Monday, January 17, 2011
HP Insight Control power management software
HP Insight Control power management software
Unlock the true potential of your data center
Do you have actual, real-time information about power & cooling consumption in your data center, or do you rely on faceplate estimates?
Has over-provisioning power and cooling capacity left you with half-empty racks and enclosures?
Are rising energy costs forcing you to re-evaluate the way you manage energy in your data center?
HP power management with new, improved Intelligent Power Discovery and Data Center Power Control enables you to make the most of your existing data center. Additionally, Dynamic Power Capping enables you to reclaim trapped power and cooling capacity.
Part of HP Thermal Logic technology and delivered through Insight Control, HP power management, delivers three core capabilities: power measurement, power capping, and power regulation. Read on to learn how HP power management allows you to take control of valuable power and cooling resources in today's data center. Click here to see a use-case scenario.
Intelligent Power Discovery
Safely fit more servers in the same Power & Cooling budget with intelligent Rack and Power planning that is accurate and error-free. Insight Control works hand in hand with HP Intelligent PDU and Platinum (94% efficient) common slot power supplies to create HP Intelligent Power Discovery, the industry’s first energy-aware network between IT and facilities.
•Associate servers to power circuits & improve power planning with precision that’s calibrated to real-time power demands, not estimates.
•Show available capacity to easily identify where to deploy new servers, and identify electrical and thermal overloads so you know which servers are at risk.
•Visualize data center thermals to find hotspots and identify at-risk services
•Find outlets that are providing power but are not correctly configured & identify a disconnect between actual and manual/imported data
Monitor & manage mixed environments (HP and 3rd party) infrastructure through intelligent power distribution units (PDUs). Supported PDUs include:
•HP-monitored PDUs•Raritan
•APC Rack Mount
•Liebert
•Eaton
•Servertech
•IBM
Facilities Integration
The following partner products are enabled to access the HP Insight Control Power Management Application Program Interface (API). This interface allows the programs to access the accurate power management data produced by the HP ProLiant servers.
nlyte Software is a leading provider of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions. They enable intelligent capacity planning resulting in the most efficient use of power, cooling and space through the optimal placement of data center assets.
Easton Forseer provides distributed, scalable architecture tailored to organizational needs, whether it is an individual site with thousands of data inputs or a distributed global enterprise with hundreds of remote locations. For more information please go to www.eaton.com.
Data Center Power Control
Reduce energy costs and take control of power and cooling during catastrophic events
•Set pre-defined rules to handle power and cooling rules.
•Rules act selectively on systems based on attributes and relationships to gracefully shutdown the OS or change iLO power regulator state.
•Take control over your energy usage and power down non-essential servers during peak hours.
Dynamic Power Capping
Dynamic Power Capping allows you to reclaim trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption. You can up to triple the capacity of your existing data center. Read the TCO white paper to learn how.
•Safely limit power usage without impacting performance by capping peak instead of average power usage.
•Remove risk to electrical infrastructure with fast-acting, hardware-based capping algorithm.
•Reclaim more power with blades by dynamically controlling power limits based on workload demand.
Learn more about how to take advantage of Dynamic Power Capping.
Power Measurement
Real-time, around-the-clock insight into actual power consumption gives you superior control over operational costs.
•Monitor metered PDUs an extend the ability to measure power consumption for heterogeneous environments.
•Display graphs of up to 3 years of peak and average power consumption and server temperature data for ProLiant servers and BladeSystem enclosures.
•Leverage power measurement history to set realistic Dynamic Power Caps
•Understand the cost of powering and cooling servers, and export data to other reporting tools.
•Compare power budgets from facilities against actual power usage numbers
Power Regulation
Conserve power without performance impact with power regulator technology that’s built into the server.
•Automatically adjust processor power states (p-states) in accordance with workload requirements.
•Make use of full processor performance when needed and conserve power for less demanding workloads.
•Supports any operating system qualified on HP ProLiant servers.
Do you have actual, real-time information about power & cooling consumption in your data center, or do you rely on faceplate estimates?
Has over-provisioning power and cooling capacity left you with half-empty racks and enclosures?
Are rising energy costs forcing you to re-evaluate the way you manage energy in your data center?
HP power management with new, improved Intelligent Power Discovery and Data Center Power Control enables you to make the most of your existing data center. Additionally, Dynamic Power Capping enables you to reclaim trapped power and cooling capacity.
Part of HP Thermal Logic technology and delivered through Insight Control, HP power management, delivers three core capabilities: power measurement, power capping, and power regulation. Read on to learn how HP power management allows you to take control of valuable power and cooling resources in today's data center. Click here to see a use-case scenario.
Intelligent Power Discovery
Safely fit more servers in the same Power & Cooling budget with intelligent Rack and Power planning that is accurate and error-free. Insight Control works hand in hand with HP Intelligent PDU and Platinum (94% efficient) common slot power supplies to create HP Intelligent Power Discovery, the industry’s first energy-aware network between IT and facilities.
•Associate servers to power circuits & improve power planning with precision that’s calibrated to real-time power demands, not estimates.
•Show available capacity to easily identify where to deploy new servers, and identify electrical and thermal overloads so you know which servers are at risk.
•Visualize data center thermals to find hotspots and identify at-risk services
•Find outlets that are providing power but are not correctly configured & identify a disconnect between actual and manual/imported data
Monitor & manage mixed environments (HP and 3rd party) infrastructure through intelligent power distribution units (PDUs). Supported PDUs include:
•HP-monitored PDUs•Raritan
•APC Rack Mount
•Liebert
•Eaton
•Servertech
•IBM
Facilities Integration
The following partner products are enabled to access the HP Insight Control Power Management Application Program Interface (API). This interface allows the programs to access the accurate power management data produced by the HP ProLiant servers.
nlyte Software is a leading provider of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions. They enable intelligent capacity planning resulting in the most efficient use of power, cooling and space through the optimal placement of data center assets.
Easton Forseer provides distributed, scalable architecture tailored to organizational needs, whether it is an individual site with thousands of data inputs or a distributed global enterprise with hundreds of remote locations. For more information please go to www.eaton.com.
Data Center Power Control
Reduce energy costs and take control of power and cooling during catastrophic events
•Set pre-defined rules to handle power and cooling rules.
•Rules act selectively on systems based on attributes and relationships to gracefully shutdown the OS or change iLO power regulator state.
•Take control over your energy usage and power down non-essential servers during peak hours.
Dynamic Power Capping
Dynamic Power Capping allows you to reclaim trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption. You can up to triple the capacity of your existing data center. Read the TCO white paper to learn how.
•Safely limit power usage without impacting performance by capping peak instead of average power usage.
•Remove risk to electrical infrastructure with fast-acting, hardware-based capping algorithm.
•Reclaim more power with blades by dynamically controlling power limits based on workload demand.
Learn more about how to take advantage of Dynamic Power Capping.
Power Measurement
Real-time, around-the-clock insight into actual power consumption gives you superior control over operational costs.
•Monitor metered PDUs an extend the ability to measure power consumption for heterogeneous environments.
•Display graphs of up to 3 years of peak and average power consumption and server temperature data for ProLiant servers and BladeSystem enclosures.
•Leverage power measurement history to set realistic Dynamic Power Caps
•Understand the cost of powering and cooling servers, and export data to other reporting tools.
•Compare power budgets from facilities against actual power usage numbers
Power Regulation
Conserve power without performance impact with power regulator technology that’s built into the server.
•Automatically adjust processor power states (p-states) in accordance with workload requirements.
•Make use of full processor performance when needed and conserve power for less demanding workloads.
•Supports any operating system qualified on HP ProLiant servers.
Features
Dynamic Power Capping
Allows you to reclaim trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption. You can almost triple the capacity of your existing data center.
Insight Control
Delivers powerful capabilities that enable you to proactively manage ProLiant server health - whether physical or virtual, deploy ProLiant servers quickly, optimize power consumption and control ProLiant servers from anywhere.
HP Insight software
HP Insight software is integrated by design with every HP ProLiant and Integrity server and the HP BladeSystem— to understand, manage, and optimize your technology infrastructure in real time and over time.
HP Insight software offers what you need to deliver better service to your business through various management suits:
1.HP Insight Dynamics
2.HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
3.HP Insight Control
4.HP Insight Foundation (No fee tools)
Allows you to reclaim trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption. You can almost triple the capacity of your existing data center.
Insight Control
Delivers powerful capabilities that enable you to proactively manage ProLiant server health - whether physical or virtual, deploy ProLiant servers quickly, optimize power consumption and control ProLiant servers from anywhere.
HP Insight software
HP Insight software is integrated by design with every HP ProLiant and Integrity server and the HP BladeSystem— to understand, manage, and optimize your technology infrastructure in real time and over time.
HP Insight software offers what you need to deliver better service to your business through various management suits:
1.HP Insight Dynamics
2.HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
3.HP Insight Control
4.HP Insight Foundation (No fee tools)
New processor technology promises big boost to consumer-grade SSDs
New processor technology promises big boost to consumer-grade SSDs
Computerworld - SandForce Inc. announced today a new family of solid-state disk (SSD) processors that the company claims will allow lower-cost, commodity NAND flash memory to be used in data center operations. The disks will also be faster and more reliable for use in mobile applications, the company said.
Saratoga, Calif.-based SandForce, which has been quietly working on the technology over the past three years, said its controller technology will allow multilevel cell (MLC) NAND flash memory to take the place of single-level cell (SLC) memory in data centers, reducing the cost per gigabyte of capacity by three or four times.
SandForce said the SF-1000 SSD processor series, with its DuraClass firmware, will address the endurance, reliability and data retention issues associated with MLC NAND flash memory.
Jeff Janukowicz, an analyst at research firm IDC, said SandForce's new processor could be a major catalyst for increasing SSD adoption in the enterprise.
"These [kinds of] products should have a highly positive impact on efficiency and total cost of ownership when used in IT applications such as virtualization, transactional databases and automated financial trading -- applications which can immediately benefit from the dramatic increase in performance and performance-per-watt that SSDs provide over [hard disk drives]," he said.
SLC NAND flash memory stores one bit per cell, enabling it to natively offer much higher read/write speeds than MLC as well as up to 100,000 write cycles per solid-state disk drive, compared with 2,000 to 10,000 write cycles for MLC memory. MLC memory stores two or more bits per cell, which offers higher capacity, but requires more complicated firmware to automate the reallocation of data throughout the drive as it is stored and erased.
SSD is a recent phenomenon in enterprises that allows greater throughput for I/O intensive applications, such as relational databases. Corporations adopting SSD as a "tier zero" level of storage in their storage-area networks (SAN) above high-end Fibre Channel and serial-attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives, have only trusted SLC SSD. Because of its lower price and higher capacity, MLC SSD has been popular for consumer-type applications, such as mobile computing and USB flash drives.
Resellers such as IBM and EMC Corp. have been adding SSD to their high-end arrays in recent months.
Mike Desens, IBM's vice president for system design, said SandForce's SF-1000 SSD processor family promises to offer MLC SSD that can be reliably used in mission-critical storage environments.
"These innovations can be truly disruptive and will accelerate the adoption of solid-state technologies across the data center," Desens said.
Part of the problem with SSD has been its write performance. SSD has fixed data block sizes, so that if a system writes a 4k block of data to a drive, as much as 128k of capacity may be used to store the data. The problem is known as write amplification. To address the problem, manufacturers use firmware to redistribute data more evenly across the media, a process known as wear leveling. Write amplification accounts not only for the disparity between random write and read speeds on SSD, but also the endurance of the media, which wears out faster because of the additional data writes required in the reallocation process. Manufacturers, such as Intel Corp., have added DRAM buffers to their SSD drives as short-term memory in order to speed up random writes.
Computerworld - SandForce Inc. announced today a new family of solid-state disk (SSD) processors that the company claims will allow lower-cost, commodity NAND flash memory to be used in data center operations. The disks will also be faster and more reliable for use in mobile applications, the company said.
Saratoga, Calif.-based SandForce, which has been quietly working on the technology over the past three years, said its controller technology will allow multilevel cell (MLC) NAND flash memory to take the place of single-level cell (SLC) memory in data centers, reducing the cost per gigabyte of capacity by three or four times.
SandForce said the SF-1000 SSD processor series, with its DuraClass firmware, will address the endurance, reliability and data retention issues associated with MLC NAND flash memory.
Jeff Janukowicz, an analyst at research firm IDC, said SandForce's new processor could be a major catalyst for increasing SSD adoption in the enterprise.
"These [kinds of] products should have a highly positive impact on efficiency and total cost of ownership when used in IT applications such as virtualization, transactional databases and automated financial trading -- applications which can immediately benefit from the dramatic increase in performance and performance-per-watt that SSDs provide over [hard disk drives]," he said.
SLC NAND flash memory stores one bit per cell, enabling it to natively offer much higher read/write speeds than MLC as well as up to 100,000 write cycles per solid-state disk drive, compared with 2,000 to 10,000 write cycles for MLC memory. MLC memory stores two or more bits per cell, which offers higher capacity, but requires more complicated firmware to automate the reallocation of data throughout the drive as it is stored and erased.
SSD is a recent phenomenon in enterprises that allows greater throughput for I/O intensive applications, such as relational databases. Corporations adopting SSD as a "tier zero" level of storage in their storage-area networks (SAN) above high-end Fibre Channel and serial-attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives, have only trusted SLC SSD. Because of its lower price and higher capacity, MLC SSD has been popular for consumer-type applications, such as mobile computing and USB flash drives.
Resellers such as IBM and EMC Corp. have been adding SSD to their high-end arrays in recent months.
Mike Desens, IBM's vice president for system design, said SandForce's SF-1000 SSD processor family promises to offer MLC SSD that can be reliably used in mission-critical storage environments.
"These innovations can be truly disruptive and will accelerate the adoption of solid-state technologies across the data center," Desens said.
Part of the problem with SSD has been its write performance. SSD has fixed data block sizes, so that if a system writes a 4k block of data to a drive, as much as 128k of capacity may be used to store the data. The problem is known as write amplification. To address the problem, manufacturers use firmware to redistribute data more evenly across the media, a process known as wear leveling. Write amplification accounts not only for the disparity between random write and read speeds on SSD, but also the endurance of the media, which wears out faster because of the additional data writes required in the reallocation process. Manufacturers, such as Intel Corp., have added DRAM buffers to their SSD drives as short-term memory in order to speed up random writes.
Intel Core presser: 32nm Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 CPUs (update: video!)
Intel Core presser: 32nm Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 CPUs (update: video!)
Intel has just concluded its first CES press event of 2010, dedicated to "announcing" the already well known Arrandale and Clarkdale CPUs. They will be part of Intel's planned 27 total SKUs coming in 2010, including four varieties of Core i3, eight Core i5s, and five Core i7 models. We were treated to a demo showing off a Core i5 laptop CPU running a 1080p video with another video stream overlaid on top of it with a measly 10% CPU usage. Dragon Age: Origins was also used to demonstrate the graphics capabilities of the GPU (integrated into the CPU packaging with these new procs), though the jittery frame rate suggested that sticking to Bejewelled might be a better idea without discrete graphics. Mia Hamm was brought out to do a bit of exercising and to provide us with an analogy for Intel's built-in Turbo Boost tech, which is said to work as naturally and as smoothly as the human heart rate increasing when necessary.
Scanning the sheet of new mobile CPUs (available after the break), we notice that the presently popular Core i5-520M ($225 when bought in bulk) and Core i3-330M (unlisted) appear to be the most affordable on deck, with the more powerful Core i7-620M (up to 3.33GHz with Turbo Boost) and ULV Core i7-640UM (up to 2.26GHz) likely to attract the most attention from those who don't like compromise. The i7-640UM fits within an 18W maximum TDP, while the majority of the line will be at 35W, with 25W low-voltage options available too. Intel was keen to remind us this includes the 10W "extra" juice consumed by the chipset and graphics which are obviated by the new integrated design.
Paul Otellini has managed to keep some announcements out of Shaun Maloney's hands, we were told, which means this afternoon's keynote (7.30PM EST) from the CEO may have some stuff we've not yet seen. Not entirely likely, but we can always hope. At least now that this is over, we can start prowling the Las Vegas Convention Center and delivering you hands-on impressions of all the new gear coming out with the new 32nm CPUs.
Update: we've added a video of the Core i5 vs Core 2 Duo after the break.
Scanning the sheet of new mobile CPUs (available after the break), we notice that the presently popular Core i5-520M ($225 when bought in bulk) and Core i3-330M (unlisted) appear to be the most affordable on deck, with the more powerful Core i7-620M (up to 3.33GHz with Turbo Boost) and ULV Core i7-640UM (up to 2.26GHz) likely to attract the most attention from those who don't like compromise. The i7-640UM fits within an 18W maximum TDP, while the majority of the line will be at 35W, with 25W low-voltage options available too. Intel was keen to remind us this includes the 10W "extra" juice consumed by the chipset and graphics which are obviated by the new integrated design.
Paul Otellini has managed to keep some announcements out of Shaun Maloney's hands, we were told, which means this afternoon's keynote (7.30PM EST) from the CEO may have some stuff we've not yet seen. Not entirely likely, but we can always hope. At least now that this is over, we can start prowling the Las Vegas Convention Center and delivering you hands-on impressions of all the new gear coming out with the new 32nm CPUs.
Update: we've added a video of the Core i5 vs Core 2 Duo after the break.
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