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ISS Technology Update Volume 9, Number 1

ISS Technolo

y Update

Volume 9, Number 1

Keeping you informed of the latest ISS technology

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

How many bytes are in a GB?.................................................................................................................2

Quick tip: Disabling AMD

processor cores in ProLiant 300 series G5 and G6 servers...............................4

Quick tip: Efficient deployments—Sun Solaris 10 for x86/x64 Systems ....................................................5

Meet the Expert—Siamak Tavallaei..........................................................................................................6

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

Recently published industry standard server technology papers

Title URL

Critical factors in intra-rack power distribution planning

for high-density systems

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c019488

92/c01948892.pdf

HP Power Supply Technology http://techcomm.cca.hp.com/whitepapers/2009/TC091110TB.pdf

HP ProLiant 100-series Intel-based G6 server technology,

3rd edition

http://techcomm.cca.hp.com/WhitePapers/2009/TC091203TB.pdf

HP Smart Array Controller technology, 3rd edition http://techcomm.cca.hp.com/WhitePapers/2009/TC091204TB.pdf

Using HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software with

Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 Hyper-V or with

Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

http://techcomm.cca.hp.com/whitepapers/2009/TC091111HT.pdf

Integrating HP tools for Linux deployment (HP SIM,

SSSTK, LinuxCOE, and PSP)

http://techcomm.cca.hp.com/WhitePapers/2009/TC091201HT.pdf

Industry standard server technical papers can be found at www.hp.com/servers/technology

Summary of content (7 pages)

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ISS Technology Update Volume 9, Number 1 ISS Technology Update Volume 9, Number 1 Keeping you informed of the latest ISS technology Recently published industry standard server technology papers .............................................................. 1 How many bytes are in a GB?................................................................................................................. 2 Quick tip: Disabling AMD® processor cores in ProLiant 300 series G5 and G6 servers.........................
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ISS Technology Update Volume 9, Number 1 How many bytes are in a GB? Storage device manufacturers and operating system developers answer this question differently. This is the reason why a number of lawsuits have sprung up around the country, typically between storage device manufacturers and disgruntled customers. For example, the capacity of a 300,000,000,000 byte drive is reported as 300 GB by storage device manufacturers but is often reported as 279.4 GB or 286,102 MB by the OS.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 9, Number 1 edition, Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology – Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics. Table 1-2 lists the names and symbols for the adopted binary prefixes. Pronounce the first two letters in each symbol like the corresponding SI unit followed by "bi" (short for binary, but pronounced "bee"). For example, one kibibyte (pronounced ki-bee-byte) is written as 1 KiB = 210 B = 1024 B. Table 1-2.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 9, Number 1 Quick tip: Disabling AMD® processor cores in ProLiant 300 series G5 and G6 servers In ProLiant AMD 300-series G5 and G6 servers, RBSU options are available to disable processor cores. Operating systems and applications can recognize the reduced core count so that fewer software licenses may be required. Reducing core count recognition has the potential to reduce software licensing costs.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 9, Number 1 Quick tip: Efficient deployments—Sun Solaris 10 for x86/x64 Systems To successfully deploy Sun Solaris 10 for x86/x64 on HP ProLiant Servers, thoroughly read the following documentation:  The Deployment Guide for HP ProLiant Servers Sun Solaris 10 for x86/x64 Systems, which is available at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01153970/c01153970.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 9, Number 1 Meet the Expert—Siamak Tavallaei Siamak Tavallaei, a Distinguished Technologist with HP Industry Standard Servers (ISS) Platform Architecture and Technology, is a leading HP expert on Intel processors and chipsets, primarily with HP ProLiant 500 series platforms. His expertise includes processor architecture, cache coherency, memory sub-systems, legacy components, fabric/IO interfaces to processor and peripheral components, and storage and network controllers.
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ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 10 Industry standard server technical papers can be found at www.hp.com/servers/technology. Contact us Send comments about this newsletter to TechCom@HP.com. To subscribe to the ISS Technology Update newsletter, click mailto:techcom@hp.com?subject=TechUpdate_subscription Follow us on Twitter Legal Notices © Copyright 2010 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.