Shifting from Dell rack to HP BladeSystem a Migration Guide
Some of the best-run companies in the world are putting HP BladeSystem innovation to work for their business – more than any other vendor. In the first quarter of 2007, HP shipped four server blades for each one shipped from Dell. When it comes to blades, Dell’s traditional rack-mount customers are in a tough spot. Stick with the growing challenges of rack servers or upgrade to the limited blade portfolio available from Dell. Building your rack infrastructure was probably not very easy.
While it might be tempting to buy more of the same, when it comes time for your next server upgrade, HP makes it easy to choose – and even easier to integrate – a BladeSystem into your environment. Imagine the savings in administrative overhead when it is possible to configure your infrastructure in 15 minutes or less 3 and to reduce the time to perform upgrades and patches from 10 minutes to 20 seconds per server.
In typical rack environments, the bigger the system, the more unproductive time is spent managing your expanding environment. More wasted power is expended, leading to needless demands on your air conditioning system. Different departments require different applications, different programmes and different criteria. These demands lead to unmanaged growth or ‘server sprawl’. If you want more reliability, you have to buy twice as many parts. With this ‘racked, stacked and wired’ approach, you are left with problems such as:
•Inflexibility
•Low productivity
•High electric bills
•Over-provisioning
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