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- HP ProLiant Servers Running Microsoft Windows Small Business Server (SBS) Enable Building-Materials Distributor Gypsum Supply to Continue Expansion Without Adding IT Staff
- Gypsum Supply, Ltd. wanted to build a corporate network that enhances employee communication and improves security and reliability of computers companywide. Gypsum Supply, Ltd. deployed two HP ProLiant servers with AMD processors, two HP ProCurve network switches, and Microsoft Windows SBS to facilitate file sharing, improved messaging and calendar functionality,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., HP Compaq ProLiant, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Best Practices for Implementing Citrix XenServer, HP Edition v5.5 on HP ProLiant Servers
- More and more, businesses are looking to virtualize for a multitude of reasons. It may be to consolidate old hardware running old applications and operating systems on to newer more efficient hardware. The process of simultaneously upgrading the application, operating system, and hardware can be quite daunting. Migrating the existing...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Citrix Systems Inc., Best Practice, HP Compaq ProLiant, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Best Practices for Deploying Citrix XenApp on XenServer on HP ProLiant Servers
- Since the first hypervisor came on the market, businesses have been challenged to consolidate underutilized servers on to a single physical machine. While early results were disappointing, resulting in large performance penalties due to virtualization overhead, there have been significant advances in technology. Today's AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors...
- Tags: Hypervisor, HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Citrix Systems Inc., Best Practice, HP Compaq ProLiant, Virtualization, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Automating Citrix XenApp on XenServer Deployments on HP ProLiant Servers
- Citrix and HP have jointly developed and tested an automated deployment solution that is as powerful as it is cost-effective. This allows one to use RDP in conjunction with Citrix-developed PowerShell cmdlets to deploy XenServer VMs to a XenApp server farm hosting published applications. Citrix and HP jointly developed this...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Citrix Systems Inc., HP Compaq ProLiant, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Banking on Uptime With HP ProLiant Servers and ClearPointe
- For more than 50 years, a financial institution with a strong hometown presence in rural America has provided a full range of banking services to individuals and businesses. Many of its customers prefer dealing with a hometown bank rather than representatives of a distant corporate entity. A financial institution wanted...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial Company, Uptime, HP Compaq ProLiant, Banking, Financial Services, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Architectural Considerations for Oracle JD Edwards on HP ProLiant Servers Running Microsoft Windows Server Operating System
- This paper provides insight on architectural considerations for implementing Oracle JD Edwards JDE on HP ProLiant servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition operating systems. It provides architectural information for implementing JDE configurations that provides High Availability HA with Oracle 10g Application Server OAS as the web tier, Oracle...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows Server, J.D. Edwards & Co., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., HP Compaq ProLiant, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Application Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software
- White papers 2009-05-01
- DDR3 Configuration Recommendations for HP ProLiant G6 Servers: Best Practice Guidelines for ProLiant Servers With the Intel Xeon 5500 Processor Series
- This white paper gives rules, best practice recommendations, and performance data on DDR3 memory in certain ProLiant servers. Because of significant differences in the system architecture of Sixth Generation (G6) Intel Xeon-based ProLiant servers over prior generations of Intel Xeon-based servers, more rules and trade-offs must be evaluated in order...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Best Practice, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., HP Compaq ProLiant, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2009-05-01
- HP Power Capping and HP Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant Servers
- This paper describes HP power capping technologies, including the original HP Power Capping and HP Dynamic Power Capping. Both are power management features of HP ProLiant servers that operate independently of the Operating System OS and allow system administrators to manage the power consumption of a server or group of...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Compaq ProLiant, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2009-03-01
- HP to distribute Sun's Solaris on its Proliant servers
- HP to distribute Sun's Solaris on its Proliant serversI'm looking to move away from Solaris.I'm a big Sun guy. I own a number of Sparc and x86 Sun servers running Solaris. However a bug in patch 139139-07 (released in 11/2008) has resulted in a situation where the boot archive becomes...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Patches, HP Compaq ProLiant, Hewlett-Packard Co., server, HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., file system, patch
- Discussion threads 2009-02-25
- HP to distribute Sun's Solaris on its Proliant servers
- HP will distribute and support Sun's Solaris 10 operating system on its Proliant and blade servers. The companies on Wednesday unveiled a multi-year pact that will provide Sun with more distribution for its Solaris 10 platform statement. HP will resell Solaris subscriptions. HP also noted that the...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc., HP Compaq ProLiant, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Southern California Hosting Provider Media Temple Runs One of the Largest Virtual Deployments in the Hosting Industry on HP ProLiant Servers
- Media Temple, Inc. (www.mediatemple.net) is a privately held, profitable Web hosting and software application services company based in Culver City, California. Media Temple wanted to grow business and increase profit margins while keeping promises to customers and providing them with the best hosting experience at the lowest cost. Media Temple...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Industry, HP Compaq ProLiant, Servers, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Citrix XenDesktop Architecture and Implementation on ProLiant Servers
- The goal of this integration note is to describe Citrix XenDesktop technology, architecture, and implementation on ProLiant servers. The audience is both internal and external customers. Desktop virtualization involves server-based computing that gives system administrators the ability to centrally manage and host desktop virtual machines in the data center while...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Citrix Systems Inc., HP Compaq ProLiant, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2008-10-01
- Community Medical Centers Racks Up Savings With HP ProLiant Servers
- Fresno, California-based Community Medical Centers is the largest, most comprehensive hospital system in the San Joaquin Valley with a staff of more than 6,200 employees and 1,100 physicians. Fresno wanted to reduce complexity, administration time, and total cost of ownership through server consolidation and virtualization. Fresno adopted HP ProLiant servers...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Compaq ProLiant, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- HP ProLiant Server Blade Specification for Microsoft Web Server
- HP offers a full range of hardware - server, networking, and storage - components designed to meet the performance, scalability, availability, and reliability requirements of the Microsoft application infrastructure. HP offers a full suite of ProLiant server blade management tools, which enables to take control of and manage Microsoft application...
- Tags: Web Server, Blade Server, HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Specification, Microsoft Corp., HP Compaq ProLiant, HP ProLiant Server Blade Technology, Blade Servers, Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Public Beta on HP ProLiant Servers
- This integration note describes the level of support available for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Virtualization (Hyper-V), a new hypervisor-based software platform for running multiple guest operating systems on a single server. Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V released as a part of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and will install on Standard, Enterprise,...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Public Beta, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Corp., HP Compaq ProLiant, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant Servers
- This paper describes the level of support available for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers. This paper assist user in installation of the Windows Server 2008 Operating System OS. Windows Server 2008 builds on a solid foundation based on the strength and success of preceding Windows server OSs...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., HP Compaq ProLiant, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-01
- An Overview of the VMmark Benchmark on HP ProLiant Servers and Server Blades
- This paper explains the purpose and importance of VMmark, how the benchmark is conducted, and how to interpret the results. This paper is an attempt to provide VMmark information for a less technically trained audience of decision makers than served by the official VMmark Guide on the VMware website. The...
- Tags: Blade Server, HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, HP Compaq ProLiant, VMmark Guide, Servers, Data Centers, Performance Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Microsoft Data Protection Manager With HP ProLiant Servers and HP StorageWorks Storage White Paper
- This paper explains the new Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM 2007) features and shows an example of an implementation of DMP 2007 with HP ProLiant Servers and HP StorageWorks Storage. Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM 2007) is a key member of the Microsoft System Center family of management products,...
- Tags: Data Protection, HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Storage, Microsoft Corp., HP Compaq ProLiant, DPM, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Utility Computing, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2007-11-01
- VMware Infrastructure 3, Planning: Planning a VMware Infrastructure With HP ProLiant Servers, Storage, and Management Products
- The planning information contained in this white paper is intended for solutions architects, engineers, and project managers involved in the planning of virtualization solutions. The reader should be familiar with networking in a heterogeneous environment and with virtualized infrastructures, and have a basic knowledge of VMware ESX Server 3.0 and...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Storage, Infrastructure Inc., VMware Inc., HP Compaq ProLiant, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Best Practices for Configuring and Deploying SAP ERP Using HP ProLiant Servers, HP StorageWorks 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array, Windows Server, and Microsoft SQL Server
- A significant change is taking place in the installed base of SAP systems. Although many customers continue to run versions of SAP R/3 software, others have begun to migrate to the SAP NetWeaver platforms. Migrations to the new versions of SAP software require the conversion of the application environment as...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Server, HP StorageWorks, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP AG, ERP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Best Practice, HP Compaq ProLiant, Web Services, Servers, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
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