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ISS Technology Update, Volume 9, Number 6 - Page 1
... U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded us a $7.4 million grant as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The HP Rack and Power Group and the Eaton Corporation will co-develop power and cooling technologies for a fully enclosed IT rack system. Wide acceptance of these technologies can significantly increase energy efficiency and reduce carbon...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 9, Number 6 - Page 2
... management controls that actively optimize the internal environment for dynamic IT loads, and interface with facility management systems to provide an end-to-end view of the power and cooling chain. The MDC supports four, six, or eight 42U IT racks. That equates to a cooling capacity of 25kW/rack for four racks or 12.5kW/rack for eight racks. This...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 9, Number 6 - Page 3
...The grant requires that the MDC achieve a maximum Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratio of 1.25, where
PUE = total MDC load ÷ IT equipment load A typical data center has a PUE over ... power costs
HP engineers designed ProLiant G6 and G7 servers with several thermal sensors, or Sea of Sensors, placed throughout the chipset, memory, power, and I/O subsystems. The iLO management processor polls...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 9, Number 6 - Page 4
...www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c0 0502616/c00502616.pdf
HP Smart Array optimizes Video on Demand performance
Video on Demand (VOD) is a challenging storage application area because content providers must deliver hundreds of video streams simultaneously and without interruption. The VOD servers that deliver these services require large amounts of relatively high performance disk storage...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 9, Number 6 - Page 5
... failed drive and the Smart Array controller rebuilds it. During this period, the controller performs multiple disk operations to reconstruct degraded data while it fulfills read requests. This increases latency. Our engineers found that turning RAID Degraded Mode Performance Optimization to ON (Table 3-1) lets the Smart Array controller make greater use of the controller memory for regeneration...
ISS Technology Update, Volume 9, Number 6 - Page 7
...://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01 509052/c01509052.pdf
Rack and power planning with HP Insight Control Power Management
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02 510164/c02510164.pdf
Solid state storage technology for ProLiant servers, 2nd edition
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01 580706/c01580706.pdf
Upgrading VMware vCenter...
ISS Technology Focus, Number 14 - Page 1
... solution
This article describes the features and applications of HP enterprise class solid-state drives (SSDs) and IO accelerators. A subsequent article will detail the differences in these solid-state storage devices based on performance, latency, lifetime writes, and expected life at 100% writes. HP solid-state storage devices are based on NAND flash memory, which is the predominant solid-state...
ISS Technology Focus, Number 14 - Page 2
...-of-life planning.
IO accelerators I/O accelerators are also based on SLC or MLC NAND flash memory technology. Like other storage devices, I/O accelerators present themselves as standard block level storage, allowing applications to access them like other storage volumes. However, an I/O Accelerator is both a controller and storage device, with its own specialized driver that translates standard...
ISS Technology Focus, Number 14 - Page 4
... exceed 90%. In particular, HP Platinum Common Slot Power Supplies reach 94% efficiency at 50% load. So, the power efficiency advantage has now gone to AC power supplies.
Tip: Check Hyper-Threading status remotely using Microsoft® Windows® PowerShell
Intel® Xeon® four-core processors based on the Intel Microarchitecture Nehalem reintroduced support for Hyper-Threading (HT...
ISS Technology Focus, Number 14 - Page 5
... HOWTO, 2nd
edition » Serial Attached SCSI technologies and architectures, 4th edition » HP Insight Control for Microsoft® System Center integration overview » Serial ATA Technology, 4th edition » Effects of virtualization and cloud computing on data center networks » Optimizing GPU-based application performance for the HP for the HP ProLiant SL390s G7
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Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers - Page 2
... ...10 Embedded HP Remote Support (coming soon 11 Management and power monitoring 11 HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 11 HP Insight Control power management software 11 Firmware and system software management 12 Service Pack for ProLiant ...12 HP Smart Update Manager 5.0 12 HP rack technologies...13 HP Intelligent Series Rack ...13 HP Discovery Services ...13 Power Discovery Services ...13...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers - Page 3
... low data activity.
We offer powerful I/O solutions for demanding storage-centric applications that require performance, capacity, and resilience. HP Smart Array Controllers, HP SmartDrives, HP Host Bus Adapters, and HP I/O accelerators deliver high performance and allow you to grow storage capacity as needed by supporting more drives and RAID levels.
Because power costs can account for more than...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers - Page 7
... at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01861599/c01861599.pdf. HP Power Advisor 3.0, available now, includes the ProLiant Gen8 servers.
Networking
HP FlexibleNetwork Adapters include features that improve performance and energy efficiency and decrease latency. For select ProLiant Gen8 servers, we offer HP FlexibleLOM (LAN-on-motherboard) modules to address rigid and aging...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers - Page 8
...than it would idling at full power. The adapter lets connected devices instantly re-engage when data transmission occurs. This can reduce adapter power consumption by up to 70%.
HP ProLiant Smart Storage
ProLiant Gen8 servers use HP Smart Array P-Series Controllers and H-Series Host Bus Adapters (HBAs). The servers also accommodate HP IO accelerators, which can drive down costs in high performance...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers - Page 9
... with the HP Active Health System.
HP Host Bus Adapters
HP SAS HBAs address the need for low-cost direct-attached storage, single-domain JBODs, tape drives, libraries, and shared storage arrays. H-Series SAS HBAs for ProLiant Gen8 servers are lowprofile cards or an adapter embedded in the system board. The H-Series HBA supports 6 Gb/s SAS, SATA, or SSD. It also supports shared external storage and...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers - Page 10
... Power monitoring and management-HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Insight Control power management software Firmware and system software management-Service Pack for ProLiant and HP Smart Update Manager 5.0
Server management-HP iLO Management Engine
HP iLO Management Engine is a set of embedded management technologies that comes standard on all ProLiant Gen8 Servers. These technologies support...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers - Page 11
... Engine detects and reports error conditions for the following components:
Embedded Smart Array controllers CPU Memory Power supplies Fans Thermal sensors
Version control For previous-generation servers, the Version Control Agent (VCA) was responsible for determining whether the server is out of date with its assigned baseline. A baseline is a set of software and firmware that has been tested...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers - Page 12
...and HP Smart Update Manager version 5.0. Together, these new management tools give you more flexibility, less downtime, and better overall operating stability. In addition, we provide 12 months of technical support from the month that we release the SPP.
Service Pack for ProLiant An SPP is a comprehensive release set of systems software (drivers, agents, utilities) and firmware for all HP ProLiant...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers - Page 13
... them to your site fully loaded and ready to go.
Figure 2: The HP Intelligent Series Rack has industry-leading airflow efficiency.
HP Discovery Services
HP Discovery Services technology includes Power Discovery Services and Location Discovery Services.
Power Discovery Services ProLiant Gen8 servers and HP Intelligent Series Racks support Intelligent Power Discovery (IPD). IPD components include...
Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers - Page 15
... E5 series processors, high-performance HP SmartMemory, HP FlexibleNetwork Adapters including FlexibleLOM modules, ProLiant Smart Storage options, and seamless server management capabilities to deliver enormous value to our customers. In addition, ProLiant Gen8 servers feature industry-leading power management software and the most advanced firmware and system software management update process...