HP Server Appliances: dedicated internet infrastructure devices

HP Server Appliances: dedicated internet infrastructure devices

Today’s business climate hasn’t stalled Internet traffic. Today’s e-business data centers are feeling resource-congested. In fact, belt-tightening and mergers are driving many organizations to consolidate and streamline their business processes. Causes include
• demand spikes
• space and power consumption constraints
• IT staffing and WAN costs
• business-critical transactions
• heightened security requirements traffic is starting to move

Service providers and enterprises are responding to these e-business demands by building always-on Internet infrastructures. Server appliances are a vital ingredient in always-on infrastructures for a number of reasons:
• easy to install and configure, low maintenance
• no network operating system license or user limits
• space efficient—rack-mountable with no monitor or keyboard
• optimized software architecture
• entirely standards-based
• increased security Both enterprises and service providers can leverage server appliances to quickly and easily add low-maintenance capacity and functionality—while at the same time offloading the demands on general-purpose servers. The benefits include
• improved network and overall server performance, improved application responsiveness, and streamlined processes, with specialization occurring near the edge of the network
• increased data center efficiencies from increased rack densities and lowered system management expenses
• decreased power consumption
• reduced capital expenditures (a server appliance is typically less expensive than a general-purpose server plus application purchased separately)

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P 9000 rp8420-32 server - Maximum flexibility and performance density at midrange prices

P 9000 rp8420-32 server - Maximum flexibility and performance density at midrange prices

HP 9000 servers cover the full breadth of commercial and high-performance computing solutions. Whatever type of servers your solution requires, from entry-level two-processor systems up to the high-end 128-way Superdome, HP 9000 servers running HP-UX 11i v1 can help bring your technology infrastructure and business challenges into sync. HP’s industry-leading support, system software, and single-system administration allow any scalable HP server to be managed simply.

Build your adaptive enterprise with a server that offers performance, affordability, and scalability, all in a rack-dense form factor. Based on the PA-8800 processor and the HP Super-Scalable Processor Chipset sx1000 running the critically acclaimed HP-UX 11i v1 UNIX® operating environment, the 32-way HP 9000 rp8420-32 server delivers high-end performance, flexibility, and simplified management in the industry’s most dense form factor. Choosing the right IT infrastructure for your enterprise is paramount. Complicating this choice is a constantly changing business and technology environment coupled with tightening budgets and increasing IT demands. As the business environment changes, so must your infrastructure—towards scalable solutions that are powerful, flexible, and easy to use at a value that lets you focus resources on what’s most important: growing your business.

The HP 9000 rp8420-32 server is that solution. With breakthrough performance improvements over the previous generation of PA-RISC processors, leading rack density of up to 32 processors per server and 2 servers per rack, flexible HP-UX 11i v1 hard and virtual partitioning, outstanding scalability, and tremendous value, the HP 9000 rp8420-32 server makes high-availability, mission-critical 64-bit computing an affordable reality for your enterprise.

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HP ProLiant DL360 Generation 5 Server User Guide

HP ProLiant DL360 Generation 5 Server User Guide

The NMI switch allows administrators to perform a memory dump before performing a hard reset. Crash dump analysis is an essential part of eliminating reliability problems, such as hangs or crashes in operating systems, device drivers, and applications. Many crashes freeze a system, requiring you to do a hard reset. Resetting the system erases any information that would support root cause analysis. Systems running Microsoft® Windows® operating systems experience a blue screen trap when the operating system crashes. When this happens, Microsoft® recommends that system administrators perform an NMI event by pressing a dump switch. The NMI event enables a hung system to become responsive again.

HP Systems Insight Display and LEDs
The display provides status for all internal LEDs and enables diagnosis with the access panel installed.

HP Systems Insight Display LEDs and internal health LED combinations
When the internal health LED on the front panel illuminates either amber or red, the server is experiencing a health event. Combinations of illuminated system LEDs and the internal health LED indicate system status. The front panel health LEDs indicate only the current hardware status. In some situations, HP SIM may report server status differently than the health LEDs because the software tracks more system attributes.

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HP NC150T PCI 4-port 1000T Gigabit Combo Switch Adapter

HP NC150T PCI 4-port 1000T Gigabit Combo Switch Adapter

The HP NC150T PCI 4-port 1000T Gigabit Combo Switch Adapter is a gigabit switch and PCI NIC integrated on a single card. The NC150T provides 4 switched ports so that the gigabit channel to the server is shared among 4 external devices such as personal computer clients, printers, and POS terminals, etc. It fits into a single PCI slot and offers SMB customers a cost-effective network switch solution that is simple to set up and use. Additionally, it supports auto-negotiating 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet speeds as well as 33 or 66MHz slots since it is based on 32-bit, 33/66 MHz PCI architecture. This PCI based combination switch adapter is priced affordably and comes with the complete suite of server software drivers for all major operating systems, teaming utilities and GUI that are expected from HP.

It has been designed with server needs in mind and offers these features:
Offers the first integrated gigabit NIC and switch on a single card
Non-managed and requires no configuration; simply load the drivers and the installation is complete
Fits into any standard PCI 32 bit slot in HP ProLiant 100 or 300 series servers
Provides easy, simple set-up by eliminating traditional switch components
No power cabling with power brick - power supplied from server
No need to obtain additional NIC to attach it to the server
Available bundled (CTO/BT0) with select HP ProLiant 100 and 300 servers
Auto-negotiated 10/100/ 1000 BASE-T speed and duplex
Support for IEEE 802.3 standards
Integrated with HP ProLiant Essentials, SmartStart, and Systems Insight Manager FCC Class B

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