http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/technology/whitepapers/index.html Tue, 15 May 2012 12:00:00 -0600 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:00:00 -0600 http://www.hp.com en-us © 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. HP ISS Training & Communications ISS Training & Communications either explain HP strategy, development, and implementation of key technologies in industry-standard systems or explain how to integrate operating systems and applications software with ProLiant systems to achieve maximum benefit. ISS Training & Communications either explain HP strategy, development, and implementation of key technologies in industry-standard systems or explain how to integrate operating systems and applications software with ProLiant systems to achieve maximum benefit. HP® ISS Training & Communications techcom@hp.com HP ISS Training & Communications This technology brief describes what VCEM does in the data center. It gives you an overview of the VCEM architecture and details the interaction among VCEM, Virtual Connect Manager (VCM), iLO, and BladeSystem Onboard Administrator modules. It explains VCEM management capabilities, integration, and scalability within data center infrastructures. In this technology brief, we assume that you have some familiarity with HP BladeSystem infrastructure. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03314921/c03314921.pdf Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant, data centers HP ISS Training & Communications If your IT role includes managing physical and virtual servers or utilizing multiple hypervisor vendors you need the ability to manage from a single console. This technology brief defines the products in the HP Insight Management family that let you manage Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, a hypervisor-based virtualization platform that provisions and manages virtual server workloads. This paper also discusses typical use cases and installation considerations. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01662546/c01662546.pdf Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant, data centers HP ISS Training & Communications This podcast gives IT professionals who are familiar with HP SIM an overview of HP Agentless Management and how it works with HP SIM 7.0. It also includes information about when you may need to continue to use the SNMP Agents or WBEM (WMI) Providers for your management solution. http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-116988/TS-624200.mp3 Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant, data centers HP ISS Training & Communications This podcast provides an overview of our integration with vSphere 5.0 for ProLiant servers and infrastructure. It explains what we are doing to make ProLiant servers and infrastructure easier to deploy and manage and how we enhance and enable new vSphere 5.0 capabilities. http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-116988/TS-623322.mp3 Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, data center, virtual machines, virtualization HP ISS Training & Communications The direct attached storage (DAS) solution you choose for your systems affects their performance, cost, and usability. To find the best solution for your environment, you should take into consideration interconnect technology, controller technology and features, as well as drive types and configurations. This podcast discusses all these considerations for direct attached storage to HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. Note that we include multiple types of DAS, storage that connects directly to the drive controller or through an expander to the drive controller and storage within the server chassis or in an external chassis. http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-116988/TS-620991.mp3 Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant HP ISS Training & Communications The direct attached storage (DAS) solution you choose for your systems affects their performance, cost, and usability. To find the best solution for your environment, you should take into consideration interconnect technology, controller technology and features, as well as drive types and configurations. This technology brief discusses all these considerations for direct attached storage to HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. Note that we include multiple types of DAS, storage that connects directly to the drive controller or through an expander to the drive controller and storage within the server chassis or in an external chassis. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03264200/c03264200.pdf Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant HP ISS Technology Communications Beginning with the ProLiant G6 servers, HP engineers have spent a great deal of effort in research, design and development to make ProLiant servers as power-efficient as possible. They have accomplished it by rethinking and re-engineering every key element in the server platform—from power supplies to cooling technology to the monitoring and control of system processors. This podcast describes the individual power savings technologies that we have incorporated into ProLiant servers. It also reviews the built-in ProLiant power monitoring and control functions. ProLiant power efficiency and ProLiant power monitoring and control are parts of HP’s overall power management strategy that includes servers, the server rack and the data center. http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-116988/TS-620971.mp3 Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant HP ISS Training & Communications Because they are plug-compatible with traditional SATA and SAS drives, we tend to think of SSDs in the same terms as traditional disk drives. But SSDs have unique functional characteristics that require us to re-think some of our usual assumptions when using them in server-based IT environments. This paper provides an overview of two of the unique aspects of SSDs—SSD endurance and SSD performance characteristics in server applications. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03312456/c03312456.pdf Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant, SSD HP ISS Training & Communications This paper provides a detailed look at the core technologies that enable DDR3 memory and its benefits as well as the integration of DDR3 with the current server architectures. Beginning with ProLiant Gen8 servers, we are introducing HP SmartMemory technology for DDR3 memory. HP SmartMemory DIMMs have passed our qualification and testing processes. Gen8 servers configured with HP SmartMemory DIMMs deliver extended performance and manageability that is not supported using third party DIMMs. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02126499/c02126499.pdf Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant HP ISS Training & Communications This paper explores the capability of ICpm and describes the analysis used to identify bottlenecks. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03294484/c03294484.pdf Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant, ICpm HP ISS Training & Communications This technology brief provides an overview of our integration with vSphere 5.0 for ProLiant servers and infrastructure. It explains what we are doing to make ProLiant servers and infrastructure easier to deploy and manage and how we enhance and enable new vSphere 5.0 capabilities. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03285134/c03285134.pdf Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant, virtual server HP ISS Training & Communications This document gives IT professionals who are familiar with HP SIM an overview of HP Agentless Management and how it works with HP SIM 7.0. It also includes information about when you may need to continue to use the SNMP Agents or WBEM (WMI) Providers for your management solution. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03285134/c03285134.pdf Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant HP ISS Training & Communications The code name for Windows Server 2012 was Windows Server “8.” The current version of the OS is a beta version. It is not a final, commercial version of the OS. This integration note describes the level of support available for Windows Server 2012 on HP ProLiant servers. It also provides guidance for implementing Windows Server 2012 on ProLiant servers. The OS and our support may change before the OS is commercially available. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03305495/c03305495.pdf Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant HP ISS Technology Communications The HP iLO Management Engine is a suite of embedded management technologies that supports the complete lifecycle of all HP ProLiant Gen8 servers, from initial deployment to ongoing management and service alerting. The iLO Management Engine is a key component of the end-to-end HP Insight Management server management portfolio, along with HP Insight Control and HP Insight Online. Together they provide customers with the most comprehensive set of server management capabilities in the industry. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03207602/c03207602.pdf Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant, data centers, remote management, gen8 HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast describes several new technologies we have implemented in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. This generation of servers represents a leap in innovation and they address the complex management challenges that IT administrators are facing today. http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-116988/TS-601541.mp3 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant, ML, BL, DL, Gen8 HP ISS Technology Communications This technology brief describes several new technologies we have implemented in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. This generation of servers represents a leap in innovation and they address the complex management challenges that IT administrators are facing today. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03227849/c03227849.pdf Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant, ML, BL, DL, Gen8 HP ISS Technology Communications HP Memory Quarantine maintains system availability by offering a recovery mechanism for a system experiencing uncorrectable hardware memory errors. IT administrators cannot generally run error correction modes simultaneously. For example, HP Memory Quarantine is not active when the system is configured for memory mirroring mode or for online memory sparing. IT Administrators must choose the most appropriate memory correction mode with the ROM-based Setup Utility (RBSU) of the server platform. http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-116988/TS-601539.mp3 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant HP ISS Technology Communications This paper examines VC networking technologies that we use to control data traffic flow within the VC domain. It explains how VC networking technologies interoperate with the core network infrastructure. The Appendix defines VC and standard networking terms used in this paper. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03154250/c03154250.pdf Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant, networking HP ISS Technology Communications This paper describes the architecture and major technologies implemented in HP ProLiant G7 c-Class Server Blades based on AMD Opteron™ processors. Specifically, the paper applies to the BL465 G7 and BL685c G7 Server Blades updated with the AMD Opteron 6200 series processors. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02239274/c02239274.pdf Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant, CPU HP ISS Technology Communications This paper explains the multi-tenancy capability in Matrix IO v7.0. It gives a high-level description of the multi-tenancy technology, application architecture, administration, user roles, and resource management available in CloudSystem Matrix IO or Matrix Operating Environment v 7.0. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03162531/c03162531.pdf Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant HP ISS Technology Communications Beginning with the ProLiant G6 servers, HP engineers have spent a great deal of effort in research, design and development to make ProLiant servers as power-efficient as possible. They have accomplished it by rethinking and re-engineering every key element in the server platform—from power supplies to cooling technology to the monitoring and control of system processors. This technology brief describes the individual power savings technologies that we have incorporated into ProLiant servers. It also reviews the built-in ProLiant power monitoring and control functions. ProLiant power efficiency and ProLiant power monitoring and control are parts of HP’s overall power management strategy that includes servers, the server rack and the data center. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03161908/c03161908.pdf Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant HP ISS Technology Communications This integration note gives you guidance for installing Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 Premium Edition on HP ProLiant servers. We discuss the following key topics: • Recommended system configurations • Recommended ProLiant servers • Recommended software, storage options, and NICs • Procedures for a new installation • Known issues http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03176782/c03176782.pdf Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant HP ISS Technology Communications IT administrators often measure the resiliency of a server by its reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS). The reliability of a server is its ability to avoid errors and faults. The availability of a server relates to its continued operation in spite of failures or errors. The serviceability of a server is its capability to self-heal and the ease in which it can be maintained. Memory RAS is key to defining the resiliency of a server in dealing with hardware errors. HP Memory Quarantine provides self-healing RAS capability for a server to deal with errors that would otherwise result in system crashes. This paper describes how the HP Memory Quarantine mechanism works and what it can achieve for IT administrators. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03179047/c03179047.pdf Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ProLiant HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast recommends planning, configuration, and deployment practices for HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO), iLO 2, and iLO 3 management devices. 1:07:33 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20110201/Planning-conf-for-iLO-CPUs_4SVQ.mp3 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, iLO, integrated lights-out HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast reviews key aspects of drive technology, including categories of server drives, key factors determining capacity, performance, and reliability in single drives, solid state drives, and more. 24:18 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20110201/Server-drive-tech-5thed_4SVP.mp3 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, drive, solid state drives HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast discusses the HP hardware and software technology that make up VC Flex-10 modules, VC FlexFabric modules, and FlexFabric adapters. The brief also examines how they function with Virtual Connect. 36:59 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20110125/HP_VCFlex10-techconverg-FlexFabric_4SNP.mp3 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, Virtual Connect flex-10, FlexFabric HP ISS Technology Communications The HP ProLiant SL6000 Scalable System provides extreme density and high performance at low acquisition costs. It is easy to service in a rack and optimized for power and cooling efficiency. Simplified server management and monitoring reduce the cost and effort needed to manage a scale-out solution made up of thousands of servers. 27:30 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20110126/HPSL6000ScalableSytech_4SOG.mp3 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, SL6000, scalable HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast addresses a key concern of data center management: security. iLO ensures that your server hardware, firmware, communication interfaces, and deployment capabilities are secure. This podcast describes the utilities and services providing access points into iLO or its host system. 1:07:17 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20110126/HPiLOsecurity_4SOF.mp3 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, iLO, integrated lights-out HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast gives you an overview of the memory technologies that we use in HP ProLiant servers, and describes how we evaluate these technologies. It also briefly summarizes the evolution of server memory and explores the different dynamic random access memory (DRAM) technologies. 50:14 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111110/memorytechnologyevolution-32k_4Q9B.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, memory, DRAM HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast describes the key technologies implemented in HP ProLiant 100-series G7 servers based on AMD™ processors. 52:16 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111110/AMD_100_Series.G7_32k_4Q90.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, AMD, ProLiant HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast is based on a technology brief which explains the technologies implemented in the HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server that make it an excellent choice for enterprise customers needing increased performance and investment protection with a 64-bit migration path. 20:59 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111110/580-g5-32k_4Q91.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, DL580, ProLiant HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast is based on a technology brief which examines the benefits of using Ethernet as the underlying network technology for heterogeneous and converged networks in your data center. Ethernet is the most well established of the interconnects. IP-based communications use Ethernet for applications such as email, web browsing, management, Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP), video on demand (VOD), and iSCSI. 30:38 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111021/Ethernet-technology-32k_4PD6.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, ethernet HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast is based on a technology brief which discusses the architecture of Integrated Lights-Out processors. It also describes key technologies that provide comprehensive remote management capabilities. 58:17 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111110/ILO_Tech.v2_32k_4Q92.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, iLO HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast is based on a technology brief which describes the key technologies implemented in Intel-based HP ProLiant 300-series G6 and G7 servers. 1:05:57 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111110/Intel-300G6-G7-32k_4Q93.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, Intel, ProLiant HP ISS Technology Communications HP uses the enhanced technologies in Intel Xeon multi-core processors as building blocks to construct a range of performance and power options for ProLiant DL, ML, SL, and BladeSystem servers. For more information about HP ProLiant servers, visit www.hp.com/servers/technology. Intel technologies continue to boost the performance and energy efficiency of x86 processors. In this podcast, we summarize some of Intel’s more important processor innovations. 29:10 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111021/Intel-roadmap11thed-32k_4PDP.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, Intel, ProLiant HP ISS Technology Communications The cost of energy needed to run an enterprise data center can account for the majority of a data center’s total operating costs. These days it is the power budget, not floor or rack space, which constrains a data center’s computing capacity. This podcast describes how common-slot power supplies boost energy efficiency and reduce operating costs. 14:11 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111110/ProLiant_Power_Supply_32k_4Q94.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, power supply, ProLiant HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast describes management technologies for HP BladeSystem and integration of those technologies. 52:29 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111110/c-class-management-architecture-32k_4Q95.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, BladeSystem, blades HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast provides an overview of the HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure, Thermal Logic power and cooling technologies, and interconnect options. 1:10:56 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111110/c3000-32k_4Q96.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, BladeSystem, blades, c3000 HP ISS Technology Communications The goal of this podcast is to describe Citrix XenDesktop technology, architecture, and implementation on ProLiant servers. The audience is both internal and external customers. 23:50 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111110/citrix-xendesktop-32k_4Q97.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, Citrix HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast is based on a paper that provides guidance for users reconfiguring hard disk drives in any of the SL6000 Scalable System server nodes. The SL6000 server nodes are primarily intended for SATA hard drives, but SAS options are available. The hardware required to connect the disk drives depends on the type of server node, the type of drive (SATA or SAS), the drive form factor (LFF or SFF), and the number of hard drives in the configuration. The paper describes the required controllers, cables, and components for each SL6000 server node and disk drive configuration. 8:37 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111110/config-sas-sata-sl-32k_4Q98.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, SL6000 HP ISS Technology Communications This podcast summarizes the processor, memory, storage, power management, infrastructure management, and virtualization technologies in ProLiant G6 servers. You will find links to additional resources and information throughout this paper and in the “For more information” section. 28:28 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111110/g6-intel-technology-32k_4Q99.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, Intel HP ISS Technology Communications As server densities per rack increase, the power densities for those racks increase as well. This podcast identifies critical factors that infrastructure designers and system administrators must consider to plan safe and efficient power distribution systems for high-density racks. 16:24 http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/hp/20111110/intra-rack-power-distribution-32k_4Q9A.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00CST Hewlett Packard, Industry standard servers, rack, power