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 September 2006 – The HP c-Class BladeSystem was designed from the ground up to deliver the future of scalable infrastructure design today – a clean slate design and significant leap forward. The HP BladeSystem c-Class portfolio takes advantage of the best technologies across HP and brings them together to fundamentally improve how customers buy, manage and use their computing resources. It is much more than a simple tweak of an existing offering, which is what IBM offers.
Please consider just a few of the facts behind how HP BladeSystem c-Class is leaving the competition behind:
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Fact 2: HP BladeSystem c-Class offers customers an unmatched level of infrastructure in a 10U space as compared to IBM.[1] |
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HP c7000 |
IBM BladeCenter H |
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No compromise:
performance and redundancy |
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Compromise:
performance or redundancy |
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| Mid-plane Bandwidth |
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| Interconnect Bays |
Flexible:
20 Gb/s (8)
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40 Gb/s (4) |
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Rigid:
10 Gb/s (2)
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4 Gb/s legacy (2)
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2 bridge modules |
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| InfiniBand |
High performance:
20 Gb/s; DDR |
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| Diagnosis |
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Bottom line: The HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure is designed to tackle the toughest problems facing today’s IT infrastructures – cost, time, energy and change. Plus, it includes flexibility, scalability and support for future technologies to help your business take full advantage of new things to come.
Fact 3: HP delivers unmatched capabilities with the BL460c and BL480c server blades.[2] |
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HP BL460c |
HP BL480c |
IBM HS21 w/ more memory AND more storage |
IBM HS21 w/ more memory |
IBM HS21 |
| Max Servers per Enclosure |
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| Max Memory |
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| Internal Storage |
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| 3 hot-plug drives and 2 non-hot plug drives |
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| RAID |
| RAID 0/1 controller with battery backed cache option |
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| RAID 0/1/5 controller with battery backed cache option |
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| RAID 0/1E/5, no battery backed cache |
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| RAID 0/1, no battery backed cache |
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| RAID 0/1, no battery backed cache |
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| Max NICs |
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Bottom line: No compromise, Proliant c-Class server blades share the same enterprise-class features and design standards as the market leading HP Proliant servers, including hot-plug hard-drives, multiple I/O cards, multi-function network interconnects and Integrated Lights Out.
- A thoughtful product lifecycle roadmap so customers can move forward at their own pace.
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- Consistent systems management tools that make management of a mixed environment no more complicated that it was before.
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IBM, on the other hand, may offer backward compatibility BUT only at the cost of keeping backward features. Why pay for what you can’t use? Existing blades may plug into the new chassis, but with limited functionality. Customers won’t be able to take advantage of new chassis features e.g., additional bandwidth.
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Bottom line:
HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure offers flexibility and scalability, and requires no compromise. It takes advantage of the best technologies across HP – innovations that make everything from NonStop servers to HP printers the best in the industry – and brings them together to fundamentally improve how customers buy, manage and use their computing resources.
The benefits of c-Class are compelling: reduce acquisition costs by up to 41%, datacenter facilities costs by up to 60%, and initial system set-up time savings by 96%. And to top it off, datacenters will be able to achieve a 200 to one device to administrator ratio. We have already received customer validation that we made the right decision.
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