In order to deploy and manage a virtualization environment, you need to make significant financial and resource investments. It’s no wonder then that the majority of IT managers consider reducing the complex nature of virtualization as one of their top priorities.
Today, HP is making it much easier for your organisation to overcome this complexity by capitalising more fully on virtualization. With the introduction of HP VirtualSystem, HP now offers a faster, simpler path to a virtualized environment by changing the ground rules for the deployment of virtualized systems.
HP VirtualSystem reduces complexity and extends the HP Converged Infrastructure by delivering solutions optimised for server and desktop virtualization. Built, configured, and shipped as a single solution, HP VirtualSystem supplies a complete, high performance virtualized environment with pre-tested and pre-configured server, storage, networking, management, and virtualization resources. Factory and field integrated HP VirtualSystem helps you simplify data center modernization and application optimisation by putting you on a faster path to virtualized environments—and to greater IT agility.
You have a choice of modular systems for medium to very large enterprise deployments—HP VirtualSystem VS1, VS2, VS3, or VS MC1.
HP VirtualSystem VS1 - Designed to support up to 750 virtual machines (VMs)
- HP ProLiant DL380/DL360 G7 rack-mount servers: Continuing to deliver on their heritage of engineering excellence with increased flexibility and performance, enterprise-class up time, and HP Insight Control manageability
- HP P4500 SAN storage system:Delivering enterprise functionality that enhances virtual environments, simplifies management, and reduces costs; easy to deploy, scale, and maintain, HP P4500 SAN ensures that crucial business data remains available
- HP Insight Control: Enabling you to manage your infrastructure in half the time; reduces unplanned downtime by 83%
- HP Thermal Logic technology: Providing energy awareness and power optimisation; reduces facility power and cooling costs by 30%
HP VirtualSystem VS2 - Offering support for up to 2500 VMs, HP VirtualSystem VS2 includes HP Thermal Logic and HP Insight Control technologies, as well as the following best-of-breed components:
- HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure: Providing all the power, cooling, and I/O infrastructure you need to support modular server, interconnect, and storage components today and for years to come; greater density with more blades per enclosure
- HP ProLiant BL460c G7 server blades: Offering the ideal balance of performance, scalability, and expandability, making it the standard for data center computing; industry-leading I/O capacity and throughput.
- HP P4800 SAN for BladeSystem Storage System: Completely converged within the HP BladeSystem architecture, offering exceptional performance, efficiency, and density with all-inclusive SAN management software; enables affordable enterprise storage functionality.
- HP Virtual Connect: Wire-once, change ready infrastructure; uses 95% fewer cables,network interface cards, and switches
HP VirtualSystem VS3 - Focusing on the needs of today’s enterprise, HP VirtualSystem VS3 provides support for up to 6000 VMs. In addition to HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure, HP ProLiant BL460c G7 server blades, HP Insight Control, HP Virtual Connect, and HP Thermal Logic technologies, HP VS3 also includes:
- HP 3PAR Storage System: Advanced storage system that offers multi-tenancy greater efficiency (thin provisioning), high performance, and autonomic tiering.
HP VirtualSystem VS MC1 - Built for customers’ most demanding, mission critical environments, HP VirtualSystem VS MC1 enables customers to consolidate and reduce costs, using the right virtualization technology for a workload’s requirements, isolated as need be, meeting pre-defined service level agreements. Includes the following components:
- HP Integrity Superdome 2 Server hardware: Delivering always-on resiliency; dynamic optimisation; and ultimate, electrical isolation between sensitive workloads within a converged, modular, bladed platform that simplifies and unifies IT
- Mission-critical HP-UX 11i v3 Virtual Server Environment OE: Offering additional resiliency, scalability, security, and comprehensive, and integrated virtualization and management; instantly adjusts resources to meet dynamic business requirements per pre-defined service level agreements while enabling consolidation, which reduces costs HP 3PAR SAN (F400) storage: For the most efficient thin technology-based storage offering multi-tenancy, autonomic tiering, thin provisioning support, and simplicity of management for demanding workloads; enables organisations to react quickly and non-disruptively to changing application and infrastructure requirements; intelligent non-disruptive storage reduces capacity requirements by 50%
HP VirtualSystem Overview Video — Why HP VirtualSystem is the fastest path to agile and efficient virtualized application solutions and the clear upgrade to the hybrid cloud.
Please click on the below links for Quickspecs to find out more information based on the various VM offerings for the HP VirtualSystem.
HP VirtualSystem for VMware
HP VirtualSystem for Microsoft
HP VirtualSystem CV2 for VMware View
HP VirtualSystem CV2 for Citrix XenDesktop on Microsoft Hyper-V
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