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Claim: Up to 33% lower TCO with new HP Integrity servers Substantiation: Calculations by Alinean (alinean.com). Results based on 3-year ownership. From HP internal testing. Actual results may vary. Compares a configuration with 2 HP Integrity BL890c i2 servers running on ® ® 9350 processors (1.73GHz; 8 processors, 32 cores per server) and 8 HP Integrity BL860c i2 servers running on Intel® Itanium® 9350 processors (1.73GHz; 2 processors, 8 cores per server) vs. a new consolidated configuration with 2 HP Integrity BL870 i4 servers running on Intel® Itanium® 9560 processors (2.53GHz; 3 processors, 24 cores per server) and 3 HP Integrity BL860 i4 servers running on Intel® Itanium® 9560 processors (2.53GHz; 2 processors, 16 cores per server). TCO results for Intel® Itanium® 9300 series processor-based configuration were $1.926M, TCO results for Intel® Itanium® 9500 series processor-based configuration were $1.298M. Total savings of $628,000 equals 32.6%, rounded up to 33%. Houston, U.S., September 2012.

Claim: Up to 3X the performance with new HP Integrity servers Substantiation: Based on HP internal benchmark conducted by HP internal labs calculating the efficiency of the operating system and underlying server hardware. Compares 1 HP Integrity BL860c i4 server with 2 Intel® Itanium® processors 9500 series vs. 1 HP Integrity BL860c i2 server with 2 Intel® Itanium® processors 9300 series. The new server delivered a result of 3.29X the performance of the previous generation, rounded down to 3X. Houston, U.S., August 2012.

Claim: Up to 21% more power efficiency with ENERGY STAR qualification for HP Integrity servers Substantiation: More power efficiency means the server used less power with the same resources. Customer results may vary. Findings based on HP internal lab tests. Comparison is between 1 HP Integrity RX2800 i2, with Intel® Itanium® 9300 series processors and 24 8GB DIMM memory cards (consumed 757 watts at maximum power during test in Taiwan, November 2010) vs. 1 HP Integrity RX2800 i4, with Intel® Itanium® 9500 series processors and 24 8GB DIMM memory cards (consumed 595 watts at maximum power during test in Shenzhen, China, June 2012). Difference was 162 watts or 21.4% less for the Intel® Itanium® 9500 series processor-based system. ENERGY STAR qualification based on published qualification data for HP Integrity RX2800 i4 server, in the category for Enterprise Server. Testing done June, 2012 by Foxconn, an ENERGY STAR certified testing facility in Shenzhen, China. See: energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=find_a_product.showProductGroup&pgw_code=DC

Claim: Easy upgrade and extension paths within your existing chassis Substantiation: Refers to the ability for customers to use the same enclosures for previous generation HP Integrity Superdome and HP Integrity blade servers, based on Intel® Itanium® 9300 series processors, and new HP Integrity Superdome and HP Integrity blade servers, based on Intel® Itanium® 9500 series processors. Enclosures include HP c7000, c3000 and HP Superdome 2.

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Claim: Save up to 35% on your way to HP mission-critical x86 Substantiation: Based on calculations by industry analyst Alinean using costs provided by Ideas International Ltd. Claim compares 2 IBM Power 595 servers, each with 8 Power 6 processors with 8 cores each (4.2 GHz), for a total of 64 cores each, SAP 64-bit Oracle Enterprise Edition on AIX/OS400 to 2 HP ProLiant DL980 servers, with 8 Intel® Xeon® E7-4870 processors with 10 cores each (2.4 GHz) for a total of 80 cores each, SAP 64-bit Oracle Enterprise Edition on Red Hat® Linux® with Serviceguard for Linux (Serviceguard for Linux run on only 1 HP ProLiant DL980). Total cost of IT for these server types at these configurations are as follows: 2 IBM Power 595 servers have a 3-year total IT cost of $6,539,976, the 2 DL980s have a 3-year total IT cost of $4,223,446, thus resulting in a 35.4% cost savings rounded down to 35%. See also alinean.com; ideasinternational.com. Houston, U.S., July 2012.

Claim: Up to 93% reduction in setup time and 4X faster deployment Substantiation: Based on HP Lab analysis that shows typical manual effort for integrating Oracle Database into a cluster requires 30 engineering days. With Oracle toolkit from HP, part of HP Serviceguard for Linux, this integration is achieved in two engineering days or less. Bangalore, India, May 2012.

Claim: As little as zero downtime during maintenance with “Live Application Detach” Substantiation: Based on HP Lab analysis while performing maintenance activities of the cluster, including maintenance of heartbeat network. Former common practice was to power down the application, but with HP Serviceguard for Linux, this was no longer necessary. Bangalore, India, May 2012.

Claim: Failover recovery in as little as four seconds Substantiation: Failover recovery observed in HP internal lab testing. System was based on HP ProLiant DL380 G7 server (2 Intel® Xeon® processors, 4 computing cores each) with Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.7 running HP Serviceguard 11.20.00. Configuration dependent excluding cluster reformation time. Bangalore, India, May 2012.

HP Integrity systems with new Intel® Itanium® 9500 series processors

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Issued by Hewlett-Packard, November 2012