HP BL460c Blade Server, EVA4400 SAN & Vsphere 4 Virtualisation Bundle

If your business is experiencing rapid growth, and your business needs demand the highest levels of performance & availability, then we have the ideal Virtualisation Bundle for your business.  This virtualization bundle consists of the HP Blc7000 BladeSystem Enclosure, 4 x HP BL460c Intel Nehalem E5520 Blade Servers, combined with the HP Enterprise Virtual Array 4400 (EVA4400) Fibre Channel SAN.

The solution comprises 3 highly specced HP ProLiant BL460c Blade Servers, which are suitable for use as a VMWARE ESX Host, and a fourth lower specced BL460c Blade Server to be used as a backup server.

HP Blade Server & Vsphere 4 Virtualisation Bundle

Brennan IT, in partnership with HP & VMWARE, have put together a fantastic value server virtualisation bundle, incorporating VMWARE VSPHERE 4 Advanced, HP BL460c Blade Servers, and a BLc3000 Blade Enclosure.

The solution comprises 3 highly specced HP BL460c Servers, which are suitable for use as a VMWARE ESX Host, and a lower specced BL460c Blade Server to be used as a backup server.

The 3 Blade Servers to be used as ESX Hosts have a configuration consisting of:

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• 1 x 507782-B21 HP BL460c Intel Nehalem E5520 CPU with 6GB RAM

HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure

HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure

The HP Proliant BladeSystem c7000 enclosure provides all the power, cooling, and I/O infrastructure needed to support modular server, interconnect, and storage components today and throughout the next several years. The enclosure is10U high and holds up to 16 server and/or storage blades plus optional redundant network and storage interconnect modules. It includes a shared, 5 terabit per second high-speed NonStop midplane for wire-once connectivity of server blades to network and shared storage. Power is delivered through a pooled-power backplane that ensures the full capacity of the power supplies is available to all server blades for maximum flexibility and redundancy. Power input flexibility is provided with choices of either single-phase, 3-Phase AC input and -48V DC Input.

HP ProLiant BL260C Server Blade

HP ProLiant BL260c G5 Server

It is without question, that the new HP Proliant BL260c server blade offers the best performance per watt and price per watt in the industry. It offers a 64% better performance/watt and costs 20% less than any other 2P server blade in the market. Also, the BL260c consumes 33% less power with full features. It is: The world’s most affordable, power efficient 2P server blade. Read more about c-Class setting record breaking numbers.

Like all HP BladeSystem components, the new HP BL260c offers greater energy efficiency and features than IBM’s HS21 server. The two processor, multi-core BL260c combines energy efficient compute power, high density with sufficient memory and I/O for the full range of cluster environments.

HP ProLiant BL280C Server Blade

HP ProLiant BL280c G6 Server

The HP BladeSystem continues to expand its portfolio of products specifically designed for high performance and scale-out datacenters with the addition of the HP BL280c G6 server blade. With outstanding dual-processor performance and price per watt, the BL280c helps reduce overall datacenter power consumption while maintaining high performance.

The new Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processors provide significant performance improvements and faster I/O throughput. Also, the new DDR3 memory technology is more energy efficient and has better cooling than existing memory options. Overall, the BL280c offers customers the latest technology for improved power efficiency and performance optimization.

HP ProLiant BL460c Server Blade

HP ProLiant BL460c Server

HP offers powerful, reliable server blades with the same trusted features as award-winning HP rack and tower servers. With features equal to standard 1U rack mount servers, the two (2) processor HP Proliant BL460c G1 Blade Server combines energy efficient compute power and high density with expanded memory and I/O for maximum performance. A balanced architecture featuring multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors with expanded cache, fully buffered DDR2 memory, optional Serial Attached SAS or SATA hard drives, support of Multi-Function NICS and multiple I/O cards, the BL460c G1, provides a performance system ideal for the full range of scale out applications.

HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure

HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure

The HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure brings new capabilities to HP BladeSystem. Now available in either a Tower model or rack model, the c3000 targets three separate market segments: 1) remote sites needing between 2 and 8 server blades; 2) mid-sized companies with between 3 and 100 servers in their company; and 3) enterprise accounts with special datacenter requirements, such as DC power, or very limited rack power & cooling capacity. Similar to the c7000, the Intelligent Management through the Onboard Administrator gives you complete control of your bladed infrastructure. A multi-terabit backplane ensures that the c3000 Enclosure can support today’s Gigabit networks with an easy migration to tomorrows 10 Gigabit solutions.

HP ProLiant BL465c G6 Server

HP ProLiant BL465c G6 Server

HP offers powerful, reliable server blades with the same trusted features as award-winning HP rack and tower servers. With features equal to standard 1U rack mount servers, the two processor HP ProLiant BL465c G6 Blade Server combines energy efficient compute power and high density with expanded memory and I/O for maximum performance.

A balanced architecture featuring 6 core AMD Opteron™ processors with DDR2 memory, serial hard-drives, support for Multifunction Gigabit networking and multiple I/O cards provides a performance system ideal for a full range of applications. In this small form factor, the BL465c G6 includes features to ensure high availability such as hot plug hard drives, memory interleaving, embedded RAID capability, and enhanced remote Lights-Out management.

HP ProLiant BL490c G6 Server Blade

HP ProLiant BL490c G6 Server

The HP ProLiant BL490c Virtualization Server Blade raises the bar for memory capacity and I/O bandwidth in a half-height blade. Coupling up to 2 Intel® Xeon® processors with 18 DIMM slots and support for up to 24 NICs, the BL490c gives enterprise data center managers the ideal server platform for hosting virtual machines.

Feature

• Get quicker responses from your applications with up to two (2) Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processors featuring Quick Path Interconnect and Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
• Fit more virtual machines onto your blades from the 18 DIMM slots using PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333) registered memory.

HP ProLiant BL495c G6 Server

HP ProLiant BL495c G6 Server

The HP ProLiant BL495c G6 Virtualization Blade eliminates the performance bottlenecks of a virtual machine host. Engineered with more memory and I/O than any other half-height server blade, this world’s first virtualization blade maximizes the number and performance of VMs that you can deploy per blade.

Features

• Up to two 6 core AMD Opteron™ 2400 Series processors with AMD Virtualization™ technology to improve performance in a virtual environment
• 16 DIMM slots, supporting up to 128GB of memory, that deliver the best memory-per-core and memory-per-VM ratios of any half-height blade

HP ProLiant BL680c G5 Blade Server

HP ProLiant BL680c G5 Server

The HP ProLiant BL680c G5 Server Blade, delivers no-compromise performance and expansion for a 2 to 6 core 4 processor BladeSystem Server.
With two (2) or four (4) Intel® Xeon® 7200, 7300, or 7400 Series processors, 128GB of fully buffered memory, two (2) hot plug serial attached SCSI (SAS) or serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, four (4) embedded Gigabit Ethernet adapters and three (3) I/O expansion slots, the HP ProLiant BL680c G5 delivers the density you want with the performance you need to handle the most demanding enterprise class applications.

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HP ProLiant BL685c G6 Blade Server

HP ProLiant BL685c G6 Server

Engineered for virtualization with a large memory footprint and more I/O than any other four socket server blade, the HP Proliant Blade Server BL685c G6 eliminates the barriers to server consolidation and delivers outstanding performance for compute-intensive database applications.

Features

• Up to four 4 or 6 core AMD Opteron™ processors with AMD Virtualization™ technology for ideal performance for virtualization applications
• 32 DIMM sockets support up to 256GB of memory for best-in-class memory per VM ratios and more VMs per server