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March 8, 2005 Hardware Today: HP Server Snapshot By Drew Robb
For the past three years, HP has been the leader of the pack in terms of worldwide server shipments. Its strategy now is to maintain its position with the addition of greater manageability and virtualization features as well as the streamlining of its many product lines under fewer umbrellas. The winning brands are ProLiant, Integrity and NonStop; the casualties are AlphaServer and HP 9000. The latter products are at the end of their respective lives and are being folded into the 64-bit Integrity line.
"We are moving away from proprietary to standards-based servers based upon ProLiant, Integrity and NonStop," said Kate O'Neill, enterprise and storage servers portfolio manager at HP. "This simplifies things for our customers and frees them from the burden of additional personnel and services costs."
By far, HP's strongest server line is the ProLiant. According to IDC, it dominates the x86 market and brings in nearly one third of the revenue. In 2004, the company increased its shipments by 19.1 percent and revenue by 13.8 percent year-over-year.
Recent enhancements to the many faces of ProLiant are numerous. The grid below highlights the server line and links to the details. As would be expected, the changes center around the latest Celeron and Pentium 4 processors, PCI-Express, more cache, and greater manageability. For example, a 2.8-GHz Celeron or Pentium 4 3.2-GHz processor, PCI-Express support, and a remote management card have been added to the ProLiant ML110 G2 server. The ProLiant DL320 G3 is a 1U server that now includes a Celeron 2.93-GHz or up to a Pentium 4 3.6-GHz processor with 1 MB of L2 cache and two PCI-X slots.
AlphaServers: Alpha; HP 9000: PA-8700, PA8700+, PA-8800; e3000: PA-8500, PA-8600, PA-8700; Telco: PA-8600, PA-8700, P III, Xeon, Itanium-2 (Madison)
Processor Range
ML300 Servers (Entry-Level): 1 and 2; Other ML Servers: 2 and 4; DL Servers: 1 to 8
Entry-Level: 1 to 2, 1 to 4, 1 to 8; Midrange: 2 to 16, 2 to 32; Superdome (High-End with Itanium-2 mx-2): 2 to 16, 2 to 32, 6 to 128
Up to 4080 processors
1, 2 and 4 processors
AlphaServers: Entry-Level: 1 and 2; Midrange: 4 and 8; High-End: 8 to 64; Supercomputer: Up to 4096.
HP 9000: Entry-Level: 1, 1 to 2, 1 to 4, 2 to 4, 2 to 8; Midrange: 8-32; Superdome: 4 to 32, 4 to 64, 12 to 128;
Pre-configured 05 Series: 2, 4
e3000 Servers: N/A
Telco Servers: 1 to 4 processors
Operating Systems
Windows, Linux
All: HP-UX 11i, OpenVMS, Windows Server 2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS35
Entry-Level also supports SUSE High-End: 128-way Superdome requires HP-UX 11i-v2
The ProLiant line also includes plenty of Xeon-based models. The 2P ML370 G4, for example, includes up to two 3.6-GHz Intel Xeon processors with 2 MB of L2 cache, an 800-MHz front side bus, Intel's Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) processor, and PCI-Express technology. The HP ProLiant BL20p G3 is a dual-processor Xeon-based blade server with 2 MB of L2 cache, storage-area network connectivity, up to 8 GB of PC 3200 DDR2 memory, and a 4-gigabit network interface card.
Most recently, HP brought AMD Opteron into the ProLiant blade server fold with the BL25p and BL35p models. In addition, the Opteron-based 2U DL385 is rack-optimized and combines better management and high-availability requirements to facilitate data center deployment.
"Some of our customers have realized a price/performance advantage by opting for the Opteron," said O'Neill. "Under certain workloads, it outperforms the Xeon."
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