2. Building on HP BladeSystem innovations Built on integrated, modular technologies proven at thousands of customer sites worldwide. Leverage ProLiant technologies & images Optimize fabric connectivity Enable shared services through automation Converge Virtualize Automate HP Blade System Delivers modular infrastructure: over 1.6 million servers shipped to date HP BladeSystem Matrix Enabled with orchestration: integrated by design Virtual Connect To wire once and change on the fly: more than 1 million ports shipped to date Insight Software Extended to analyze and optimize: more than 1 million licenses delivered 2006 2007 2008 2009 Manage faults, power and migrations
6. HP BladeSystem c-Class HP innovations that solve the biggest cost drivers and change barriers of today’s datacenters. Build IT Energy-Thrifty New! HP Thermal Logic technology Most energy efficiency at a rack, row and datacenter level. Build IT Time-Smart New! HP Insight Control management Best savings, greatest control and most flexibility across your infrastructure. The best-run IT infrastructure out of the box Accurately Measure Power Consumption and Thermal Output Build IT Change-Ready New! HP Virtual Connect architecture Eliminating manual coordination across domains.
7. HP ProLiant server family Improve data center efficiency while managing complexity and risk HP Insight Control Management Universal Smart Array storage, rack and power HP ProLiant BL Maximum flexibility and control in blade server infrastructures HP ProLiant DL Density-optimized for rack mount environments HP ProLiant ML Maximum expansion for rack and tower environments 300 series 500 series ML 100 series 300 series 500 series DL 100 series Linux BL c-Class c3000 Enclosure c7000 Enclosure 700 series
8. HP BladeSystem portfolio A full range of 2P and 4P Blades Interconnect choices for LAN, SAN, and Scale-Out Clusters Fibre Channel InfiniBand 4X DDR Workstation Blades Storage Blades Enclosures LAN Server Blades ProCurve 6120 Series Blade Switch h Unified Management Services Assessment Implementation Support SAN h h Ethernet NICs Virtual Connect h Choice of power
12. The HP Blade Everything strategy offers choices for customers Segmentation Heterogeneous Data Center HP BladeSystem c7000 & c3000 Features/Performance Positioning HP BladeSystem
14. This is what a BladeSystem is: The new system(block) We fill it with whatever the customer solution requires Server Blade (Intel/AMD/Itanium) PC Blade Workstation Blade Storage Blade Tapedrive Blade Switch Blade Virtual Connect Blade PCI-E/X bus Blade PS / FAN Blade Lifecycle 2013 !!!
26. HP BladeSystem c-Class server positioning Traditional Rack-Mount Server Blade DL160 DL36X DL38X DL58X rx2660 rx6600 BL2x220c BL280c BL46Xc BL480c BL49xc BL68Xc BL860c BL870c
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39. BL860c – BL870c Comparison BL860c BL870c BL860c BL870c Processor Intel® Itanium® 9000 and 9100 Processors 1.6 GHz/18MB FSB533/667, 1.4GHz/12MB cache FSB400 1.6GHz/6MB/12MB FSB533 (single-core) Intel® Itanium® 9100 Processors 1.6 GHz/24MB FSB533 1.6 GHz/18MB FSB533 1.6GHz/12MB FSB533 Chipset hp zx2 Memory PC2-4200 DDR-SDRAM (533 MHz) 12 Sockets 48GB max (using 4GB DIMMs) PC2-4200 DDR-SDRAM (533 MHz) 24 Sockets 192GB max (using 8GB DIMMs) HDD and Controller 2 SFF Hot-Plug SAS HDDs HW RAID 1 support 4 SFF Hot-Plug SAS HDDs HW RAID 1 support Networking 4 Integrated Gigabit NICs Management Integrity iLO2 Advanced Pack OS Support HP-UX 11i v3 and v2; OpenVMS; Linux (Red Hat and SUSE); and Windows Enclosure 8 Server Blades in c7000 4 Server Blades in c7000 Mezzanine Support 3 mezzanine cards Choices: 4Gb FC; IB; PCI-e pass-thru; 4-port NIC expansion 3 mezzanine cards Choices: 4Gb FC, IB, 4-port NIC expansion
40. HP ProLiant 200 series server blades Affordable and scale-out computing Model BL2x220c G5 BL280c G6 Processors Dual- or Quad-Core Intel Xeon Dual- or Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5500 Memory 32GB / 4 DIMMs Reg DDR2 667MHz per server 96GB / 12 DIMMs Registered or Unbuffered DDR3 Management ProLiant Onboard Administrator ProLiant Onboard Administrator Internal HP Storage (1) SFF NHP SATA per server (2) SFF NHP SAS/SATA/SSD bays RAID None HP Embedded SATA RAID Controller Network Adapters (2) Standard 1GbE per server (2) Standard 1GbE Mezzanine slots 1 per server 2
48. HP Blade Workstation Solution Datacenter Workstation Computing Without Boundaries Capture, Compress & Encrypt Video Capture Keyboard & Mouse events Client Apply Keyboard & Mouse Events HP RGS remotes desktop, keyboard, mouse, USB Single keyboard and mouse RGS Sender on Blades RGS Receiver on Clients LAN or WAN network Decompress & Display HP Remote Graphics Software
49. HP Remote Graphics Software Receiver Sender Applications run on native graphics HW network Capture Keyboard & Mouse events Apply Keyboard & Mouse events Capture Image Compress Decompress Display Image
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51. Graphics mezzanine portfolio HP ProLiant Blade Workstation – Datacenter workstations Increasing levels of performance, features and visual fidelity Price Dual Graphics Mid-range 3D High Performance 3D FX 3600M Dual graphics FX 770M-256MB FX 770M-512MB Scientific Research Manufacturing CAD Financial (Securities Trading) Oil & Gas High-end CAD
61. Specifications August 2009 – HP Restricted. For HP and channel partner internal use. Capacities 60GB, 120GB (64GB and 128GB raw) Size Standard SFF and LFF footprint, 15 mm height Flash technology SLC NAND Servers qualified HP ProLiant G5 and G6 SFF and LFF hot plug servers Weight Depends on capacity and number of NAND devices Interface SATA Transfer rate 3Gb Channels 8-channel/8-way interleaving Power consumption (active) 2W Operating temperature 0 to 60 ° C Shock Operating: 1500g, duration 0.5ms half sine wave Vibration: 20g peak 10 to 2000Hz; 12 cycles/axis) x3 axes Acoustic noise N/A Logical block size 512 bytes Expected life Expected life of the server at constrained write workloads Native Command Queuing Yes (32 depth)
62. Platform support August 2009 – HP Restricted. For HP and channel partner internal use. Platforms Supported NON-Supported Platforms All G6 hot plug ML/DL & BL server platforms that do not have a Z height restriction of less than 15mm BL2x220c (9.5 mm height restricted)* G5 DL160, DL180, DL360, DL380 and DL580 with P400 or P800 However, recommend updating G5 servers with new Smart Array controllers for best possible performance BL490c G6 (7 mm height restricted) * D2600/D2700 † BL495c G5 (7 mm height restricted) * BL460c G5 (9.5 mm height restricted) * Externally attached storage (for example, MSA 60/70/2000)** † Supported in November 2009 * Height-restricted products can continue to use Generation 1 SSDs or HDD if applicable ** Future Support when required
63. HP c-class Tape Blades Ultrium 448c Tape Blade SB920c Tape Blade SB1760c Tape Blade Recording Technology LTO Ultrium 2 LTO Ultrium 3 LTO Ultrium 4 Compressed Capacity * 400 GB 800 GB 1.6 TB Sustained Transfer Rate * 173 GB/hr 432 GB/hr 576 GB/hr Buffer Size 64 MB 64 MB 128 MB Interface 3 GB/sec SAS 3 GB/sec SAS 3 GB/sec SAS Form Factor Half-height blade Half-height blade Half-height blade Encryption Capability No No Yes WORM Capability No Yes Yes
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65. HP X1800sb Storage Blade Clients File Sharing (CIFS or NFS) Exchange SQL Server Public LAN Application Subnet Block Access (iSCSI SAN) Tape backup X1800sb Snapshots HP All-in-One Storage Application data storage (iSCSI SAN) File serving for clients (NAS) Integrated data protection Radically simple management Note: Exchange and SQL servers along with the X1800sb Storage Blade shown above actually reside in an HP BladeSystem c-class enclosure HP All-in-One Storage Systems
78. C7000 Interconnect Model (Half-Height Server Blade) Mezz-1 NIC 2 1 4 3 2 1 Mezz-2 4 3 2 1 PCIe x4 PCIe x4 PCIe x8 Inter. Bay 7 Inter. Bay 8 Inter. Bay 2 Inter. Bay 1 Inter. Bay 4 Inter. Bay 3 Inter. Bay 6 Inter. Bay 5 N N N N N N N N Half-Height Server Blade N (N= 1 …. 16) X X Inter. Bay 1 Inter. Bay 3 Inter. Bay 5 Inter. Bay 7 Inter. Bay 2 Inter. Bay 4 Inter. Bay 6 Inter. Bay 8
79. C7000 Interconnect Model (Full-Height Server Blade) Mezz-1 NIC 2 1 4 3 2 1 Mezz-2 4 3 2 1 PCIe x4 PCIe x4 PCIe x8 Inter. Bay 7 Inter. Bay 8 Inter. Bay 2 Inter. Bay 1 Inter. Bay 4 Inter. Bay 3 Inter. Bay 6 Inter. Bay 5 N Full-Height Server Blade N(N= 1 …. 8) NIC 2 1 PCIe x4 Mezz-3 4 3 2 1 PCIe x8 N + 8 Inter. Bay 1 Inter. Bay 3 Inter. Bay 5 Inter. Bay 7 Inter. Bay 2 Inter. Bay 4 Inter. Bay 6 Inter. Bay 8
80. C3000 Interconnect Model (Half-Height Server Blade) SVB 5,6,7,8 SVB 1,2,3,4 1 NIC1 2 3 4 M1 M2 M2 1/2 3/4 5/6 7/8 1/2 3/4 5/6 7/8 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 NIC2 NIC1 NIC2 M1 1 2 Inter. Bay 1 Inter. Bay 2 Inter. Bay 3 Inter. Bay 4
81. C3000 Interconnect Model (Full-Height Server Blade) 1 NIC1 2 3 4 M1 M2 1/2 3/4 5/6 7/8 1/2 3/4 5/6 7/8 1 2 3 4 NIC2 NIC1 NIC2 1 2 M3 1 2 3 4 SVB 1,2,3,4 3 4 Inter. Bay 1 Inter. Bay 2 Inter. Bay 3 Inter. Bay 4
86. PTM cable and optics compatibility Options SKU HP 1Gb SX SFP option kit 453151-B21 HP 1Gb RJ-45 SFP Opt Kit 453154-B21 HP 10-GbE SFP+-SFP+ 1m Direct Attach Cable 487654-001 HP 10-GbE SFP+-SFP+ 3m Direct Attach Cable 487657-001 HP 10-GbE SFP+-SFP+ 5m Direct Attach Cable 537965-001 HP 10-GbE SFP+-SFP+ 7m Direct Attach Cable 487660-001 HP SFP+ SR Transceiver 455883-B21 HP SFP+ LR Transceiver 455886-B21 HP SFP+ LRM Transceiver 455889-B21 Options SKU HP ProCurve SFP+ SR Transceiver J9150A HP ProCurve SFP+ LR Transceiver J9151A HP ProCurve SFP+ LRM Transceiver J9152A HP ProCurve 10-GbE SFP+-SFP+ 1m Direct Attach Cable J9281A HP ProCurve 10-GbE SFP+-SFP+ 3m Direct Attach Cable J9283A HP ProCurve 10-GbE SFP+-SFP+ 7m Direct Attach Cable J9285A
98. HP BladeSystem HBA – Qlogic Model comparison QLogic QMH2562 8Gb FC HBA QLogic QMH2462 4Gb FC HBA Bus Type PCI Express x8 Gen 1 (in Gen 1 slots) PCI Express x4 Gen 2 (in Gen 2 slots) PCI Express x4 Gen1 Memory 1MB SSRAM per port 1MB SRAM per port Data Path 8/4/2 Gbps auto-negotiation (8.5/4.25/2.125 Gbps) 4/2/1 Gbps auto-negotiation (4.25/2.125/1.0625 Gbps) IOPs 200,000 per port 150,000 per port Ports Two Two ASIC QLogic ISP2532 QLogic ISP2432 OS Driver Support Windows, Linux, HP-UX and VMware Windows, Linux, NetWare, HP-UX and VMware PCIe Compliance PCI Express Base Specification rev. 2.0 PCI Express Base Specification, rev. 1.0a Power Usage 8W (maximum) 6.1W (typical) 4.8W possible with PCI Express Gen2 capable system and QLogic Intelligent Link Training (ILT) 6.0W (maximum) 5.4 W (typical) APIs SNIA HBA API V2, SMI-S, FDMI SNIA HBA API V2, SMI-S, FDMI RoHS RoHS 6 RoHS 6 Airflow No airflow required No airflow required
99. HP BladeSystem HBA – Model comparison March 4, 2010 Emulex LPe1205-HP/ LPe1200x 8Gb FC HBA Emulex LPe1105-HP/ LPe1100x 4Gb FC HBA Chipset Emulex Saturn IOC Emulex Zephyr IOC Link Speed (Gb/s) 8/4/2 4/2/1 PCIe Bus PCIe 2.0 (x4) PCIe 1.0 (x8) PCIe 1.0 (x4) Performance (IOPS per channel) 200K+ 150K Virtualization – NPIV √ √ Service Level Interface (SLI) – enabling driver compatibility across all generations of Emulex HBAs √ √ Leverage Enterprise class utilities (HBAnyware) √ √ Virtualization – Virtual Fabric √ FC-SP FC security End-End Host to Fabric MSI-X √ BlockGuard – End to end data integrity (DIF) √
107. traditional servers everyone must follow the moving server! SAN Storage Administrator Server Administrator A B C Spare LAN FC Switch Network Administrator ENET Switch WWN A MAC A WWN S MAC S X Find the new port Configuration of the new port: VLAN, Security, STP, etc LUN investigation Zoning modification based on new WWN LUN masking modification NIC HBA NIC HBA NIC HBA NIC HBA LAN Administrator SAN Administrator Server Administrator
108. SAN Storage Administrator Server Administrator A B C Spare LAN Network Administrator WWN A MAC A X Virtual Connect solves these & makes IT change-ready LUN investigation Zoning modification based on new WWN LUN masking modification ENET Switch FC Switch Find the new port Configuration of the new port: VLAN, Security, STP, etc LAN Administrator SAN Administrator NIC HBA NIC HBA NIC HBA NIC HBA HP Virtual Connect Modules Server Administrator
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115. HP 1/10Gb-F Virtual Connect Ethernet Module 4x 1Gb Ethernet (RJ45) 16x 1Gb Ethernet – Connects to one NIC in each HH blade server bay 1x 10Gb – Cross-link between adjacent VC-Enet modules 1x 10Gb Ethernet (CX4) Usable as data center links or as stacking links. 2x 10Gb Ethernet (XFP) Support for copper or fiber 10Gb connectivity to the data center MidPlane Faceplate 2x 1Gb Ethernet (SFP) Support for copper or fiber 1Gb connectivity to the data center
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119. Flex10 for HP Virtual Connect Port 1 NIC 10Gb VC-Enet Module (Odd) Server Blade Single lane of 10Gb/s Ethernet for each Port NIC NIC NIC Port 2 NIC NIC NIC NIC Flex10 LOM or Mezz Card 10Gb VC-Enet Module (Even) Goes to separate interconnect bays (Odd, Even) Each Flex10 LOM has two 10Gb physical ports
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121. Flex10 for HP Virtual Connect Server Blade Flex10 and VC-Enet module keep the traffic separated and on the correct network. Flex10 LOM or Mezz Card Flex10 NIC (port 1) NIC NIC NIC NIC vNet 2 vNet 3 vNet 4 vNet 1 Flex10 limits and prioritizes traffic per physical function 10Gb VC-Enet Module Flex10 and 10Gb VC-Enet keep traffic separated
122. Virtual Connect Flex-10 consolidates network equipment 4 to 1 Flex-10 controller NICs 2 interconnect modules requires only 8 Flex-10 divides one 10Gb connection into 4 NIC ports, each with full hardware-level performance available to VM’s Each LOM /option card has 2 x10Gb ports 4x more NICs per server and the ability to fine-tune network bandwidth to match workload demands
123. VMware Networking Before Flex-10 VSwitch Uplinks (32/physical server) Applications Operating System Server NIC (VM Bridge) Virtual Machine VSwitch VNIC’s (4 per VM) Vmotion/ Service Console Backup Production NIC’s Teamed Production NICs ESX Server 1Gb Enet 1Gb Enet 1Gb Enet 1Gb Enet 1Gb Enet 1Gb Enet 4Gb FC 4Gb FC Interconnect Modules LOM & Mezz Cards App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS
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125. Pricing model (Includes I/O modules and NIC’s) Flex-10 is the best solution for any server configuration needing 4 or more NIC’s Solution price based on: 16 servers w/Dual Port Mezz cards @ $319 ea (4) VC 1/10Gb w/NICs = (2) Flex-10 VC 1/10 VC Flex-10 VC modules $22,796 $27,990 NIC’s $5,104 $0 Total $27,900 27,990
126. HP Virtual Connect 8Gb Fibre Channel Module Port LEDs Link and Activity 16x 8Gb Fibre Channel – Connects to one HBA port in each HH blade server bay Management Interfaces to Onboard Administrator 4x 2/4/8 Gb FC (SFP) Connects to data center Fibre Channel switches. Module LEDs Health and UID Port Number and Status Indicators Indicates whether a port is configured (green) or highlighted port (blue). MidPlane
127. HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 24-Port FC Module 8x 2/4/8 Gb FC Connects to data center Fibre Channel switches. Port LEDs Link and Activity Port Number & Status Indicators Indicates whether a port is configured (green) or highlighted (blue). MidPlane Module LEDs Health and UID SFP+ Transceivers Qty 2 Included 16x 8Gb FC – Connects to one HBA port in each HH blade server bay Mgmt Interfaces to Onboard Administrator
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143. Triple Data Center Capacity by managing power! 3x Opportunity Only HP can help here! Power (KW) Time (hrs) Total KWhr = energy bill ($$$) Actual power peak Power budgeted by facilities Real-time energy consumption Trapped Capacity Measure power Set power cap HP Dynamic Power Capping* with Insight Control: Real-time control of maximum power per server or enclosure Automatically maintain cap + = + Reclaim Data Center Capacity Insight Power Controller embedded on ProLiant Insight Control Insight Control Insight Control is key part of HP Thermal Logic to reduce power usage, reclaim unused power capacity and extend life of data center *Requires updated system ROM/BIOS and iLO 2 v1.70 firmware, Insight Power Manager (IPM) v2.0 Supported on DL380 G5 and DL360 G5, BL 2x220c, BL260c, BL460c G1, BL460c G5, BL465c G5, BL685c, BL495c
151. HP Insight Control suite Essential infrastructure management Reduce deployment time by 65% Reduce unplanned downtime by 77% Reduce system admin expenses by 70% Triple datacenter capacity Deploy servers quickly Manage health proactively Control from anywhere Optimize power confidently ROI – 563% І $48,380 reduction in expenses per 100 users І Payback 6 months
152. Insight Control suite HP SIM Management Foundation Unified Infrastructure Management Tuned for ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant Essentials Software Options RDP - Rapid Deployment Pack PMP – Performance Mgt. Pack VMM – Virtualization Mgt. Pack VPM – Vulner. & Patch Mgt. Pack IPM – Insight Power Manager SMP – Server Migration Pack Universal Edition Embedded Intelligent Infrastructure
159. Adaptive infrastructure Business-ready infrastructure in action Service Portal Supply Portal Service Requester Service Supplier Service Compliance Inventory Service Templates Service Catalog
160. HP BladeSystem Matrix Collapses cost & complexity for any workload One managed domain across 1000 physical servers and VM’s Affordable failover & Disaster Recovery-ready for all apps OS and hypervisors supported equally Open choice of Integrity, ProLiant, core network and SAN Resource Pool ERP CRM Data Warehouse Database Mail and Messaging File, Print, Infrastructure
161. What’s under the hood Virtual Connect virtualized LAN and SAN connections Insight Software Capacity Planning Orchestration Disaster Recovery StorageWorks EVA SAN with Disaster-Recovery Integrity and ProLiant blade servers All-in-One Services plus 0%, instant capacity financing
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166. How do I buy BladeSystem Matrix? Step 1: Buy a Starter kit HP factory/services install for you! Step 2: Add with Expansion kit 535888-B21 TB462A HA115A1-5NL 507021-B21 Expans. kit Expans. kit Expans. kit Buy with HP Financial Services for 0% lease programs and pay as you grow options…. BladeSystem Matrix Starter kit EVA4400 (optional) BladeSystem Matrix Expans. kit Expans. kit Expans. kit Expans. kit Expans. kit
167. Starter kit components 535888-B21 TB462A HA115A1-5NL included 570775-B21 2 3 4 5 1 (1) c7000 with all P/S, fans, redundant OA (2) Virtual Connect Flex-10 Eth, FC 8Gb (connecting to FC 8Gb HBAs) (3) Insight software (ID-VSE with HPIO and HPIR, and VC Enterprise Manager) (4) BL460c G6 for central management server (substitutable) (5) Factory/Factory Express services (6) Starter kit implementation service Just add configured blades and storage! For storage, HP offers a Matrix-optimized EVA4400 with pre-provisioned LUNs
168. Expansion kit components 507021-B21 (1) c7000 with all P/S, fans, redundant OA (2) Virtual Connect Flex-10 Eth, FC 8Gb (connecting to FC 8Gb HBAs) (3) Insight software (ID-VSE with HPIO and HPIR, and VC Enterprise Manager) Just add blades! 1 2 3
The new HP BladeSystem c-Class is maximum strength relief for the pain caused by the conventional, “racked, stacked and wired” infrastructure. No one likes change. IT managers despise it. But when change comes, everyone wants to be ready. Change is so painful because IT is hardwired and static and changing even the smallest thing requires a lot of manual coordination of a lot of really smart people to do very simple things. Imagine if you needed your whole family every morning to help you tie each of your shoes. Your wife has one lace, Timmy gets the other one, Sara holds the shoe and you shove the foot in it. It’s not unlike the process required to install or even to repurpose a server. With the HP Virtual Connect architecture, the new HP BladeSystem will make IT “Change-ready” for the first time. Dealing with power and cooling is a problem, no matter what you use to build IT. Most customers intuitively know this. If they aren’t experiencing this pain now, they know they will soon. But like any problem, you can’t take any action without understanding the cause. Your car can measure all kinds of thermal information and has all kinds of systems to deal with that automatically and more efficiently. And like a car, each datacenter has a limit to what it can power and cool. Going beyond that limit in the datacenter will cost you a lot more than a tow truck. Why doesn’t every IT component, rack, row and datacenter have this same kind of efficiency and control over power and cooling? With Thermal Logic technology, the new HP BladeSystem will make datacenters “Energy-savvy” for the first time. Do we want to say anything about just consuming less power? Time is money. Why do we so often over-look the most obvious and relevant truths? Of all the problems of with the’ “racked, stacked, and wired” IT, the biggest is the unnatural acts it forces to manage and maintain it. So much time on patching, monitoring, configuring, deploying and not enough on creating new applications and new services to help customers, partners and employees. One of HP’s main goals for the Infrastructure for an Adaptive Enterprise (NGDC) is to get server-to-administrator ratios up to 200:1. That means we have to get to a point where we spend no more than 5 days per server over a 3 year period. With Insight Control management, the new HP BladeSystem will make datacenters “Time-smart” for the first time. [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{7A79CE1E-5B45-4DA5-8C5D-9315A4AE465D}}
The Bottom line benefits… In comparison to the traditional racked and stacked world of rack-mounted servers, network devices, and shared storage devices… The HP BladeSystem provides you both lower capital costs (initial acquisition costs of servers, switches, power distribution, and shared storage devices), And, Lower operational costs in datacenter costs (wattage, cabling, space), and in management costs to provision and re-provision, upgrade and change your configurations. [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{DA5E2949-2C1C-4E0C-AE54-B9550259B49D}}
HP BladeSystem Family Update Rev.8.41 – HP Restricted HP offers a wide variety of Blade servers. We want to offer an equivalent of every rack server that we have in the Proliant BL family and equivalents to some of the rack servers we have in our Integrity family. There are two and four processor X86 servers, with both Intel and AMD varieties of X86 servers. There are multiple Integrity servers, based on the Intel Itanium product line. There are four series of Blades, two hundred, four hundred, six hundred and eight hundred series model numbers. An important distinction is that the two hundred series Blades tend to be lower cost. They’re equivalent to the Proliant BL100 series. These are popular with our SMB customers and also with high performance computing customers. The four hundred series Blades are our mainstream. This series represents the vast majority of Blades you’ll probably deal with in normal day to day operations. Generally, these are two-processor servers using either Intel or AMD X86 processors. The six hundred series Blades are four-processor servers. Current offerings are the BL680 and BL685, using quad-core Intel and AMD processors. Finally, the eight hundred series servers are Integrity servers. These are our high availability servers using the Intel Itanium product line.
HP BladeSystem Family Update Moving on to HP’s fierce competitor, IBM, HP’s key differentiators are similar to the other competition. For example, HP’s strategy offers more choices and value to its customers. We offer solutions from the small business all the way to the virtualized data center.
Most people see an empty box – I see a lot more. This empty box: Is consolidated from the start – out of the box to dramatically lower the cost to buy, build, run and maintain an infrastructure. It puts all the elements of the modern datacenter – power, cooling, connectivity, redundancy, security, compute, and storage – into a modular, right-sized and self-optimizing unit with agile intelligence. This box is the new basic building block of the next-generation of datacenters – our customers and HP’s. (60% space savings, +95% cable reduction, 25% less costly upfront) Wrapped in intelligence - with literally thousands of points of instrumentation, control and data collection 24x7, every second of every connection, all power and cooling, health and performance – out of the box (Velcro cut out on the box) Gives secure access to all that data at your fingertips in a brilliantly simple way through the Onboard Administrator . Technology and interface from VJ and the IPG team found on our world-famous printers and copiers. So our customers can deploy full featured infrastructure out-of-the box in less that 20 minutes. (Velcro cut out on the box) Includes redundancy for every component and connection inside it for no-single-point-of-failure - out of the box. (Velcro cut out on the box) Consolidates tremendous power capacity that adapts and optimizes itself to the most efficient level for any solution regardless of workload or component inside –so that anything you put in this box is ALWAYS more cost-effective to power. Out of the box. (Velcro cut out on the box) Includes more cooling capacity, monitoring and control – enough investment protection and air-cooling for a 50KW load -- out of the box – that adapts regardless of the performance and density you can through at it. (Velcro cut out on the box) Recognizes that it doesn’t live in isolation – so it includes not only 5 Tbps of aggregate bandwidth , opening performance - possibilities most customers have conceived of yet – but also unique way to connect to the other domains of the datacenter. Another HP-only innovation that will not only revolutionize how blades are connected to SAN and LAN, but also delight customers with the simplicity and flexibility that it delivers. (Velcro cut out on the box)
Wide variety of blades Server blades: Xeon, AMD and Itanium Innovative storage blade option(420GB) Enclosure-based shared storage IO devices on a blade Embedded devices on motherboard, or Optional devices on mezzanine cards (4Gb FC, up to 10GbE, IB) Supports External SANs & NAS Robust Server Blade feature sets Hot plug drives Integrated Lights out management Support for Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Infiniband, SAS connectivity [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{3F2F6388-ACAB-4BFE-8015-C5AED62BC72A}}
Power Envelope Up to 6 PS @ 2400W ea. 13500W capacity per enclosure Choice of single-phase or 3-phase enclosures Choice of N+N AC redundancy, or N+1 PS redundancy Power Management If needed, customers can constrain the maximum BTU’s per enclosure and rack. Cooling Improved cooling efficiency Reduced power consumption Easy Setup Cable-less server installation Enclosure manager wizard setup Multiple enclosure setup functions Optional redundant management module PARSEC architecture To optimize thermal design to support all customer configurations from 1 to 26 servers, with one to 10 fans, a relatively air tight manifold must be developed. It has a front section which the servers seal into when in use, and which has doors that seal off when servers are not in use. It has a rear section which the fans seal into when in use, and which has back flow preveters that seal when a fan does not rotate or is not installed. It has a middle section which wraps around the complex power and signal distribution midplanes, to ensure that air is properly metered from the 10 parallel fans to the 26 parallel servers when all or installed or the minimums are installed. These are 3 large snap together complex plastic, metal and gasket subassemblies [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{3B423D7E-E33B-45F7-A1A3-945FB3AA9BD0}}
Processor speeds are bit of a moving target due to the Intel changes to roadmap and absolutely no guarantees can be given to any customer on any frequency being supported, but it is likely we can support the 3.0 80W and 2.5 50W Quad-core parts. The 80W parts have not been through full thermal evaluation yet. Also support Linux boot from USB and its internal (optional to SATA HDD)
What is announcing The HP Smart Array P712M Controller is a mezzanine card PCI-Express (PCIE) supporting direct attach and shared SAS storage. Why this product now? Customers need more storage than what the internal storage of the BladeSystem with SB40c and SB600c provides. Also, customers want shared storage but do not want the cost and complexity of a SAN. The P712M Controller is one of the highest performing controllers in the SAS portfolio and provides new levels of reliability for HP Blade servers, through its support of the latest SCSI technology and advanced RAID capabilities. What’s new On the day of announcement, HP will announce these new features and functionality: Software — Consistency among all Smart Array family products: Array Configuration Utility, Systems Insight Manager, Array Diagnostic Utility (ADU) and SmartStart. 3Gb SAS technology — Delivers high performance and data bandwidth up to 300MBs per physical link and contains full compatibility with 1.5G SATA technology. RAID — P712M/512MB 72-bit wide DDR2-533MHz, battery-backed write cache supports RAID 6 with ADG, logical drive extension, and RAID migration Recovery ROM protects against a ROM corruption. Warranty The standard warranty is 3-0-0.
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What to highlight: 16 DIMMs, which means you can either have more memory than any other 2-processor blade; or you can buy the lower-cost 1GB and 2GB DIMMs and yet reach the same memory capacity that required more expensive 4GB DIMMs on other blades. Solid State Drives. These are non-hot plug; you have to remove the blade from the chassis and open it up to replace them. HP expects few people to actually used SSD – most people who deploy this blade will be doing boot-from-SAN – so these drives are really meant for booting only. If you need hot-plug SAS drives, you can either (a) use the BL465c; or (b) attach an SB40c storage blade next to the BL495c and get up to 6 hot-plug SAS drives in it. 10 gigabit ethernet controller. Two hypertransport links between the processors, instaed of the normal 1 – this means more throughput between processors. Other features are the same as the BL465c. [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{9F40273E-0FF4-46D9-9A39-CEB373CB7DCA}}
Data center workstation computing, without boundaries The HP ProLiant Blade Workstation solution is a next-generation workstation infrastructure that provides data center workstation computing without boundaries – by combining the centralized, mission-critical control and security of the data center with a seamless, workstation-class experience and the flexibility to support professionals in multiple work locations. It is the only solution of its kind, an innovative offering that is customer proven and now in its fourth generation – built with HP ProLiant quality and trading floor-tested reliability. Data center security and control The Centralized blade approach brings mission-critical security & operational continuity to workstation computing Supporting Details: Blade-driven computing keeps data in the data center, securely Multi-blade, multi-site capabilities improve business continuity Management toolset gives IT staff efficient, expert control , anywhere Customer Benefits: Risk protection - Manage technology exposures to your business operations Workstation-class experience Remote graphics innovation delivers a seamless and powerful workstation experience, in a small footprint Supporting Details: HP RGS delivers interactive performance for multi-display 2D/3D graphics and video Delivers workstation power to the client on-demand Greatly enhanced desk ergonomics (lowers power use, heat & noise) Customer Benefits: Work efficiency - Create an environment that empowers your professionals Multi-location flexibility Network-optimized access allows individuals or teams to work and collaborate, remotely and reliably Supporting Details: Reliably work locally or remotely over standard network connections Real-time collaboration enables teams to see and share information Multi-site connectivity enables a highly responsive, virtual workforce Customer Benefits: Business possibilities - Enables new business work models by eliminating distance barriers
With building blocks of the HP ProLiant WS460c G6 workstation blade, HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS), HP Session Allocation Manager (SAM), HP ProLiant BL c-class infrastructure, HP gt7725 Thin Client working seamlessly together, HP Blade Workstation Solution delivers datacenter class security, manageability and business continuity while retaining workstation class performance of a desktop system. The HP ProLiant Blade Workstation solution is a next-generation workstation infrastructure that provides data center workstation computing without the boundaries of one physical workspace. The solution combines the centralized, mission-critical control and security of the data center with a seamless, workstation-class experience and the flexibility to support professionals in multiple work locations. It is the only blade solution of its kind, built with HP ProLiant quality and trading floor-proven reliability. Strengthen compliance and security: Centralize desktop computing resources and information in the data center for tighter control and regulatory adherence. • Support outsourced and offshore teams: Easily manage your entire client environment, regardless of physical location, with a common infrastructure. • Enhance business continuity and disaster recovery: With all client content in the data center, you can protect assets with failover solutions and data replication. Users can access the power of the Workstation Blades from anywhere they have a network connection. • Meet the diverse needs of today’s alternative workforce: Serve workstation users with a flexible client solution that aligns to their specific application requirements for 2D and 3D graphics performance and multi-display.
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New Product Introduction for Employees and Channel Partners http://www.hp.com HP ProLiant WS460c G6 Workstation Blade Key features of the WS460c G6 Workstation Blade are: Up to two Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors, single core or dual core Up to 96GB DDR-3 memory Choice of graphics cards HP Onboard Administrator powered by Integrated Lights Out 2 management for deployment and remote management
New Product Introduction for Employees and Channel Partners http://www.hp.com Graphics mezzanine portfolio The three graphics mezzanine cards available for the WS460c G6 offer customers the flexibility to buy just the graphics capability they need: whether dual graphics, midrange 3D graphics for scientific research and manufacturing CAD, or high-performance 3D graphics. The primary differences between these mezzanine cards are the frame buffer size, cache size and the max power capability.
Make sure MSA 2000 is what is being referenced in this presentation. The StorageWorks division offers a complete portfolio of disk array systems, ranging from the entry level Modular Storage Array family, to the mid-range Enterprise Virtual Array and the XP family on the high end. XP DISK ARRAYS The XP disk arrays are large enterprise-class storage systems designed for organizations that simply cannot afford any downtime or tolerate any data loss. With the XP's ability to allocate capacity when needed, virtualize a variety of disk arrays, partition storage resources, and connect to many hosts, IT managers can now consolidate their data centers and operate them more efficiently. Combined with HP's disaster proof solutions, the XP disk arrays provide unfailing data protection when needed most. EVA DISK ARRAYS The HP StorageWorks 4100/4400/6100/8100 Enterprise Virtual Arrays offer customers in the mid-range to enterprise market place leading high performance, high capacity and high availability "virtual" array storage solutions. MSA DISK ARRAYS The HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 2000 selection of SAN devices features the very latest in efficient consolidation, functionality and technology at very affordable prices. The ideal customers needing to consolidate their storage include smaller companies with tight budgets and limited IT expertise, or larger companies that have perhaps hundreds of smaller departments and remote locations. [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{BDE6ECD0-6EE0-4F8E-9761-1E1822697661}}
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Built on the BL460c BladeSystem server and SB40c storage blade, the SB600c unifies internal shared application storage (iSCSI SAN), file serving (NAS), and integrated data protection all through the centralized HP AiO Storage Manager (ASM) interface. Integrating iSCSI shared storage, NAS file serving, and data protection services provides an efficient way to add storage capacity for the clients and servers at small IT sites. Rapid data growth of both unstructured file data and structured application date from database and e-mail means storage capacity requirements continue to evolve. The AiO SB600cintegrated solution allows for easy expansion of storage capacity within the BladeSystem enclosure. Application server storage (iSCSI SAN) Windows file serving (Windows NAS) Integrated data protection Radically simple management Designed for IT generalists with no storage expertise, the AiO Storage Manager eliminates complexity by automating storage tasks and presenting capacity in familiar application-centric terms, providing a simple way to control data growth. You chose to deploy an HP BladeSytem c-Class for your business and now you're looking at the storage options available for the c-Class enclosure. You need a solution that can provide shared storage for your c-Class application servers, enhanced file serving for end-user clients, and data protection software to keep your data safe and secure. These are the key functions of the HP StorageWorks All-in-One SB600c Storage Blade and together, they allow your business to lower costs, increase efficiencies, and respond to rapid data growth. The All-in-One Storage Blade is a radically simple, integrated, and affordable network storage solution that enables businesses to easily manage, grow, and protect their data without requiring them to become storage experts. The easy-to-use, All-in-One Storage Manager (ASM) interface reduces the time, expense, and expertise required to keep up with rapidly growing applications like Microsoft Exchange. Busy IT Managers do not have time to learn complex storage technologies; ASM eliminates this barrier by handling all underlying storage tasks and presenting network storage in application-centric terms, giving administrators newfound levels of control. Data migration tools for Exchange 2003/2007 and SQL Server 2000/2005 include best practice recommendations which allow any IT generalist to look like a storage expert. Tools for hosting user defined applications enable flexible deployment in many different environments. Administrators can quickly and easily setup or expand data areas, migrate data from capacity constrained servers, implement disk and tape backup policies, and more. Now you can have a simple, affordable, and reliable network storage solution that provides many of the management, consolidation, and data protection features typically reserved for higher-priced and more complex storage products.
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HP c-Class BladeSystem greatly enhances the variety and performance of interconnect options. The rear of the enclosure includes an Interconnect Bay accommodating 8 single-wide or 4 double-wide interconnect modules. All of our interconnect modules plug directly into these interconnect bays. If you need redundancy, then use two of the same kind of module, side-by-side. CLICK With managed switch modules that plug into the bays, you can reduce your cable count with your favorite Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches from Cisco, Brocade, and others. Caution – We haven’t made the final decision of whether to offer a McData FC switch, so if someone asks about McData, tell them we haven’t decided whether to offer McData but that even if we don’t, we have another solution to meet their needs (Virtual Connect). You’ll also be able to get InfiniBand connectivity now through a high-performance 4X, DDR InfiniBand switch. Note that IBM just announced a 4X InfiniBand blade switch for their BladeCenter2. Though they haven’t identified it yet, we believe their switch is only SDR (single data rate) but ours will be DDR (double data rate clock speed) which will provide twice the performance of the IBM 4X InfiniBand switch! CLICK And we’ll continue to offer Ethernet and Fibre Channel pass-through modules for those situations where you must have direct 1 to 1 connections between your servers and LAN and SAN. Taking into account the cost of cables, transceivers, director-class switch ports, and so on, the pass-through approach is generally the most expensive connection alternative. So, we recommend that you use it only when you have no other choice. (We are also significantly increasing the price of pass-thru modules to steer more business in the direction of Virtual Connect or Managed Switches) CLICK And a new kind of interconnect - Virtual Connect – Simply the best connection to your networks. (Don’t dwell on this statement, move right on to the next slide.) [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{AAB849E6-7085-4475-B326-4A0ACA075938}}
The next two summary slides show the flexibility of the port mapping Here is a half height server with 2 lane connections to switch ports. We ran these traces to support GbE, FC, 10Gb (4-lane), 10Gb serial, IB 4x, Assuming a fully loaded enclosure, Half height servers can use up to 8 I/O ports. In this case there are 10 ports on this server, so 2 are reserved Notice that Mezz 2 has 2 switch ports going to one pair of switches, and 2 ports directed to another pair. [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{A99D0CDC-3912-47E0-A462-A61EEE70CB88}}
The next two summary slides show the flexibility of the port mapping Here is a half height server with 2 lane connections to switch ports. We ran these traces to support GbE, FC, 10Gb (4-lane), 10Gb serial, IB 4x, Assuming a fully loaded enclosure, Half height servers can use up to 8 I/O ports. In this case there are 10 ports on this server, so 2 are reserved Notice that Mezz 2 has 2 switch ports going to one pair of switches, and 2 ports directed to another pair.
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This slide shows the networking side of the datacenter infrastructure. HP ProCurve offers products for TOR ( 6600 series), EOR (8212 series )and provisioning & management ( DCM ). We now also offer blade switches which help connect the bladesystem infrastructure with the networking piece in a seamless way, thus offering end-to-end HP solution.
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HP is introducing the IO accelerator as part of a comprehensive solid state storage portfolio. It offers the Equivalent storage performance of multiple disks. This device is targeted for markets & applications requiring high transaction rates and real-time data access that will benefit from application performance enhancement. NOT raw capacity! 80 to 320 GB Mezz card form factor Higher Performance High IOPs performance (up to 100K IOPs) Fast read and writes ( up to 800 MB/s) Low latency access to storage (~50 microseconds) Low power consumption Reduces Power Cost Reduced Cooling Costs Reduced Rack Space Enhances Business Critical Applications Financial Transactions 3D Rendering Data Mining Servers BL460c G1, 465c G5, 680c G5, 685c G5, 260c G5, 2x220c G5, BL495c OS Support RHEL 4,5 ; SLES 10, (64 bit support only) Windows x86-64 2003, 2008 (64 bit support only) Capacity 80 GB, 160 GB, 320 GB mezzanine version Configurations Mixing allowed, Up to 2 on HH blade, 3 on FH blade Management SNMP – P0; SMH Web template – P1 HPSIM, HPSUM – P1 Support 3/0/0 warranty; customer replaceable, ISEE/RDP (in work), Standard Blade HW Carepack Documentation Install manual, User guide (English and Japanese), white papers (pre-sales) SW RAID SW RAID 0, 1 (MSFT, Linux (LVM, MD))
Pass-thru modules can drown you in cables densely stacking servers together with lots of Ethernet & Fibre Channel connections can lead to hundreds of cables floods of cables are unreliable – leading to human error in disconnecting the right ones, accidentally pulling more than one out, and lots of confusion Patch panels or pass-thru modules are usually the most expensive way to connect. High cost of installation and the Catalyst Ethernet or Brocade director class fibre channel switch ports and transceivers at the other end of the wire add up to a lot of expense. Switches work great but can overwhelm in numbers Switches greatly reduce the number of cables. Our Switches from Cisco, Nortel, Brocade, and McData work great. We have the best brands in the industry and they’re built especially for HP BladeSystem to interoperate smoothly with your networks. But, Blade Servers add lots of small switches into LAN and SAN networks, which then have to be managed by the LAN & SAN administrators. One Cisco Catalyst 6513 aggregation switch can connect to over 425 server ports compared with our switches connecting to 16 ports. Our blade switches can add switches at 26x the rate that they would add their standard Catalyst 6513 switches into their network! Each Fibre Channel switch defines a new FC domain. Many customers don’t have enough domains available to use them up on these small switches. LANs & SANs must follow the moving Server In any server system (Blade Server or not) when a server is added, moved, or deleted the LAN & SAN must be adjusted, which means the LAN & SAN admins must help in normal server activities. The reason is that regardless of addressing method used, Ethernet packets ultimately get to the right server by the MAC addresses on its NICs. Likewise Fibre Channel packets get to the server using the World Wide Names (or World Wide ID) on its HBAs. If a server goes away it takes its NICs with it and if a spare server with new NICs is installed, then the LAN needs to be told about the change and its tables updated. The same thing happens for the HBAs and the SAN. This means that server adds, moves, or changes require changes in the LAN and SAN and the help of those LAN & SAN admins. This is normal, but a lot of trouble for the LAN & SAN admins and delays changes by the Server admin until he can coordinate everyone’s schedules to accomplish the work. [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{F2CB7E69-0C3F-43E3-8DCA-FA0C21F05975}}
Virtual Connect solves all of these problems, makes your servers change-ready and makes everyone more productive. Virtual Connect virtualizes the BladeSystem connections with the LAN & SAN. It establishes the MAC Addresses for all NICs and World Wide Names for all HBAs, then holds them constant in software so that even if the bare-metal server goes away, the MAC addresses and WWNs stay constant. Then when a new server takes its place, those same MAC addresses and WWNs are assigned to it. The LAN and SAN never see any changes. Likewise, you can add servers, move them, or replace at will and Virtual Connect manages the connections so the LAN and SAN are always connected to the right servers and never see a change that requires adjusting the LAN or SAN. This is all done according to IEEE standards for locally administered MAC addresses and World Wide Names, so there is no magic here just very creative engineering. You get the cable reduction without adding any switches to manage. Using an Ethernet Bridge and a Fibre Channel HBA Aggregator, the Virtual Connect Modules make your server connections look like a bunch of NICs & HBAs to the LAN & SAN. This means that if you are a Cisco or Brocade shop, you can continue to gain the benefits of end-to-end Cisco or Brocade. You are not adding any other brands of switches that can conflict with the special protocols of your preferred network brands. It also cleanly separates the Server area of responsibility from that of LAN and SAN. No more sharing the same chassis. One of the greatest benefits is that SAN & LAN admins no longer need to help with server moves, changes, or additions. It gives them back the time they would have spent on this and frees up the server admin from delaying changes while coordinating schedules with the other groups. We can solve all of these problems and provide this extra flexibility because Virtual Connect has unique access to embedded management and communications capabilities of the HP BladeSystem. In addition to the hardware and software in its modules, it uses iLO, Onboard Administrator, and other internal functions to bring this total solution to your benefit. Other suppliers will offer partial answers for some of these problems, but only HP has the understanding & access to the BladeSystem internal communications & control elements to offer you a complete solution. Because Virtual Connect saves server profile and the server is stateless, getting back up and running with a new bare metal server is very fast. No need to load drivers, etc. Avitage Item ID: {{B2B7A647-0AC8-4E4C-99F3-F51B99623C6B}}
2 SKUs Virtual Connect – Ethernet Module Virtual Connect – FC Module Plug into interconnect bays instead of switches or pass-thru modules Must have Ethernet Module in order to install FC because the Virtual Connect Manager software runs on a processor on the Ethernet Module Ethernet has sixteen 1GbE downlinks to servers (connected across the signal midplane), eight 1GbE uplinks to network (RJ45 copper Ethernet connectors), two 10GbE connectors (for copper CX4 cables), one 10 GbE internal inter-switch link (across signal midplane) for a failover connection between Virtual Connect Modules. A Virtual Connect domain can include up to four HP c-Class BladeSystem enclosures for a total of 64 servers. Within the domain, any server can access any LAN or SAN, and a server can be spared by a server in a different enclosure, and so on. By stacking (cabling) the Ethernet modules within the domain, every server blade in the domain can be configured to access any external network connection. FC modules within different enclosures are each connected directly to the same set of FC SAN(s)*. With this configuration, the Virtual Connect Manager can deploy and migrate a server blade IO profile across all four enclosures without any need for external LAN or SAN configurations. To Virtual Connect, all four enclosures act as one. * Stacking support for FC modules is not provided, so connections to the SAN from each enclosure is required. This should normally be okay because 1) there are normally very few SANs and each enclosure will be connected to all of them, and 2) this avoids high oversubscription rates (caused by stacking) which can be a problem with FC. The key is to make sure that all SANs are connected to all enclosures within the Virtual Connect Domain. Fibre Channel has sixteen 4Gb Fibre Channel downlinks to servers, four 1/2/4Gb auto-sensing Fibre Channel uplinks to network When you use Virtual Connect Modules, you are putting your BladeSystem into Virtual Connect Ethernet Mode, and the system will not accept Ethernet Pass-Thru or Switch modules. The other devices would conflict with Virtual Connect and hamper the benefits of that experience. Fibre Channel works the same way. Fundamentally though, customers who believe Virtual Connect is the right solution will not want to mix them with other Ethernet or FC interconnect modules. Avitage Item ID: {{476181B4-C7FC-49EB-82C2-AA51789A0024}}
For 1Gb uplink capability , the Virtual Connect Fiber Module will provide (2) 1Gb SFP ports for either Fiber SFP or RJ-45 Copper. There is an additional (4) built in RJ-45 copper uplink ports for a total of (6) 1Gb uplinks. The server downlink ports operate at 1Gb identical to the 1/10Gb copper only module that is shipping today. For 10Gb connectivity to the data center, there are (2) built-in XFP ports that support a variety of 10Gb Fiber connections. Additionally, a copper CX4 port can be used to stack inside an enclosure with other Fiber or Copper modules, or can be used as an uplink to a switch. Like the VC module we ship today, there is also an internal 10Gb interswitch link that is used to connect two modules together, side-by-side in an enclosure for a redundant configuration. Like the copper version, the fiber version can use any uplink or combination of uplinks for stacking between modules in an enclosure for cable consolidation. The product will ship with version 1.2 from the factory and is not backwards compatible in 1.1x firmware because all of the basic supporting hardware elements are not in those earlier versions. This 10Gb fiber product will be introduced at a slight premium over the copper only version. [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{7DE0CB22-26A0-4AB5-A641-3319AC70711B}}
Slide 9: With VC Flex10 you can evolve to 10Gb- at your own speed! Flex10 NICs are PCI physical function devices, that are OS independant and the server ROM recognizese them as independant NICs. Each 10Gb Flex10 LOM /option card has 2 physical 10Gb ports It Offers unprecedented control over the amount of network connections Allows flexible bandwidth within each physical server And you can wire once – then add, replace, and recover servers in minutes (as you can already with VC today)
VMware architecture is very elegant and sophisticated. Each Virtual Machine has its own processor/memory complex along with Disk and Ethernet devices emulated in software. Within the VM Hypervisor layer there are software switches which have “uplink” connections to a hardware NIC in the server. A physical server will have multiple Virtual machines and many Ethernet software switches associated with the physical server NIC”s. Shown here is the minimum hardware configuration of 6 physical NIC’s. As you can see there is potentially a lot of traffic supported on each NIC and a lot of network infrastructure supporting all of those connections. [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{CFDDDB76-5FE3-4815-98C2-9FA4B3BE6CDF}}
Flex-10 optimizes Virtual Machine Traffic by providing a greater number of physical NIC’s per server and each connection bandwidth optimized for the application. HP customers gain these technical benefits along with the cost benefit of a reduction in I/O modules required to support the NIC’s. This free’s up the enclosure to support more or different I/O fabrics in the future. [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{81B74F17-3E66-4642-BE26-11700183F95D}}
See table on right for four NIC configuration. The key takeaway for this graphic is compared to 1Gb Cisco or other 1Gb VC alternatives, Flex-10 is at price parity with 1Gb VC in a four server NIC configuration. Beyond four NIC”s there is a clear cost advantage. Most VM customers need a minimum of 6 NIC’s and most need 8 or more. Customer needing just two NIC’s per server may not be a candidate Flex-10 unless they are using full 10Gb on each NIC port for specialized applications. [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{8A28F6D8-6097-4B63-8DB3-4532D24B30D1}}
With Dynamic Enclosure Power Capping running the OA continuously monitors the power usage of each blade. If blade reaches it’s power cap, and therefore it’s performance is being impacted, it can request more power from the OA. The OA will then check for blades that are not close to their power caps. These blades will have their power caps reduced and the blade requesting more power will have it’s power cap raised so that it can increase performance to complete the work. The animation shows the power caps being transferred around the enclosure
Let’s talk first about the power capping capabilities in Insight Control When it comes to power usage, most customers never fully use the power budgeted or pulled into the data center. That is primarily because a typical server consumes only about 1/3 rd of the face plate power rating for that server. Customers typically provision power based on that face plate rating, and they do not know how much is being consumed, they do not really know that they are throwing away unused capacity What Thermal Logic essentially does is allow customers to Triple their Data Center Capacity by managing the power usage. A key element of that strategy in addition to using lower wattage and highly efficient power supplies is to cap the power usage. Now why is power capping important? Using Insight Control, a customer can measure how much power is used by a server, or a group or servers or an enclosure of servers. As mentioned before, what customers will find is that the power usage is typically 1/3 rd the actual face plate rating. So if they were deploying servers based on the face plate rating, they will now realize that they can fit in about 3 times more the number of servers within the power that they have already provisioned for the data center What customers will also find when they measure power usage using Insight Control is that there are peaks of power usage every now and then based on the nature of the application running on that server. If they provision 3x the number of servers to reclaim the trapped power capacity, there is a chance that they might exceed the total power available when these peaks happen which result in them blowing their circuits. So in order to protect from blowing their circuits, a sure way of protection is to cap the power usage so that it will never exceed the maximum that is available. So Power Capping essentially ensures that customers can triple their data center capacity with the confidence that they will not blow their circuits This capability is truly unique from HP with select ProLiant and BladeSystem servers and enables customers to get more from a data center deployed on ProLiant and BladeSystem HP Insight Control Environment 3.00 introduces Dynamic Power Capping and power management alerts for ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure. These new capabilities increase the number of servers that can be deployed per circuit by as much as 36%. Dynamic Power Capping for single servers allows you to safely reclaim unused power and cooling capacity by limiting power usage without risk or performance degradation or circuit over-subscription Requires updated system ROM/BIOS and iLO 2 v1.70 firmware, Insight Power Manager (IPM) v2.0 Supported DL servers: HP ProLiant DL380 G5 and DL360 G5 Dynamics Power Capping for BladeSystem enclosures delivers additional savings by allowing an enclosure level power budget to be dynamically shared across multiple ProLiant BL servers Requires updated system ROM/BIOS and iLO 2 v1.70 firmware, Insight Power Manager (IPM) v2.0, Onboard Administrator (OA) v2.30 Supported blade servers: HP ProLiant BL 2x220c, BL260c, BL460c G1, BL460c G5, BL465c G5, BL685c, BL495c Power management alerts help you optimize Dynamic Power Capping settings by informing you when power caps have been reach at the server or enclosure level [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{F9F5245F-1A7B-43A2-BFBE-9926A80C9EC3}}
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Insight Control management software for HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem infrastructures - integrated management software that addresses all your server management needs from almost anywhere - and simplified in a single package for easy deployment and installation. Total control means you have all of the capabilities to ensure a stable infrastructure. More specifically, it gives you the ability to detect and address hardware issues before they cause service disruptions. That also applies to system software and firmware – HP gives you the ability to manage version updates efficiently and proactively. You also have the tools to optimize performance by identifying bottlenecks before they affect productivity. Total control also means you are able to efficiently take preventive actions that maximize your resistance to malicious threats. And, you are able to completely control your infrastructure regardless of its state or your location. HP enables these capabilities with tools based on industry standards and complimented with industry leading innovation. With a stable environment, you’re also able to adapt to your constantly changing business environment. Maximum flexibility means you can quickly deploy IT services as well as consolidate your infrastructure through your choice of virtualization technology and manage transparently across physical and virtual environments. You can apply new resources rapidly to meet business demands and migrate to new technology using simplified and automated processes. And you can ensure maximum server and facilities utilization and performance with automated workload balancing and effective power management. All of these capabilities drive the tangible savings that are enabled by a best run server infrastructure. These benefits represent the true value to your business – they lay the foundation for delivering reliable IT services efficiently and responsively to meet the demands of your business. [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{2E9B1618-853A-40EF-AEA1-FD303675ADD2}}
Reduce unplanned downtime by 77% * - (IDC “Gaining Business Value and ROI with HP Systems Insight Manager, May 2007) Reduce deployment time by 65% ** - Polaris Industries Case Study 2006 – HP Rapid Deployment Pack Reduce system admin expenses *** - IDC White Paper sponsored by HP, “Gaining Business Value and ROI with HP Insight Control”, Feb 2008 Triple datacenter capacity **** -Test HP ran in the performance lab. Not using Dynamic Power Capping and went by the power supply faceplate one could only fit 7 DL380 servers on an 8600 KW circuit. With Insight Power Manager and Dynamic Power capping they would be able to fit 23 servers. HP Insight Control Environment management suite is the essential infrastructure management suite for every HP G6 server. Whether an HP BladeSystem or HP ProLiant server, always consider ICE and an essential part of your server. Don’t leave home without it. ROI – 563%* $48,380 reduction in expenses* Payback 6 months *Source: “Gaining Business Value and ROI with HP Insight Control,” IDC, February 2008. A Worldwide study of real customers using at least one element and as many as five elements of the Insight Control management suite. ICE provides an essential set of infrastructure management functionality that every G6 server can/should consider using. This functionality includes a complete set of lifecycle management tools including: RDP for rapid software image deployment, It too extends the power of Insight Control to BladeSystem, creating a single, consistent management environment for rapid deployment, health and performance monitoring, vulnerability and patch management, power management, lights-out remote control and also virtual machine management. The virtual machine management component bundled is one of the integrated differences of the HP Insight Control Environment management suite and the HP Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem management suite. Ideal targeting is the same as Insight Control Environment management suite other than using this suite specifically for BladeSystem servers.
Training Express Monthly Webinars Sales & GTM Center of Expertise Insight Control represents an easier way to purchase, install, and use the management capabilities you need to deliver stable infrastructure for IT service delivery and that give you the flexibility to respond efficiently to the demands of the business. By combining the HP’s industry-leading embedded management with HP Systems Insight Manager and ProLiant Essentials Software, Insight Control provided complete lifecycle management of your ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure. Capabilities range from… rapid and repeatable deployment of ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure; to monitoring and control that helps pinpoint and resolve problems whether they are occur onsite on in a remote office across the country. Insight Control also helps protect systems from security vulnerabilities by patching newly deployed systems with the latest set of updates from Microsoft and Red Hat and helps optimize resource utilization by through simply workload migration and facilitating unified management of physical and virtual infrastructure. Finally, Insight Control works with what you have providing hooks into leading enterprise management platforms such as HP Software products and Microsoft Operations Manager.
HP delivers unified server and storage management through HP Systems Insight Manager which provides core services such as discovery, identification, security, fault management and event management for HP servers and storage. ProLiant Essentials, Integrity Essentials and Storage Essentials software extend the value of the base platform with tools targeted at the domain expert to meet specific infrastructure needs, such as virtual sever management, system migration, performance management, vulnerability scanning, patch management, storage topology mapping, resource audition etc. Because these tools integrate into the base product they operate through a consistent user interface and leverage base HP SIM capabilities for discovery, identification, etc. This enables systems administrators to get up to speed quickly and enhances opportunities for successful cross-training between groups. Insight Control management introduces an additional group of Essentials software designed to meet the specific needs of HP BladeSystem infrastructures. BladeSystem Essentials are integrated suites of software that build upon intelligent hardware infrastructure technology and other Essentials products to deliver more effective deployment and lifecycle management for BladeSystem The first two offerings under the BladeSystem Essentials group ate Insight Control Data Center Edition and Insight Control Linux Edition Note: This slide is meant to speak to the strategy. Don’t talk about product details here. Wait until later in the deck to discuss product details. [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{925908B8-BC3E-419C-B809-27B9C808E0F2}}
Virtual machines do nothing to alter the fact that physical servers must be purchased and installed, nor do they simplify the provisioning to other data center resources.
Virtual machines do nothing to alter the fact that physical servers must be purchased and installed, nor do they simplify the provisioning to other data center resources.
TRANSITION: The key point here is simplify through standardization. One pool of infrastructure that you can carve up to suit the needs of many workloads. We are now able to address upwards of 90% of all workloads now within ONE environment. The environment can scale very large – up to 1000 nodes in a domain. TRANSITION TO NEXT SLIDE: Let’s take a look at the old way versus the Matrix so I can point out how this drives out physical complexity and cost for the customer. DR-ready and HA for every workload/app in the environment A choice of all Integrity and ProLiant blades to tailor to the needs of different apps And a choice of OS and hypervisor – an agnostic view.
(1) c7000 enclosure – provides the basic blade infrastructure (we are using a standard available c7000 enclosure, fully loaded with all power supplies, fans and a redundant Onboard Administrator) (2) Virtual Connect Ethernet and FC modules – a redundant pair of each of these are included in the solution; these are required to provide virtualized and manageable virtualized connectivity, for more rapid provisioning of servers including their connection to the data center fabrics. Also, these are required for us to move physical server blade identities around simply by moving their logical server/connection profiles – this provides flexibility for failover and recovery scenarios, test/dev to production, dynamic resources additions, reprovisioning, and more. (3) Insight Software management software licenses – this list of software consists of our entire ProLiant-based management software capabilities – (we are currently considering adding Insight Recovery as well although it’s not listed here yet). This includes: Insight Orchestration, Insight Dynamics – VSE (which in turn includes Insight Control and Server Migration Pack – Universal Edition), and Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager. We would include 16-server licenses in this package, to ensure the ability to license an entire enclosure full of our half-height blades. The management software provides the central console for designing/architecting application infrastructures (via templates), provisioning or reprovisioning those infrastructure resources, monitoring/advising on resource utilization, and performing any number of basic and advanced operational use cases such as X2Y consolidation, automated node failover, site recovery, and much more, all from one powerful interface. (4) Implementation service – this is a mandatory “soup to nuts setup” service that comes with the Starter Kit to set up the entire environment at the customer’s site. This is a packaged service that is flexible to the customer’s needs and provides some knowledge transfer to the customer. It includes the setup of the key blade components, Virtual Connect, storage connectivity, and setup and configuration of the management server, as well as provisioning of up to 4 (2 physical and 2 virtual) logical servers. (5) Server blades, operating systems, hypervisors – customers are encouraged to purchase their blades, including with custom or standard OS/application images (with Factory Express capabilities). Our compatibility list for the Matrix solution includes almost all shipping ProLiant and Integrity blades. (6) Central management server – this is a server that a customer needs to have available or purchase with their order to serve as the server host for their management software. This can be any rackable server (blade or rackmount ProLiant) that meets the minimum system requirements for the central management server. (7) EVA 4400 – the Matrix product team has customized the configuration and setup of the EVA 4400 for customers wanting to purchase a turnkey SAN array, ready to go with their solution and ready for booting from SAN. We actually will support any BladeSystem-certified SAN array target in a customer’s environment that has been properly configured for booting from SAN and has properly presented and zoned LUNs (i.e. StorageWorks XP, EVA, MSA, or from any of the primary 3rd party SAN vendors such as EMC, Hitachi, and IBM).
(1) c7000 enclosure – provides the basic blade infrastructure (we are using a standard available c7000 enclosure, fully loaded with all power supplies, fans and a redundant Onboard Administrator) (2) Virtual Connect Ethernet and FC modules – a redundant pair of each of these are included in the solution; these are required to provide virtualized and manageable virtualized connectivity, for more rapid provisioning of servers including their connection to the data center fabrics. Also, these are required for us to move physical server blade identities around simply by moving their logical server/connection profiles – this provides flexibility for failover and recovery scenarios, test/dev to production, dynamic resources additions, reprovisioning, and more. (3) Insight Software management software licenses – this list of software consists of our entire ProLiant-based management software capabilities – (we are currently considering adding Insight Recovery as well although it’s not listed here yet). This includes: Insight Orchestration, Insight Dynamics – VSE (which in turn includes Insight Control and Server Migration Pack – Universal Edition), and Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager. We would include 16-server licenses in this package, to ensure the ability to license an entire enclosure full of our half-height blades. The management software provides the central console for designing/architecting application infrastructures (via templates), provisioning or reprovisioning those infrastructure resources, monitoring/advising on resource utilization, and performing any number of basic and advanced operational use cases such as X2Y consolidation, automated node failover, site recovery, and much more, all from one powerful interface. (4) Implementation service – this is a mandatory “soup to nuts setup” service that comes with the Starter Kit to set up the entire environment at the customer’s site. This is a packaged service that is flexible to the customer’s needs and provides some knowledge transfer to the customer. It includes the setup of the key blade components, Virtual Connect, storage connectivity, and setup and configuration of the management server, as well as provisioning of up to 4 (2 physical and 2 virtual) logical servers. (5) Server blades, operating systems, hypervisors – customers are encouraged to purchase their blades, including with custom or standard OS/application images (with Factory Express capabilities). Our compatibility list for the Matrix solution includes almost all shipping ProLiant and Integrity blades. (6) Central management server – this is a server that a customer needs to have available or purchase with their order to serve as the server host for their management software. This can be any rackable server (blade or rackmount ProLiant) that meets the minimum system requirements for the central management server. (7) EVA 4400 – the Matrix product team has customized the configuration and setup of the EVA 4400 for customers wanting to purchase a turnkey SAN array, ready to go with their solution and ready for booting from SAN. We actually will support any BladeSystem-certified SAN array target in a customer’s environment that has been properly configured for booting from SAN and has properly presented and zoned LUNs (i.e. StorageWorks XP, EVA, MSA, or from any of the primary 3rd party SAN vendors such as EMC, Hitachi, and IBM).
Each Matrix Starter Kit includes Matrix Implementation Services. These Implementation Services begin with the racking, cabling, and configuration of the systems in the Factory. All of this information is then passed to the Technology Services team in the field, which completes the installation, startup, and orientation at the customer’s site. Once the Implementation Service is completed, the customer has a fully functional Matrix solution. Also included in the Matrix Starter Kit are hardware repair services, and software support services for all of the included hardware and software components. These services can be augmented by uplifts to a higher level-of-service such as Committed Call-to-Repair services or Mission Critical support services; also available are optional Care Packs of services to continue support beyond the warranty period. Of course, Matrix customers may choose from the entire portfolio of Bladesystem and Virtualization services available from Technology Services. This portfolio includes extensive ‘up front’ assessment and advisory services ranging from Data Center Design through Power and Cooling, through Data Center Operations assistance. Virtualization consulting and implementation services are available from our Solutions Implementation Practice. Support for products added to a Matrix solution is available as well – including installation and startup services, and support services. HP Education Services offers best-in-class training on each of the key HP technologies which encompass our Blade Matrix solution. This includes training on c-Class blades, Enterprise Virtual Array storage products, as well as our Insight Control, Virtual Connect, and Insight Dynamics-VSE software products. We also partner with VMware and Microsoft to offer training on their hypervisors and applications as well. HP education services leverages HP’s ownership of these proprietary technologies and our partnerships with VMware and Microsoft to offer instruction and course materials from the very experts that create, manage, and enhance these technologies. These training offerings are available worldwide in a variety of training formats, including traditional classroom, dedicated on-sites, and on-line."
KEY POINTS: HP invests significant resources to qualify a broad range of servers, storage and networking technology with VMware virtualization software. In addition to the basic certification, HP provides the tools to make it easy to create the optimal supported configuration. HP provides a reliable, robust platform for virtualization with VMware. HP is the world’s leading brand for x86 servers, storage, management software, services and support. Building on this core strength, HP ProLiant servers and HP BladeSystem provide an ideal platform for virtualization on industry-standard hardware. With HP, you have the added assurance that comes with hardware and software that have been certified for VMware. HP tests and qualifies many of its products with VMware. This includes drivers, management agents, installation software and more. Certification allows you to run your business-critical applications with confidence, knowing HP has tested key components within the virtualized stack. Today, HP has more certified platforms for VMware than any other vendor. More than 30 HP ProLiant server models have been certified for use with ESX Server.* … For details, see the VMware “System Compatibility Guide for ESX Server” at: www.vmware.com/pdf/esx_systems_guide.pdf By using HP BladeSystem, you can leverage the performance, density and low power consumption of server blades. A smaller solution footprint helps you make the most of the valuable space in your data center, and attachment to a storage area network (SAN) is economical. Avitage Item ID: {{193E03C2-3D5E-47FA-92D3-EAF41A691322}}
Web Server (licensed per Server) License allow 1 physical or virtual server New: allows any type of database software used to run Web Server for unlimited users (Win2003 version only allowed database not used for enterprise apps and allowed max 25 connections) Standard Edition (licensed per Server) now licensed as “1+1” = 1 physical + 1 virtual license (Win2003 versions = “1 or 1”) Hyper-V features not supported in Standard Edition include Quick Migration (requires Clustering) Enterprise Edition (licensed per Server) No changes from previous licensing model Datacenter Edition (licensed per physical Processor) No changes from previous licensing model Itanium Edition (licensed per physical Processor) Only single edition will have same licensing scheme as previous datacenter edition, but won’t use “Datacenter” in the name Client Access Licenses (CALs) Windows Server 2008 CALs Windows Server 2008 Rights Management Services (RMS) CALs Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services (TS) CALs Each CAL available either for machine or user (same price) Machine CAL useful for multiple users per client (Callcenter) User CAL useful for multiple clients per user (Worker user with desktop + laptop + phone etc.) External Connector License For use with external users, such as non-employees such as business partners Allows access to server by unlimited number of external users Separate External Connector licenses available for RMS and TS All WS2008 license options include downgrade license for use with WS2003R2 / WS2003 / WS2000 of same type SMB market editions: Cougar - Small Business Server (includes Exchange 2007) => only x64 Centro - Medium Business Server (includes Exchange 2007) => only x64
All the ProLiant Essentials courses have been rewritten to reflect the new Insight Control Environment software. Two introductory web-based courses, signified by the AAE post-script are available via the ITRC ( www.itrc.hp.com ). Attendance on the ICE Foundation is highly recommended as an introduction to the ICE suite of software and understanding the features, before taking further training on specific product lines. As a global VATC, HP Education use VMware authorised courseware and instructors leading to VMware Certified Professional. HE616 Optional Labs workshop is not included in the curriculum track because it’s UK specific. HB515sR indicates a RAIL delivery and is currently delivered by WW.
Factory Express is our portfolio of factory-based services that provide configured solutions from the factory along with the deployment services that a customer may need…..all within a single service portfolio. This portfolio complements the field delivered services and provides another deployment option for Customers. We’ve enhanced the Factory Express offering for blades to make better use of HP’s factory capabilities and to be able to offer the customers the services that they require to help them be successful with their blade implementation This means that we can offer a first-time blade user the comprehensive services they need, while also being able to offer an experienced blade user the opportunity to leverage HP’s factory capabilities but have the flexibility to purchase only the services they need. For a 1st time deployment of blades to a customer, we want to provide them an end-to-end services solution that covers all of the key areas required to implement a blade solution This means reviewing their datacenter to ensure the site can accommodate the blade solution Pre-delivery Site Environmental Review Perform the hardware and software configuration in the factory so that the customer’s solution can be up and running much quicker with minimal disruption to their datacenter environment Provide them with the onsite installation and turn-on of the solution to ensure a successful deployment And the key to the new strategy is to provide them with an onsite familiarization session where we will provide them with knowledge of the blade solution and how to use the RDP and SIM tools to help them manage their blade environment on an ongoing basis Expanding Existing Blade Infrastructure Now for customer’s who are already successfully using HP BladeSystems, they can still utilize Factory Express Experienced customers don’t always need full offering Instead of purchasing the full end-to-end service solution they can just utilize HP’s rack and stack capabilities with an option for onsite installation if they desire This allows them to leverage HP’s factory infrastructure instead of having to perform the integration activities themselves [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{AFF926FB-4F6B-4510-959D-963F9EEF7D45}}
Software update, support services for Open Source and Linux environments provides high quality support with a wide range of purchase options giving flexible response times and coverage windows ranging form standard office day, and 7 day 24 hours with a maximum response time of 2 hours. For customers with mission critical contract cover, response time is immediate for major system outages. These software support service provides customers with fast reliable access via one of HP’s 16 customer support centres to an HP engineer who works with the customer to provide advice on software features and use, problem diagnosis and resolution, software defect identification. Help with problems encountered with installation and installation methodologies. A virtual network has been developed between support centre enables calls to be routed to specialist with the right skills to address customer problems wherever the specialist is based in world. These service options also provides electronic access via the web to comprehensive support information, allowing any member of a customer IT staff to locate essential product and support data. HP has established formal escalation processes to solve complex software problems. Customers local HP service management team co-ordinate problem escalation, rapidly enlisting skills of 2nd and 3rd level experts through out HP and where appropriate selected third parties. Combined hardware and software support service offers such as Support Plus, Proactive 24 and Critical Services further extend the value an HP engineer can bring working with our customers to identify failing areas and help resolve complex interoperability issues enabling increased availability of their IT infrastructure though improve integrated approach to problem resolution. HP Mission Critical Services are comprehensive support solutions designed for businesses that cannot tolerate downtime without significant business impact. It provides a combination of proactive and reactive services designed to enhance availability, performance, and security. With integrated support delivery across your entire IT infrastructure, helping customers to understand and eliminate the causes of downtime, meet service-level commitments, and increase the productivity of IT staff. For customer opting for our mission critical offers of P24 and Critical service they get assigned technical account manager or full nominated support team of HP-certified experts who first conducts an assessment of customers current IT infrastructure. This is used to design a strategy to bring their IT investments in line with your business goals and up time requirements. HP Services support specialists meet with customers regularly to discuss progress and ensure continual improvement. The team also provides custom change management guidance and advice. Working closely with customers IT staff, to identify and manage the delivery of Technical Services for improvements in areas such as availability, capacity management, change planning, and security. Leading-edge remote technologies and tools such as ISEE monitor the customers IT environment to prevent critical problems and enable HP to proactively work out solutions to potential problems before they cause downtime. For those who attended the lab tour for management software yesterday will have seen how these tools are now integrated with HP SIM. [Enter any extra notes here; leave the item ID line at the bottom] Avitage Item ID: {{35D39425-35C9-49C9-B3E3-9D02BB25EF8D}}
