Networking Technologies; High Performance Computing Technologies; Power And Thermal Technologies - HP ProLiant SL6000 series User Manual

throughput and improve the ability to locate and fix disk failures. More importantly, serial architecture
solves the problems of c lock skew and signal degradation at higher signaling rates.
HP has developed a software RAID solution based on Smart Array firmware. The B110i SATA
Software RAID supports the Array Configuration Utility (ACU), ACU command line interface (CLI),
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agents, and Web-Based Enterprise Management
(WBEM) providers.
B110i includes an OS-specific driver from HP that uses the embedded controller. It can use RAID 0, 1,
and 1+0 and supports a maximum of two logical drives. The B100i supports up to four 1.5 Gb/s or
3 Gb/s SATA drives. Administrators can move drives to a hardware-based Smart Array controller in a
seamless procedure that maintains the user data and RAID configuration.
For a listing of the complete feature set and support information for the B110i SATA Software RAID,
refer to the B110i user guide at
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01706551/c01706551.pdf.

Networking technologies

SL G6 servers have an integrated NC362i dual port, 1 Gb network adapter. These servers also
support optional multifunction 1 Gb or 10 Gb Ethernet network adapters that provide several
advantages, depending on the adapter:
• TCP/IP Offload engine (TOE) for Microsoft® Windows® operating systems improves CPU
efficiency.
• Receive-side Scaling (RSS) for Windows dynamically load balances incoming traffic across all
processors in a server.
• iSCSI Acceleration (available on some integrated network adapters) offloads some of the work in
creating iSCSI packets from the processor onto the network controller, freeing up the processor for
other work.
• iSCSI boot for Linux® operating systems enables booting the server from a storage area network
(SAN) and eliminates the need for disk drives in a server.
More information about ProLiant Ethernet network adapters is available at
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/networking/index-nic.html.

High Performance Computing technologies

High Performance Computing (HPC) interconnect technologies are available for the ProLiant SL G6
server trays under the HP Cluster Platform product portfolio. HP fully supports these high speed
interconnects when they are part of these configure-to-order clusters. For additional information and
configuration tools, refer to the HP Cluster Platforms website at
http://www.hp.com/techservers/clusters/ucp/index.html.

Power and thermal technologies

To increase power efficiency without degrading server performance, HP has developed high-
efficiency, right-size power supplies and a common slot (CS) power supply bay that are used in
multiple ProLiant server platforms. Like many other ProLiant G6 servers, the SL6000 Scalable System
supports these common power supplies. By reducing the number of power supply designs for ProLiant
servers, HP effectively reduces the number of spares customers must keep in their data centers.
For more information about these features, refer to the technology brief "Serial ATA technology" at
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http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00301688/c00301688.pdf.
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