The Hewlett-Packard ProLiant G6 line’s advances in energy efficiency, virtualization and automation, make it ideal for all customers. These developments are combined with comprehensive financing programs and service offerings to redefine server economics.
“Now more than ever, customers want the best possible return on their server investments,” said Christine Reischl, senior vice president and general manager, Industry Standard Servers, Hewlett-Packard. “Building on Hewlett-Packard’s long history of hardware and software development, G6 brings together the best Hewlett-Packard innovations in energy efficiency, virtualization and services to enable our customers to do more with less.”
Built for energy savings
The ProLiant G6 includes many energy-saving features, such as:
The Hewlett-Packard Sea of Sensors – automatically track thermal activity across the server through a collection of 32 smart sensors. The sensors dynamically adjust system components such as fans, memory and input/output processing to optimize system cooling and increase efficiency.
The Common Power Slot design – helps minimize power waste by allowing customers to choose from four power supplies to match their specific workload. Customers can achieve more than 92% energy efficiency in the majority of real-world configurations.
Hewlett-Packard Dynamic Power Capping – reallocates power and cooling resources in the data center by dynamically setting or “capping” the power drawn by servers. By precisely identifying power requirements for each server and setting a limit based on that usage, customers can reclaim overprovisioned energy to improve data center capacity.
Maximizes productivity
The Hewlett-Packard ProLiant G6 platform offers a comprehensive set of embedded technologies and flexible tools to help maximize the productivity of a server infrastructure, including:
Hewlett-Packard ProLiant Onboard Administrator – simplifies server setup and enables customers to inspect server health from any location, even when a server is offline.
Hewlett-Packard Insight Control Environment (ICE) management console – bundled with Hewlett-Packard ProLiant for the first time, ICE reduces operational expenses up to $48,000 for every 100 users by allowing customers to control the management and monitoring of the server infrastructure onsite or remotely.
Hewlett-Packard Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet module – the interconnect technology to allocate the bandwidth of a 10Gb Ethernet network port across four network interface card connections. This eliminates the need for additional network hardware equipment, and enables customers deploying virtual machines to realize savings of up to 55% in network equipment costs.
Makes every dollar count
The Hewlett-Packard ProLiant G6 platform builds upon the quality of the Hewlett-Packard ProLiant brand to provide increased performance and customer value over previous generations:
Nehalem Intel Xeon 5500 processors and new Hewlett-Packard Smart Array Modular Controllers – Hewlett-Packard ProLiant G6 delivers twice the memory and storage of previous generations as well as a 100% increase in overall performance.
Hewlett-Packard Server Migration Pack – eases the upgrade process by automating migration from old servers to the Hewlett-Packard ProLiant G6. Through a simple wizard-driven process, it accurately transfers operating systems, applications and data from one server to another without errors.
Hewlett-Packard Proactive Select – a simple credit point system that allows customers to build their service plan via a flexible menu of prepackaged options. Similar to a prepaid calling card, users can buy volume-based discounted credits for accessing services and education offered by Hewlett-Packard experts.
Hewlett-Packard Financial Services – offers flexible financing options on the Hewlett-Packard ProLiant G6 server portfolio, including zero% financing in selected countries.(5) In addition, Hewlett-Packard can help customers free up cash through the purchase and “lease back” of existing assets via a Sale Leaseback Service.
The HP ProLiant G6 platform, based on Intel Xeon 5500 processors, includes the HP ProLiant DL380, DL370, DL360, DL180 and DL160 rack-optimized servers; the HP ProLiant BL 490c, BL 460c and BL 280c server blades; and the HP ProLiant ML370, ML350 and ML150 tower servers.
