2. The case for a new generation of servers HP ProLiant Gen8—the world’s most self
The cloud era is upon us, and it’s driving insatiable demand for all sufficient servers
things digital. Consider these facts: Around the world, 2 billion HP ProLiant Gen8 servers are built for the new and emerging realities
Internet users conduct 1.6 trillion online searches each year.1 Facebook in today’s data centers. With a wide range of embedded automation
alone has 800 million active users.2 Factors like these contribute to a and intelligent management features, these are the world’s most self-
staggering 50 percent monthly growth rate in the volume of data.3 sufficient servers.
Now consider your data center. If you have a typical 10,000 square Powered by the HP ProActive Insight architecture, next-generation
foot data center, you can expect your storage capacity to grow by 45 ProLiant servers continuously analyze thousands of system parameters
percent each year—creating ever-growing management challenges.4 to optimize application performance and proactively improve uptime.
All of that data has to be stored, protected, and analyzed to create All the while, they provide your organization with insight into virtually
business insights. every aspect of your IT infrastructure.
The flood of data that washes through your data center creates a These client-inspired servers propel your organization forward
ripple effect on your server infrastructure. Every new rack of storage with more than 150 design innovations. These innovations help
creates the need for an additional seven racks of servers that must you increase application performance by up to 50 percent, shift
be integrated into your environment, managed, powered, cooled, staff time to business innovation, extend data center capacity, and
and supported on an ongoing basis. improve uptime by preventing data loss and failures.
All of this drives up costs. For every $1 spent on storage, an additional Ultimately, the advances in the new ProLiant family go far beyond
$6.90 is spent on server hardware, management, and energy costs. incremental improvements to the components into the server chassis.
It all adds up to a total economic impact of $260 billion dollars for They transform the entire server experience.
data centers worldwide.5 And these costs come at a time when up to
70 percent of current IT budgets are consumed by basic operations, Transforming the server experience
leaving only 30 percent for business innovation.
With its unprecedented set of innovations, the new ProLiant family
Clearly, something has to change. provides the heart and mind of a self-aware and intelligent converged
infrastructure. In this new world of IT, servers are so intelligent they
HP brings intelligence to Converged Infrastructure eliminate tedious, time-consuming tasks. They converge storage,
At HP, we believe it’s time for a new way forward. For decades, compute, and I/O to turbo-charge application performance. They
IT systems have been getting incrementally faster, smaller, and maximize the use of space, power, and cooling. They redefine the
more affordable. In the cloud era, they need to become infinitely service experience. And they fit naturally into your environment
more intelligent. because they were designed for the way you work.
This goal is at the heart of Project Voyager, a two-year, $300 million Let’s take a closer look at how the new ProLiant family delivers
HP engineering and development initiative to eliminate many manual these benefits.
tasks across the IT lifecycle. Though this initiative, HP is fundamentally
redefining the expectations and economics of the data center by
creating systems so intelligent they virtually take care of themselves.
The next generation of the HP ProLiant server family is the first step
on this far-reaching mission.
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3. Integrated lifecycle automation You’ll reduce energy usage and increase compute capacity with HP
Thermal Discovery Services. This feature helps you squeeze the most
Servers so intelligent they eliminate tedious, time- IT out of every bit of data center power and cooling capacity—and
consuming tasks reduce energy consumption by 10 percent compared to an HP
In too many cases, the data center workday is a steady stream of ProLiant G6 server.
error alerts, system events, installation and update issues, and calls
HP Location Discovery Services self-identify and inventory servers to
to support desks. These realities drive the need for intelligent servers
optimize workload placement—without the need for tedious, error-
that eliminate tedious, time-consuming tasks.
prone manual asset collection and tracking. And all the while, HP
That’s the next-generation HP ProLiant family with the HP ProActive Power Discovery Services with the HP Intelligent PDU automatically
Insight architecture. You’ll notice the ProLiant difference right out of track power usage and document configurations to increase system
the box with Intelligent Provisioning capabilities that help you bring uptime and reduce the risk of outages.
your systems online three times faster—thanks to a fully integrated
system and OS configuration tool. All your needed firmware, drivers, Proactive Service and Support
and tools are pre-loaded and ready to deploy. No CDs to load. No
Servers so intelligent they redefine the service experience
software to find. No guesswork.
In today’s data centers, valuable staff time is too often lost to IT support
You can start troubleshooting five times faster with HP Active Health issues. Next-generation HP ProLiant servers with the HP ProActive Insight
technology—your 24/7 mission control for automated monitoring, architecture help you reclaim the time of your system administrators
diagnostics, and alerting. It monitors and securely logs more than with servers so intelligent they redefine the service experience.
1,600 system parameters and 100 percent of configuration changes.
HP Insight Online provides the industry’s first cloud-based IT
And with the built-in Smart Update feature, you can deploy updates
management and support portal, offering one-stop access to the
three times faster—and with 93 percent less downtime.
information your team needs to support the devices in your IT
environment—from anywhere, anytime. When you enable the Insight
Dynamic workload acceleration Remote Support feature, it connects the rich data gathered by HP
Servers so intelligent they converge storage, compute, and Insight Online directly to your HP Certified Service Professional to
I/O to turbo-charge application performance reduce your problem resolution time by as much as 40 percent.
To stay ahead of data growth, your IT team needs to remove storage To further improve infrastructure uptime, look to HP Proactive Support
bottlenecks and accelerate data-intensive application performance. Services—including a new “direct-to-expert” support process that
These requirements drive the need for smarter servers that converge delivers instant access to HP server experts for faster problem
storage, compute, and I/O to turbo-charge application performance. resolution. You can also count on more than 2,000 HP ServiceONE
That’s what you’ll find in the next-generation HP ProLiant family with partners to provide the highest levels of local expertise backed by
the HP ProActive Insight architecture. You’ll be poised to meet the HP’s global resources.
demands of virtualized and data-intensive workloads with a system
optimized for solid state disk and designed with smart data services System Architecture and Design
that analyze workload data in real time to optimize performance and Servers so intelligent because they were designed for the
efficiency. By combining smarter algorithms and analytics with 85
way you work
percent faster storage performance and twice the cache capacity, HP
When it comes to server maintenance, simple mistakes can trigger big
ProLiant servers deliver six times faster solid state storage performance
problems. Remove the wrong drive and you might lose data across an
versus previous generations.
entire array. Next-generation HP ProLiant servers with the HP ProActive
Along with faster performance, the new HP ProLiant family gives you Insight architecture and intelligent system components help you virtually
up to 50 percent more drives per server, and the built-in Smart Array eliminate common problems that cause failures, downtime, and
controller can support twice the number of drives in one RAID. data loss.
That’s the case with the HP Smart Drive carrier. It proactively warns
Automated energy optimization you not to remove a drive if the action will cause data loss. In another
Servers and infrastructure so intelligent they maximize the customer-inspired innovation, the HP Smart Socket guide allows you
use of space, power, and cooling to confidently add or upgrade processors without the fear of bending
As data centers grow, power and cooling costs take an ever-larger bite pins that leads to motherboard failure and replacement.
out of the IT budget. HP helps you bite back with server infrastructure The new ProLiant family makes servicing easier with more than 150
so smart it automatically maximizes the use of space, power, and design innovations to increase your productivity and confidence
cooling. That’s the story of the next-generation HP ProLiant servers with during setup, upgrade, and repair. One example: Tool-less access
the ProActive Insight architecture and its technologies for automated everywhere reduces the time to install or remove components by up
energy optimization. to 60 percent.6
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