ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7

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ISS Technolo

y Update

Volume 8, Number 7

Keeping you informed of the latest ISS technology

Recently published industry standard server technology papers ..............................................................1

Using Intel

Hyper-Threading Technology in HP ProLiant G6 servers ........................................................2

generation HP 3Gb/s SATA solid state drive technology expands SSD functionality and performance. 3

Deploying VMware ESXi on HP ProLiant BL400 Series server blades ........................................................5

Meet the Expert—Alan Goodrum .............................................................................................................7

Contact us ...............................................................................................................................................8

Recently published industry standard server technology papers

Title URL

Configuring SATA and SAS in HP ProLiant SL6000

servers

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c018933

03/c01893303.pdf

HP ProLiant SL6000 Scalable System technology http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c019385

87/c01938587.pdf

Implementing Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2

Foundation on HP ProLiant servers

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01923

164/c01923164.pdf

Implementing Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2

Hyper-V™ and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 on HP

ProLiant servers

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c019258

82/c01925882.pdf

HP ProLiant DL585 G5/G6 server technology http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c018955

59/c01895559.pdf

The Intel processor roadmap for industry-standard servers,

10th Edition

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c001642

55/c00164255.pdf

The AMD processor roadmap for industry-standard

servers, 6th Edition

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c004287

08/c00428708.pdf

HP BladeSystem c-Class SAN connectivity http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c010966

54/c01096654.pdf

Implementing UPS power management applications with

HP Systems Insight Manager, 3rd edition

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c003835

60/c00383560.pdf

Summary of content (8 pages)

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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7 ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7 Keeping you informed of the latest ISS technology Recently published industry standard server technology papers .............................................................. 1 Using Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology in HP ProLiant G6 servers ........................................................ 2 2nd generation HP 3Gb/s SATA solid state drive technology expands SSD functionality and performance.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7 Using Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology in HP ProLiant G6 servers Intel® Xeon® four-core processors based on the Intel Microarchitecture (Nehalem) re-introduce support for Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology, also known as simultaneous multi-threading. Each core has its own physical resources (architectural state, cache, registers, and execution units), enabling it to appear as two logical processors to the operating system (OS).
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7 Additional resources For additional information on the topics discussed in this article, visit these websites: Resource URL How to Determine the Effectiveness of HyperThreading Technology with an Application http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/how-to-determine-theeffectiveness-of-hyper-threading-technology-with-an-application/ Dual Processors, Hyper-Threading Technology, and Multi-Core Systems http://www.intel.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7 SSD Performance HP 3Gb/s SATA SSD read and write performance is significantly improved over first-generation SSDs, as shown in Table 1. The new SSDs are particularly appropriate for applications that require storage systems capable of performing large numbers of random reads per second. Traditionally, solutions designers have used RAID configurations with large numbers of disk drives to achieve this.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7 Deploying VMware ESXi on HP ProLiant BL400 Series server blades Because of their robust memory and network capabilities, the HP ProLiant BL490c and HP ProLiant BL495c server blades are ideal systems for deploying virtualized infrastructures. The ESXi variant of VMware vSphere 4 is being adopted by many customers as a next generation hypervisor due to the stronger security that results from the absence of a console operating system.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7 Shared storage A third alternative would be to install the ESXi installable image on shared storage, which could be the same as that used for VM files or a lower-cost dedicated array. Boot from SAN deployments are the most commonly used configuration of this type. Failure recovery Failure certainly sounds like a bad word, but in a well-designed vSphere infrastructure based on HP BladeSystem, the effects may not be all that serious.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7 Meet the Expert—Alan Goodrum Alan Goodrum is a Fellow with HP Industry Standard Servers (ISS). His career with HP actually began in 1985 with Compaq and over the last several years, his primary focus has been power management both in servers and the data center as a whole. Today, power management is arguably the “hotest” area of the server industry, but it hasn’t always been.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 7 Industry standard server technical papers can be found at www.hp.com/servers/technology. Contact us Send comments about the ISS Technology Update to TechCom@HP.com. To subscribe to the ISS Technology Update, click mailto:techcom@hp.com?subject=TechUpdate_subscription Follow us on Twitter . Legal Notices © Copyright 2009Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.