ProLiant Cluster Starter Kit

The ProLiant Cluster Starter Kit is a "How-To" Guide for ProLiant Clusters that use StorageWorks MSA1000, MSA1500 cs EVA3000/5000 and EVA 4000/6000/8000. The kit includes documentation, installation guides and installation checklists for HP ProLiant Cluster products. (Note: This Kit does not include SecurePath Software)

Documentation Updates

• Updates of documentation branding and installation checklists for the EVA 4000/6000/8000 , EVA 3000/5000 A/A, MSA1500 A/P & A/A, MSA1000 A/P & A/A

ProLiant Clusters

G3, G4 and G5 Server Certifications

• The ProLiant DL, ML, BL p and BL c-Class Servers.

HP StorageWorks Arrays

• MSA1000, MSA1500, EVA3000/5000 and EVA4000/6000/8000

Additional Documentation for Cluster features.

• HP StorageWorks MSA1000 Small Business SAN Kit

Target market, environment, and industry

• Banking, Finance, Online Brokerage
• Retail/Department Stores, Grocery Store Chains
• Government Departments, College, School Districts
• Media, Broadcasting, Entertainment
• Data Warehousing and Manufacturing Operations
• Medical Diagnostics and Hospital for Imaging Data
  

Customer Problem

Typical use

• Direct and indirect costs of downtime related to the availability of business critical or mission critical applications
• 80% caused by People or Process Failure
• 20% caused by Technology Failure
• Consolidation of Server and Storage into one location leaving IT departments more vulnerable to system outages.
  

Typical use

• Mission Critical Database management
• Internet and intranet based data sharing services
• Messaging and Groupware
• Standardized on industry standard servers and operating systems
• ISP, SSP, Web and Application Hosting
  

Solving the Customer Problem

The ProLiant Cluster Starter kit makes the delivery of data and services to clients continuous, thereby minimizing downtime and process slowdowns. The ProLiant Cluster Starter kit utilizing Microsoft Cluster Server software, as well as high availability features that are designed into the HP hardware, help achieve lower downtime and process disruptions.

• Higher system availability for business-critical applications
• Fewer system outages and shorter duration of outages, as compared to single server configurations.
• Automatic detection of an application or server failure and quick restart on surviving server.
• Maintenance can be done offline without disrupting service.
• Ability to monitor the status of all cluster resources in order to easily transfer workload to different servers within the cluster when needed.
• Provides for manual load balancing and rolling updates on the servers without taking important data and applications offline.
• Allows server and storage consolidation for cost savings.