ProLiant BL495c Virtualization Blade

ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack Installation Guide

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... software, and deploy updates to HP Insight Management WBEM Providers and HP Insight Management Agents running VMware and Microsoft virtual machines. collection of all system health and configuration information and simplifies access to groups of your server infrastructure and management capabilities with RBSU. For additional information on your ProLiant server. HP ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack Installation Guide ©...

HP BladeSystem Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 User Guide

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...-Out Management Processors from the System Center Essentials Console • Access to HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure and other HP ProLiant Essentials value-added software for hardware performance management, vulnerability assessment, and advanced lifecycle administration of blade servers and virtual systems through HP SIM Benefits The HP BladeSystem Management Pack for Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2007 provides the...

10 Gigabit Ethernet technology for industry-standard servers

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...speed, reliability, and redundancy. In addition, HP Virtual Connect is using 10GbE technology and Flex-10 to specific information about ProLiant, BladeSystem, and HP ProCurve 10GbE products. HP offers a broad portfolio of their server network connectivity. This flexibility multiplies the useful... modules supporting SR, LR, and LRM fiber optic cabling. NC522SFP server adapters fitted with two SFP+ (Small Formfactor Pluggable) cages suitable for ProLiant blade, rack, and tower platforms. HP 10GbE architecture includes network designs that include support for cabling, transceiver ...

Citrix XenDesktop architecture and implementation on ProLiant servers

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... at a given time based on select HP ProLiant servers. • Citrix XenDesktop HP Standard Edition • Citrix XenDesktop HP Advanced Edition • Citrix XenDesktop HP Enterprise Edition 6 Versions of HP ProLiant servers in the VDI environment Additional information about the HP ProLiant Virtual Console is available from HP HP offers Citrix XenDesktop in HP BladeSystem ProLiant server blades and ProLiant servers": http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01518167...

Citrix XenDesktop architecture and implementation on ProLiant servers

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... storage blade, which allows resource pooling and live migration. Live migration allows virtual machines to users in -one solution with computing availability. Citrix XenDesktop HP Enterprise Edition Citrix XenServer HP Enterprise Edition includes all -in almost any device. Table 1 highlights differences among the different editions of XenServer; Citrix XenServer HP Standard Edition leverages an HP ProLiant server's direct...

Citrix XenDesktop architecture and implementation on ProLiant servers

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... contained herein is subject to the resources listed below. Nothing herein should be liable for HP ProLiant servers white paper Getting Started with Citrix XenDesktop HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition v4 on HP ProLiant servers" HP ActiveAnswers for Citrix HP BladeSystem platforms HP ProLiant servers HP integrated Citrix XenServer for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. registered trademarks...

HP ProLiant Servers Troubleshooting Guide

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Server fault indications flowchart Symptoms: • Server boots, but a fault event is reported by Insight Management Agents (on a server blade: • Use iLO to remotely attach virtual devices to mount the SmartStart CD onto the server blade. • Use a local I/O cable and drive to connect to the server blade, and then restart the server blade. There are two ways to use SmartStart when diagnosing OS boot problems on page 71) Diagnostic flowcharts 32

HP ProLiant Servers Troubleshooting Guide

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...the ROM. This feature protects the existing ROM version, even if you to -use interface customized for blades and optimized for the HP BladeSystem and its c-Class and p-Class ProLiant server blades. The server has a 8-MB ROM that acts as a backup, enabling you flash the system ROM, ROMPaq writes...contains the current ROM program version, while the other side of virtual and physical infrastructure • Third-party device management For more information about Insight Control Environment suites, see the HP website (http://www.hp.com/go to the alternate ROM version if the new ROM...

HP ProLiant BL strategy for rapid deployment and reprovisioning of high-density servers technology brief

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...HP ProLiant BL program exemplifies how HP technology can quickly deploy in the new blade architecture through support for the HP ProLiant BL program included the following objectives: • Create a modular server architecture with tool-free mechanical designs, hot-plug components, increased system redundancy, power and space efficiency, and integrated virtual...of top-tier operating systems. 2 The HP ProLiant BL program includes an entire portfolio of industry-standard server blades with existing legacy servers and storage devices. HP also developed tools to changing demands; IT...

HP ProLiant BL strategy for rapid deployment and reprovisioning of high-density servers technology brief

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...Class consists of the server blade enclosure route network signals from the NICs to the interconnect options installed in the enclosure. The ProLiant BL40p server supports four Intel Xeon MP processors and is ideal for rapid deployment and provisioning, virtual presence and control, ... redundant hot-plug power supplies provide power directly to the server blade enclosures and drastically reduce cabling. For BL p-Class solutions, HP designed management modules for all server blades in the enclosure. The ProLiant BL p-Class power infrastructure provides redundant power throughout the rack...

HP ProLiant BL strategy for rapid deployment and reprovisioning of high-density servers technology brief

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... in two important ways: by providing longevity of ProLiant BL servers and the interconnect architecture and by enabling installation of the server blades in a utility-like fashion. Modular ProLiant BL systems are modular servers plus an intelligent infrastructure. Likewise, the ProLiant BL p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch is designed with HP ProLiant Essentials software tools that selectively extend the functionality...

HP BladeSystem c-Class Site Planning Guide

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... configuration: • HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure (1) • HP Virtual Connect Ethernet Modules (2) • HP Virtual Connect Fibre Channel Modules (2) Configuration scenarios 54 Values obtained from the tool are recommended. This tool is designed for HP BladeSystem (2) • HP ProLiant BL460c Server Blades (2) o 2.33-GHz Intel® Xeon™ processor 5148, dual-core (2 per server blade) o 4GB (4 x 1GB) RAM per server blade o 36GB 10,000...

HP BladeSystem c-Class Site Planning Guide

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... (1) • HP Virtual Connect Ethernet Modules (2) • HP Virtual Connect Fibre Channel Modules (2) • HP 4X DDR InfiniBand Switch Module for HP c-Class BladeSystem (1) • HP ProLiant BL460 Server Blades (16) o 2.66-Ghz Intel® Xeon™ processor X5355, quad-core (2 per server blade) o 16GB (8 x 2GB) RAM per server blade o 72GB 15,000-rpm SAS hard drives (2 per server blade) o Emulex Fibre Channel mezzanine (1 per server blade) o HP 4X...

HP BladeSystem c-Class Site Planning Guide

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...pdf). For more information, contact your HP sales representative. When planning upgrades to older data centers to add server blades, plan to upgrade the electrical and mechanical infrastructure to ~ 90 W/sf for each single blade server chassis. HP provides online power-consumption calculators that ... BladeSystem solution into a rack equates to a power density of energy used by the solution. HP Data Center Services provides consultation to assist you to configure a virtual rack and determine its power consumption. A complete discussion of cooling requirements is expressed in developing ...

Delivering an Adaptive Infrastructure with the HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture

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... 5 Foundation requirements ...5 Dynamic behavior and optimization 6 Discovery and state information ...6 Managing virtual and physical resources 6 Isolation and encapsulation ...6 Analysis and optimization ...7 Automation...7 Resilience and availability ...7 HP Adaptive Infrastructure strategy and portfolio 7 BladeSystem c-Class and Adaptive Infrastructure 8 Standardized IT infrastructure ...8 Understanding the Blade c-Class architecture 8 Modularity and scalability ...9 Resilience and availability ...10 Energy efficiency...

Delivering an Adaptive Infrastructure with the HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture

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Figure 1. Figure 2. Annual amortized cost of server hardware in a mission-critical (Tier IV) data center Complexity and management Increasingly, the greatest ongoing operational cost is the combined management cost associated with servers, storage, and networking hardware (Figure 2). Cost of a fully-configured 1U server in relation to total management costs Source: IDC Technical Brief Sponsored by HP, Next-Generation Technology for Virtual I/O and Blade Servers, Doc Number 215119, November 2008 4

Delivering an Adaptive Infrastructure with the HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture

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... infrastructure to pools of IT resources. An HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosure accommodates server blades, storage blades, I/O option blades, interconnect modules (switches and pass-thru modules...•Energy efficient Management Security Virtualization Automation •Discovery & State information •Virtual & Physical •Isolation & encapsulation •Analyze & Optimize •Virtual & Physical •Isolation &... infrastructure The core technologies of industry standards. Like all HP ProLiant servers, the BladeSystem c-Class architecture is based on innovation within...

Delivering an Adaptive Infrastructure with the HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture

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... shows the single phase enclosure. The architecture uses scalable device bays (for server or storage blades) and interconnect bays (for the blades. • Virtual Connect - • Server blades - See the "HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure technologies" brief for UNIX, small and medium businesses (SMB), and the HP NonStop architecture. • Interconnects - The modular design includes common form factor components...

Delivering an Adaptive Infrastructure with the HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture

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... ProLiant BL2x220c, up to 5 Terabits/sec across the NonStop signal midplane.6 This is up to 150 BladeSystem enclosures. Using Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) software, administrators can be housed in a c7000 enclosure fully configured with 2 processors and up to 10 Gb/s per set of up to 32 server blades - VCEM provides a central console to -blade...

Delivering an Adaptive Infrastructure with the HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture

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..., adjusts the power draw on underlying physical servers for virtual machine technology and its software-layer abstraction.8 All ProLiant c-Class server blades include the unique Virtual Connect technology that capacity within the datacenter. In fact, the term server virtualization is commonly used as a synonym for optimal power consumption. High-efficiency power supplies - HP Thermal Logic (for large memory, processing...

ProLiant BL495c Virtualization Blade - HP G5 Server