Utility Blade Vision; Conclusion - Compaq BL10e - HP ProLiant - 512 MB RAM Manual

began shipping in 2002 and supported Intel Pentium III 1.4-GHz processors and 10/100-Mb/s
Ethernet. Today, that same enclosure supports Intel Xeon 3.06-GHz and 2.8-GHz processors, 1-Gb/s
Ethernet, and Fibre Channel for storage area network (SAN) connectivity. Likewise, the ProLiant BL
p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch is designed with the ability to support future Layer 7 and 10-GB
Ethernet technologies that will provide increased performance for bandwidth-intensive applications.

Utility blade vision

The ProLiant BL portfolio will continue to evolve so that it can play a major role in the Adaptive
Enterprise as it is transformed in the trend to provide IT service in a utility-like fashion.
Today, blades are modular servers plus an intelligent infrastructure. In the next generation, blades will
be component parts that enable higher levels of virtualization. Data centers will be larger with more
automation, and the component parts will allow scaling IT service up and down and rapidly
reconfiguring as needs dictate.
Revolutionary improvements and advancements in fabric technologies will extend infrastructure
capabilities and enable the utility blade vision. Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology will
provide scalability and performance for the I/O subsystem and enable interconnect consolidation.
Connecting blade components over an Internet Protocol (IP) fabric, such as RDMA over Transmission
Control Protocol (TCP), will improve performance and utilization while simplifying and unifying the
infrastructure.

Conclusion

In designing the ProLiant BL server line, HP continues to extend its leadership in providing innovative
solutions that directly address the changing needs of enterprise customers. The ProLiant BL architecture
is designed to protect customer investments in two important ways: by providing longevity of ProLiant
BL servers and the interconnect architecture and by enabling installation of the server blades in
standard racks along with legacy servers and storage. Modular ProLiant BL systems are optimized for
use with HP ProLiant Essentials software tools that selectively extend the functionality of an
infrastructure that is adaptive to address specific business problems and needs. These software tools
enable IT administrators to configure and install operating systems and applications automatically to a
few, hundreds, or thousands of systems simultaneously.
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