Windows 2008 R2 hibernation and standby on DL380 G7

[prabalkrishna]

I have a HP DL380G7 machine running Windows 2008 R2 Standard Edition Service Pack 1. I’m trying to get it to hibernate, but the system does not go into hibernation. The screen goes blank and 7-8 minutes later the system restarts automatically (ASR is disabled). Windows complains of was an unclean shutdown after reboot. I’ve looked at various things, but I cannot make it work.  

System details:

System: HP DL380G7

Processor: 2xIntel E5620 running at 2.4GHz

RAM: 12 GB

OS: Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Standard Edition

System BIOS: P67 (01/03/2011)

Display Driver: ATI ES1000 (6/23/2009 8.240.50.500)

Boot Controller: HP Smart Array P410i Controller (Driver date and version - 6/20/2011 6.22.0.64)

Drive: 75GB SAS drive 15K RPM

Virtual Memory: 20GB

Hard Disk free space : 25GB

On this system, I cannot take the system to StandBy as well. The standby option does not show up on Windows. The output from powercfg –a seems to suggest the system firmware doesn’t support standby. I’ve tried different Power Management options from BIOS, but to no avail.

C:\Users\Administrator>powercfg -a

The following sleep states are available on this system: Hibernate The following sleep states are not available on this system:

Standby (S1)

        The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Standby (S2)

        The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Standby (S3)

        The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Hybrid Sleep

Is there any known issue hibernating and standby on this system?

Thanks,

Prabal

[Jags_21]

Hi,

In the first place I do not understand why the Server OS needs hibernation and standby unless if the server hardware are in R&D specific usage.

But the HP servers are designed in more efficient way to consume the power and lot more option to regulate, below are some details you can look at:

Enable the OS Control Mode in Server BIOS to see if your issue gets resolved, navigate as below

Power Management Options > HP Power Regulator > OS Control Mode 

Note: Processors run in the maximum power and performance state, unless the OS enables a powermanagement policy

Also for enabling standby you need to tweak the Server OS in case if it is ot working properly

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/baliles/archive/2010/06/08/tips-amp-tricks-enable-standby-in-windows-2008-r2-server.aspx

Some additional information on Power Management, in a more efficient way of managing the power consummation for HP servers;

Power Regulator for ProLiant servers
http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00300430/c00300430.pdf

Power efficiency and power management in HP ProLiant servers
http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03161908/c03161908.pdf

HP Insight Control Power Management 7.0 User Guide
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03168592/c03168592.pdf

Thanks,

Jagadish

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