Innovative technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

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iPDU and the iLO devices exchange identity data—host name, IP address, serial number and more—
through the IPD power cords. This allows the iPDU to track the servers plugged into each of its outlets.
The iPDU provides this information to HP Insight Control power management software. You can use
IPD securely because it does not use RFID or other signal emitting technology.
Figure 3: The iPDU communicates with each server’s iLO Management Engine before you power on the servers.
Insight Control power management can discover and communicate with iPDUs to retrieve the power
topology and power measurement data. It lets you visualize, monitor, and control the power topology
of a complete rack system from a central console, either locally or remotely.
Location Discovery Services
Location Discovery Services technology automatically reports server locations to HP SIM and Insight
Control, eliminating this tedious manual task for server administrators. Administrators will be able to
use the location information and system data with HP Asset Manager to obtain more precise and
complete asset data.
Rack-level thermal mapping
Insight Control power management gathers data for correlating the location of ProLiant Gen8 servers
with power usage, system and rack temperature data, and workloads. You can use this information to