HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Packaged Cluster with MSA1000

• One order number provides all necessary cluster components pre-assembled
• Each cluster comes completely assembled with best-in-class server and storage components housed in a single package to speed your out-of -box experience
• Numerous racking solutions to support various customer server environments, including rapid deployment and serviceability and third-party racks or within a stackable, desktop rack solution.
• Unique configuration fixture helps integrate components
• Includes integrated HBA's in the server and a 2/8 SAN switch in storage
• The ProLiant DL380 Packaged Cluster with MSA1000 may be used with Microsoft Windows® Server 2003, Windows 2000, Novell and Linux operating systems for standard and clustered configurations.
• Fully supported by ProLiant leading management & deployment tools
• Smart Start to ease the configuration process

The ProLiant DL380 G4 server provides innovative design of the 2U form factor provides the support for robust system performance needed for today's demanding business applications in a dense, rack-optimized form factor.

• Up to 2 Intel Xeon 3.6 GHz processors with 2MB of L2 Cache
• 800 MHz Front Side Bus
• 1 GB of 2-way interleaved, 400 MHz DDR-II SDRAM Memory and Online Spare Memory capability, expandable to 12 GB
• 3 full-length PCI-X expansion slots: 2 non-hot plug 64 bit 100MHz and 1 non-hot plug 133MHz
• Embedded NC7782 Dual Port Gigabit NIC
• Embedded Ultra320 Smart Array 6i with 64 MB RAM RAID controller

The MSA1000 combines the array controller shelf and the drive shelf, which holds up to fourteen 1" universal disk drives in a single 4U rackmount cabinet. More storage can be easily deployed with the addition of up to two HP StorageWorks MSA30 disk enclosures with space for forty-two drives giving maximum storage capacity of 12 TB when using the new 300 GB drives.

The MSA1000 provides the latest 2 Gb Fibre Channel technology to the hosts. Uniquely offered standard in the DL380 Packaged Cluster with MSA1000 is the 8-port, 2 Gb Fibre Channel fabric switch providing maximum performance and scalability with ease and simplicity of the ProLiant Packaged Cluster Family. The 8-port, 2 Gb Fibre Channel fabric switch conveniently fits inside the MSA1000, a second 8-port, 2 Gb Fibre Channel fabric switch may be added for additional protection and redundancy.

The MSA1000 provides Ultra3 SCSI connections to the hard drives and uses the HP Universal 1" Ultra2, Ultra3, and Ultra320 drives. By utilizing existing SCSI drives, the MSA1000 lowers the total cost of ownership and extends the customer's hardware investments into the future.

The MSA1000 can be remotely managed by using management tools such as HP Insight Manager, Array Configuration Utility and the StorageWorks Fabric Switch Management Utility depending on the host's operating system.

The performance and scalability of the MSA1000 allows for up to 18 additional ProLiant servers to be connected providing maximum return on investment and minimal storage management costs.

• Integrated Lights-Out Standard (iLO Standard) combines essential management functions and diagnostics with basic lights-out functionality as standard components of the server, and is available at no charge.
  
  
• Integrated Lights-Out Advanced (iLO Advanced) technology offers sophisticated virtual administration features for full control of servers in dynamic data center and remote locations. The iLO Advanced can be easily activated from the browser interface, while the server is on line. Powerful, hardware-based remote administration and control of ProLiant servers from a standard web-browser to conserve valuable IT staff resources. Maximum security, availability, and control over business-critical ProLiant servers without the need to physically visit the systems.
  
  
• Optional ProLiant Essentials Integrated Lights-Out Advanced Pack upgrades the iLO processor with iLO Advanced features.
  
  

ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack, which includes SmartStart and HP System Insight Manager, are the essential software needed to quickly and easily deploy ProLiant servers into a managed infrastructure and monitor server operation and performance.

There's a lot more that goes into ensuring high availability than just excellent hardware. Most of our dedicated clustering engineers have industry certifications such as Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Novell Certified Novell Engineer (CNE), and Accredited Systems Engineer (ASE). This ensures that our engineers understand not only products, but also integrate them with major operating systems and applications.

One of the biggest benefits that HP provides is our extremely thorough system testing. As an example, we perform over 400 tests on each configuration that we test. This discovers many potential issues that are difficult to find, but it also ensure that the software and hardware products that hp ships have been thoroughly debugged. It is a challenge to our engineers to see how they can "break" things, and then investigate and resolve these issues before we ever ship the product.

We also perform regression testing to ensure that new software works with older hardware components, as well as application performance testing and integration with cluster software.

This in-depth knowledge of both hardware and software gives us a deep understanding of how these systems work. In fact, the major cluster software vendors (Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Linux) consult with our engineering teams to get input on new feature requirements and assistance with design and problem resolutions.