HP Blade System: an Adaptive Infrastructure out of the box

Things you can do with HP BladeSystem that
you can't do with traditional infrastructures:

• Deploy new servers and storage in minutes, not days or weeks
• Wire your infrastructure once and change on the fly
• Cut time needed for common maintenance tasks by up to 90 percent
• Reduce power consumption up to 30 percent without sacrificing application performance
• Add shared storage and data protection solutions inside without adding cables
• Cut the number of cables by 94 percent
• Provide high availability for every application at a negligible cost

HP Blade Descriptions

BladeSystem Basics

A BladeSystem is simply a smarter way to build infrastructure that supports the vital applications your business requires with fewer wires, lower electric bills and none of the headaches from the choices you have today. BladeSystem helps you save time and money. You can reinvest savings back into your business. With a streamlined foundation in place, you can deliver top line business results to grow faster, get to market quickly and empower your employees, partners and customers. No one knows exactly where their business with be tomorrow, but wherever you take it, the HP BladeSystem will be ready when you get there.

1. Cost: BladeSystem is up to 42 percent less expensive to buy than standard infrastructures.

How? BladeSystem is consolidated by design and multiple server and storage blades can share or reduce resources—such as fans, cables, network switches and power supplies.

2. Time: BladeSystem increases administrator productivity up to tenfold for many common IT tasks— such as deployment, patching and recovery.

How? A simple, modular design and useful features help save administrators’ time, speed deployment and simplify maintenance tasks.

3. Change: BladeSystem lets you add, replace, move or recover blades and virtual servers in minutes instead of days or weeks, without involving administrators.

How? The all-in-one design speeds solution integration, growth and recovery time. Useful features like hot plug devices, Onboard Administrator and Virtual Connect make staff more responsive to both unexpected and planned changes.

4. Energy: BladeSystem uses 30 percent less power per server than Dell 1U servers and pushes 47
percent less air for the HVAC system to cool.

How? Thermal Logic technologies efficiently allocate power and cooling and provide consistent availablility of all systems inside the enclosure. Intelligent monitoring and hundreds of internal sensors help regulate power usage and the thermal impact on your larger environment.

HP Blade Infrastructure description

How are blades used now?

There are many reasons you might need new server, storage or network equipment. In big data centers, BladeSystem offers a common, shared infrastructure that can support multiple types of ProLiant and Integrity servers and support different OS's and applications in one box so you can react quickly without losing productivity. Large online environments, clusters and virtual environments, clusters and virtual environments all benefit from the lower cost, fewer cables and improved power and cooling capabilities of BladeSystem.

HP Blade System: an Adaptive Infrastructure out of the box

Things you can do with HP BladeSystem thatyou can't do with traditional infrastructures:

BladeSystem Basics

How are blades used now?

Things you can do with HP BladeSystem that
you can't do with traditional infrastructures: