HP StorageWorks P4800 G2 63TB BladeSystem SAN Solution

Hp have launched a new P4000 G2 63TB San solution bundle for the HP Blade system (C3000 & C7000).

Kit of what is included in the bundle is listed below

BladeSystem SAN Software:

• SAN/iQ Storage Clustering
• SAN/iQ Network RAID (synchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning
• SAN/iQ Application Integrated Snapshots
• SAN/iQ Remote Copy (asynchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Multi-Site/DR Solution (synchronous replication across locations)
• SAN/iQ Solution Pack for Microsoft Windows

BladeSystem SAN Hardware:

• Four redundant active-active scalable P4000sb Storage Blades for BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure
• Two MDS 600 enclosures with 140 x 450GB 15K SAS disk drives
• Two 3Gb 8-port SAS 2.0 BL-c Switch Module for BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure
• Eight Mini SAS 2m cables
• 24GB RAM
• 2,048 MB battery backed cache
• Support for RAID 5, 10, 6
• Eight 10Gbit NIC ports
• iLO2 Management

If you would like more information on this bundle please take a look at the Quickspecs or contact us for more information.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

HP P4000 Series SAN Solution Webcast's

We would like to invite you to attend exclusive one-hour webcasts introducing the key features of HP's highly available P4000 G2 SAN storage solutions. Our experts are delivering three weekly webcasts with live demos and you are welcome to invite others to these sessions.

Sessions are held every week on:

• Mondays at 2pm (GMT)
• Wednesdays at 12 Noon (GMT)
• Fridays at 10am (GMT)

How to register:

• Click here to register for a P4000 Webcasts
• Click on "first time user".
• Select a session from the “Course Catalogue” or the Homepage message.
• Select date and time for session.
• Click Signup for course.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

Announcement - HP DL980 G7 Server now orderable

This 8 phsyical processor server that was announced back in June is now orderable.

HP ProLiant DL980 G7 with HP PREMA Architecture is an eight socket server built to handle the largest x86 enterprise environments with confidence. The DL980 G7 blends industry standard economies with advanced mission critical capabilities to deliver balanced scaling, self healing resiliency and breakthrough efficiencies needed in essential enterprise compute environments. Whether housing a single very large data intensive workload, or many consolidated or virtualized workloads to improve resource utilization, the DL980 G7 featuring PREMA Architecture with Smart CPU caching and a redundant system fabric, is designed to reduce bottlenecks, improve throughput and performance, as well as deliver enhanced reliability not previously available in an environment.

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HP PCIe I/O Accelerators (SSD) for ProLiant Servers

A New level of Solid state storage is now available for customers who needs the ultimate in I/O Read and Write speed performance...and in my opinion ultimately the way forward for server storage in the future..

Firstly before we get into the speeds and feeds... What is an I/O accelerator? - An I/O Accelerator is an advanced storage device that uses solid state storage technology directly on the PCI bus, assuring high read and write data rates and accelerated application performance.

Just how fast is this storage?? well see for yourself....

600278-B21 - HP 160GB SLC PCIe ioDrive

• Usable Capacity - 160GB
• Technology - NAND Flash, SLC
• Bandwidth - 670 MB/s Writes, 750MB/s Reads
  
• Latency - 50 microseconds
• IOPS - 93,000 IOPS (75/25 R/W mix 4K packet size)

600279-B21 - HP 320GB MLC PCIe ioDrive

• Usable Capacity - 320GB
• Technology - NAND Flash, MLC
• Bandwidth - 490MB/s Writes , 700MB/s Reads
  
• Latency - 80 microseconds
• IOPS - 67000 IOPS (75/25 R/W mix 4K packet size)

600281-B21 - HP 320GB SLC PCIe ioDrive Duo

• Usable Capacity - 320 GB
• Technology- NAND Flash, SLC
• Bandwidth- 1.4GB/s Writes, 1.5GB/s Reads... !!!
• Latency - 50 microseconds
• IOPS - Over 125,000 (75/25 R/W mix 4K packet size).

600282-B21 - HP 640GB MLC PCIe ioDrive Duo

• Usable Capacity - 640GB
• Technology - NAND Flash, MLC
• Bandwidth - 1.0GB/s Writes, 1.4GB/s Reads
  
• Latency - 80 microseconds
• IOPS - Over 120, 000 IOPS (75/25 R/W mix 4K packet size)

As you can see there are huge performance gains on storage speeds. Now as for price... well we will skip that for now as you can imagine they are pretty expensive, sometimes needs must though !!

I also hear you ask what is NAND MLC and SLC and what is the difference? Well NAND is a technology that uses flash memory cells to store data. Single level Cell (SLC) stores one bit (data) per cell, while Multi-level Cell (MLC) uses two bits per cell. While MLC can store more data within each device, it has lower endurance characteristics (Slower) than SLC.

These cards cannot be used as a boot device as yet, also these cards are only supported on the following operating systems at this time, RHEL 4,5 (64-bit support only); SLES 10, 11* (64-bit support only), Windows Server x86-64 2003, 2008 (64-bit support only).

If you want to read up more on these cards then please click here

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

HP Rack & Power solutions are the foundation for your IT – from a computing room up to a data centre

HP has designed these solutions - to ensure current and future integration with HP servers, HP StorageWorks and HP Systems Insight Manager. These solutions are designed based on industry standards - to ensure the compatibility to 3rd party IT equipment and to ensure investment protection.

HP Rack & Power Solutions are part of HPs Converged Infrastructure / Data Centre Smart Grid (end-to-end solution) and the foundation if you want to create a highly available and an energy-efficient IT Infrastructure.

Your advantages at a glance

• fully integrated solutions which meet the increased Power & Cooling requirements
• Compatibility, availability, energy-efficiency and investment protection
• One-stop shop – from solutions to services

Click here to find out more information on HP Rack and Power Solutions

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

August HP Server and Storage offers.

In order for you to have your own copy of this months offers, We can now offer them in a easy downloadable PDF for you.



Please click the image above to open the PDF.

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SOLUTION NEWS : Blade solution comes out cheaper in 1200 user terminal environment !!

I have just finished providing a solution for a customer who's requirements needed a 1,200 user terminal environment.

Initially when speaking with the customer on the discovery stage the customer was not too sure about using a blade centre solution. We ended up agreeing to provide 3 solution options, one using the new DL360 G7 servers, one using the BladeSystem with BL460 G6 (with the new 56xx series processors) servers and the last solution using the larger 4 processor DL580 G7 servers.

Results on costing were surprising.. The BladeSystem came in at around 10% cheaper than the DL580 solution and 6% cheaper than the DL360 solution, and don’t forget that this is just on the hardware alone!!

There are other major savings that you can benefit from when using blade solutions such as less rack space. Using blades as opposed to the rack servers reduced the space needed for the terminal servers alone by 10u when compared to the DL360 servers and 28u when using the DL580 servers. As you probably already know power and cooling is constantly monitored in a HP blade environment to use the smallest amount of energy as possible whilst maintaining a reliable environment which in turn save you money on cooling and power costs.

Whilst this is not new news, its nice as a reminder that blade solutions are a very competitive solution in a larger environment.

New to the concept of blade solutions?? Click Here for more information

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

HP 5642 "Flat Pack" 42u Server rack now EOL - Replaced with New V142

The flat pack rack is no more..

Hp have now replaced the 5000 series rack with the new V142 entry level rack. This new v142 Rack ia low cost alternative to the 10000 series and mainly designed for customers looking into new rack solutions or startups. It is fully compatible with all HP rack mounted products (Servers and Storage products).

For more information on this rack and its options please click HERE

Please note that this rack is not a Flat pack rack, the rack comes pre-built, so a site survey will need to be arranged for delivery and placement.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

FAQ Page Updated....

Just so you know some more FAQ's have been added to the team FAQ page.

Q: What does CTO and BTO stand for? & what is the Difference between CTO and BTO?
Q: Can i upgrade the processor in my existing HP server?
Q: What is I-Quote and when should i use it?

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HP Blade Enclosure Offer Extended !!

HP Free Blade Enclosure Offer - Save up to a massive £20,111 Simply purchase either:

The c3000 with blades to fill all 8 slots and get the enclosure and two blades free**

The c7000 with blades to fill all 16 slots and get the enclosure and four blades free**

**lowest priced servers apply.

For August Qualifiing products Click HERE
For August Claim form Click HERE

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Technical ISS Solutions Team