Why ProLiant for virtualization?

In a virtualized 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 smartest choice for virtualization.  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 virtualized 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:  instrumentation is 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 256GB (32sockets).
• 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 which 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 virtualization

• HP SIM-enabled – all versions of ProLiant iVirtualization 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 compromise for routine and emergency situations

• Power management and capping at rack – as you virtualize 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 center-wide approach to managing cooling, Dynamic Smart Cooling can help IT organizations more efficiently cool their data centers