HP (Hewlett-Packard) dl585 manual

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    HP Pro Liant DL58 5 Ser ver techno logy technology brief, 2 nd editi on Abst rac t ........................................................................................................................................ 2 Acro ny ms in t ex t............................................................................................................[...]

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    2 Abstract The HP P roLian t DL58 5 server i s a 4U ra ck-op timi zed, 4- way se rver cr eat ed for large dat a c enter depl oyments req ui ring enterprise-class performance, upti me, and s calability, plus easy manageme nt and expans ion. Based on AMD  Opteron  techno l ogy , the P roLia nt D L585 server gr eatly im prov es the perfo rmance [...]

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    3 Intr oducti on The Opter on-based Pr oLiant D L585 serv er is a 4- way, x 86 rack-opt imi zed server d el iver ing best -in- clas s per fo rmance, industry-leading manageme nt, and e nterprise-c lass reliability fo r large data center depl oyments. The DL585 is a 4-way p latfo rm fo r high-performance 32-bit and 64-bit computing requi r ements . [...]

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    4 P r o Li a n t D L 585 a rc h i t e c t u r e The Pr o Liant D L585 server is a pow erful, 4 U enterp rise s erver inc o rporating t echnol ogies that extend the capabil ities of industry-standard x86 computi ng. Thi s server provides high perfo rmance and the capabili ty of running both 32-bit and 64-bit applications simultaneously wi th n o pe [...]

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    5 AMD-8000™ s eries chipset The Pr o Liant D L585 server u ses the A MD-8000 series chip set with D irect Connect Architect ure and HyperT ran spo rt™ t echnology. Hy p erTransport is a parallel point-to-point interconnect that replaces parall el fr ont-side bus technology. Direct Connect architecture i s AMD’s designation fo r the c oherent [...]

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    6 In th e ProLi ant D L585, p r ocess o rs acce ss th e memory c ontr oller s at c ore sp eed. Ea ch on- chip m em ory controller di r ectl y accesses the D IMMs on the same processor/memory board at th e DIMM speed. The ag greg ate ba nd width for lo ca l ly a cc essed mem o ry i ncrease s with th e num ber of pr ocess ors. The Opte r on chipset s[...]

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    7 through 16383 t o node 4. Add ress 16 384 is as signed t o node 0 an d th e pr ocess c o ntin ue s until all m emory has b een a ssi gned i n thi s fashi o n. There is n o rule for organizing memory for the best perf ormanc e of an application b ecause th e differe nce in latenc y between the NUMA ope ration and SUMA o p eratio n is small. In ge [...]

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    8 Fi gur e 2. ProLi ant DL 58 5 PC I-X slo ts Performanc e balancing is the paired arrangement of expansion b oards fo r optima l pe rformance based on th e b us ar chitect ure o f the expansi on sl ots. Prop er ly b alanci ng th e b oards a cr oss b uses can impr ove performance . To balance expansion boards, populate slots across diffe r ent buse[...]

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    9 NIC team ing su ppo rt The NC7782 supports two types of teaming: Network Fault Tolerance (NFT) teaming and Load Balancing teaming. NFT te aming increases system avail ability by providing fail over between a primary and a secondary network port on a server. It a lso monitors the server c onnection to th e network and automatica ll y switche s tra[...]

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    10 BBWC Enabler m o d ule on the S mart Arra y 5i Pl us Control ler with 6 4 MB of t otal memor y for c ode, transf er bu ffer s, and read/ write cache. 3 Optional SCSI cab le assemb ly kit 36 5483-B 21 is req u ired for conne cting a S mart Array Controller in a PCI slot to the i nternal hard drive backp lane. D u plex conf ig u ration req uires t[...]

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    11 Se r v ic eab ility The DL585 has a blue Unit ID light on the front and rear panel s to a ss ist technicians in locating a specific server within a rack. A front panel LED displ ays internal and external server health info rmation. A QuickFind Diagnostic Display viewabl e t hrou gh th e to p access panel of th e server schematically represent s [...]

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    F o r m o re i nfo rm a t io n For additio na l info rmati on, refer to the resources listed b e low. Type o f in for matio n So urce Pr oLi ant DL 58 5 s erve r Qu ic kSp ecs http :// h18004.www1.hp .com/prod ucts/q uickspecs/11902_ di v/ 11902_div. html Explanatio n of ho w H yperTran sport tec hnolo gy work s and the ad va ntages i f off ers for[...]