Online Documentation for Proliant Servers
Online Documentation for ProLiant Servers
Best Practices for VMware ESX Server 2.0 on HP ProLiant Servers and Insight Manager 6.40 for VMware
This document contains Best Practice information for VMware software running on HP ProLiant servers. Specifically, it provides instructions and best-practice methods for installing VMware ESX Server 2.0 on HP ProLiant BL, DL, and ML Series servers. Two installation methods are discussed, HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) CD ROM installation and HP ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack (RDP) installation. This guide is intended for Solutions Architects or Engineers tasked with defining guidelines and processes for the development, deployment, and operation of a virtual infrastructure.
Insight Manager 6.40 Agents for VMware ESX 2.0 and 2.01 help you rapidlyrespond to potential and actual system failures, increase systemstability, reduce troubleshooting complexity, and minimize downtime byproviding predictive fault management.
Download the 17-page guide.
Learn more about Insight Manager 6.40 Agents for VMware ESX 2.0 and 2.01; download files. (9.89 MB; zip file)
Booting from Network Attached Storage on a diskless HP ProLiant blade server
Learn about the concepts and steps necessary to configure and boot SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES8) on a diskless HP ProLiant BL20p G2 server blade from a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. These concepts and methodologies can be successfully applied to similar scenarios using other HP ProLiant servers or NAS devices.
Download the 14-page installation and configuration document.
CD-RW/DVD-ROM 48X combo drive option kit for Windows
The DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive is the next generation of optical drive for ProLiant Servers. It is offered with an industry-standard ATAPI interface and supported on Microsoft® Windows® 2000, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2003, and Windows 2003 Advanced Server. A DVD-ROM drive is designed to read not only DVD-ROM discs but also CD-ROM/R and DVD-RAM discs. It has a maximum speed of 16X with DVD and 48X when used with CD-ROM/Rs.
Get the QuickSpecs for the DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive.
Creating high-availability power solutions for the ProLiant
Providing redundant power is imperative for maintaining high availability of servers. Therefore, the ProLiant ML570 server was designed to support hot-pluggable N+1 redundant power supplies. The way those power supplies are configured, however, is equally important for maintaining server availability. This paper explains common power configurations that can reduce server reliability and describes an optimum solution using a dual-input power distribution unit (PDU) to provide fault resilience for the ProLiant ML570 server in mission-critical environments.
Download this five-page document (created in October 2002.)
Enabling HP MSA1000 Boot from SAN for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant BL20p G2 Blade Servers
This white paper describes the concepts and steps necessary to install, configure, and boot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES operating system on the HP ProLiant BL20p G2 server using the HP StorageWorks Modular SAN Array 1000 (MSA1000) in a single path configuration.
Download the 27-page guide.
Implementing HP ProLiant BL10e Interconnect in a multi-tiered infrastructure
This is a how-to guide on implementing blade servers in an HP Dynamic Internet Solutions Architecture (DISA) environment. Many considerations must be taken into account to successfully implement a blade environment and provide all the necessary functions, such as high availability, required for DISA. If done properly, blade servers can provide significant advantages in terms of power consumption, space, and manageability while providing an environment suitable for an enterprise operation.
Download the 21-page guide.
New integrated Lights-Out technology white paper now available
Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) is an autonomous management subsystem that resides in a host server to manage it remotely through any server state: initial power-on testing, before the operating system (OS) is loaded, while the OS is functional, and even if there is an OS failure. In effect, Integrated Lights-Out is an autonomous computer within a computer. The Integrated Lights-Out Advanced functionality provides an administrator with comprehensive management technologies such as a Graphical Remote Console to view the host server console at any time, with any OS, in essentially any graphics mode. Customers using Microsoft® Windows® Terminal Services can optionally leverage a high performance software-based remote console while still maintaining availability of the hardware-based console. Integrated Lights-Out provides a virtual power button to power up or down the server, virtual media functions to upgrade firmware or deploy an operating system remotely and a virtual serial port to access a server console program. Integrated Lights-Out Advanced also supports the use of directory services to enhance security and provide scalability in enterprises that use large numbers of management processors.
Download the 18-page paper.
Performance characterization of Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 on HP ProLiant Systems
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 and the new web engine, Internet Information Services 6.0 has been completely redesigned to improve reliability, performance and security. HP characterized these changes on HP ProLiant servers in both scale up and scale out configuration. Detailed information on our methodology and performance characterization results are incorporated in the performance guide.
Download the 31-page document.
Using iSCSI to Boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 on a Diskless HP ProLiant Blade Server
This document describes the concepts and steps necessary to configure and boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 on a diskless HP ProLiant BL20p G2 server blade using iSCSI to connect across the TCP/IP network to an HP StorageWorks SR2122 iSCSI Storage Router.
Download the 19-page guide.
ProLiant BL System Best Practices and Common Procedures guides now available
The HP ProLiant BL System Best Practices Guide describes best practices, helpful hints and suggestions on setting up and configuring the HP ProLiant BL system hardware and management tools. The HP ProLiant BL System Common Procedures Guide offers guidance on setting up common (and more advanced) procedures using HP ProLiant BL systems, including server blade recovery, rip and replace, and installing the F5 BIG-IP Blade Controller.
Download the 289-page HP ProLiant BL System Best Practices Guide.
Download the 62-page HP ProLiant BL System Common Procedures Guide.
ProLiant BL e-Class Interface, User, Maintenance, and Setup Guides
HP offers a series of guides for the ProLiant BL e-class systems that contain extensive reference information, offer step-by-step instructions and advanced techniques, help you configure and service switches, and more. Choose from the guides listed below.
Read the 129-page ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch Command Line Interface Reference Guide to configure the interconnect switch through the command line interface (CLI).
Read the 78–page ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch Menu-driven Interface Reference Guide to configure the interconnect switch through the menu-driven interface.
Read the 97–page ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch User Guide to service the HP ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch.
Read the 86-page ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch Web-based Interface Reference Guide to configure the interconnect switch using the Web-based interface.
Read the 228-page ProLiant BL e-Class Integrated Administrator User Guide for step-by-step instructions for operation, and reference information for advanced operation, troubleshooting, and upgrades.
Read the 84-page ProLiant BL e-Class System Maintenance and Service Guide to service HP ProLiant BL e-Class Systems.
Read the 156-page ProLiant BL e-Class System Setup and Installation Guide for step-by-step instructions for installation and reference information for operation, troubleshooting, and upgrades for the ProLiant BL e-Class system.
HP ProLiant BL p-Class GbE and GbE2 Interconnect Component Identification and Configuration Guides
The Component ID and Configuration Guides for the HP ProLiant blade GbE and GbE2 Interconnect are available for those who wish to learn how to identify and configure the blade GbE and GbE2 interconnects. The information contained in this document provides a brief overview of how to quickly enable the basic features of the product and have a working switch within a few moments after installation. Detailed information about switch compliance and specific instructions on how to modify each component from the default setting is available from additional guides on the product website and listed in the section titled “Error! Reference source not found.” of this document.
Download the 15-page guide GbE guide.
Download the 13-page guide GbE2 guide.
HP ProLiant BL p-Class RJ-45 panel Component Identification and Configuration Guide
This Component ID and Configuration Guide for the HP ProLiant BL p-Class blade servers with the RJ-45 Network Patch Panel provides tips on how to identify and configure for quick system deployment.
Download the five-page guide.
HP ProLiant BL10e Blade Servers as an infrastructure server platform
This document highlights the use of HP ProLiant BL10e blade servers as network infrastructure servers such as RDP, Active Directory, DNS and DHCP servers.
Download the 30-page document.
HP ProLiant BL20p and BL20p Ge and Patch Panel Component Identification and Configuration Guides
These Component ID and Configuration Guides for the HP ProLiant BL20p and BL20p G2 blade server provides tips on how to identify and configure the blade server for quick system deployment.
Download the 12–page guide for the BL20p blade server.
Download the 13–page guide for the BL20p G2 blade server.
HP ProLiant BL20p Blade Servers Overview and Components Guide
This guide provides an overview on how to identify and configure the HP ProLiant BL20p blade server. Because the BL p-Class servers are physically different than conventional servers, it is easy to misunderstand what makes up this server line and the capabilities and functionality surrounding these products. This guide will help to provide the necessary information to understand just how they fit together and function to provide entry to enterprise level processing capabilities. This guide will also highlight the various options available for the blade servers.
Download the 11-page guide.
HP ProLiant BL40p Component Identification and Configuration Guide
This HP ProLiant BL40p Blade Server Component ID and Configuration Guide explains how to identify and configure the blade server for quick system deployment.
Download the 13-page guide.
ProLiant DL 380, 560, and 580 Set Up and User Guides
The ProLiant DL380 and DL 560 Maintenance and Service Guides include an illustrated parts catalog and specifications and cover removal and replacement procedures, diagnostic tools, and server component identification. Content can be easily reference through the index. The User Guide is designed for the person who installs, administers and troubleshoots the servers.
Click here for DL 380 guides.
Click here for DL 560 guides.
Click here for DL580 guides.
HP ProLiant G3 Servers Compatibility Guide
HP ProLiant servers and Intel® communications boards are used by leading voice services companies. Both are available in many combinations to suit different system and business requirements. This compatibility guide provides systems integrators with a starting point for building speech-application-ready platforms such as voice portals and speech-enabled interactive voice response (IVR) solutions.
Read the compatibility chart.
Provisioning F5 BIG-IP
This document provides a strategy/solution for rapidly deploying F5 BIG-IP Blade Controller on HP ProLiant BL series blade servers using HP ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack. By providing automated systems provisioning (a key component of the HP Adaptive Enterprise strategy) of F5 BIG-IP Blade Controller, customers are better equipped to easily, effectively, and efficiently handle increased traffic, improve management of servers, and deploy and re-deploy core enterprise applications in a more simplified manner, all while providing highly scalable, highly available, and IP Traffic Management solutions.
Download the 14–page guide: Provisioning F5 BIG-IP Blade Controller from a Microsoft Windows Based NFS Server using HP ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack.