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You want full-featured servers to run all the same applications you run today - without compromising performance or reliability, yet are power efficient.
You want to maximize the number of servers per rack - without taxing your data center. And you want to address the problem holistically - from server to the entire data center. From dynamic data center cooling solutions to thermal service expertise, HP delivers a total solution to power and cooling.
HP believes you shouldn't compromise anything to save energy. Designed for energy efficiency and management - ProLiant Servers.
Learn more about HP’s power and cooling solution by listening in on our podcast from “Chip to Chiller”; HP understands the energy issues that affect the Data Centers and they’ve implemented a "cool" strategy. In two lengths: extended (12:32) or condensed (4:30).
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True energy efficiency starts at the source, by designing the product for the environment from the start. That's why HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem engineers create energy-efficient products that go from the drawing board to your data center where they can save you energy and money without giving up performance, when needed. Without performance your business is not flexible to scale as your needs and utilization grow. HP ProLiant servers offer the total solution with the flexibility to meet your business needs--whether it is growth, performance or power efficiency. Here is how, take a look.
ProLiant Power Supplies: HP ProLiant Server Power supplies lead the industry globally in efficiency, reliability, power density, size, flexibility, cost and commonality. As founding members of key power efficiency consortiums like the Green Grid organization for EnergyStar and Climate Savers Computing, HP continues to drive the standards for power optimization on industry standard servers. HP HE power supplies exceed 90% efficiency under standard loads and provide flexibility and commonality with both ProLiant and BladeSystem platforms. HP’s drive for excellence and our design for the environment strategies make us the best in the industry in power management.
Processors within ProLiants: HP offers the best in processor technology from the top manufacturers in the industry. We work together constantly to drive performance and energy efficiency that will deliver better solutions with greater benefits to the customer and data center.
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» More information on AMD Opteron processors
ProLiant Memory: Memory is one of the most critical components in ProLiant server, and one of the easiest to upgrade quickly to enhance and improve overall system performance. The dependence on industry standard servers to run memory-intensive applications is pushing the memory capacity of servers to new levels. HP constantly evaluates new energy technologies to insure our product offerings will provide the most efficient, reliable and effective results with maximum performance of your server. HP continues to review new technologies as they become available and will offer for use with HP Servers as they meet the requirements of our customers.
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ProLiant Hard Drives: HP ProLiant servers continue to drive the storage industry to produce more reliable, faster, and energy efficient hard drives. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is the logical evolution of SCSI, including its long-established software advantage and the Serial ATA (SATA) electrical and physical connection interface. With enterprise storage requirements escalating and becoming more complex, factors such as larger capacity, greater density, security, scalability and accessibility are more critical than ever. Data centers must be online all the time, fulfill requests from numerous users simultaneously, allow for constant growth and expansion and be maintained while in operation. Serial Attached SCSI meets all these demands while providing the highest performance.
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» More information on ProLiant drives and enclosures
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Operating Temperature: At the heart of every ProLiant is the ambient temperature sensor. This single sensor tells the ProLiant server what is needed to keep the server within the optimal operating temperature. The information is processed through to key components in the server including the iLO (Integrated Lights Out) manager, Power Regulator and Power Capping.
HP Insight Control Management: Managing a server environment is like chasing a moving target. One minute things are under control and the next minute you have to make significant - sometimes costly - adjustments in a reactive manner. Your answer - Insight Control management software for HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem infrastructure - integrated management software that addresses your monitoring, deploying, and controlling needs from almost anywhere - and simplified in a single package for easy deployment and installation.
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- Integrated Lights-Out (iLO): HP Lights-Out remote management - delivering total remote control without compromise anytime, anywhere. Learn how to take your first step toward building a best-run server infrastructure with the total control of iLO 2 and centralized power management using the new HP iLO Power Management Pack (iPMP).
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- Power meter: Most new ProLiant 300-series servers enable the analysis of actual server power usage by integrating a power meter. The power meter is accessible through iLO and through external power management software such as HP Insight Power Manager (IPM). IPM also enables the consolidation of power consumption data for multiple servers to a central location. This information can also be used to charge business units or third parties with the actual energy operational costs associated with workload processing.
» Technologies for HP ProLiant 300-series servers white paper
- Power Regulator: The latest server processors from Intel and AMD have power state hardware registers that are available to allow IT organizations to control the performance and power consumption of the processor. These capabilities are implemented through Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology and demand-based switching and through AMD PowerNow!TM technology with Optimized Power Management (OPM).
» More information on HP Power Regulator
Selected HP ProLiant servers now have the ability to limit the amount of power consumed, helping to reduces the heat output into the data center. Customers may set a limits in Watts or Btu/hr. iLO 2 firmware monitors the power consumption of the server, checks it against the power cap goal, and, if necessary, adjusts the server's performance to maintain an average power consumption that is less than or equal to the power cap goal.
» Technologies for HP ProLiant 300-series servers white paper
ProLiant Cooling: As compute density continues to increase, cooling becomes more important. HP is working closely with industry-leading partners to help implement the most power efficient cooling system solutions. As noted the key challenge centers on power and cooling-- providing efficient power to the systems, getting cool air to the front of the systems, while removing the hot exhaust from the rear.
Active Cool Fans: HP innovation helps make every gram of air cooling the HP BladeSystem c-class count.
» Read more on the background for the new Active Cool Fans
HP Thermal Logic: saving watts, saving money: In the past, more data center performance was the goal. Power and cooling costs were just the price you paid for it. As energy costs skyrocket, processor and memory technologies have made performance the abundant resource, while power and cooling are at a premium. To meet the requirements and limitations on power and cooling for each data center, it's important to consider the thermal footprint of each data center or server room by figuring.
- How much critical load can you power?
- How much can you cool before you start to have problems like downtime or failures?
- How much computing capacity you need vs. power/cooling capacity you can't exceed before you incur the expense of overhauling the data center?
» HP Thermal Logic technology
» Control power and cooling for data center efficiency
HP Virtualization:
HP continues to demonstrate its leadership in delivering virtualization solutions, Virtualization is a key instrument from HP to help consolidate infrastructure and reduce energy on power and cooling of that infrastructure. HP can help your business plan, implement and operate a virtual infrastructure with VMware. We qualify a wide range of ProLiant servers, StorageWorks storage, and integrate HP management software. For a quick overview, download our Solutions Guide (pdf).
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HP Modular Cooling System: Introducing HP's new Modular Cooling System (MCS) for cooling high density deployments of servers and blades.
- Higher cooling capacity of 35kW in a single rack - new
- CTO Capability with 2000 Lbs dynamic load - new
- Automatic door release mechanism - new
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HP Dynamic Smart Cooling: Chill your cooling costs and energize IT. The new HP Dynamic Smart Cooling (DSC) technology helps you tackle one of the most critical issues in today's data centers - power and cooling. DSC will enable you to change data center energy costs from a fixed to a variable cost, significantly increase your IT scaling headroom, and ensure complete confidence that you're running a much more efficient data center - helping you drive towards a more adaptive infrastructure.
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