ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6

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ISS Technolo

y Update

Volume 8, Number 6

Keeping you informed of the latest ISS technology

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

Understanding and interpreting SPECpower_ssj2008 results ....................................................................2

Effective data rate of SAS Technology ......................................................................................................4

New feature in HP Integrated VMware ESXi 4.0 adds support for Smart Array and network devices ......5

Meet the Expert—Jeff Plank.....................................................................................................................6

Contact us ...............................................................................................................................................7

Recently published industry standard server technology papers

Title URL

Conveniently integrating HP ProLiant Lights-Out processors

with Microsoft® Active Directory

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c001905

41/c00190541.pdf

Integrated Lights-Out technology: Enhancing the

manageability of ProLiant Servers, 7th edition

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c002573

45/c00257345.pdf

Selecting power cords and jumper cables for use with HP

ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, 3rd edition

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c001307

29/c00130729.pdf

Technologies in HP ProLiant G6 c-Class server blades with

AMD Opteron™ processors

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c018745

75/c01874575.pdf

Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant AMD-based

300-series G6 (Generation 6) servers

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c018893

04/c01889304.pdf

Using the HP Plinth Kit for seismic anchoring of HP

10000 G1 series racks

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c002514

18/c00251418.pdf

HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server technology http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c018910

77/c01891077.pdf

Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on HP

ProLiant servers

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c016395

94/c01639594.pdf

Summary of content (7 pages)

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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6 ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6 Keeping you informed of the latest ISS technology Recently published industry standard server technology papers .............................................................. 1 Understanding and interpreting SPECpower_ssj2008 results .................................................................... 2 Effective data rate of SAS Technology ....................................................................................
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6 Understanding and interpreting SPECpower_ssj2008 results Server benchmarks have traditionally focused almost entirely on server performance. As server power consumption and efficiency have become increasingly important issues, the need for objective and reproducible measures of server performance relative to power consumption has also become important.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6 20% 20.1% 108,342 153 710 10% 10.0% 54,143 134 403 0 124 0 Active idle Overall operations per watt 1,394 Calculating and interpreting SPECpower_ssj2008 results The SPECpower_ssj2008 benchmark generates a final metric that is the overall operations-per-watt. This number is calculated by adding together the number of Java operations performed at each target load and dividing this number by the sum of the power consumptions at each target load.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6 Effective data rate of SAS Technology Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) uses differential signaling to transfer data over a physical link, or phy. This reduces the effects of capacitance, inductance, and noise experienced by parallel SCSI at higher speeds. SAS communication is full duplex, which means that each phy can send and receive information simultaneously over the two wire pairs.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6 New feature in HP Integrated VMware ESXi 4.0 adds support for Smart Array and network devices New HP CIM providers are now available for ESXi 4. The new providers contain all of the server inventory, alerting and status support that was available for ESXi 3.5, and adds corresponding support for Smart Array and network devices. This new management data is reported to HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) along with the server data that was previously available.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6 Meet the Expert—Jeff Plank Jeff Plank is a Master Technologist with the Chief Technology Office (CTO) for HP Industry Standard Servers (ISS). The qualifications to become a Master Technologist range from having a major technical impact on the strategic direction of HP to addressing unmet customer needs. Jeff’s manager, Greg Huff, says that Jeff combines traditional engineering knowledge with rare skills such as IP creation, IP licensing, and contract negotiation.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 8, Number 6 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.