HPE ProLiant Gen8

The family of HP servers ProLiant Gen8 announced by Hewlett-Packard company became a result of the two-year Project Voyager program aimed at automation of each aspect of an operational cycle of servers. Within the project more than 900 applications for patents are submitted and the architecture of HP of ProActive Insight covering all infrastructure of HP of Converged Infrastructure is developed. Product assortment includes the tower-systems of HP ProLiant ML for remote offices mounted in a rack of HP of ProLiant DL lezviyny HP ProLiant BL and also HP ProLiant SL for the Web, cloud services and massive and scalable environments.

Voyager, became the third phase of the long-term plan of transformation of the server market of HP begun with the Moonshot project in November of last year. Moonshot is aimed at the maximum decrease in power consumption by servers whereas, on the following phase — the Odyssey project — the main attention is paid to their optimization for accomplishment of responsible calculations.

By estimates of HP, company, on average, spend 24 million dollars in three years for the operations on support of servers performed manually. Thanks to the intellectual technologies automating tasks and significantly improving readiness, HP ProLiant Gen 8 with HP ProActive Insight triple productivity of work of administrators. For example, elimination of the majority of the transactions requiring intervention of the specialist at server updating (HP Smart Update function) reduces this procedure from five to 10 and less o'clock minutes by one rack.

The technology of HP 3-D Sea of Sensors for the first time in the industry performs monitoring of use of servers based on data on their location, workload, temperature, power consumption, increasing specific efficiency of calculations (per watt the consumed energy) by 70%. HP 3-D Sea of Sensors also eliminates 100% of the errors connected with human participation in processes of configuring and accounting.

New servers automatically trace the status in 1600 points, make self-diagnostics and preventive maintenance. Thanks to it, clients can resolve the problems which caused unplanned idle time is 66% faster, than before.

The ProLiant Gen HP family passed test more than in 100 DPCs worldwide and, thanks to a feedback with clients, personified over one and a half hundred improvements. Integrated Lifecycle Automation accelerates deployment of programs and saves more than 30 working days a year on each administrator. Dynamic Workload Acceleration accelerates work of storage systems at intensive calculations thanks to convergence them with servers and to use of intelligent drives on a flash memory almost seven times. HP Advanced Data Mirroring and new algorithms in one thousand times improve safety of data, and initialization of RAID accelerates almost twice. Automated Energy Optimization will read 7 million dollars from expenses on energy of typical DPC in three years.

HP Insight Online, the cloud portal of IT administration and the personalized support, helps clients to achieve 95% result in elimination of problems at their first identification. It is integrated with intellectual technologies of HP ProLiant Gen8, services HP Insight Remote Support and HP Services.

HP ProLiant Gen8 - the most automated family of servers - includes the tower-systems of HP ProLiant ML for remote offices mounted in a rack of HP of ProLiant DL lezviyny HP ProLiant BL and also HP ProLiant SL for the Web, cloud services and massive and scalable environments.

HP servers of ProLiant Gen8 passed tests in more than 100 data processing centers. In them over 150 design solutions which need was specified by customers are implemented. These innovations considerably increase performance of applications and also allow system administrators to increase as much as possible the level of availability of servers thanks to elimination of often arising problems leading to failures, idle times and data loss. Here some of these innovations:

• The built-in functions of automation of lifecycle — the accelerated deployment of applications and decrease in idle times thanks to automation of the tasks which were earlier executed manually. Thanks to these improvements HP servers of ProLiant Gen8 allow to reduce the term of execution of works by the administrator by 30 days a year (for a standard data processing center about 1000 sq.m).
• Dynamic adaptation to loading — almost sevenfold increase in efficiency of data storage thanks to use of intelligent HP solid state drives. Intellectual means of analytics allow HP servers of ProLiant Gen8 to adapt to the current loading in real time. The unique technology of HP Advanced Data Mirroring and intellectual algorithms provide increase in level of security of data by 1000 times and also accelerate initialization of RAIDs for 95%.
• Automatic optimization of energy consumption — HP servers of ProLiant Gen8 and industry-first intellectual racks with the built-in sensors allow to double a performance measure per watt that in three years provides saving 7 million US dollars on the electric power (10). The technology of HP 3D Sea of Sensors automates accounting of resources and precisely keeps track of power consumption in each rack and each server, allowing to improve load distribution without effort. At the same time, when using servers of other producers users incur expenses on "manual" accounting of resources and also on measurement of indicators of energy consumption and coolings.
• Pro-active support — HP Insight Online, the portal, best in the industry, on management of IT resources and support based on cloud computing helps to fix 95% of problems after the first address. (11) The portal is integrated with intellectual technologies of HP ProLiant Gen8, service of remote support of HP Insight and HP services. He offers clients the whole range of services of management and support thanks to automatic data acquisition about equipment of the server, its status, the available contracts, guarantees, etc. Besides, the customer has access to authorized partners of HP in sales within the HP ServiceONE program that helps to prevent or to quickly fix a problem.

2014

HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 (4S)

HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 - model of the server of a line of HP ProLiant Gen8 on the basis of the Intel Xeon processors E7-8800/4800 v2 provides the highest performance level and availability to resource-intensive applications.

On February 25, 2014 the Hewlett-Packard company announced a line of servers of standard architecture and provided new model of the eighth generation of HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8.

The HP server of DL580 is created on the basis of the innovative technologies of HP of ProLiant Gen8 and offers advantages:

• record performance thanks to in-memory technology: transactions are executed 30 times quicker;
• increase in efficiency thanks to consolidation of infrastructure and use of intellectual control functions;
• decrease in total cost of ownership by 45%;
• reliability augmentation of work of memory and processors for 30% thanks to functions of HP Advanced Error Recovery and HP ^[1].

HP servers of ProLiant of series DL, are intended for installation in a rack.

Functions of servers of series DL:

• optimization for dense placement, maximum flexibility and controllability;
• ideal solution for deployment of a multiserver configuration;
• existence of rack and cluster models.

The model of HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 includes unique innovations of HP of ProLiant Gen8, like the built-in functions of automation, management of lifecycle, economy of a power supply and performance improvement.

Servers are delivered with a service package of support of HP of Proactive Care allowing to improve indicators of availability and reliability of the virtualized environments on the basis of servers of standard architecture.

On June 8, 2014 the Hewlett-Packard company provided the server of a corporate class - HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 - (4S) architecture of x86, the providing highest performance level, absolute reliability, high efficiency of consolidation and management. The model represents the ideal solution for work with information of the corporate level, applications business of the analysis and databases.

The HP server of ProLiant DL580 Gen8 is equipped with the high-performance Intel Xeon processor E7-4890 v2, the additional slot of memory (96 DIMM), input-output system with expanded capacity of 9 slots of PCIe Gen3.0, a storage system of the increased efficiency (12 Gbps of SAS). The fault tolerance of a system of HP of ProLiant DL580 Gen8 is guaranteed by safety features and data protection.

A set of intelligent HP management tools OneView, iLO 4 focused on the user of function of control provide faster and simple management of a server framework at the minimum costs.

The server provides the doubled performance in comparison with models of the previous generation, allowing to implement calculations of large volumes of information in memories and virtualization using additional slots of memory (96 DIMM).

HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 provides support of bigger number of slots of flash-memory of PCIe, has bigger quantity of cores of the processor and also the increased capacity of input-output channel: 9 slots of PCIe Gen3, including 5 slots of x16 FL/FH.

Performance improvement of "tough" drives by use of SAS controllers 12 of Gbps HP Smart Array and also bigger capacity of the internal storage device is provided that guarantees more quick access to considerable volumes of details.

The HP server of ProLiant DL580 Gen8 provides increase in system availability and decrease in need for maintenance thanks to advanced recovery tools, the worked diagnostic system of errors and the built-in fallback resources. Smart Array HP controllers from 4 GB the cache memory, expanded mirroring of data and HP SmartDrive technology increase reliability and data protection.

The raised security level is provided thanks to support of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) mode, safe loading, safe enciphering of HP of Secure Encryption and a security key of Intel.

Services HP Proactive Care Services ensure smooth operation and high performance through the simplified personalized functionality of support.

The HP server of ProLiant DL580 Gen8 reduces total ownership cost thanks to efficiency of vertically scalable consolidation and economy of funds for licensing of software.

Using HP OneView infrastructure management is executed quicker and cheaper, and monitoring of the IT infrastructure is performed through the uniform integrated representation.

Administration of a system is performed to 3-x time quicker that provides reduction of a downtime for 93% and operating time of the operator for 69% thanks to the advanced instruments of service HP Smart Update Manager (SUM).

The complex controllability is performed using tools of HP of iLO 4, the system of HP Active Health, technology of HP Intelligent Provisioning and the built-in remote support.

The functions focused on the user, such as FlexibleLOM, are used for the choice of network equipment, access to the processor and memory through the frontal sliding slot and also the QR code for quick access to complete data on characteristics of model.

ProLiant DL560 Gen8

ProLiant DL560 Gen8 is the server of standard architecture for deployment of resource-intensive business applications.

On February 25, 2014 the HP company announced expansion of a line of servers of standard architecture and declared an exit of the updated ProLiant DL560 HP server model.

HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8 is new model in family of the ProLiant x86 servers for vertical scaling. The server is created on the basis of the advanced functions hardware and the software of Gen8, supports the new high density and economic Intel Xeon processors E5-4600 and is the ideal solution for virtualization, consolidation of the servers, databases, business processes and the general 4-processor applications working with large volumes of data for which optimization of space and providing an ideal ratio of the price/performance of data processing centers are paramount tasks.

System functions

• Product family of Intel Xeon E5-4600
• The number of processors - 4 or 2
• Quantity of cores of the processor - 8 or 6 or 4
• Form factor - 2U
• The power supply - 2 general slots
• Memory, the maximum amount of memory - 1.5 TB
• Slots for memory - 48 slots of DIMM
• The type of memory is DDR3 RDIMM
• Storage - 5 disks SAS/SATA/SSD of a small standard size; a possibility of hot swap depending on model.

The updated model of HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8 is planned to release in March, 2014.

ProLiant BL660c Gen8

ProLiant BL660c Gen8 is a blade server of HP company.

On February 25, 2014 the HP company announced expansion of a line of servers of standard architecture and updating of model of HP of ProLiant BL660c Gen8.

A series of HP servers ProLiant BL660c Gen8 is suitable for projects of virtualization, functioning of databases, processing of business processes and the general 4-processor applications with intensive data exchange when regulation of space for a data processing center and an ideal ratio the price/performance are primary. By means of support of economic processors of high density of Intel Xeon E5-4600 a series of the BL660c Gen8 servers enters technology freshness to optimization of density with 4 modules without decline in production, scalability and opportunities of expansion.

As a part of improvements of the equipment: HP SmartDrives, HP Smart Socket Guide, HP SmartMemory, FlexibleLOM technology, server network 3D - sensors, the built-in Smart Array P220i RAID controller.

Among innovations of software there is a technology of automation of lifecycle, acceleration of a dynamic load, automatic optimization of energy consumption, Intelligent Provisioning technology, technology of monitoring of the equipment without use of the agent, the system of HP Active Health.

System functions

• The product family is Intel Xeon E5-4600
• The number of processors - 2 or 4
• Quantity of cores of the processor - 4 or 6 or 8
• Form factor - 8 (c7000); 4 (c3000)
• The power supply - an individual power supply of racks
• Expansion slots - three mezzanine slots of PCI 3.0: one — x8 of type A and two — x16 of type B at most
• The maximum amount of memory - 1.0 TB
• Slots for memory - 32 slots of DIMM
• Memory type - the Modules DDR3 LRDIMM or RDIMM
• Storage - 2 disks SFF SAS/SATA/SSD

The output of the updated model of HP ProLiant BL660c Gen8 is planned for March, 2014.

2013

HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) it is well free for buyers of HP servers of ProLiant Generation 8

In November, 2013 the HP company announced what software of HP of StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) is well absolutely free for all buyers of servers now [[HP ProLiant Gen8|HP of ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8)]. Software of HP of StoreVirtual VSA turns ProLiant HP servers into effective platforms of storage for modern software-defined DPC.

Advantages to clients:

• Cost reduction on deployment of storage with the general access to 80% in comparison with traditional arrays of storage. (4)
• The convenience of deployment in environments of a hypervisor of VMware or Microsoft is needlessly professional to understand technologies of storage.
• Increase in flexibility owing to an opportunity to scale computing resources and resources of storage in parallel, in process of growth of requirements.
• Reduction of risks owing to the built-in technologies of a clustering and disaster recovery, including support of VMware Metro Storage Cluster.

HP MicroServer Gen8

HP MicroServer Gen8 is expected use in the company where less than 10 employees work.

Possibilities of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials provide to users data access and to applications on the server practically from any device connected to the Internet that promotes increase in productivity of employees and improvement of their interaction.

On June 25, 2013 the HP company announced new advanced servers of the ProLiant HP family. Main advantages of the presented solutions: simplicity of implementation, service and management. The systems of this product line will help the small and medium enterprises with achievement more good results in business.

HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 is the small, quiet server. It will be suitable as the first server for the small enterprises.

HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 is delivered with HP iLO4 that allows to accelerate and simplify installation and setup by means of such latest technologies as Intelligent Provisioning.

• Built-in possibilities of instant setup and deployment of the server.
• The built-in technology of remote control reduces the need for administration of servers on places and cuts down expenses on business trips.
• Continuous monitoring of system operation provides faster and exact problem solving and also prevention of malfunctions.
• The access to hard drives, memory and PCI connectors without special tools simplifying installation and updating.
• The increased convenience of service thanks to such functions as an icon of a status and the indicator of operability of a system.
• Two ports USB on the front panel considerably simplify deployment.
• The new license for principal components of iLO gives an opportunity to connect the carrier from the client device to the server and to receive warnings of server events by e-mail.
• Small, noise-free, energy saving. It can be placed anywhere.
• The stylish blue band of LED indicators allowing to browse quickly data on operability of a system.
• The managed stack switch: calculations and net surfing can look simply and elegantly.
• Compatibility with switches of the HP 1810 series. The unique design of the body for the managed 8-port switch providing physical stacking.
• The general pool of resources and applications increases flexibility and simplifies work.
• The user-friendly interface of switches of the HP 1810 series allows to browse on a centralized basis data on operation of servers and switches in network that gives the chance effectively to distribute workloads.
• Aggregation of channels provides fast file transfer and big data availability.

Processor family: Intel of Celeron; Intel Pentium

• The number of processors - 1
• Quantity of cores of the processor - 2
• The form factor is Ultra Micro Tower
• The power supply - 1 integral unit of a power supply with a multichannel exit
• Expansion slots - 1 maximum.
• Memory. The maximum amount of memory - 16 GB
• Slots for memory 2 slots of DIMM; at most
• Type of memory DDR3 UDIMM

Storage

Description of the drive: 4 disks SATA with a form factor 3.5 inches; without a possibility of hot swap depending on model

Controller payments

Network controller The Ethernet adapter of 1 Gbit 332i with 2 ports on the controller; For all models Controller of storage Smart Array B120i controller; For all models

Guarantee

The guarantee for component parts – one year, and on replacement and services on site a guarantee is not provided.

HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8 v2

HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8 v2 is the updated full-function single-processor server in the tower case equipped with means of system administration of a corporate class. It is intended for the enterprises of small and medium business having branches to which are necessary the increased high-speed performance, high connection speed with network, the simplified administrative tools and the maximum error-free running time.

The HP server of ProLiant ML310e Gen8 v2 in the Tower 4U body with one socket provides data availability and possibilities of expansion in process of business development. It is ideal for the remote objects and corporate branches working with databases, file applications, applications for printing and message exchange and also small vertical applications or databases.

System performance is increased by processors of the Intel Xeon E3-1200v3 series, up to 4 cores. The server is compatible to switches of the HP 1810 series (8-and 24-port).

Characteristics

System functions

• Intel Xeon processor E3-1220 v3 (4 cores, 3.1 GHz, 8 MB, 80 W)
• The number of processors - 1
• Quantity of cores of the processor - 4
• Form factor - 4U
• The power supply - 1 factory power supply (a set, 350 W)
• Expansion slots: 4 slots of PCIe
• Memory: standard amount of memory - 4 GB (1x4 GB) of UDIMM
• Slots for memory - 4 slots of DIMM
• Memory type - 1R x8PC3-12800E-11

Storage

Hard drives are not included in the package - support up to 4 disks SATA with a form factor 3.5 inches with a possibility of hot swap or without it

The optical drive - the SATA DVD-RW drive of half height

Controllers

The network controller - the Ethernet adapter of 1 Gbit 332i with 2 ports on the controller

The controller of storage - 1 Dynamic Smart Array B120i/ZM controller

Infrastructure management - the mechanism of management of iLO, Insight Control (in addition)