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You want full-featured servers to run all the same applications you run today - without compromising performance or reliability, yet are power efficient.

You want to maximize the number of servers per rack - without taxing your data center. And you want to address the problem holistically - from server to the entire data center. From dynamic data center cooling solutions to thermal service expertise, HP delivers a total solution to power and cooling.

HP believes you shouldn't compromise anything to save energy. Designed for energy efficiency and management - ProLiant Servers.

One of HP’s newest servers tops Dell and IBM with a powerful punch. HP ProLiant DL180 G5 takes giant lead over competitors with #1 energy efficient 2P performance on SPECpower_ssj™2008 benchmark. Read more.

Learn more about HP’s power and cooling solution by listening in on our podcast from “Chip to Chiller”; HP understands the energy issues that affect the Data Centers and they’ve implemented a "cool" strategy. In two lengths: extended (12:32) or condensed (4:30).

ProLiant Energy Efficiency Features

True energy efficiency starts at the source, by designing the product for the environment from the start. That's why HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem engineers create energy-efficient products that go from the drawing board to your data center where they can save you energy and money without giving up performance, when needed. Without performance your business is not flexible to scale as your needs and utilization grow. HP ProLiant servers offer the total solution with the flexibility to meet your business needs--whether it is growth, performance or power efficiency. Here is how, take a look.

ProLiant Power Supplies: HP ProLiant Server Power supplies lead the industry globally in efficiency, reliability, power density, size, flexibility, cost and commonality. As founding members of key power efficiency consortiums like the Green Grid organization for EnergyStar and Climate Savers Computing, HP continues to drive the standards for power optimization on industry standard servers. HP HE power supplies exceed 90% efficiency under standard loads and provide flexibility and commonality with both ProLiant and BladeSystem platforms. HP’s drive for excellence and our design for the environment strategies make us the best in the industry in power management.

Processors within ProLiants: HP offers the best in processor technology from the top manufacturers in the industry. We work together constantly to drive performance and energy efficiency that will deliver better solutions with greater benefits to the customer and data center. 

Operating Temperature: At the heart of every ProLiant is the ambient temperature sensor. This single sensor tells the ProLiant server what is needed to keep the server within the optimal operating temperature. The information is processed through to key components in the server including the iLO (Integrated Lights Out) manager, Power Regulator and Power Capping.

HP Insight Control Management: Managing a server environment is like chasing a moving target. One minute things are under control and the next minute you have to make significant - sometimes costly - adjustments in a reactive manner. Your answer - Insight Control management software for HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem infrastructure - integrated management software that addresses your monitoring, deploying, and controlling needs from almost anywhere - and simplified in a single package for easy deployment and installation.

• Integrated Lights-Out (iLO): HP Lights-Out remote management - delivering total remote control without compromise anytime, anywhere. Learn how to take your first step toward building a best-run server infrastructure with the total control of iLO 2 and centralized power management using the new HP iLO Power Management Pack (iPMP)

• Power meter: Most new ProLiant 300-series servers enable the analysis of actual server power usage by integrating a power meter. The power meter is accessible through iLO and through external power management software such as HP Insight Power Manager (IPM). IPM also enables the consolidation of power consumption data for multiple servers to a central location. This information can also be used to charge business units or third parties with the actual energy operational costs associated with workload processing.

• Power Regulator: The latest server processors from Intel and AMD have power state hardware registers that are available to allow IT organizations to control the performance and power consumption of the processor. These capabilities are implemented through Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology and demand-based switching and through AMD PowerNow!TM technology with Optimized Power Management (OPM).

ProLiant Cooling: As compute density continues to increase, cooling becomes more important. HP is working closely with industry-leading partners to help implement the most power efficient cooling system solutions. As noted the key challenge centers on power and cooling-- providing efficient power to the systems, getting cool air to the front of the systems, while removing the hot exhaust from the rear.

Active Cool Fans: HP innovation helps make every gram of air cooling the HP BladeSystem c-class count.

HP Thermal Logic: saving watts, saving money: In the past, more data center performance was the goal. Power and cooling costs were just the price you paid for it. As energy costs skyrocket, processor and memory technologies have made performance the abundant resource, while power and cooling are at a premium. To meet the requirements and limitations on power and cooling for each data center, it's important to consider the thermal footprint of each data center or server room by figuring.

• How much critical load can you power?
• How much can you cool before you start to have problems like downtime or failures?
• How much computing capacity you need vs. power/cooling capacity you can't exceed before you incur the expense of overhauling the data center?

HP Virtualization: HP continues to demonstrate its leadership in delivering virtualization solutions, Virtualization is a key instrument from HP to help consolidate infrastructure and reduce energy on power and cooling of that infrastructure. HP can help your business plan, implement and operate a virtual infrastructure with VMware. We qualify a wide range of ProLiant servers, StorageWorks storage, and integrate HP management software. For a quick overview, download our Solutions Guide (pdf). » More information

HP Modular Cooling System: Introducing HP's new Modular Cooling System (MCS) for cooling high density deployments of servers and blades.