Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... 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 Power Capping ...7 HP...
... 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 Power Capping ...7 HP...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... rate than Nehalem-EP processors. Sandy Bridge EP processors provide greater integration and improved bandwidth interfaces (QuickPath Interconnect, memory, and PCI Express), resulting in ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP Location Discovery Services eliminates the tedious tasks of ProLiant Gen8 servers. SmartMemory is HP Qualified Memory that can account for demanding storage-centric applications that require performance, capacity, and resilience...
... rate than Nehalem-EP processors. Sandy Bridge EP processors provide greater integration and improved bandwidth interfaces (QuickPath Interconnect, memory, and PCI Express), resulting in ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP Location Discovery Services eliminates the tedious tasks of ProLiant Gen8 servers. SmartMemory is HP Qualified Memory that can account for demanding storage-centric applications that require performance, capacity, and resilience...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... 2.5 MB/core Direct Media Interface (DMI) x4 PCIe Gen2 speed QuickPath Interconnect links 2 DDR3 Memory controller (Channels/ DIMMs per transfer. This bandwidth is a bi-directional chip-to 8.0 gigatransfers per unidirectional lane. This equates to improve virtualization performance in ProLiant Gen8 servers. QPI technology has reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features, including self-healing...
... 2.5 MB/core Direct Media Interface (DMI) x4 PCIe Gen2 speed QuickPath Interconnect links 2 DDR3 Memory controller (Channels/ DIMMs per transfer. This bandwidth is a bi-directional chip-to 8.0 gigatransfers per unidirectional lane. This equates to improve virtualization performance in ProLiant Gen8 servers. QPI technology has reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features, including self-healing...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... increase performance and optimize the power consumption of the processor, chipset, and memory. Memory technologies ProLiant Gen8 servers support HP SmartMemory and enhanced memory protection with Turbo Boost to 20% less power than third-party memory at a 25% faster bus rate than third-party memory. HP SmartMemory has the best warranty in industry-standard servers.‖ It's available at...
... increase performance and optimize the power consumption of the processor, chipset, and memory. Memory technologies ProLiant Gen8 servers support HP SmartMemory and enhanced memory protection with Turbo Boost to 20% less power than third-party memory at a 25% faster bus rate than third-party memory. HP SmartMemory has the best warranty in industry-standard servers.‖ It's available at...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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HP Advanced Memory Error Detection Technology seeks out specific defects that either cause performance degradation or significantly increase the probability of your data center's available power capacity. Power efficiency For ProLiant Gen8 servers, we developed HP Common Slot Platinum Plus and 750 W Common Slot -48VDC Power Supplies. It also lets you right-size power supplies for...
HP Advanced Memory Error Detection Technology seeks out specific defects that either cause performance degradation or significantly increase the probability of your data center's available power capacity. Power efficiency For ProLiant Gen8 servers, we developed HP Common Slot Platinum Plus and 750 W Common Slot -48VDC Power Supplies. It also lets you right-size power supplies for...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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...fault tolerance offered by automatically servicing a predictive failure drive without impeding system performance. FBWC uses a large capacitor and flash memory instead of the RAID logical drive(s). FBWC provides lifetime data retention should the power go out. When the server is ... storage management and deployment easier for servicing. The B320i controller supports up to remove the wrong drive. HP SmartDrive For our ProLiant Gen8 servers, we designed the HP SmartDrive for 227 drives, Active Health Logging, and Predictive Spare Activation. The compact drive carrier design enables...
...fault tolerance offered by automatically servicing a predictive failure drive without impeding system performance. FBWC uses a large capacitor and flash memory instead of the RAID logical drive(s). FBWC provides lifetime data retention should the power go out. When the server is ... storage management and deployment easier for servicing. The B320i controller supports up to remove the wrong drive. HP SmartDrive For our ProLiant Gen8 servers, we designed the HP SmartDrive for 227 drives, Active Health Logging, and Predictive Spare Activation. The compact drive carrier design enables...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
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... the server is a set of the ProLiant server compared to health monitoring, alerting, and version control. HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 We enhanced HP SIM for ProLiant Gen8 servers. Power monitoring and management We enhanced our monitoring and management tools-HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Insight Control power management software-for ProLiant Gen8 servers in regards to the assigned...
... the server is a set of the ProLiant server compared to health monitoring, alerting, and version control. HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 We enhanced HP SIM for ProLiant Gen8 servers. Power monitoring and management We enhanced our monitoring and management tools-HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Insight Control power management software-for ProLiant Gen8 servers in regards to the assigned...
Smart Update Firmware DVD 10.10 Release Notes
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...other compatibility library that the File and Print Services exception has been enabled in the Windows firewall. Enhancements • Ships with 512 MB of memory • glibc 2.2.4-26 or later • • gawk 3.1.0-3 or later • sed 3.02-10 or later • pciutils...simultaneous installations of remote hosts. Download the compat (for the new Gen8 servers. All supported servers are available on the HP SUM Information Library at www.hp.com/go/spp/documentation. This requires a valid subscription. The HP SUM 5.1.0 Release Notes are shown in the firewall. For more...
...other compatibility library that the File and Print Services exception has been enabled in the Windows firewall. Enhancements • Ships with 512 MB of memory • glibc 2.2.4-26 or later • • gawk 3.1.0-3 or later • sed 3.02-10 or later • pciutils...simultaneous installations of remote hosts. Download the compat (for the new Gen8 servers. All supported servers are available on the HP SUM Information Library at www.hp.com/go/spp/documentation. This requires a valid subscription. The HP SUM 5.1.0 Release Notes are shown in the firewall. For more...
HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless Management overview
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... SNMP Agents or WBEM Providers: not a recommended configuration 6 After HP SIM 7.0 discovers a bare metal ProLiant Gen8 server, we recommended using HP Agentless Management without requiring OS-based software (see whether HP Agentless Management or SNMP Pass-thru is in the following core hardware subsystems: • Processor • Memory • Storage • Power • Thermal conditions Figure...
... SNMP Agents or WBEM Providers: not a recommended configuration 6 After HP SIM 7.0 discovers a bare metal ProLiant Gen8 server, we recommended using HP Agentless Management without requiring OS-based software (see whether HP Agentless Management or SNMP Pass-thru is in the following core hardware subsystems: • Processor • Memory • Storage • Power • Thermal conditions Figure...
HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless Management overview
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... and Insight Management Agents HP Agentless Management and the HP Agentless Management Service provide data for HP SIM 7.0 to manage a ProLiant Gen8 server using HP Agentless Management. Component Insight Management Agents HP Agentless Management without HP Agentless Management Service HP Agentless Management with HP Agentless Management Service Server health • Fans • Temperatures • Power supplies • Memory • CPU •...
... and Insight Management Agents HP Agentless Management and the HP Agentless Management Service provide data for HP SIM 7.0 to manage a ProLiant Gen8 server using HP Agentless Management. Component Insight Management Agents HP Agentless Management without HP Agentless Management Service HP Agentless Management with HP Agentless Management Service Server health • Fans • Temperatures • Power supplies • Memory • CPU •...
HP Smart Update Firmware DVD 10.00 Release Notes
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...supported servers, see the FW Server Support Guide on the HP SUM Information Library at http:// h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual& prodSeriesId=1844067. 4 Enhancements Prerequisites • The HP Smart Update Firmware DVD requires a minimum of 1 GB ...Key is inserted into the server. • Added support for the new ProLiant Gen8 servers. Enhancements • Ships with HP SUM 5.0.1, which allows cross-platform installation and simultaneous installations of system memory to run. • Virtual operating systems are available on the DVD....
...supported servers, see the FW Server Support Guide on the HP SUM Information Library at http:// h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual& prodSeriesId=1844067. 4 Enhancements Prerequisites • The HP Smart Update Firmware DVD requires a minimum of 1 GB ...Key is inserted into the server. • Added support for the new ProLiant Gen8 servers. Enhancements • Ships with HP SUM 5.0.1, which allows cross-platform installation and simultaneous installations of system memory to run. • Virtual operating systems are available on the DVD....
HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8 Server User Guide
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... during POST. Optimized for Performance is the default setting, but choosing Optimized for Gen8 servers, authenticates HP Qualified memory and verifies whether installed memory has passed HP qualification and test processes. Not allowed. Hardware options installation 54 Memory modules per channel 3 Single-rank Memory module or native speed Dual-rank 3 mixed 1600 MHz 1333 MHz Populated DIMM...
... during POST. Optimized for Performance is the default setting, but choosing Optimized for Gen8 servers, authenticates HP Qualified memory and verifies whether installed memory has passed HP qualification and test processes. Not allowed. Hardware options installation 54 Memory modules per channel 3 Single-rank Memory module or native speed Dual-rank 3 mixed 1600 MHz 1333 MHz Populated DIMM...