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By Mark Lackey, Product Manager, Insight Control power management HP is introducing Data Center Power Control, the newest power management feature of Insight Control. I want to share a cool story about how this product was invented after a nearly catastrophic event at an HP site. We used our experience...
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By Steve Cumings, Director, SCI Marketing, ISS How will the HP Center Smart Grid solve the #1 data center constraint? As we talk to customers around the world, they continue to tell us their #1 challenge is power and cooling. The problem is this: When a power or cooling limit is reached in the data center...
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Recently, we were running to power and performance benchmarks on a server in our lab. We were using HP-UX 11i v3, update 5 [http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/os/hpux11i-overview.html] and we were testing the impact of some of the power management features on the system. The power management...
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Mission Critical Computing Blog
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jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com
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10-21-2009
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Filed under: Integrity, green, power, servers, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, high-end, HP-UX 11i, OS, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, HP Superdome, Green Idle, Energy Efficiency, Green Active
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Did you know that there is an Energy Star certification for servers? More information is at http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=ent_servers.enterprise_servers . Did you know that HP had the first Energy Star certified servers (several HP ProLiant servers)? I attended a stakeholders meeting with the...
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Mission Critical Computing Blog
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jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com
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09-29-2009
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Filed under: Integrity, green, cooling, power, servers, EPA, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, high-end, HP-UX 11i, OS, energy star, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX
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While Kurt is off visiting customers and Lorraine is reflecting on the nature of mission-critical computing, I am also joining the blogging team. Let me introduce myself. My name is Jacob Van Ewyk, and I work in Business Critical Systems Marketing. I'm currently focused on Power, Cooling, and Cloud...
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How does the application you are using and what it is doing affect the power consumption of system. The first thing that everyone looks at when talking about power consumption is CPU utilization. Unfortunately CPU utilization is not a good proxy for power consumption and the reason why goes right down...
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Mike Manos responded to my post about power capping being ready for prime time with a very well thought out and argued post that really looks at this from a datacenter manager's perspective, rather than just my technology focused perspective. I'm going to try and summarize some of the key issues...
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Few meetings about IT infrastructure management do not include some discussion of saving energy or managing power and cooling. HP has introduced several additions to its Eco Solutions program, including a corporate goal of saving 1 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity by 2011 through a variety...
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In blackjack, if you have a great hand versus the house, you can double your bet or “double down” to show the confidence that you have in winning it all. HP’s commitment to our new Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor is a clear signal that our technology partnership is strong, and...
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Reality Check: Server Insights
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s_mathur
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06-03-2009
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Filed under: power, cloud computing, datacenter, x86, BladeSystem, ProLiant, AMD, performance, G6, scale-out servers, measurement
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Following on from my first post I'll take a look at the affect hardware configuration will have on the power consumption of the enclosure. To do this I went into the Blade Power Sizer and configured up two equivalent systems. I kept the enclosure configuration constant with just 2 x Virtual Connect...
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I'm sitting here thinking about writing my first Blog post and trying to come up with something to say. So I figured I'd start by trying to answer one of my least favourite questions (and before you all start to correct my spelling I'm not originally from the USA) and explain why it's...
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By Ankit Gupta. Is a rack just a piece of metal in the corner of your data center or is it the first step to solid infrastructure? Choosing a rack might seem like a "no-brainer," but you might want to take a closer look. Selecting the proper rack is an essential decision for building out an...
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By John Schmitz On March 30, we announced our new G6 line of HP ProLiant servers - built for performance and reliability. These servers, which run the HP Insight Control suite, are the industry's best managed x86 servers. HP Insight Control suite, popularly known as "ICE," provides essential...
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By Nick Vanderzweep Director of Product Management, HP Insight Software OK, we just announced our new HP ProLiant G6 servers and I was told they use a lot less power, are a much better virtualization platform, and let you spend less money without sacrificing service levels for your customers. These topics...
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We recently learned that Aaron Delp closed down his BladeVault blog and is focusing on creating more useful infomation to share with the greater community by contributing to Scott Lowe's blog . For those of you that don't know Aaron , he's a senior engineer who is literally on the front lines...