Opterons and Nelahem (55xx and later) Xeons have a NUMA architecture – each socket has its own memory bus and there is a link between the sockets. This link is called Hypertransport on Opteron systems and Quickpath on Xeons. The G5 predates Nelahem and still uses the older Front Side Bus, which is not a … Read more
My favorite example: This can be run from the shell or within the tool. hpacucli ctrl all show config (use hpacucli.exe for Windows) Or hpacucli ctrl all show config detail But, if you have the HP Management Agents installed anyway, you should have realtime monitoring of RAID status pushing back to email alerts or an … Read more
I have experienced this exact same issue with similar Pentium 4 computers from HP. Within about 9 months we reapplied thermal compound to nearly all 80 or so of these PC’s. They were all about 4 years old at the time. After the 5th pc or so, our purchasing department leaned on the hp sales … Read more
The key to entering the ILO BIOS setup utility on current-firmware G6 or G7 ProLiants is to follow the prompts very carefully and get the timing just right… Note: You can also configure the ILO directly from the HP SmartStart DVD included with the system. Also, there’s a way to script the ILO and BIOS … Read more
Yes, you can run this server happily in under 2.5 Amps total… I can show you real-life utilization for that server platform/model. Watts = Amps x Volts Your power regulator and power supply efficiency mode settings will have an impact, but the example I give below is from one of my co-located ProLiant DL360 G7 … Read more
XFS and EL6 have fallen into an ugly state… I’ve abandoned XFS on EL6 systems for the time being due to several upstream features/changes slipping into the Red Hat kernel… This one was a surprise and caused some panic: Why are my XFS filesystems suddenly consuming more space and full of sparse files? Since November … Read more
Push in the red circled area. This will move the tab in the blue circled area clear of the stop, and you can then pull the server out.
I’m going to give an HP Proliant-specific answer here, since the OP is asking about the HP product line. Let’s use the example of an HP DL360p Gen8 (also applies to G6, G7 and Gen9 servers): You have the option to configure the Redundant Power Supply Mode in the HP Rom-Based Setup Utility (press F9 … Read more