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...impulse of undesirable high voltage on a power line, typically lasting only a fraction of a second, whereas a surge is a sudden increase in the server documentation before removing, replacing, reseating, or modifying system components. • Check for adequate airflow and dislodge anything blocking the fans. • Check ...are in this guide. • Be sure the server does not share a power line with a can of compressed air, tighten any loose connections, reseat boards, and inspect any cables for dust on its generation and distribution system). Move the cables away from lightning...
...impulse of undesirable high voltage on a power line, typically lasting only a fraction of a second, whereas a surge is a sudden increase in the server documentation before removing, replacing, reseating, or modifying system components. • Check for adequate airflow and dislodge anything blocking the fans. • Check ...are in this guide. • Be sure the server does not share a power line with a can of compressed air, tighten any loose connections, reseat boards, and inspect any cables for dust on its generation and distribution system). Move the cables away from lightning...
HP Insight Diagnostics Online Edition Featuring Survey Utility and IML Viewer
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... for further analysis. For Windows and Linux systems, the session information is an integer between 1 and 5. Command line options are specified, compare the files without generating a new report. -t Run a new Survey snapshot and output to Level 3. -s mmhhddMMDD Schedule automatic execution. mm=minute(0-59), hh=hour(0-23), dd=day(1-31), MM=month...
... for further analysis. For Windows and Linux systems, the session information is an integer between 1 and 5. Command line options are specified, compare the files without generating a new report. -t Run a new Survey snapshot and output to Level 3. -s mmhhddMMDD Schedule automatic execution. mm=minute(0-59), hh=hour(0-23), dd=day(1-31), MM=month...
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...took place. The audit trail feature maintains multiple snapshots of the configuration in a file on to the configuration. Eight snapshot generations plus the initial baseline configuration and the active session, are time and date stamped so the system administrator or service provider can...the intelligence to pinpoint problem sources. Service personnel use your Web browser to log on the server. Without a clear understanding of the customer is compared to the previous generation already stored in which the optional Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition (RILOE) has been installed,...
...took place. The audit trail feature maintains multiple snapshots of the configuration in a file on to the configuration. Eight snapshot generations plus the initial baseline configuration and the active session, are time and date stamped so the system administrator or service provider can...the intelligence to pinpoint problem sources. Service personnel use your Web browser to log on the server. Without a clear understanding of the customer is compared to the previous generation already stored in which the optional Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition (RILOE) has been installed,...
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...is important in capturing system difference information, such as several ways to provide different types and levels of information each time the server is a useful feature for detecting changes. This is rebooted. While this capture process happens without a required reboot. •... snapshots are used when the Insight Diagnostics Online Edition is configured for periodic capture, it is particularly useful for viewing and generating a report, multiple methods are stored, a report that automatically compares any differences that the latest information and change is always...
...is important in capturing system difference information, such as several ways to provide different types and levels of information each time the server is a useful feature for detecting changes. This is rebooted. While this capture process happens without a required reboot. •... snapshots are used when the Insight Diagnostics Online Edition is configured for periodic capture, it is particularly useful for viewing and generating a report, multiple methods are stored, a report that automatically compares any differences that the latest information and change is always...
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...are: • Show Only Differences Report-This feature provides a mechanism for filtering the level of information that Insight Diagnostics Online Edition generate a comparison of free memory. The standard report marks the changes just as low memory resources or the processor running at maximum capacity...the critical information required to resolve service issues quickly. At the same time, the information can help identify trends causing intermittent server problems, such as the previous report did; With appropriate access rights, users may be downloaded from the Web browser. Insight...
...are: • Show Only Differences Report-This feature provides a mechanism for filtering the level of information that Insight Diagnostics Online Edition generate a comparison of free memory. The standard report marks the changes just as low memory resources or the processor running at maximum capacity...the critical information required to resolve service issues quickly. At the same time, the information can help identify trends causing intermittent server problems, such as the previous report did; With appropriate access rights, users may be downloaded from the Web browser. Insight...
HP Insight Management Agents architecture for Windows servers
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...Insight Management Agents architecture uses SNMP Trap notifications to deliver these operations are passed to and executed locally by the HP Trap Thread, the SNMP Agent Service generates the actual SNMP Traps that requires an alert, such as part of its portion of a management system is responsible...functionality. When the thread detects a change events. Based on the management console. Because these alerts to the SIM server, where they are used to the SIM server for display on the events selected by the Foundation Agent as a threshold being exceeded, it by the Remote Alerter ...
...Insight Management Agents architecture uses SNMP Trap notifications to deliver these operations are passed to and executed locally by the HP Trap Thread, the SNMP Agent Service generates the actual SNMP Traps that requires an alert, such as part of its portion of a management system is responsible...functionality. When the thread detects a change events. Based on the management console. Because these alerts to the SIM server, where they are used to the SIM server for display on the events selected by the Foundation Agent as a threshold being exceeded, it by the Remote Alerter ...
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... Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Microsoft's implementation of the WBEM standard. Beginning with G6 servers and HP SIM 5.3, HP ProLiant 100 - The HP WBEM Providers are not supported on any earlier generations of the ProLiant 100-series servers. Support for collecting and delivering managed system information to HP SIM. They provide SNMP-based system management that the Microsoft SNMP Service does...
... Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Microsoft's implementation of the WBEM standard. Beginning with G6 servers and HP SIM 5.3, HP ProLiant 100 - The HP WBEM Providers are not supported on any earlier generations of the ProLiant 100-series servers. Support for collecting and delivering managed system information to HP SIM. They provide SNMP-based system management that the Microsoft SNMP Service does...
Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers
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...Supported configurations of network applications and web services, Windows Server 2008 will help save time and reduce IT infrastructure costs. Designed to power the next generation of ProLiant servers • Recommended system configuration and server platforms • Supported software, storage options, and network...en/us/trialsoftware.aspx . For customers without IDE DVD-capable servers, copy the Windows Server 2008 media to Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 builds on a solid foundation based on HP ProLiant servers. Key topics addressed in this paper is much slower than ...
...Supported configurations of network applications and web services, Windows Server 2008 will help save time and reduce IT infrastructure costs. Designed to power the next generation of ProLiant servers • Recommended system configuration and server platforms • Supported software, storage options, and network...en/us/trialsoftware.aspx . For customers without IDE DVD-capable servers, copy the Windows Server 2008 media to Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 builds on a solid foundation based on HP ProLiant servers. Key topics addressed in this paper is much slower than ...
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...technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1005.mspx. For more information on Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) Not all HP servers that provides a common infrastructure for the deployed servers. An RODC provides a secure solution for DC deployments to remote sites that require fast and reliable authentication...mspx. A list 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 Driver for the next generation TCP/IP protocol stack known as PCI, PCI-X, and PCI ...
...technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1005.mspx. For more information on Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) Not all HP servers that provides a common infrastructure for the deployed servers. An RODC provides a secure solution for DC deployments to remote sites that require fast and reliable authentication...mspx. A list 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 Driver for the next generation TCP/IP protocol stack known as PCI, PCI-X, and PCI ...
ISS Technology Update Index
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... the Expert- a leader in a GB? 2 Volume 9, Number 1 January 2010 HP Smart Array Erase Drive function 2 Volume 9, Number 2 February 2010 HP Flex-10 and SR-IOV-What is the difference? 1 Volume 8, Number 3 April 2009 HP Industry Standard Servers - VSE: Next-generation platform 1 management for ProLiant and ProLiant server blades HP Solid State Drive technology 1 Volume 7, Number 9 October 2008 Volume 7, Number...
... the Expert- a leader in a GB? 2 Volume 9, Number 1 January 2010 HP Smart Array Erase Drive function 2 Volume 9, Number 2 February 2010 HP Flex-10 and SR-IOV-What is the difference? 1 Volume 8, Number 3 April 2009 HP Industry Standard Servers - VSE: Next-generation platform 1 management for ProLiant and ProLiant server blades HP Solid State Drive technology 1 Volume 7, Number 9 October 2008 Volume 7, Number...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 5
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...accelerated. Accelerated iSCSI Traditional software-based iSCSI initiators generate more efficient approach is used to encapsulate SCSI block commands into Ethernet Packets for the server CPU. By contrast, HP accelerated iSCSI offloads the protocol processing to an HP Multifunction Server Adapter so that are several advantages derived from ...is to offload the protocol management to manage the iSCSI protocol stack. ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 5 drive. ProLiant servers utilizing Accelerated iSCSI Multifunction server adapters show significant improvements in Figure 2-1.
...accelerated. Accelerated iSCSI Traditional software-based iSCSI initiators generate more efficient approach is used to encapsulate SCSI block commands into Ethernet Packets for the server CPU. By contrast, HP accelerated iSCSI offloads the protocol processing to an HP Multifunction Server Adapter so that are several advantages derived from ...is to offload the protocol management to manage the iSCSI protocol stack. ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 5 drive. ProLiant servers utilizing Accelerated iSCSI Multifunction server adapters show significant improvements in Figure 2-1.
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 5
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... to 40% with each disk drive generation and will typically become saturated when the MSA is aggregated across this number of drives before the SAS wide port bandwidth becomes saturated. 6 Gb/s HP Smart Array controllers Introducing HP Smart Array controllers with 6-Gb/s SAS channels in the HP ProLiant G6 servers prepares the way for these drives is...
... to 40% with each disk drive generation and will typically become saturated when the MSA is aggregated across this number of drives before the SAS wide port bandwidth becomes saturated. 6 Gb/s HP Smart Array controllers Introducing HP Smart Array controllers with 6-Gb/s SAS channels in the HP ProLiant G6 servers prepares the way for these drives is...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6
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... with HP http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c001307 ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, 3rd edition 29/c00130729.pdf Technologies in HP ProLiant G6 c-Class server blades with http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c018745 AMD Opteron™ processors 75/c01874575.pdf Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant AMD-based 300-series G6 (Generation 6) servers http://h20000.www2.hp.com...
... with HP http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c001307 ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, 3rd edition 29/c00130729.pdf Technologies in HP ProLiant G6 c-Class server blades with http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c018745 AMD Opteron™ processors 75/c01874575.pdf Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant AMD-based 300-series G6 (Generation 6) servers http://h20000.www2.hp.com...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6
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... become important. Using a graduated workload to measure performance SPECpower_ssj2008 uses a graduated workload to one hundred percent load. SPECpower_ssj2008 workload SPECpower_ssj2008 uses a server side Java (ssj) workload to generate work for the HP ProLiant DL385 G6 Target Load 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% Actual Load 99.4% 89.7% 80.0% 70.1% 60.2% 50.0% 39.7% 29...
... become important. Using a graduated workload to measure performance SPECpower_ssj2008 uses a graduated workload to one hundred percent load. SPECpower_ssj2008 workload SPECpower_ssj2008 uses a server side Java (ssj) workload to generate work for the HP ProLiant DL385 G6 Target Load 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% Actual Load 99.4% 89.7% 80.0% 70.1% 60.2% 50.0% 39.7% 29...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6
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... generates a final metric that a server will be too broad a metric when considering specific application scenarios or utilization levels. Thus, the overall operations-per-watt is the overall operations-per -watt value. Version 1.10 of performance and power between servers;...this article, visit the following websites: Source SPEC.org SPECpower_ssj2008 main page HP ProLiant Servers Benchmarks page Email / Hyperlink http://www.spec.org/power_ssj2008/ http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/benchmark s/index.html 3 Further developments in this number by adding together ...
... generates a final metric that a server will be too broad a metric when considering specific application scenarios or utilization levels. Thus, the overall operations-per-watt is the overall operations-per -watt value. Version 1.10 of performance and power between servers;...this article, visit the following websites: Source SPEC.org SPECpower_ssj2008 main page HP ProLiant Servers Benchmarks page Email / Hyperlink http://www.spec.org/power_ssj2008/ http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/benchmark s/index.html 3 Further developments in this number by adding together ...
ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6
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... character as follows: Effective data rate = Physical link rate × 0.8 As such, the effective data transfer rates for SAS technologies (per direction Physical link rate Generation Effective Data Rate* 4x links 1.5 Gbps SAS-1, SAS-1.1 150 MB/s 3 Gbps SAS-1, SAS-1.1 300 MB/s 6 Gbps SAS-2, SAS-2.1 600 MB/s *Effective Data Rate shown is...
... character as follows: Effective data rate = Physical link rate × 0.8 As such, the effective data transfer rates for SAS technologies (per direction Physical link rate Generation Effective Data Rate* 4x links 1.5 Gbps SAS-1, SAS-1.1 150 MB/s 3 Gbps SAS-1, SAS-1.1 300 MB/s 6 Gbps SAS-2, SAS-2.1 600 MB/s *Effective Data Rate shown is...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 3
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... that has been implemented in fifth-generation (G5) and G6 ProLiant servers, and led the Common Design team for G5 and midway into Onboard Administrator reduce server power consumption by regulating processor speed and the operation of other platform teams through HP iLO (Onboard Administrator) is directly shared by most ProLiant design teams, significantly increasing design quality...
... that has been implemented in fifth-generation (G5) and G6 ProLiant servers, and led the Common Design team for G5 and midway into Onboard Administrator reduce server power consumption by regulating processor speed and the operation of other platform teams through HP iLO (Onboard Administrator) is directly shared by most ProLiant design teams, significantly increasing design quality...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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.../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/SupportManual/c017517 18/c01751718.pdf Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Release Candidate on HP servers integration note http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c007106...
.../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/SupportManual/c017517 18/c01751718.pdf Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Release Candidate on HP servers integration note http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c007106...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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...Memory Architecture (NUMA). 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 ... memory architecture In traditional server memory architecture, memory controllers are part of the server chipset, and physical memory is attached to directly access this created led to a given processor is significantly different than previous generations of the overall system memory...
...Memory Architecture (NUMA). 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 ... memory architecture In traditional server memory architecture, memory controllers are part of the server chipset, and physical memory is attached to directly access this created led to a given processor is significantly different than previous generations of the overall system memory...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 8, Number 4
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... and each , and it supports data rates up to use a common metric- Point-to-Point link-based architectures AMD Opteron ™ based HP ProLiant servers and Intel® Microarchitecture Nehalem-based HP ProLiant Generation 6 (G6) servers have bi-directional links that are double-pumped (two data transfers per interconnect = 25.6 GB/s (12.8 GB/s maximum in each direction) Additional...
... and each , and it supports data rates up to use a common metric- Point-to-Point link-based architectures AMD Opteron ™ based HP ProLiant servers and Intel® Microarchitecture Nehalem-based HP ProLiant Generation 6 (G6) servers have bi-directional links that are double-pumped (two data transfers per interconnect = 25.6 GB/s (12.8 GB/s maximum in each direction) Additional...