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HP File Archiving software (formerly File Migration Agent) version 2.2

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:38:36 +0000

HP File Archiving software (HP FAs) helps reduce information management costs-and increase storage efficiency-by automatically migrating aged and less accessed data from Microsoft Windows-based storage systems into a choice of target archives, including HP Integrated Archiving Platform (IAP).
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HP NC7771 PCI-X 1000T Gigabit Server Adapter Quick Specs

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:00:37 +0000

The NC7771 supports 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet speeds as well as a PCI-X 64-bit/133MHz data path and it is backwards compatible with existing PCI bus architectures. This range of features enables HP customers to protect their current hardware investment while also future-proofing their HP ProLiant servers for the inevitable increase in networking throughput. Additionally, the NC7771 ships with support for PCI Hot Plug, Network Fault Tolerance, Load Balancing, Jumbo Frames, PXE, Cold Boot Wake-on-LAN (WOL), and various offload capabilities that improve performance. These improvements in speed and throughput come at a cost-effective price for environments using Category 5 (or better) twisted-pair cabling.
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httperfmA Tool for Measuring Web Server Performance

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:33:57 +0000

A web system consists of a web server, a number of clients, and a network that connects the clients to the server. The protocol used to communicate between the client and server is HTTP [2]. In order to measure server performance in such a system it is necessary to run a tool on the clients that generates a specific HTTP workload. Currently, web server measurements are conducted using benchmarks such as SPECweb or WebStone [6, 8] which simulate a fixed number of clients. Given that the potential user base of an Internet-based server is on the order of hundreds of millions of users it is clear that simulating a fixed and relatively small number of clients is often insufficient.
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HP NC380T PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:58:37 +0000

The HP NC380T server adapter is the industry’s first PCI Express dual port multifunction network adapter supporting TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine) for Windows, iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface), and RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over a single network connection. Each port on the NC380T is a four lane (x4) serial device designed for PCI Express slots. The NC380T comes with a total of 184KB onboard memory.
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HP Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:29:31 +0000

Regardless of the size of your business, you are not alone in facing data demands that stress legacy systems to the limits. Existing database environments can’t handle ever-growing amounts of data. Older hardware and software investments don’t provide the necessary performance to serve escalating number of users. Management of a sprawling server footprint is becoming increasingly challenging and complex as costs spiral out of control. What’s more, business data that spans multiple systems often is not accurate, making it difficult to leverage your data for business intelligence (BI).
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HP ProLiant BL685c Server Blade Quick Specs

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:56:51 +0000

The HP ProLiant BL685c delivers no-compromise performance and expansion in the densest 4P server blade form-factor available to handle your most demanding applications.

HP ProLiant BL685c server blade includes:
Processor:
Up to four Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ 8300 Series processors
Supports up to 2.3 GHz, 1 GHz HyperTransport™; 512KB Level 2 cache memory per core; 2MB Level 3 cache
Up to four AMD Opteron 8200 Series processors
Supports up to 3.0 GHz,1 GHz HyperTransport™; 1MB Level 2 cache memory per core
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SMS Inventory Tool for HP ProLiant and Integrity Update

admin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:18:35 +0000

The SMS Inventory Tool for HP ProLiant and Integrity Update enables the use of Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, Service Pack 2, or Service Pack 3 (SMS 2003 SP1, SP2 or SP3) for management and distribution of HP ProLiant and Integrity server system software, firmware, and complete support packs. The SMS Inventory Tool allows customers that have chosen SMS 2003 to manage HP server inventory and software with the tool they also use to manage operating system software updates. This product expands on existing integration tools for ProLiant with SMS 2000 and SMS 2003.
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HP Integrated Citrix XenServer Quick Specs

admin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:55:22 +0000

Citrix XenServer is a high performance virtualization solution designed for efficient support of Windows and Linux virtual machines. HP has tightly integrated Citrix XenServer into ProLiant platforms to enable fast and straightforward installation, configuration, and virtual machine management. This revolutionary way of distributing virtualization technology combines seamless integration and active ProLiant management to ensure confident virtual deployments.
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HP ProLiant DL585 Server technology

admin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:15:10 +0000

The HP ProLiant DL585 server is a 4U rack-optimized, 4-way server created for large data center deployments requiring enterprise-class performance, uptime, and scalability, plus easy management and expansion. Based on AMD™ Opteron™ technology, the ProLiant DL585 server greatly improves the performance of standard 32-bit applications. Moreover, it includes AMD 64-bit extensions that add the capability to run 32-bit and 64-bit applications on the same x86 platform with no performance penalty.
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HP NC326m PCI Express Dual Port 1Gb Server Adapter for c-Class BladeSystem

admin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:53:09 +0000

The NC326m is a dual port Gigabit Ethernet server adapter for the c-Class BladeSystem. The x4 PCI Express NC326m adapter is supported on all ProLiant c-Class servers in all mezzanine slots. Multiple adapters can be installed per server. The NC326m is designed for applications requiring additional Gigabit Ethernet ports than those provided on the server. It is ideal for virtualization, security, server consolidation, network segmentation, and other BladeSystem applications requiring additional network port density.

Tested and proven to meet demanding BladeSystem standards, the NC326m ships with the advanced server features that ProLiant customers have come to expect, such as support for failover and load balancing, TCP/IP checksum offloading, large send offloading, Wake-on-LAN, PXE, jumbo frames, VLAN tagging, QoS, and more.

At A Glance
Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports
Supported on all ProLiant c-Class servers in all mezzanine slots, multiple cards per server
Designed with server needs in mind:
IEEE 802.1p, 802.1Q, 802.3, 802.3ad, and 802.3x
ProLiant Teaming including Network Fault Tolerance, Transmit Load Balancing, and Switch-Assisted Load Balancing
9K industry standard jumbo frames
TCP/IP checksum offload (TCO) and large send offload (LSO)
Interrupt coalescence and Dual address cycles (DAC)
Wake-on-LAN (WOL) and pre-boot execution environment (PXE)
IPv6 packet transmit and receive (excluding all offload capabilities); IPv6 aware SNMPv1 agent for Windows

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