HP BLADE
SERVER FAMILY
Blade server technology balances the demand for
ever increasing need for more powerful computer servers and space-effective
solutions sought by IT organizations within data centres. A blade
server is typically a complete server on a card that contains a hot-plug
computer system, includes one or more processors, memory, network
connections, and some level of local disk storage with provisions
to access external Fibre Channel storage. Multiple blades plug into
a chassis that provides shared, redundant infrastructure components
such as power, cooling, networking, and cabling.
HP developed the ProLiant portfolio of modular
server blades to meet customer needs for high density, high performance,
rapid deployment
and provisioning, increased flexibility, and remote manageability:
HP ProLiant BL e-Class - Power and space
efficiency rack-mountable chassis with up to 20 server blades for
front-end applications and
computational clusters.
HP
ProLiant BL p-Class - High performance,
high availability BL blade servers designed for enterprise applications
featuring 2-way and
4-way Intel Xeon processor, gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel Storage
network.
