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HP Proliant DL980 Servers and HP Converged Storage with Vmware Vsphere 5 Driving More Efficiency for Enterprise IT Solution brief HP ProLiant DL980 servers and HP Converged Storage with VMware vSphere 5 Driving more efficiency for enterprise IT If you’ve already begun your virtualization journey, you’re probably HP has a true end-to-end infrastructure portfolio—from servers enjoying the benefits of reduced costs, improved utilization, to storage to networking, management, security and services— better performance and reliability, and simpler management. But everything you need to run your IT, all from a single vendor. even with this excellent progress, you might have paused your journey—possibly because of perceived risk, demanding service level And today, HP is the worldwide leader in servers for virtualization, agreements, the nature of your applications, or the limitations of with 43.4% of new virtualization deployments running on HP virtual machine (VM) size. servers. In addition, more VMware customers trust their solutions to HP than any other hardware vendor. Today, HP, VMware and Intel® have a powerful solution that can remove all those barriers and put you back on track toward more Only HP ProLiant servers with HP Insight Control for vCenter Server virtualization benefits company-wide. With HP ProLiant DL980 G7 software can deliver a user interface that integrates seamlessly with the servers based on the Intel Xeon® E7 processor family, HP Converged VMware vCenter console to deliver: Storage and the revolutionary new VMware vSphere 5, you can run • Combined physical and virtual view of servers, storage, and virtualized enterprise applications with confidence. networking; you can monitor the status and performance of your entire system from a single pane of glass. This advanced solution from three industry leaders lets you break through the barriers preventing you from virtualizing more of your IT • Map associations of VMs to hosts to data stores to logical unit environment. Together we can free your large, critical applications like numbers to HP storage arrays and network paths to simplify SAP, SAS, Oracle, Microsoft® Exchange, SharePoint, and others from management. dedicated physical servers, and extend the advantages of virtualization • Integrated troubleshooting – Receive pre-failure and failure more deeply into your application infrastructure. alerts on HP server components and invoke HP management tools directly from the vCenter console. • Powerful remote control – Remotely manage and troubleshoot The right solution for many reasons HP server, storage and network system directly from the vCenter console. Offering proven virtualization capabilities, coupled with massive scale-up capacity, HP ProLiant DL980 servers with VMware vSphere • Proactive power management – Comprehend and proactively are the perfect solution for companies: manage power for hosts and pools of VMs across hosts. • Simplicity and peace of mind with VMware vCenter integration, • Already deploying and managing virtualized environments, and included with HP Insight Control as a single license. ready to take the next step along their virtualization journey. • Already invested in virtualization for less-intensive applications, but have hit their real or perceived limits of virtualization— especially for more heavy-duty, data-intensive applications such VMware vSphere: industry-leading as SAP, SAS and Oracle. virtualization platform • Evaluating ways to reduce administration and maintenance costs Designed for organizations that want to virtualize their entire data by consolidating VMs on fewer physical boxes. centers and deliver IT as a service, VMware vSphere Enterprise and • Looking for more efficient high availability in their virtualized x86 Enterprise Plus editions include the full range of vSphere features for environment, with a reduction in spare idle failover servers. transforming data centers into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments that can deliver the next generation of flexible, reliable IT With up to 32 virtual cores and 1 TB of memory per VM—coupled services. Key benefits of VMware vSphere 5 include: with scalability up to 2 TB of physical host server memory—you can • Efficiency through utilization and automation – Achieve trust this HP, Intel, and VMware solution to virtualize even your most consolidation ratios of 15:1 or more, and improve hardware demanding workloads. utilization from 5% to 15% to as much as 80% or more—without sacrificing performance. HP and VMware advantage • Dramatically lower IT costs – Reduce capital expenditures by up to 70% and operational expenditures by up to 30% to achieve 20% With more than a decade of experience working together as a to 30% lower IT infrastructure costs for each application running collaborative team, HP and VMware develop solutions that extend on vSphere. and optimize the innovations that drive our technologies. • Agility with control – Respond quickly to changing business needs The next era of computing without sacrificing security or control, and deliver zero-touch infrastructure with built-in availability, scalability and performance Virtualizing Tier 1 applications places demands on the storage guarantees for all business-critical applications running on vSphere. infrastructure in areas of performance, availability, and scalability. • Freedom of choice – Use a common, standards-based platform to Members of HP’s Converged Storage line of products, HP 3PAR, leverage existing IT assets alongside next-generation IT services, and P4000 storage systems are optimized for virtual server and enhance vSphere through open APIs with solutions from a environments with capabilities such as wide striping, mixed- global ecosystem of leading technology providers. workload support, Network RAID, and non-disruptive scalability of capacity, and performance. Integration with vSphere Storage APIs • Integration with VMware vCenter – Provide a scalable and extensible such as VAAI & VASA further improves performance, efficiency, and platform that forms the foundation for virtualization management. resource optimization. vCenter centrally manages vSphere environments, helping to dramatically improve control over your virtual environment. Bringing it all together HP ProLiant DL980 servers: delivering You can further enhance your solution by integrating additional components from the broad HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio confidence and reliability of products and services—which work together seamlessly to Powered by the latest Intel Xeon Processor technology, the HP deliver all the flexibility, scalability and resiliency you need to ProLiant DL980 platform is a massively resource-dense, sale-up, and support your virtualized environment, including: industry-standard that is. The DL980 is designed to break through the boundaries of virtualization with the ability to handle the largest, • HP Tipping Point– To keep business risk to a minimum in your most challenging applications and workloads in a single virtual layer virtual data center, HP TippingPoint and VMware have partnered on one server image. With the goal of fast, easy deployments you to lead the IT security industry with an integrated, complimentary can customize and grow on demand, ProLiant DL980 maximizes combination of software solutions that, together, create the first performance and efficiency. complete virtualization-aware security portfolio. • HP Critical Advantage Services– When it comes to service and support, trust no one but the best. And for customers running The HP ProLiant DL980 server features critical workloads in virtual x86 environments, that means HP Critical Advantage Services. • Balanced scaling– Delivering world-record performance, so you In addition to infrastructure, HP is also your best source for VMware can streamline CPU utilization and performance with HP’s smart software, offering the broadest line of vSphere and VMware CPU caching technology, which enables the processors to remain virtualization software, directly from HP. focused with fewer interruptions, resulting in faster job completion. • Self healing resiliency– Enabling up to a 200% boost in reliability For more information, please visit hp.com/go/cisystems. compared to the previous 8-socket ProLiant server; you can reduce communication errors on overloaded systems, providing 50% more interconnect capacity and dynamic QPI routing. Your next steps • Breakthrough efficiencies– Driving payback in as little as 60 days; Contact your HP and VMware representatives today and arrange for you can consolidate multiple-resource intensive servers onto a an assessment of your IT environment. Discover how HP ProLiant single system, to achieve up to a 96% reduction in power and DL980 servers, HP Converged Storage, and VMware vSphere 5 can cooling costs. extend the advantages of virtualization more deeply into your application infrastructure. Together, we can drive more efficiency across your enterprise IT. Get connected hp.com/go/getconnected Share with colleagues Get the insider view on tech trends, support alerts and HP solutions. © Copyright 2011-2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. Intel and Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. 4AA3-7112ENW, Created September 2011, Updated May 2012, Rev. 1 .
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