Technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 c-Class server blades

For a more detailed description of these technologies, read “HP power and cooling technologies for the data center.” You

can find it at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02018535/c02018535.pdf.

You can find more information about HP Thermal Logic technologies on the HP website: www.hp.com/go/thermallogic.

Power Management Tools

We enhanced Insight Control Power Management software for ProLiant Gen8 server blades.

 We added the Intelligent Power Discovery solution to BladeSystem enclosures attached to HP Intelligent PDUs. Insight

Control power management will now automatically discover the power connections for the enclosures. For

BladeSystem enclosures, you will no longer have to manually create and edit the rack in HP SIM and Insight Control.

 We upgraded Insight Control Power Management to help you identify unused or under-utilized servers that waste

data center resources. Insight Control power management will generate a report summarizing system power

consumption by CPU utilization and the age of the system. This enhanced report will aid in planning the retirement or

repurposing of under-utilized servers.

 We let you import physical and power topology configuration updates into Insight Control power management from

other data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools, such as HP Asset Center. Before, you could import only

initial configurations.

 HP Power Regulator – Insight Control Power Management uses HP Power Regulator technology to control system

processor performance states (p-states).

 HP Power meter - An integrated power meter in HP ProLiant c-Class server blades provides analysis of actual server

power use. The BladeSystem Onboard Administrator can access the power meter through the external power

management software such as HP Insight Power Manager (IPM). IPM also consolidates power data for multiple servers

to a central location. IT departments can use this information to charge business units or third parties for the actual

energy costs associated with workload processing. The HP BladeSystem Onboard Administrator provides instant and

time-averaged views of the power consumption of individual servers or of all servers within a BladeSystem c-Class

enclosure.

You can find out more about power management and efficiency in the “Power efficiency and power management in HP

ProLiant servers” Technology brief at

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03161908/c03161908.pdf

HP Insight Management

HP Systems Insight Manager and HP Insight Control are part of HP Insight Management. These management capabilities

enhance your ability to troubleshoot complex problems that span server and storage infrastructure with a single source

for server and storage asset information. You get a comprehensive selection of Insight Management products for

extended management of HP ProLiant platforms.

HP Systems Insight Manager for server-storage management

HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) 7 is the foundation for the HP Insight server-storage management strategy. HP

SIM is a hardware-level management product that supports multiple operating systems on HP ProLiant, HP Integrity and

HP 9000 servers, HP MSA, EVA, XP storage arrays, and third-party storage arrays. Through a single management view of

Microsoft Windows, HP-UX 11iv1, HP-UX 11iv2, HP-UX 11iv3, and Red Hat, and SUSE Linux, HP SIM provides the basic

management features of system discovery and identification, single-event view, inventory data collection, and

reporting. The core HP SIM software uses Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) to deliver the essential

capabilities required to manage all HP server platforms.

 HP SIM provides hardware-level management for HP ProLiant servers, HP Integrity servers, HP BladeSystem; HP MSA,

HP EVA, and HP XP storage arrays; and HP Networking A-series devices

 HP SIM includes device discovery, identification, and asset management. All asset information is stored in a database

for systematic inventory management

 You can generate various reports based on formats using the latest industry standards