The new HP ProLiant SL6500 Scalable System features a common modular architecture that can scale from one node to thousands while delivering breakthrough energy efficiency and performance of up to 1 teraflops per unit of rack space. This standard platform can be highly customized and tuned with the HP ProLiant SL390s G7 server and HP ProLiant SL170s G6 server to meet varying application demands, such as high-performance computing, web...

On November 15, HP introduced both 200GB and 400GB SSDs for the EVA4400/6400/8400. At the same time, they added support for RAID 1 configurations for all SSDs, including the existing 72GB SSD. These new SSDs will be supported in the same configurations as the existing fibre channel hard disk drives and are priced very competitively. The EVA must be running XCS 09534000 and array must contain a minimum of 6 SSDs or a maximum of 8. For more...

This paper describes a demo highlighting the benefits of solid state drives and low voltage DDR3 memory when running a Microsoft SQL Server database workload in a VMware vSphere virtualized environment using the HP ProLiant DL385 G7 server. Executive summary As processor, memory, and disk technology have improved, HP ProLiant G7 servers have become ideal platforms for consolidating applications with virtual machines. In particular, the...

This is the first in a series of documents to help differentiate HP BladeSystem vs. Cisco UCS. The document is designed to be a single sheet of paper (printed on both sides) with the lead first page ? Why HP BladeSystem detailing the strengths of HP and our innovations.  The second page (back page on one sheet) details how we differentiate from Cisco.  The first deliverable deals with the advantage HP delivers in the area of power,...

In support of the questions from the partner student audience on what drives, or other compatibility questions around SW, etc., are supported in which HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family, below are several excellent documents that are frequently updated that provide that level of information. EVA disk drive firmware support http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02498302/c02498302.pdf This document lists the...