HP virtualization with VMware Enabling end-to-end virtualization

HP virtualization with VMware Enabling end-to-end virtualization

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 ideal platforms 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 VMware ESX Server.

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 datacenter, and attachment to a storage area network (SAN) is economical.

HP StorageWorks
To take advantage of many of the features of VMware, including the ability to quickly move virtual machines to different physical servers, you will want to attach to a SAN. HP StorageWorks Storage Array Systems provide an ideal storage platform for virtualization over a SAN. Like HP ProLiant servers, HP StorageWorks Storage Array Systems are certified to perform well in VMware environments. What’s more, these storage systems lever- age the HP StorageWorks Grid, a comprehensive storage virtualization environment that provides a wide range of storage-level virtualization capabilities.

HP integrated virtualization management
Gain a single view of physical and virtual resources While many companies can provide hardware that works with VMware, no other company offers HP’s unique set of tightly integrated virtualization management capabilities. HP arms you with the tools you need to unify the management of physical and virtual assets within the same environment.

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HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Oracle Application Server

HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Oracle Application Server

J2EE-based applications, with their many distributed parts, turn out to be hard to manage once they go into production. The HP OpenView Smart Plug-In (SPI) for Oracle Application Server removes this barrier to a successful deployment by making the Oracle Application Server environment much easier to monitor, control, and manage.

The result is application services that are highly available, performing to expectations and aligned with your business priorities. To maximize your return on investment, HP provides high-quality software services that address all aspects of your software application life-cycle needs and align with your business goals. With HP, you have access to standards-based, modular, multiplatform software coupled with best-in-class services and support.

Key features and benefits
• Proactively reduce Oracle Application Server downtime – The Oracle Application Server SPI, with comprehensive monitoring of the Oracle application server, Oracle HTTP server, and the Oracle Application Server logfiles for predefined event conditions, works to proactively identify web application server problems before they affect end-users.
• Optimize the end-user experience – The Oracle Application Server SPI, which monitors more than 20 threshold events in specific areas such as HTTP requests, servlet, EJB, JDBC, JMS, JSP, JVM, and server performance, sniffs out potential performance degradation and allows the opportunity to adjust system configuration before end-users even notice a difference.
• Diagnose, plan, and track service levels with flexibility — The Oracle Application Server SPI integrates with HP OpenView Performance Manager and reporting tools such as HP OpenView Reporter to provide a variety of graphical formats to display both real-time and historical information.

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HP Imaging and Printing IPv6 FAQs

HP Imaging and Printing IPv6 FAQs

The IPv6 family supports a range of new functionally. IPv6 tackles critical areas of IP standards, such as address depletion, end-to-end authentication and security, packet handling efficiency, and improved scalability. All designs were optimized for use with 64-bit hardware and software. IPv6 provides true IP mobility by enabling secure access from any place, at any time, all the time. It is simpler and easier to configure and offers better network management than IPv4. IPv6 is the standard for global information technology for decades to come.

• Addressing: IP address size increases from 32 bits with IPv4 to 128 bits with IPv6, which provides enough IP addresses so that for the foreseeable future, all nodes can have a globally unique address for true peer-to-peer communication. The IPv6 addressing scheme uses hierarchically assigned addresses with a logical separation of “who you are” (interface ID) from “where you are connected” (prefix) to allow more efficient routing.
• Support for renumbering: IPv6 brings link level support for renumbering (changing IP addresses across a network). IPv6 addresses have associated lifetimes: as the lifetime of the old address expires, a new address can be automatically configured. You can easily renumber IPv6 hosts by adding a new prefix to the router, which reduces the lifetime of the old prefix. As nodes depreciate the old prefix, the new prefix is used for new connections. Renumbering happens automatically! This may provide many benefits, including the end of ISP “lock in,” improved competition, and reduced costs when renumbering due to the joining of two networks, as in the case of corporate mergers or acquisitions.
• Management: IPv6 makes getting on the network as simple as plugging a cable into your computer. IPv6 nodes automatically configure themselves using IPv6 stateless auto-configuration or a version of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv6)—all without human intervention. These features deliver true plug-and-play network access, placing the IT director in control and allowing network operation staff to focus on running the network, rather than manually configuring new users.
• Efficient mobility support: With built-in mobility support, every network is mobile-ready, requiring little pre-existing infrastructure. Each IPv6 node can act as a correspondent and redirect packets to the new mobile node’s care-of-address.
• IPv6/IPv4 interoperability: Given the millions of existing systems currently running IPv4, it is clear that successful adoption of the IPv6 technology suite will be largely based on its ability to integrate with the existing IPv4 infrastructure. To address this requirement, IPv6 is carefully designed to ensure that hosts or routers can be upgraded in an incremental manner and that IPv6 and IPv4 hosts and routers can interoperate in a variety of configurations

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HP Smart Array 6400A (SA6400A) Controller Quick Specs

HP Smart Array 6400A (SA6400A) Controller Quick Specs

The SA6400A is a high-performance Ultra320, PCI-X array controller. It provides maximum performance, flexibility, and reliable data protection for HP OpenVMS AlphaServers through its unique modular design and support for Advanced Data Guarding (RAID ADG). This new generation Smart Array controller again raises the standards of performance, introducing a Double Data Rate (DDR) battery-backed write cache architecture and a new RAID engine.

This controller is ideal for workgroup, departmental, and enterprise servers. And like other Smart Array controllers, the SA6400A features complete data compatibility with previous generation’s Smart Array controllers for easy data migration from server to server and for controller upgradability*

Advanced Data Guarding (RAID ADG) offers breakthrough level of fault protection of RAID volumes up to 1TB and a total of 28 disk drives in a RAID volume. RAID ADG provides fault protection greater than RAID 1 or RAID 5 and only consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives for distributed parity data. RAID ADG protects against any 2 disk drive failures. This higher level of protection is ideal to protect large logical volumes and with high capacity disk drives where a failed drive rebuild time may be significant.
High-performance, Sixth generation architecture offers a new hardware RAID engine, and a new performance 266MHz DDR memory architecture for increased performance over previous controllers.
Recovery ROM protects against a ROM failure or corruption. Ultra320 SCSI technology delivers high performance and data bandwidth up to 320 MB/s bandwidth per channel

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