With several new product releases this year from both HP and VMware, the American Digital team has been busy providing our customers with the latest information. As an HP Elite Partner and a VMware Enterprise VIP Partner, American Digital is capable of implementing these new, innovative products and has incorporated them into our solutions portfolio. Below is a brief overview.
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VMware’s vSphere 4 software
Announced last month and due for release by the end of the quarter, VMware has launched an upgrade to its core software platform. The message from VMware’s CTO, Stephen Herrod is, “Virtualization is the mainframe for 21st century” and is ready to run any class of enterprise application, no matter how large.
At the heart of VMware's claim are new performance capabilities of vSphere. Thanks to enhancements in Intel's new Nehalem processors, the software can now manage a cluster of computers with up to 32 physical servers, 2,048 processor cores and 32TB of RAM, according to VMware. Perhaps more importantly for database applications, VMware says it has doubled the maximum I/O operations its software can perform, to more than 200,000 per second. VSphere 4 also adds fault tolerance capabilities; thin storage provisioning, which allows less physical storage to be allocated to a virtual machine; storage vMotion, for switching an application between storage systems while it is still running; and a "distributed switch" developed with Cisco.
HP LeftHand
Bringing enterprise capabilities to companies of any size, HP LeftHand SAN solutions are now fully integrated into the HP family of storage products. If you need a SAN for virtualized servers and are looking for shared storage to take full advantage of advanced virtualization capabilities, consider the HP LeftHand P4000 SAN solutions - optimized for virtualized servers, database and email applications. If you are a small-to-midsized company wresting with sophisticated storage requirements, HP P4000 SAN is your ideal solution. It features a pay-as-you-grow, all-inclusive pricing model plus intuitive storage management software.
Do high availability and disaster recovery seem beyond your reach? No longer, thanks to the HP LeftHand P4000 SAN. Built on a storage clustering architecture that eliminates any single point of failure, the HP P4000 SAN scales capacity and performance linearly—with no downtime, performance bottlenecks or expensive upgrades. HP LeftHand iSCSI SANs offer: efficient storage utilization, optimized performance, simple management and cost-effective disaster recovery. In fact, the entire portfolio of HP iSCSI SANs can help you reduce the cost of storing and managing ever-expanding data, while increasing data protection and availability.
HP EVA6400 and EVA8400 Storage Arrays
HP StorageWorks 6400/8400 Enterprise Virtual Array automatically improves performance by placing data across more disk drives with tiered storage and tightly integrates replication when using highly visible software applications. The ease of management using HP StorageWorks Command View Software results in less time spent on maintenance and administrative intervention. Higher capacity utilization provides improved performance and manageable storage in a more consolidated environmental footprint.
The EVA6400/8400 allows you to virtualize everything and seamlessly provision your storage when growing your applications. Add virtual servers and EVAs to dynamically build a complete virtualized IT environment—virtual storage for virtual servers tuned for your environment.
HP ProLiant BL490c G6 Server Blade
The HP BL490c couples key virtualization capabilities with the performance and management features of a server blade for the enterprise data center.
Performance:
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Get quicker responses from your applications with up to two Intel Xeon processors 5500 series featuring Quick Path Interconnect and Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
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Fit more virtual machines onto your blades from the 18 DIMM slots using PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333) registered memory.
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Fine-tune network bandwidth to your workloads by using the integrated dual-port 10 GbE server adapter with Flex-10 technology
Ideal Environment - Virtual Machine Host for Enterprise Datacenters
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Minimize cost-per-VM under the most popular virtualization software from Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware
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Support for advanced infrastructure management using Insight Dynamics - VSE that lets you balance across physical and virtual resources
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Get more ports for your VMs with support for up to 24 NICs per server blade using Virtual Connect Flex-10
To learn more about HP BladeSystem, visit:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/c-class-tech-function.html
