HP ProLiant DL585 G7 server technology

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Technology brief

Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 2

Operating Systems and Virtualization Software Support ...........................................................................2

Comparison between the DL585 G7 and G6 servers............................................................................... 3

HP ProLiant DL585 G7 processor architecture ......................................................................................... 5

HyperTransport™ technology Assist ................................................................................................... 5

AMD Dual Dynamic Power Management™......................................................................................... 6

AMD Virtualization™ technology ....................................................................................................... 6

AMD Core Select............................................................................................................................. 6

AMD SR5690 and SP5100 chipsets ...................................................................................................... 6

HP ProLiant DL585 G7 Configurations ................................................................................................... 7

Memory technologies ........................................................................................................................... 9

I/O technologies ................................................................................................................................. 9

Storage technologies.......................................................................................................................... 11

Smart Array P410i controller ........................................................................................................... 12

Serial Attached SCSI ...................................................................................................................... 13

SAS and SATA Small Form Factor hard drives ................................................................................... 13

Networking technologies .................................................................................................................... 13

Network Adapter Teaming.............................................................................................................. 14

Jumbo Frames................................................................................................................................ 14

Server management technologies ........................................................................................................ 14

HP Insight Control .......................................................................................................................... 14

HP Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3) .................................................................................................... 15

Using iLO 3................................................................................................................................... 15

Power management technology........................................................................................................... 16

HP Power Regulator........................................................................................................................ 16

HP Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping ............................................................................. 16

Conclusion........................................................................................................................................ 16

For more information.......................................................................................................................... 17

Call to action .................................................................................................................................... 18

Summary of content (18 pages)

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HP ProLiant DL585 G7 server technology Technology brief Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 2 Operating Systems and Virtualization Software Support ........................................................................... 2 Comparison between the DL585 G7 and G6 servers ...............................................................................
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Introduction The new HP ProLiant DL585 G7 server delivers industry-leading efficiencies to reduce costs in both capital and operating budgets. This server features the latest scale-up AMD Opteron™ 6100 series processor, a maximum of 512 GB of memory, and up to 11 PCIe 2.0 I/O slots. This balance of new system architecture, large memory capacity, and I/O footprint gives you the high performance needed for large-scale enterprise applications.
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NOTE: For more information on HP Certified and Supported HP ProLiant Servers Operating Systems and Virtualization Software, along with the latest listing of software drivers available, visit the Support Matrix at: http://www.hp.com/go/ossupport and the Driver Download site at: http://www.hp.com/support/DL585G7. Comparison between the DL585 G7 and G6 servers The DL585 G7 offers multiple enhancements compared to its predecessor.
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Network Controller NC375i Quad Port GbE Multifunction NIC; optional Dual Port 10GbE upgrade Two embedded NC371i Multifunction Gigabit Network Adapters Up to 11 FL/FH I/O slots Base : 2 PCI-E 2.0 x16, 3 PCI-E 2.0 x8 Ex pansion Slots Optional Mezzanines Option 1: 2 PCI-E 2.0 x16, 4 PCI-E 2.0 x8 Option 2: 1 PCI-E 2.0 x16, 2 PCI-E 2.0 x8, 1 PCI-E 2.0 x4, 2 PCI-X Up to 9 I/O slots 3 PCI-Express (x8), 4 PCI-Express (x4), and 2 PCI-X (100 MHz) USB Ports USB: (6) Total USB 2.
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HP ProLiant DL585 G7 processor architecture The DL585 G7 servers support four AMD Opteron 12-core 6100 Series processors. AMD 12-core technology delivers high performance and reduced latency for multi-threaded applications and multitasked environments. The DL585 G7 servers feature HyperTransport™ 3.0 (HT3) technologies, which provides a direct, scalable bandwidth interconnection between the processor, the I/O subsystem, and the chipset (Figure 2).
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cache and reduces coherence-traffic overload on the HT links, resulting in faster queries in both cacheand compute-intensive applications. AMD Dual Dynamic Power Management™ AMD Opteron processors use AMD Dual Dynamic Power Management. This feature powers the processor core and memory controller independently and delivers increased performance and improved power management.
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 Timer support including legacy 8254 compatible timer, Microsoft High Precision Event Timer (HPET), ACPI power management timer, and watchdog timer.  Real Time Clock (RTC) with 256-byte battery-backed CMOS RAM.  Power management Supports ACPI spec 3.0 compliant power management schemes. Features of the SR5690 chipset include:  Support for multiple SR5690 Northbridge processors. The HP ProLiant DL585 G7 supports four total devices, one per processor.
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Figure 2.
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Memory technologies In AMD Opteron architecture, the processor chip has an integrated memory controller. The on-die memory controller reduces memory latency by eliminating the bus contention between memory and I/O cycles found on a typical Northbridge processor. In addition, with each processor containing its own memory controller, the aggregate bandwidth for system-accessible memory is scalable in multi-processor systems such as the HP ProLiant DL585 G7.
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Table 3.
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Table 4.
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Smart Array P410i controller The DL585 G7 includes the HP Smart Array P410i controller, the latest in the series of Smart Array controllers. The Smart Array P410i is the HP PCI Express 2.0 (PCIe) Serial Attached SCSI RAID controller. The P410i is ideal for RAID 0/1, 1+0, and 5+0. The controller uses DDR2-800 memory for on-board data storage. The 512 MB BBWC module and Smart Array Advanced are upgrades using a license key for RAID 6 and 6 +0. The P410 has eight ports for up to eight drives providing up to 4.
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The Array Configuration Utility (ACU) lets you combine any two RAID 0 arrays of the same size and select which drive contains the data to keep. This feature is only available offline. You must boot to the Smart Start CD and run ACU from there. Typically, you use this feature when testing out a software patch. You could split the mirror as a means to save the current data and then perform any type of destructive software update necessary, keeping the resulting data set or reverting back to the old data.
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PCI Express data path. With four ports on a single integrated controller, this density design contributes to saving DL 585 G7 I/O slots and makes this controller configuration ideal for virtualization and security applications, server consolidation, and increased network segmentation. The quad port NC375i meets the needs of customers desiring high bandwidth but are not yet ready to move to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE).
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into and unleashes the HP iLO Advanced technology, a set of licensed embedded management capabilities that enhances the remote management experience.  Measure power consumption accurately, reduce power usage, and reclaim trapped power and cooling capacity to extend the life of their existing data centers  Support all leading hypervisors, such as Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, and Citrix XenServer.
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Power management technology The HP ProLiant DL585 G7includes the latest server management technologies HP Power Regulator The DL585 G7 includes HP Power Regulator, an innovative OS-independent power management tool. HP Power Regulator is a ROM-based utility used to set the server to one of four power modes:  Static high power – Server runs continuously in the highest performance state.  Static low power – Server runs continuously in the lowest power state.
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For more information For additional information, refer to the resources listed below. Resource description Web address “AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® x86 processors in industry-standard servers” technology brief http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/Suppor tManual/C02731435/C02731435.pdf DDR3 memory technology http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManu al/c02126499/c02126499.pdf AMD white paper “HyperTransport™ Technology: Simplifying System Design, October 2002” http://www.
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