HP ProLiant DL170e G6 Server - Manual (Page 38)

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Power capping
Power capping overview
The HP ProLiant SL family of products provides a power capping feature that operates at the server enclosure
level. The capping feature can be activated using a stand-alone utility called PPIC.EXE that runs in the
environment of one of the resident servers in the chassis to be power capped. After a power cap is set for the
enclosure, all the resident servers in the enclosure will have the same uniform power cap applied to them until
the cap is either modified or canceled.
With SL-APM, the enclosure-level power capping feature can be expanded without the need to use the
PPIC.EXE utility. A global power cap can be applied to all enclosures with one SL-APM command, or different
caps can be applied to user-defined groups by using flexible zones within the same rack.
NOTE: HP recommends configuring the SL-APM so that it controls only one rack.
Power capping supported servers and chassis
The following server products support power capping:
• HP ProLiant SL160s G6 Server (with BIOS of O33-05192011 or later)
• HP ProLiant SL165s G7 Server (with BIOS of O37-08102011 or later)
• HP ProLiant SL170s G6 Server (with BIOS of O40-05112011 or later)
• HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant SL250s Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant SL270s Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant SL335s G7 Server (with BIOS of A24-later than 02042011)
• HP ProLiant SL390s G7 Server (with BIOS of P69-050511 or later)
• HP ProLiant SL210t Server
• HP ProLiant SL4540 Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant SL4545 G7 Server
Power capping requirements
Minimum firmware requirements are:
• SL-APM must have version 1.30 or higher
• For HP ProLiant SL s6500 Chassis only, SL Chassis Firmware must have version 4.30 or higher
• All nodes in the chassis must have LO100 Advanced Pack, or iLO Scale Out, or iLO Advanced License