HP and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: What's next for your Datacenter?

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HP's Converged Infrastructure continues to eliminate costly and rigid IT silos by aggressively converging the server, storage and network facilities, while continually improving things (like the graphical template of the entire workload) to make it easier to manage your data center.  The infrastructure delivers a new level of simplicity, integration and automation that lowers costs, flexibly responds to changes and lowers acquisition expense, all while leveraging RHEL 6's increased performance and virtualization characteristics. Leveraging an 11+-year collaboration in various aspects of networking, storage, virtualization and more, HP and RHEL 6 provide a number of improvements for your data center.

HP and Red Hat work together continuously to innovate data center construction and management - not just in the expected areas of performance, but in energy savings as well. Every HP BladeSystem server running RHEL 6 has the ability to throttle pretty much every available resource, to optimize power consumption while maintaining redundancy. Power and cooling management are *big* differentiators that pay off in any size data center.

Examples:
RHEL 6 rocks on HP's top-selling BL490c G7.

Known as "the" virtualization blade, the HP ProLiant BL490c G7 Server is characterized by its memorydensity in a half-height form factor. It provides 18 DIMMs, 6 or 4 core Intel® Xeon® 5600 Series
processors, converged network support for up to 24 NICs, powerful Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3),
and firmware-based SATA RAID. With RHEL 6, virtualization is fully integrated and based on the KVM hypervisor.  RHEL6 includes a consistent environment for applications across multiple physical and virtual systems, which simplifies the adoption of virtualization with the BL490c G7. In addition, RHEL 6 on HP provides a platform optimized for scalability, I/O performance and flexibility, and complements HP's related hardware features.

And we offer migration services to plan, execute and support your migration from Solaris to RHEL6.
HP has over 6,500 trained HP Linux professionals to help you get the most out of your RHEL subscription!

The HP ProLiant BL2x220c G7, a breakthrough fabric and density server, offers industry-leading networking capabilities with an embedded Mellanox QDR Infiniband solution. This gives customers a focused Infiniband networking environment to reduce cost and simplify network management. The combination of density and accelerated fabrics offers excellent performance, as well as leading power efficiency for scale-out data centers.

 RHEL 6 rattles the cage with the BL2x220c:
 • Offers embedded Mellanox QDR Infiniband and Flex-10 networking functionality
 • Supports the latest 4 and 6 core Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors
 - RHEL 6 capitalizes on the latest hardware enhancements available!
 • Scales to up to 96 GB of DDR3 memory per server node
 - RHEL 6's enhanced reliability features combine with HP's self-healing resiliency give what you need most in your datacenter.

Summary:
HP and Red Hat have a proven track record of delivering data center innovations - which may explain why they've lead the Linux/x86 market for as long as IDC has been tracking it. If you're serious about making your data center a competitive weapon, HP and Red Hat are positioned to help you deliver a lean, streamlined, high-performance environment - harnessing the power of open source with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and extending that power with HP's Converged Infrastructure.

What's next:
Everything you need to automate your data center for peak performance is available today. Talk with your HP or Red Hat representative to take the next step in defining your next generation data center!
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
   
BL2x220c G7

BL490c G7 

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Beth Zeranski

Sr. Engineering Partner Manager, Red Hat

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