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Roadmaps do Matter

jacob.van-ewyk| June 15, 2010
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I was in Chicago this week, speaking with customers and partners about our new HP Integrity servers, HP-UX 11i v3, and server virtualization. As it happens these days, one of the discussions that came up was server roadmaps. One customer stated it as "once I get my current project into production, I immediately start thinking about what I'm going to do with it in another three years." The customer then stated that understanding how their mission critical servers would evolve over time was an important consideration when they are looking at mission critical systems.
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Witness: The New HP Integrity Servers

jacob.van-ewyk| April 27, 2010
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Well, this is
it. The Itanium 9300 processor was announced in February, and today, HP is
announcing the new HP
Integrity servers.


 


We could have
just thrown a faster processor, DDR 3 memory, and a new I/O  into our existing rack mount servers. But HP,
after talking to many of our customers, has decided to do something just a
little different.


 


HP has decided to bring mission critical systems to a bladed environment, providing customers with a modular, flexible server. Utilizing the c3000 and c7000 chassis, we can provide 2,
4, and 8 socket blades. These blades are modular. The base unit is a 2
socket, BL860c i2. Two of them linked together with our scalable BladeLink,
becomes a 4 socket, BL870c i2. Four BL860c i2 linked together becomes an 8
socket BL890c i2. This not only provides linear socket growth, but linear,
memory growth, linear hard drive growth, and linear I/O growth.


 


I'm very excited
about these blades, since they provide modularity and flexibility without
requiring an investment in a fairly large system. And yet, they still provide
scaling. For instance, you can put 2 BL890c i2 servers in a single 10 U, c7000
chassis. This provides 64 cores, 768 Gb of memory in 192 DIMM slots, 16 hard
drives, and if I remember correctly, 32 Virtual Connect Flex-10 connections.


 


This is a lot of
power in a single 10U c7000 chassis. And the nice part is, it can potentially
be configured in different ways - 2 BL890c i2 servers, 4 BL870c i2 servers, 8
BL860c i2 servers, or some combination in between. This is especially useful if
you want to start small, but want to have room to grow in the future without a
big up front investment. Or, if the workload shrinks (or is oversized), you can
potentially split a larger configuration into multiple, smaller configurations.
This is flexibility that helps businesses adapt to changing requirements.


 


HP also
announced the Superdome
2 server. This is a slightly larger system which basically swaps cell
boards in the original Superdome for cell blades in Superdome 2. It is a
modified c7000 chassis that has been stretched to provide a highly redundant
cross-bar fabric. I'll cover it in more detail in another post, but it is the
combination of a highly mission critical server with the flexibility of blades.


 


Finally, HP has
also announced a small rack mount server for those customers who don't need
larger, more flexible servers - the rx2800
i2. Once again, I will cover more about it in a later post.


 


I'm finished
with our internal training here in Frankfurt, so I'm heading across town to HP
Technology @ Work. I will post some more about these new systems and some of
the sessions I attend over the next few days.


 


Jacob

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