Technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 c-Class server blades

Introduction

HP ProLiant Gen8 servers and the HP BladeSystem infrastructure incorporate wire-once, cloud-ready technologies that

maximize every hour, watt and dollar. By abstracting the servers from their uplinks, HP liberates administrators from

traditional infrastructure constraints and simplifies management between networks and servers. This allows the

creation of pools of network, storage, and compute resources. With wire-once technology you can add, move, or change

servers in minutes. As a BladeSystem solution, HP CloudSystem is at the core of our cloud-ready Converged

Infrastructure which is part of the HP Converged Cloud architecture. HP CloudSystem offers a complete system to build

and manage services across public, private, and hybrid clouds. HP CloudSystem provides a unified cloud-ready platform

for enterprises and service providers.

HP BladeSystem provides an intelligent infrastructure, controlled by the Onboard Administrator which monitors health

and allocates power and cooling resources dynamically to keep everything operating optimally and at maximum

efficiency. Utilizing HP Thermal Logic technologies such as Active Cool fans and features such as Dynamic Power

Capping, you’re assured of operations that can reduce energy consumption, reclaim capacity and extend the life of your

data center. With the high capacity of the NonStop signaling midplane, you can meet the performance needs of your

most demanding applications and their availability requirements as well. And because of the Systems Insight Display,

administrators can perform many functions locally without having to run to remote console stations or tether to the

enclosure just to examine a message or change a basic configuration.

HP hardware design and engineering give HP ProLiant Gen8 server blades industry-leading performance, power

efficiency, and thermal control. Embedded management enhancements include Integrated Lifecycle Automation

capabilities enabled by innovations such as Intelligent Provisioning for easy system set-up, Active Health for agentless

hardware monitoring and alerting, and Smart Update for automated firmware and system software maintenance.

ProLiant Gen8 server blades utilize HP Insight Management software to automate key management processes, including

a system's physical deployment, configuration, and problem management. ProLiant Gen8 server blades enable your

organization to consolidate physical servers and components while still maintaining the same workload capacity and

performance.

We’ve engineered the ProLiant Gen8 server blades with enhanced memory and storage capacities, the HP Integrated

Lights-Out Management Engine, and cloud‑enabled HP Insight Management. These existing and new features give Gen8

server blades more flexibility and simplified management:

 User-centric and intuitive design features help reduce common downtime issues

 Integrated Lifecycle Automation (an industry first) includes embedded HP Intelligent Provisioning, seamless

monitoring abilities through the HP Active Health System, and system maintenance capabilities that are standard

across all ProLiant servers, and are built using the HP iLO Management Engine

 Automated energy optimization enhances the server’s ability to analyze and respond to data generated by HP 3D Sea

of Sensors within the server

 HP Virtual Connect reduces networking and hardware costs by enabling up to four FlexNICs per physical NIC port; and

FlexFabric adapters converge network and storage traffic into a single consolidated stream up to the server/network

edge

For complete specifications of each server blade, see the HP website: www.hp.com/go/bladesystem.

HP BladeSystem Infrastructure

HP ProLiant Gen8 server blades are an HP BladeSystem component. HP BladeSystem Infrastructure has become

essential as businesses look for increasing levels of operational flexibility to meet changing needs and require an IT

infrastructure that can embraces convergence. A converged infrastructure allows you to eliminate technology silos and

pool resources as interoperable resources.

HP BladeSystem is a change ready converged infrastructure focused on simplicity, integration and automation. You can

deploy HP BladeSystem Infrastructure today and scale it over time as you require. It’s a cloud-ready system architecture

designed to easily deploy into traditional enterprise solutions, but you also can build on top of that initial deployment