Technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 c-Class server blades

For specific OS support, see the HP Intelligent Provisioning Release Notes. For more information on Intelligent

Provisioning software, see the HP website (www.hp.com/go/intelligentprovisioning).

Power monitoring and management

We enhanced our monitoring and management tools for ProLiant Gen8 servers. These tools include Thermal Logic, HP

Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Insight Control Power Management software.

HP Thermal Logic technologies

HP Thermal Logic is our portfolio of technologies embedded throughout ProLiant servers. Thermal Logic reduces energy

consumption, reclaims capacity and extends the life of your data center. Thermal Logic innovations include:

 3D Sea of Sensors – More component and ambient sensors adjust fan speeds and power only the slots in use.

 Power provisioning tools – HP power provisioning tools include Dynamic Power Capping, HP Enclosure Dynamic Power

Capping, and the HP Power Advisor utility.

 Power Management Tools – Insight Control management software delivers deep insight, precise control, and ongoing

optimization to unlock the potential of your infrastructure Energy Star Qualified Servers – HP has partnered with

Energy Star® to offer the most energy efficient servers in the market.

HP 3D Sea of Sensors

3D Sea of Sensors data enables more precise and efficient cooling of ProLiant Gen8 servers. The data is included in the

always-on diagnostic information of the HP Active Health System.

HP 3D Sea of Sensor technologies enable the Automated Energy Optimization capabilities in the ProLiant Gen8 server

family. With embedded intelligence across three dimensions providing a sense of location, along with more power

utilization and thermal demand data, you gain a unique level of visibility and control over the energy efficiency of your

data center.

To find out more about Automated Energy Optimization, download this brochure

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA3-9650ENW.pdf

Power provisioning tools

These tools help administrators maximize data center power usage by fitting more IT equipment in the available power

and cooling capacity.

 HP Dynamic Power Capping - Dynamic Power Capping uses sophisticated monitoring and control circuitry to prevent

server power from exceeding a preset level. Because Dynamic Power Capping is hardware-based, it can quickly

control sudden surges in power consumption by servers and prevent tripping even the fastest circuit breakers used in

HP Power Distribution Units (PDUs). You can set a power cap for an individual server from the iLO user interface. For

groups of servers, you can set the power caps from the power management module within HP Insight Control.

 HP Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping - We designed Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping technology specifically for

BladeSystem enclosures. It lets you set a power cap for an HP BladeSystem Enclosure by using Insight Control

(version 2.0 or later) or Onboard Administrator (firmware version 2.30 or later). The Onboard Administrator monitors

and maintains the power cap for the entire enclosure by adjusting cap levels on individual server blades. As one server

blade becomes busy and another becomes idle, the Onboard Administrator adjusts the individual caps to give each

server blade the power it needs while maintaining the total enclosure power draw below the cap.

 HP Power Advisor utility - The HP Power Advisor 3.0 utility helps you calculate the expected power use of ProLiant and

Integrity servers to determine power distribution, power redundancy, and battery backup requirements. It lets you

calculate the power requirements for a single server, a rack of servers, or multiple racks of servers. These calculations

are based on data collected through extensive testing of various HP ProLiant and Integrity server configurations,

running a particular synthetic workload. You can adjust the calculations to determine server power requirements at

different server utilization levels that more closely match your expected workload. Read the “HP Power Advisor

utility” technology brief at

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01861599/c01861599.pdf. HP Power Advisor 3.0

and higher include support for ProLiant Gen8 servers.