Why ProLiant for virtualisation?

In a virtualised environment, when so many applications now depend on the performance of a single server, trust and confidence in the server platform are paramount.  ProLiant and BladeSystem are designed to be your best choice for virtualisation.  ProLiant’s reputation for consistent, reliable performance; innovative technology (like Integrated Lights Out, iLO); and saving time and money was built on earning our global customers’ satisfaction and trust. Here are the ProLiant capabilities that will help you get the most from your virtualised environment:

• ProLiant is designed with redundancy throughout: redundant power supplies, fans and hard drives
• Memory Protection and Resilience are built-in: ProLiant gives you the ability to withstand multiple failures in your memory sub-system and still keep running
• Automated Monitoring:  instruments are built in to measure temperature, power and the operational health of many components, enabling the system to send pre-failure alerts to your management console

• Memory (design for per core scalability):  Larger memory footprints enable more virtual machines.  ProLiant offers up to 256 GB (32 sockets).
• I/O Bandwidth (design for per instance scalability):  ProLiant I/O bandwidth scales as the number of cores increases, helping reduce bottlenecks.

• Up to 9 slots x4, x8 x16 that can be used to add network ports, fibre channel and Infiniband controllers
• Network ports (design for multiple network paths) – multiple high-performance network ports are available to meet the networking demands of virtualisation

• HP SIM-enabled – all versions of ProLiant iVirtualisation are manageable under HP Systems Insight Manager, a foundational element of the Insight Control management portfolio
• Virtual Machine Management Pack – As part of HP Insight Control, VMM allows you to manage your physical and virtual environments as one
• Integrated Lights Out (iLO) – gives you the freedom to enable remote control of your ProLiant servers without compromising routine and emergency situations

• Power management and capping at rack – as you virtualise you want to control your power and cooling requirements; ProLiant can monitor per server power and cap it at pre-specified levels.
• Dynamic Smart Cooling – a holistic data centre-wide approach to managing cooling, Dynamic Smart Cooling can help IT organisations more efficiently cool their data centres