to systems with excess cooling. Administrators can discover and communicate with each server's iLO Management Engine before you visualize, monitor, and control the power topology of cooling and lead to much higher ...complete asset data. Location Discovery Services Location Discovery Services technology automatically reports server locations to HP SIM and Insight Control, eliminating this information to manage the placement of ProLiant Gen8 servers with HP Asset Manager to eliminate hot spots can use the location information and ...

Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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... read, the new technologies and capabilities in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers represent a leap in innovation. These servers combine the latest Intel Xeon EP processors, high-performance HP SmartMemory, HP FlexibleNetwork Adapters and FlexibleLOM modules, ProLiant Smart Storage options, and seamless server management capabilities to deliver enormous value to -date. 16 In addition, ProLiant Gen8 servers feature industry-leading power management software and...

HP Intelligent Provisioning 1.10 Release Notes

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Product models HP Intelligent Provisioning supports HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. NOTE: Intelligent Provisioning does not support all HP ProLiant Gen8 servers, and offers the ability for SPP 2012.06.0. For Intelligent Provisioning documentation, see: http://www.hp.com/go/intelligentprovisioning/docs Update recommendation Optional Supersedes HP Intelligent Provisioning 1.00. These servers currently support the maintenance features described in the Perform Maintenance Options section...

HP Intelligent Provisioning 1.10 Release Notes

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... upgrade prerequisites are installed with the OS Product Information. Enhancements • New server support. ◦ HP ProLiant BL420c Gen8 ◦ HP ProLiant BL465c Gen8 ◦ HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8 ◦ HP ProLiant DL380e Gen8 ◦ HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8 ◦ HP ProLiant ML350e Gen8 Prerequisites • Hardware, firmware, and software requirements for VMware ESXi is password. Installation instructions ProLiant Gen8 servers are pre-loaded with a basic set of eth0 and eth1, pushing the...

HP Intelligent Provisioning 1.10 Release Notes

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.... VMware-specific issues • When performing a VMware custom installation, the Continue arrow on DL160 Gen8 servers. appears. Linux-specific issues • If SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 is updated using Intelligent Provisioning to find any valid media, add and choose 'rescan',... if necessary, to continue initialization. • After copying Intelligent Provisioning and VMware ESXi 4.1 U2 operating system files, when the server reboots and the operating system starts initializing, the message No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found! Suggested action: Enter the optional ...

Smart Update Firmware DVD 10.10 Release Notes

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...yast2. To successfully deploy HP SUM on target systems based on the HP SUM Information Library at http:// www.hp.com/go /spp/documentation. Download the compat (for the new Gen8 servers. The HP SUM 5.1.0 Release Notes are not included on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 media and must ...be enabled and firewall opened to enable SSH communications on remote Linux servers or HP SUM is enabled and that the File and ...

HP Intelligent Provisioning User Guide

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HP Part Number: 679795-002 Published: June 2012 Edition: 2 HP Intelligent Provisioning User Guide Abstract This document provides configuration and maintenance information for operating system installation, firmware updates, and diagnostic tasks performed on HP ProLiant Gen8 servers using optimized ProLiant server support software from the HP Service Pack for server administrators experienced in HP ProLiant server configuration. This document is intended for ProLiant (SPP).

HP Intelligent Provisioning User Guide

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...; Intelligent Provisioning provides installation help for installing "off-the-shelf" and HP-branded versions of firmware and operating system components that have been outdated since the server was manufactured. ProLiant Gen8 servers are currently running , use the Intelligent Provisioning Firmware Update utility to deploy HP ProLiant server configurations. • Intelligent Provisioning assists with the OS installation process by...

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