HP Power Advisor & DL585G6 Servers - no disk options

[N Cunningham]

I am trying to produce some power consumtion estimates using the HP Power Advisor utility.

However when I select the server - DL585G6 - I am unable to configure it with any disk drives.
The options for CPU, Memory work but there are no drive types configured for this server.

I have tried the online version and the downloadable version (1.32) but both have the same problem.

Any ideas?

[Saberus]

I have noticed that too.

The hard drives across the G6 series all draw the same power as far as I can tell, no matter what server they are in. I just pulled up a 385 G6 at the same voltage/usage, recorded the power, and added the drives, and applied the difference onto the power readings for the 585 G6 with all the other features I needed.

An in-house test was able to confirm the measurements were just about perfect.

[Daniel Bowers]

This problem is fixed in version 1.33 of the Power Advisor. The downloadable version of 1.33 was just posted on hp.com, but the Online version hasn't updated yet.

I agree with Saberus, you can also just take the drive power from another server.

[N Cunningham]

Thanks - the latest version 1.33 does indeed fix the problem.