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The BL495c G5 virtualization blade eliminates the performance bottlenecks of a virtual machine host. Engineered with more memory and I/O than any other half-height blade server, this world's first virtualization blade maximizes the number and performance of VMs that you can deploy per blade.
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The HP ProLiant BL495c Virtualization Blade is optimized for performance as a virtual machine host, with the features and options needed for enterprise data center environments.
Performance
- Up to two AMD Opteron 2300 Series processors with AMD Virtualization™ technology to improve performance in a virtual environment
- 16 DIMM slots, supporting up to 128GB of memory, that deliver the best memory-per-core and memory-per VM ratios of any half-height blade
- Integrated dual-port 10 GbE server adapter with Flex-10 technology that lets you cut network connection costs up to 75% per VM
- Dual-link HyperTransport™ connections between processors that provide additional performance gains over traditional single-link connections
Management
- Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) Management for unprecedented, high-speed management including virtual KVM and graphical remote console at no additional cost
- HP Power Regulator provides an innovative operating system-independent power management feature for server power consumption and system performance to meet critical business needs
- HP Insight Control Environment for HP BladeSystem provides comprehensive system health, remote control, vulnerability scanning and patch management as well as flexible deployment and power management in an easy to install software suite
Options
- Low voltage processor and memory options targeted at most optimal performance per U and performance per watt resulting in cooler, power-optimized systems
- Low-power Solid State Drives (SSD) that use less than 2 watts of power
- HP StorageWorks SB40c storage blade that expands the BL495c with up to six hot-plug Small Form Factor (SFF) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives
Networking
- High network throughput from an integrated dual-port 10 GbE Multifunction controller
- Support for Virtual Connect Flex-10, the world's first technology to fine-tune network bandwidth at the server edge and to adapt to virtual server workload demands on-the-fly
- Support for up to 24 NIC ports per server blade
- Additional I/O expansion with 2 mezzanine slots, supporting Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Ethernet, and InfiniBand mezzanine cards
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Ideal for...
Virtual machine host for Enterprise datacenters
- Unmatched capacity for virtual machines using the industry's most popular virtualization software from Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware
- Fast-to-deploy virtualization with HP ProLiant iVirtualization, including HP integrated Citrix XenServer
Memory-intensive BI and data warehousing applications
- Scale-out BI with Microsoft SQL server or Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters)
- Data Warehousing solutions based on SQL Server 2008 or Oracle 10g
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