HP ProLiant BL30p server blade

HP ProLiant BL30p server blade

Density. Performance. Manageability. The HP ProLiant BL30p server blade delivers an ideal mix of manageability and high-performance computing in a compact, modular blade design. The BL30p extends the x86 workload capabilities of the HP ProLiant blade line to the most space-conscious environments. The new HP ProLiant BL30p 2-way server blade delivers the density, performance, and manageability your business demands. Powerfully compact Designed for high-performance computing, enterprise front-end, and infrastructure applications in space- conscious environments, the BL30p is the latest addition to HP’s ProLiant BL p-Class server blade line. It supports dual Intel® Xeon™ processors, dual Gigabit Ethernet network adapters, and a dual-port Fibre Channel adapter option, making it ideal for performance-hungry applications and redundant connections to external storage. Up to 96 BL30p blades can be configured in a standard rack, providing the maximum utilization of valuable data-center space.

Well-connected
The BL30p was created to help customers get the most out of their SAN solutions. Its optional dual-port Fibre Channel adapter provides powerful, heterogeneous SAN support up to 2 GB/s, and it is backward-compatible with existing 1 GB/s Fibre Channel equipment. And with HP’s fusion of SAN and network attached storage (NAS), your storage architecture can incorporate application, database, and file-serving functionality.

Outstanding management and deployment The BL30p delivers a variety of powerful, intuitive management and deployment features to ease the burden these tasks typically place on your IT personnel.

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HP BladeSystem specification for Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003

HP BladeSystem specification for Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003

This white paper provides a general specification for an HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure that can support and scale out a small-to-medium sized cluster for Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS).

CCS is Microsoft’s entry into the fast-growing High Performance Computing (HPC) market, where solutions are often deployed as clusters of relatively small servers working in parallel to solve intensive computation and mathematical problems. HPC clusters are often utilized in the development and application of complex data models used in computer-aided engineering, finance, life and materials science, scientific research, and other areas.

The specification includes an overview of solution components and usage scenarios, and outlines key benefits that can be achieved by deploying this solution on an HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure. Guidelines are provided for planning and implementing a CCS solution. In addition, the paper presents Bills of Material for sample configurations along with links to information that can assist the customer over the solution lifecycle.

Target audience: The intended audience includes solutions architects and technical consultants wishing to learn more about deploying CCS on an HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure.

The paper is not intended to teach you about CCS or the deployment of applications on top of CCS. Indeed, knowledge of CCS concepts is assumed, as is familiarity with networking topologies and the concept of head and compute nodes within a cluster.

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HP SIM 5.x Overview

HP SIM 5.x Overview

HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is an application that is used by customers to manage their infrastructure elements, such as servers, storage, blades, and networking devices. The current HP SIM version directly supports HP BNT switches. For example, HP SIM provides a basic set of BNT switch management features, such as basic discovery, fault management, data collection/reporting, and configuration.

To further enhance management of BNT switches with HP SIM, integration with BLADEHarmony Manager is now available. This paper explains how to integrate HP SIM with BLADEHarmony Manager.

HP SIM is built on Web-based client-server architecture. The client Graphical User Interface (GUI) can be launched from any standard Web browser. In addition, the architecture is flexible enough to allow users to integrate off-the-shelf or custom tools and applications.

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Energy-efficient computing using Citrix PowerSmart Utility

Energy-efficient computing using Citrix PowerSmart Utility

Energy-efficient computing using Citrix PowerSmart Utility for Presentation Server (Beta) with HP Integrated Lights-Out. Data center costs for computer power and cooling are staggering. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that data centers used 61 billion kilowatt hours in 2006 – or 1.5% of all power consumed in the United States 1 – at a cost of $4.5 billion, the consumption of approximately 5.8 million average households.

The no-cost Citrix PowerSmart Utility for Presentation Server (PowerSmart) is designed to reduce the power consumption of a Citrix Presentation Server farm. During off-business hours, PowerSmart intelligently focuses the farm’s workload on a few Presentation Servers so that it can power off idle servers. Initial estimates show that based on usage patterns, energy costs for a Citrix Presentation Server farm can be reduced by up to 50%.

PowerSmart integrates seamlessly with HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) 2 technology to automate the remote power management of Citrix Presentation Server farms deployed on HP ProLiant servers. By combining Citrix’s market-leading Application Delivery infrastructure with HP’s Lights-Out remote management solution, customers can support environmentally-friendly (green) initiatives by increasing the utilization of their existing hardware and lowering power and cooling requirements. Target audience: This white paper is intended for business and IT professionals interested in power management in a Citrix and HP environment.

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