HP BladeSystem
What would you say for the best working infrastructure placed in a 17-inch body? Accessible, available right now and prepared for the development of your company.
Such that only one administrator is more efficient than a whole team of technicians, reducing on-costs and purchase costs of over 40%, in which consolidation is a basis. Such that not only faces the most difficult problems connected with costs, changes, energy and time, but also allows for fully using new possibilities in the future?
It may seem unbelievable, but we have just listed the feature of the new HP BladeSystem c-Class system. Repeatable limitations of a server infrastructure are most frequently the result of the way they are built, multilayer complications and ineffective management processes on which it relies.
Because HP BladeSystem makes mutual resources available and eliminates the necessity of creating and maintaining separate systems, it is a cheaper solution than in the case of traditional solutions:
- Saves up to 42% of costs on purchasing servers and systems of Ethernet and Fibre Channel connections, power supply and frames,
- Cabling is reduced by over 94%,
- 60% more servers fit into the frame,
- The cost of electrical power necessary for powering and cooling is reduced by over 30%.
Thanks to consolidation, built-in control system and integrated software for infrastructure management, supervision of the system is more effective and changes are more easily deployed:
- Reduction of time spent on IT conservation even by 50% to 90%,
- Reduction of time necessary for updating and installation of patches from 10 minutes to 20 seconds per server,
- Redundancy N+1 providing high reliability for all applications used in the IT system.
BladeSystem body
The key to understanding the concept and rules of how HP BladeSystem operates is getting to know the c-Class body. It integrates all the primary functions of the modern centre of data: communication with LAN and SAN, power supply, cooling, redundancy and management. Apart from this, it is modular, thanks to which it can be equipped with various components in such a way, that the arising solution exactly meets the specified requirements.
Construction objectives
Making resources like power supply and cooling, communication and management common, reduces the complexity and repetition of certain elements, occurring frequently in traditional solutions installed in the frames.
Common power supply and cooling
Transferring power supply from each server to a common frame reduces power consumption and provides greater reliability. At the same time, HP Thermal Logic technologies reduce total power consumption by over 30% in comparison to solutions installed in frames, and require less power and air for cooling the entire solution.
Smaller complexity of cabling
Network connections in a common body significantly reduce the number of cables. In reality, BladeSystem requires 94% less LAN and SAN cabling than similar solutions installed in the frame.
Simplicity
The KVM system for the keyboard, mouse and monitor is not required. The new BladeSystem is managed with the help of the solution Onboard Administrator and iLO2 processor built into each server, using cabling and KVM switches for keyboards, mice and monitors.
Size and density of packaging
The integrated Blade solutions are smaller and occupy less space in comparison with the similar solution in the frame, which enables saving valuable space of the IT environment and electric power. At the same time, the modular construction simplifies deployment and maintenance.
Increased access
In traditional server architectures, increasing access means purchasing additional network units and components bringing excessiveness, which means extra costs. Thanks to the built-in redundancy of HP BladeSystem solutions, the configuration of the system with redundancy type N+1 is simpler and cheaper. It also covers redundancy embracing all components and connections, built-in monitoring, regulation and possibility of restoring the system's efficiency easily in case of failures.
