Intelligent engineering! The Automated Energy Efficiency of ProLiant Gen8 systems
HP ProLiant Gen8 servers, announced February 13, are engineered with more intelligent as well as efficient server and infrastructure technologies that reduce the needed power and airflow. Including Location Discovery Services, the industry’s first built-in capability to determine the physical location of servers in a data center, these technologies reclaim space, power and cooling resources while also reducing error prone manual checking and documenting of power and rack configurations. Better performance coupled with lower energy requirements means that HP ProLiant Gen8 servers can provide up to 1.7 times the compute capability per watt as previous generation servers.
Real-time temperature data
HP Thermal Discovery Services bring new levels of energy efficiency to the data center by offering a “graphical topology” view into both the historical and current power usage of every system. With this data, clients can reduce power usage by intelligently locating workloads for optimal energy and performance.
Every HP ProLiant Gen8 server subsystem contributes to the information that allows for the decision making process to be as accurate as possible. In the BladeSystem environment typically that involves the CPU, memory, and storage subsystems. But in this generation even the I/O subsystem contributes to the overall energy management process. New FlexibleLOMs and Flexible Network Adapters introduced with the ProLiant Gen8 servers, has an embedded temperature sensor that allows the server to intelligently manage fan speeds and internal temperature to maximize system power efficiency. Additionally, some of these adapters reduce power consumption by automatically adjusting energy use based on actual network traffic between the switch, storage, and other networked devices in real time. During low activity, they enter into a “sleep mode” that uses less energy than idling at full power, but allows the connected devices to instantly re-engage when data transmission occurs. This enables significant power savings by up to 70%.
HP ProLiant Gen8 servers can impact your bottom line by driving data center efficiency with these breakthroughs:
- HP Thermal Discovery Services reduce energy usage by 10 percent and increase compute capacity.
- HP Location Discovery Services optimize workload placement with servers that self-identify and inventory, drastically reducing manual and error prone inventory tracking.
- HP Power Discovery Services increase system uptime by automatically tracking power configuration and usage and reduce power deployment from hours to minutes.
With ProLiant Gen8 servers, HP is making real its vision for a converged infrastructure that virtually takes care of itself—helping you reclaim limited space, power and cooling resources for any workload.
To learn more about how HP ProLiant Gen8 servers can help you transform your data center economics, read: Four ways to achieve a self-sufficient infrastructure.
