Performance benchmarks ................................................................................................................ 28
Racking ............................................................................................................................................ 28
Third-party racks ............................................................................................................................ 29
Server virtualization ........................................................................................................................... 29
nPartitions ..................................................................................................................................... 29
How nPartitions work .................................................................................................................. 30
High availability ................................................................................................................................ 30
Partition reliability .......................................................................................................................... 30
CPU protection........................................................................................................................... 31
ECC on caches .......................................................................................................................... 31
CPU cooling .............................................................................................................................. 31
Instant Capacity ......................................................................................................................... 32
Memory protection ..................................................................................................................... 32
Hardware memory scrubbing....................................................................................................... 32
Address/Control parity ............................................................................................................... 33
Protection for I/O ....................................................................................................................... 33
Dual AC line cord support ........................................................................................................... 34
Enhanced serviceability .................................................................................................................. 34
Investment protection.......................................................................................................................... 34
Instant Capacity............................................................................................................................. 35
Ease of management.......................................................................................................................... 36
Management Processor................................................................................................................... 36
Partition Manager software ............................................................................................................. 36
HP-UX ........................................................................................................................................... 37
Windows ...................................................................................................................................... 39
Linux............................................................................................................................................. 40
Full lifecycle services....................................................................................................................... 41
The HP difference........................................................................................................................... 42
For more information ...................................................................................................................... 43