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- Enabling Memory Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability Features on Dell PowerEdge Servers
- The memory subsystems on Dell PowerEdge 1850, PowerEdge 2800, and PowerEdge 2850 servers are designed to support reliability, availability, and serviceability RAS features such as error-correcting code, chip fail correct, spare banks, and mirroring. This paper describes RAS features in detail, explaining how they are enabled, how they can affect...
- Tags: Dell PowerEdge Server, Dell Computer Corp., Serviceability, Dell PowerEdge, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability for the Always-on Enterprise
- To stay competitive in today’s dynamic business environment, companies must deploy technologies that provide high levels of service availability at a price they can afford. This imperative grows increasingly critical as organizations adopt a real-time business model in which transactions and information sharing are nearly instantaneous and server downtime is...
- Tags: Serviceability, Intel Corp., Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2005-05-01
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- Essential Cooling Requirements for Data Centers
- This APC white paper presents the findings of a recent survey of corporate CIOs and IT managers that was conducted to identify customer problems related to data center cooling systems. Find out what the respondents named as their top cooling challenges within the key areas of adaptability/scalability, availability, lifecycle cost,...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
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- Architecture of the Windows Driver Foundation
- This paper provides information about the Windows Driver Foundation WDF, the next-generation driver model for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. It describes the overall architecture of the model and explains how WDF can help to reduce driver development time, contribute to greater system stability, and improve driver diagnosability...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Construction, Software
- White papers 2005-04-18
- Configuring and Installing HP Blade Servers
- The advantages of blade servers include greater versatility, ease of deployment and serviceability, and cost savings. When combined with VMware ESX Server, and optionally with VMware VirtualCenter, blade servers offer you even more benefits. You can deploy VMware ESX Server 2.1 on a variety of hardware, including blade servers blades....
- Tags: Blade Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, VMWare ESX Server, HP Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2004-04-28
- Root Switches in the HP StorageWorks: Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)
- This paper examines how Emulex's breakthrough embedded switch technology, called FibreSpy, can provide users with advanced capabilities beyond what traditional back-end storage systems offer, including advanced Reliability, Availability, Serviceability RAS and performance while scaling. The anatomy of a storage system can be broken down into its "Front-end" and "Back-end". The...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Emulex Corp., Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Towards a Small, Efficient Linux Hardware Inventory System
- lsvpd is a serviceability package written for Linux running on IBM pSeries systems, although it also runs on other architectures with at least a Linux 2.6 kernel. Developed as a look-alike for the AIX tool of the same name, lsvpd includes a hardware inventory database, scanning components that populate the...
- Tags: Hardware, IBM Corp., Lsvpd, Linux, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2005-04-13
- Data Center Cooling and Environmental Control Systems
- We have had mixed success with various vendors/manufacturers in regards to implementing data center cooling and environmental control systems. Additional upgrades are pending. It would be of great interest to us to learn of your experiences with turn-key data center cooling and environmental control systems from the likes of APC,...
- Tags: Data centers, hclasse@..., environmental control system
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
- IBM POWER5 Processor-Based Servers: A Highly Available Design for Business-Critical Applications
- From a Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability RAS standpoint, IBM System p and System I POWER5 processor-based servers include features designed to increase availability and to support the new levels of virtualization, building upon the leading edge RAS features delivered in the IBM eServer p5, pSeries and iSeries families of servers....
- Tags: IBM POWER5, IBM Corp., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2006-08-16
- RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) Features of HP sx2000-Based Platforms
- The HP sx2000-based Integrity systems are virtualization-enabled, mainframe-class systems that deliver high levels of availability. This paper describes the specific features that make such high availability possible. HP has taken each functional area of the system, studied the theoretical and field-observed failure modes, and built the most robust system in...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Utility Computing, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Reliability, Resiliency and Reparability for HP's New zx2-Based Platforms
- This paper is dedicated to showing how HP's next generation of Entry-Level Integrity servers set the standard when it comes to reliability, resiliency, and reparability. These days, nearly every industry available server has the typical baseline RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) features such as: redundant, hot-swap power supplies, hard disk...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Research & Development, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-09-05
- Technology Marketing Case Study: Coleman County Co-Op Converts Triple Play
- The client was Coleman County Telephone Cooperative, Inc. CCTC. Through extensive industry research and a careful forward looking revenue forecast it became evident that the careful deployment of an IP-based network would yield numerous cost, feature, and "single network" serviceability benefits both to the cooperative and its rural subscribers. The...
- Tags: IP, Network Technology, Networking
- Case studies
- Thermal Management & Server Density: Critical Issues for Today's Data Center
- The data center, the site of enterprise computing innovation for four decades, is suddenly challenged to support ever-increasing amounts of computing power. With the rapid expansion of growing numbers of high-density computing clusters, many data center managers are struggling to provide their facilities' two most essential commodities: power and cooling....
- Tags: Data Center, Rackable Systems, Server, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2004-05-28
- Solaris Operating System Use on PRIMEPOWER Provides Multiple IT Environment Benefits
- Fujitsu's use of the SPARC processor in the PRIMEPOWER server allows Fujitsu to take advantage of the leading edge Solaris Operating System OS to support its advanced scalability and reliability functions. Solaris benefits from exceptionally strong functional capabilities, and now resides at the forefront of providing high-end scalability and RAS...
- Tags: IT Environment, Information Technology, Operating System, Fujitsu Ltd., System Software, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Symmetric Active/Active High Availability for High-Performance Computing System Services: Accomplishments and Limitations
- This paper summarizes the efforts over the last 3-4 years in providing symmetric active/active high availability for High-Performance Computing HPC system services. This work paves the way for high-level reliability, availability and serviceability in extreme-scale HPC systems by focusing on the most critical components, head and service nodes, and by...
- Tags: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, High Availability, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Cloud Computing
- White papers 2008-01-28
- Reliability, Resiliency and Reparability Enhancement in HP's New zx2-Based Platforms
- This paper is dedicated to showing how HP's next generation of Entry-Level Integrity servers set the standard when it comes to reliability, resiliency, and reparability. These days, nearly every industry available server has the typical baseline RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) features such as: redundant, hot-swap power supplies, hard disk...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Research & Development, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-12-21
- Customer Service Internet Banking Application Suite
- The Corillian Voyager e-Finance solution from Corillian is a fast, comprehensive Internet banking application suite that provides customers with unprecedented service and flexibility. At the same time, the solution delivers the back-end support financial institutions need to maximize customer relationships and Return On Investment ROI. Intel Architecture is fundamental to...
- Tags: Corillian Corp., Customer Service, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Architecture, Roi/Tco, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2004-04-29
- Ensure the Availability of Critical IT Solutions in Remote Government Locations for Windows and Linux Environments
- Stratus fault-tolerant ftServer solutions deliver industry-leading uptime (99.999% or better) and operational simplicity in a rack-optimized package that can be set up in a day and maintained without dedicated onsite IT support. Built-in serviceability, remote access capabilities and hot-swappable components help ensure that mission-critical government operations run uninterrupted 24/7, enabling...
- Tags: Linux, Stratus Technologies, Fault-tolerant Server, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Remote Access, Telecommunications
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Concurrent Driver Upgrade: Method to Eliminate Scheduled System Outages for New Function Releases
- The reliability, availability, and serviceability goal for an IBM zSeries system is to provide 24-hour-per-day, 365-day-per-year service with reduced system downtime. The continuous reliable operation rate has been improved with every new zSeries release by using error prevention, error detection, error recovery, and other methods that contribute to avoiding unplanned...
- Tags: IBM zSeries, Outage, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-01-01
- The Fastest Time to Intelligence With Grid-Enabled SAS: Using Grid Technologies to Gain Faster Insights Into Data and Achieve New Levels of Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
- SAS delivers a complete and comprehensive Enterprise Intelligence Platform for the creation of intelligence from the enterprise critical data. All of the corporate user groups - executives, middle management, end users, statisticians and the IT department - are provided with an environment designed to meet their needs. Because the amount...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Grid
- White papers 2007-03-01
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