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Executive Summary
The HP NetServer LXr 8500, an 8-way capable server, makes available
unprecedented levels of computing performance and scalability. The server
supports either a Microsoft
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Windows™ NT, Novell
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NetWare, SCO
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UNIXware or Linux environment. A rich set of available applications and
middleware, coupled with the relatively low cost of server hardware and
management features, creates a new computing price/performance point.
It provides a cost-effective computing platform for the corporate data center.
The data center is a demanding technology environment, requiring computing
equipment that is extraordinarily reliable, scalable and manageable. In a data
center, various applications are run on server equipment and each application
puts different demands (server resource utilization) on the equipment,
depending upon whether it is processor (CPU), memory, network or
input/output (I/O) intensive. It is important that the server equipment be able
to support these loads in an optimized and balanced manner.
The HP NetServer LXr 8500 is an ideal solution for both centralized and
distributed computing challenges that customers confront today. The
HP NetServer family of servers can play a leading role in client/server
application environments such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), on-line
transaction processing (OLTP) with database management systems (DBMS),
data warehousing and data marts and thin client services.
The additional capability provided by the HP NetServer LXr 8500 includes the
latest in computing technology: Intel
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Pentium
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III Xeon™ processors, the
Intel Profusion chipset, 64-bit 66 MHz PCI I/O and support for very large
physical memory up to 32 GB. The server is optimized for data centers and
designed to meet their performance, scalability, storage density and high
availability needs.
This white paper provides an overview of several application areas where the
HP NetServer LXr 8500 can provide a highly capable and cost effective
solution. The paper examines the nature of the application requirements
(resource utilization) for server resources. Opportunities for server
consolidation are also examined. The paper concludes with a discussion of
the features of the HP NetServer LXr 8500 that support and meet these
demands.
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A Closer Look
Data Center Needs
The data center, as a repository of information assets, is an
integral component of the enterprise infrastructure. It
generally consists of mission critical, application-specific
data stored in large databases and on file servers. Current
technology trends such as network computing, the Internet
and massive data growth are dramatically increasing the
demands on this environment.
Companies must pay attention to not only their hardware
and software choices but also service and support options
to dependably deliver the information critical to today's
business needs. Selecting the appropriate server
equipment that resides at the center of this information
fabric is critical.
Data centers have three core needs for this server
equipment: performance (data processing capacity), high
availability and scalability.
Performance
for the data center is the ability to process
and transfer large amounts of data quickly within the
various server sub-systems, also expressed as
transactions completed per unit of time. Each of the
sub-systems in a server must be optimized as well as
balanced, so that the system delivers the maximum
performance and no one component becomes a bottleneck.
Performance also includes the ability of the server system
to accommodate peak business periods and occasional
spikes in the workload. The more a server is sized for
growth, the more likely it will have sufficient headroom and
be able to accommodate usage peaks. (See Scalability
below.)
Availability
is a measure of the ability of the server system
to deliver constant computing services to clients, also
expressed as a percentage of time that the system is
“available”. Data center equipment must be highly available
(approaching 100% uptime). If an application stops,
revenue generation can come to a halt. The design
features of reliability, component redundancy, pro-active
manageability, multi-node fail-over clustering capabilities
and the appropriate levels of service and support combine
to produce highly available systems.
Industry Trend:
Server consolidation is an important
trend that impacts the data center in
several ways. Applications running on
less powerful previous generation
servers can be combined onto a single
new server with several times more
processing power. Consolidation of a
server environment can occur in one of
several ways: logical, physical or re-
centralization.
Logical consolidation attempts to
normalize or standardize aspects of the
server environment, such as manage-
ment or backup procedures, and in so
doing, achieve a reduction in staff work-
loads. In a physical consolidation, the
servers are re-located into a centralized
data center to be "racked and stacked”.
The immediate benefits are improved
physical security, lowered system
management complexity across the
servers and a more efficient sharing of
peripherals.
The third type of server consolidation,
re-centralization, involves collapsing the
processing loads from several different
servers onto a single, larger server (or
servers). This approach is used to
reduce the number of dedicated servers
or to respond to changing business
flows. Re-centralization achieves the
greatest return on investment (ROI)
benefit and is most suitable for 8-way
server configurations. All three methods
require that companies employ a con-
solidation approach that encompasses
technology, process and people in order
to achieve the benefits (reduced staff
workloads, improved manageability and
floor space utilization) attributed to
server consolidation.
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Scalability means the ability of a server system to
expand to meet the growth in the enterprise. This
concept is also called headroom and can be a difficult
demand to meet. Every significant corporate computing
trend of the past decade—LANs, client/server computing
and especially the Internet—has required more
processing power and more bandwidth than initially
forecasted. The Intel Profusion technology provides CPU
scalability to eight processors, memory scalability to
32 GB and I/O scalability with ten PCI slots on four 64-bit
PCI buses.
A server’s ability to support an upgrade to future
processor generations is one method that will increase
the load carrying capacity of a system. Increased
processing power will permit the server to support more
users and/or more demanding applications. The ability to
upgrade other components, such as controllers and
storage, is another way to accommodate growth. The
LXr 8500 follows the HP NetServer history of providing
investment protection in the form of upgrades, for
example, to future Intel Pentium Xeon processors.
Client/Server Application Architectures
The client/server application architecture is a versatile,
message-based, modular infrastructure intended to
improve interoperability, flexibility and scalability as
compared to more centralized, mainframe-style, time-
sharing computing. The client/server method of
structuring and distributing hardware and software has
shown great benefits in the operational effectiveness of
business information systems. This architecture is widely
used with many off-the-shelf application software
packages.
There are three major functions that the software performs in the client/server architectural
model. These functions, summarized here, reside in different pieces of equipment,
depending upon the structure.
1. Presentation - the user interface
2. Business Logic - the application data processing
3. Data Management - A database stores and retrieve information
Two common hardware deployment configurations are as a centralized environment (see
Figure 1) two-tier client/server and a more distributed environment, three-tier client/server
(see Figure 2).
Issues to Consider
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Is the facility centralized or decen-
tralized? Is it consolidating the servers?
What application(s) does it support and
are they processor intensive, I/O
intensive or network intensive? What are
the performance requirements?
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Has the organization done capacity
planning? Are more servers anticipated?
Already ordered?
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What does it cost the company if the
servers are down? What is the level of
availability currently on this system and
in this facility and how much should it
improve?
As part of the accumulation and
understanding of costs of downtime, it is
important to perform a complete risk
assessment. Has the organization
looked at disaster recovery? Has it
addressed the potential for growth and
the means for accommodating increased
system usage?
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In the centralized environment, the application presentation component runs on the client
with the application business logic and the database management software running on a
server system, competing for server resources. In a distributed environment with 3-tier
topologies, a database is on the third tier (the database server) and one or more
application servers comprise the second tier. Client systems are the first tier in either
arrangement.
Distributed environments can support several times the number of active users over a
centralized system, depending upon the power of the chosen servers. Clearly, the
distributed environment requires more hardware but the scalability in terms of the number
of users supported or the potential transaction throughput offsets the complexity and the
cost.
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In a centralized environment, especially at peak business periods, the processing demand
can put heavy loads on the server. The HP NetServer LXr 8500 is a logical choice for a
centralized server system.
In both cases the processing demands of the application and the power and capacity of the
server hardware along with the network fabric limit the number of users that can be
supported. As compute or data access demands increase, many companies feel the
pressure for additional hardware. In other cases, the number of application or database
servers causes a system management headache. The LXr 8500 8-way capable SMP
system offers a viable solution for reducing complexity.
Client/server configurations for front-end application servers can be easily scaled by
segmenting the applications. Scaling is also accomplished by assigning functions to
dedicated servers depending upon the anticipated loads. Back-end database server
configurations may be either single machines with multiple databases or multiple machines
with single databases, again depending upon the size of the environment and service level
requirements. In a data center environment, both types of servers are typically rack-
mounted, symmetric multiple processor (SMP) machines.
Application servers require large amounts of memory but typically have minimal mass-
storage needs. Database servers are sometimes configured as high availability clusters,
providing insurance against a single point of failures. Both types of servers require rapid
I/O performance (network and mass storage), necessary for access to the databases.
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Servers in high demand environments will be configured with multiple processors
(SMP machines), equipped with high-speed, high capacity, backup and restore devices.
Different applications make demands on different aspects of the server system. Some rely
heavily on memory while others are processor-intensive or require frequent and rapid
access to storage. (See Table 1 for a summary of server resource utilization by application
type.) As applications increase in complexity and capability, server requirements also
increase. Companies that rely on these applications can benefit by installing 8-way servers
in their IT environments. Several application environments, highly amenable to larger
systems, are discussed in some detail in the following sections.
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Server Resource Utilization
Application Server Type
CPU
Power
Memory
Usage
Disk
I/O
Network
I/O
File & Print Low Low Med. Low
Consolidated Server
Multiple-Application
High High High Med.
Small Application Low Low Med. Low
E-Commerce Web Server High High High High
Intra/Internet Dynamic
Web Server
Med. Med. Med. Med.
Domain/Proxy/Firewall, etc. Med. Low Low Med.
Terminal Server High High Med. Low
Messaging E-mail Services Med. Med. High Med.
Collaboration Med. Med. Med. Med.
Data Warehouse High High High Low
ERP Application Server High High Low Low
ERP Central Server
Application and Database
High High High Med.
Medium Database <.5TB
(ERP, OLTP, Data Mart)
Med. Med. Med. Low
Large Database .5 - 1TB
(ERP, OLTP, etc)
High High High Low
Low: 1 CPU, Med.: 2-4 CPUs, High: 4-8 CPUs
Applications’ Resource Utilization are "typical"
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ERP is a class of business management software that integrates many facets of a
manufacturing business, including planning, inventory management, workflow on the
manufacturing floor, financial reporting and other aspects of fast moving businesses.
HP has partnered with most of the ERP vendors and supports the hardware needs of their
software. (Several success stories about these installations are available on the HP
web site.)
Two trends are changing the nature of ERP
applications. Software suppliers continue to expand
the breadth of functionality to areas such as human
resources, supply chain management and sales force
automation. E-Commerce and intra-business
capabilities via the Internet, including Web-based user
interfaces, are being added. These additional
capabilities require more data processing power
concentrated at database and application servers.
ERP vendors are also downsizing their offerings,
making them more attractive to companies requiring
little or no customization. Companies may be already
running their servers with Windows NT and are looking
to improve their overall effectiveness by deploying
ERP applications. In fact, ERP is one application area
that is becoming more “NT-centric”, due to the
potential sales volume. The overall ERP software and
equipment market is growing at approximately 25%
per year, while the market for NT-based server
systems is estimated to be growing at a 50%
compounded annual growth rate.
ERP applications are large and complex, requiring
server system resources adequate to process
transactions from all points in the business value
chain. Referring to table 1, we see that these
applications need high CPU power and large memory
configurations to support the community of users.
Growth is also a significant factor, both in terms of
volume of transactions as a business grows, but also
in terms of additional application functions and the number of active users. Note that the
users’ community is now expanding to those outside a company (Extranet) as well as those
inside (Intranet). Server systems need to be sized not only for today’s needs, but also in
anticipation of near future additional computing demands. HP’s NetServer LXr 8500 is a
wise choice given the capability to scale from one to eight processors and to grow the
system memory. Furthermore, the advent of Microsoft Windows 2000 data center edition
will bring larger memory access where the capability of the LXr 8500 to accommodate up to
32 GB of RAM will provide years of load carrying capacity.
Issues to Consider
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Is the organization aware of the benefits
of managing both NOS and applications
with a convenient set of tools? Are there
clustering management requirements?
Is this data center a heterogeneous
environment that needs tools that can
manage a variety of devices and plat-
forms? Is it a distributed environment
that can benefit from remote
management options?
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Does the vendor have a proven track
record of making customers successful
with demanding enterprise environments
and applications? Is the vendor capable
of consistently manufacturing high-
quality, tested, integrated products that
minimize failure opportunities? Does the
vendor have the necessary expertise
and support capabilities that are required
for the enterprise data center
environment?
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Nordson Corporation, a multinational manufacturer of industrial process equipment has
deployed SAP R/3, a well-known ERP application, on a HP NetServer LXr 8500 in its SAP
test and development center. The trial has been so successful that the company is going
live with three racks of HP NetServer LXr 8500s (9 servers and EMC storage). Nordson
chose these servers for three key reasons: increased computing power, superior scalability
and excellent price/performance compared to RISC/UNIX systems. More information is
available in the Nordson customer story on the HP NetServer web site. (The URLs for all
sites referenced in this paper are listed in the section titled For More Information on
page 15.)
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Relational database management systems (DBMS) are at the core of many modern
application systems. They offer ease of storage and flexible access to complex sets of
information.
ERP applications depend upon databases. Other important applications that employ
databases include transaction processing and data warehousing (discussed in more detail
below). Transaction processing is a class of computing that facilitates many types of
business needs in a wide range of industries, including on-line or ATM banking, airline and
car rental reservations, and inventory management in areas as diverse as supermarkets
and manufacturing.
Databases employ thousands of lines of software code dedicated to facilitating storage and
ad hoc retrieval of all the elements of business transactions in planned and unplanned
combination. Databases require processing power far beyond the basic demands of a file
server due to the database infrastructure of indexes and links, which are often constantly
changing but designed to provide fast entry and retrieval over large (tens of millions of
elements) volumes of data.
A database is typically designed to efficiently accommodate the addition, modification and
access to stored information. Server systems that house these databases are typically
multi-processor systems that will improve parallelism in processing a number of pending
requests for a wide variety of transactions. Large RAM memories facilitate rapid retrieval of
often used information. More memory in the server means a better chance of a fast
response.
This is another environment where the HP NetServer LXr 8500 excels, providing the
multiprocessing capability that maintains service levels during peak periods and the
memory and I/O capacity that allows fast storage and retrieval of vital data.
Couple the processing power of 8 Intel Pentium III Xeon processors with Fibre Channel
connected mass storage and the system’s ability to manage large databases is equivalent
or better than many RISC/UNIX servers. The cost/performance ratio is far superior, often
achieving hardware costs that are one-third that of RISC/UNIX servers with comparable
processing power.
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A Data Warehouse is the data center main repository of information. A Data Mart is simply
a smaller data warehouse for specific sub-organizations (i.e. marketing) or departments.
Data warehousing emphasizes the capture of data from diverse sources for storage and
analysis. Data from various applications is stored and then selectively organized in the data
warehouse database for use by business analysis and unanticipated queries. This store of
information enlarges a company’s capability to enhance it’s “Business Intelligence”,
identifying positive and negative sales trends, customer demographics and other profitable
subjects.
Data warehouses once required mainframe scale computers due to their size and the
prodigious processing need. Today, Microsoft Windows NT or Novell NetWare servers are
becoming viable and incredibly cost effective solutions in this area for all but the largest
warehouses. Intel-based servers have been effective tools to fill the role of the front-end or
application server, which directs storage to and queries from the warehouse and may
perform computationally intense data transformations. This portion of the server market is
forecasted to be growing at more than 50% per year.
The growth of data warehouses in both size and analytical utility makes the LXr 8500 well
suited for companies where this function can improve their competitiveness. Again, the
inherently high processing power and capacity for system growth at a reasonable cost
makes the HP NetServer LXr 8500 an attractive choice.
HP has developed a program to enable deployment of SAP’s Business Information
Warehouse. This module integrates data warehousing into the SAP R/3 ERP program.
HP has developed a suite of services and support tuned specifically for SAP environments.
This offering combines hardware (including the HP NetServer LXr 8500), software, and
HP and third party consulting.
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Microsoft Windows Terminal Server is a Windows NT server extension that creates a multi-
user environment where all users share the hardware and software resource on the
terminal server machine. Applications are run on the server, and even the graphical user
interface (GUI) is server-resident, pushed to the clients. Microsoft Windows NT Server
Terminal Server Edition supports a full range of clients from legacy personal computers to
the new and cost effective “thin clients”. Using Citrix Meta-Frame software in addition to
Terminal Server, customers can gain access to server resources from clients’ devices
running even non-Microsoft OS (i.e. Mac, Unix). In addition, using Meta-frame, customers
can balance loads between servers in a farm to deliver optimal performance to end-users.
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A thin client is basically a simplified desktop device that provides reliable and fast access to
networked resources. Thin clients have no local hard drive, no local storage and do not
require a large or complicated desktop operating system to function. Thin clients rely on the
speed and availability of the server infrastructure to deliver maximum computing
performance to users. For example, HP Entria thin-clients offer out-of-the-box connectivity
and HP's award-winning industry-standard manageability. Add to that legendary HP quality
and reliability, and you have great value in a thin-client computing solution.
In Figure 3 above, the central or terminal server is often referred to in industry jargon as a
“Fat Server” set up to serve “Thin Clients”. The server, unlike a central server in a typical
ERP environment, must also provide the processing power to construct and update the
graphical user interface.
Thin clients address the need for an extremely reliable, secure and compact desktop
device that offers the familiarity of a windows-type graphical user interface. Thin Clients are
often deployed in situations where the users access one or a few specific applications. With
no hard disk to fill or fail, and with application access centrally controlled, this type of
computing fills many needs once the realm of “dumb” terminals or legacy PCs.
The demand for thin client computers and servers to serve them is expected to develop
rapidly, with growth for both devices expected to exceed 10% per year.
Thin client computing has two primary server resource requirements: CPU processing
power and memory capacity. The capacity of a server to support a given number of clients
depends directly on both these resources to maintain adequate service levels. If either
resource is exhausted, user response time will degrade severely in the case of memory
exhaustion and gradually in the case of CPU.
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Multi-processors servers will always provide better response to a number of clients given
the capability for parallel task processing. Memory capacity is more critical in that each thin
client may require from 4-8MB of RAM for “generic” applications that have not been
designed specifically for this type of use. RAM consumption will be considerably less for
applications designed specifically for thin client use. Several studies have been done using
generic applications to determine recommended client loads for a given server
configuration. With adequate server resources, the number of supportable thin clients
scales very well with the number of processors and amount of RAM.
The HP NetServer family has several models that can well serve user communities of
various sizes; for example, well over 400 clients can be supported with an HP LXr 8500
system with 8 processors and 32 GB of RAM (with Microsoft Windows 2000). With
Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition, RAM use is limited to 8 GB and the client estimate is
about 300.
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Server consolidation provides several benefits to the IT department and to the corporation.
Physical security improves, system management and hardware resource utilization
becomes more efficient, staff workloads can be reduced or redirected and operating costs
(especially hardware support and OS licensing costs) frequently decline. Consolidation of
applications or user communities to a larger server with faster processors, more processors
plus more efficient access to memory, mass storage and the network can significantly
improve service levels and reduce data center costs.
An 8-way HP NetServer LXr 8500 server also provides enough future capacity to
accommodate consolidated applications as well as the planned growth in application types
or system usage.
HP Philosophy and Strategy
HP’s approach to solving computing problems is based first on solid system design and
high quality manufacturing and testing of all server components and subsystems. The most
effective approach to improving performance, availability and scalability is to prevent faults
as opposed to designing to recognize or tolerate faults.
HP’s design philosophy for the NetServer LXr 8500 8-way system was simple: lead in all
areas of performance, scalability, manageability, availability and reliability. The architecture
is a uniquely balanced design where the performance capabilities of the processors, cache,
I/O subsystems and memory are well matched to provide optimum throughput. Due to the
balanced architecture, our customers do not have to make tradeoffs between CPU and
memory capacity or between CPU and I/O capacity to achieve the desired high
performance.
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and estimates may not reflect your environment.
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The HP NetServer Solution
The HP NetServer LXr 8500 (see Figure 4), the newest
server in the L series family of servers, establishes a
highly scalable Intel-based architecture for the data
center.
In the beginning of this paper, data centers equipment
needs were listed as performance, availability, and
scalability. The HP NetServer LXr 8500 meets these
needs in the following manner:
Performance
Up to 8 550 MHz Intel Pentium III Xeon
processors, reducing the potential for
processor bottlenecks
Up to 32 GB of ECC SDRAM memory on its
own 64-bit bus, with interleaving to improve
memory bandwidth and reduce access
conflicts
Up to 4 host-to-PCI bridge chips, connecting to
a 64-bit, dedicated I/O bus, reducing
contention between the I/O and processor
activity, improving throughput and reducing the
potential for I/O bottlenecks.
Availability
Redundancy: fans, power supplies, disk drives, network controllers
Hot swap: fans, power supplies and disk drives so that replacements can be made
without bringing the system down. PCI hot plug support so PCI adapter cards can be
repaired or replaced while the system is up.
Self-monitoring hardware components (CPU, CPU boards, memory DIMMs, memory
boards, cache coherency filters) de-allocate themselves in case of a failure and
continue server operations without IT intervention.
“Totally Safe” memory scrubbing utility proactively cleans system memory,
eliminating single bit memory errors and minimizing multi-bit induced system failures.
Automated failure recovery, including automatic server restart and ECC memory.
Includes One-Button Disaster-Recovery as a tape backup solution to simplify and
expedite system restoration after a failure
Server clustering: supports cluster capabilities from several vendors
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Scalability
Processors: increase from 1 to 8, can be upgraded to next-generation Xeon
processors
CPU L2 cache available at 1 MB or 2 MB.
Memory: increase from 256 MB to 32 GB. I/O: Ten hot-plug, full-length PCI slots;
four 64-bit, 66 MHz slots; and six 64-bit, 33 MHz slots (one 33 MHz PCI slot used by
preinstalled HP TopTools Remote Control Card)
Manageability
Preinstalled HP TopTools Remote Control card for secure remote management
HP TopTools for Servers, a comprehensive server management solution with
intuitive browser-based user interface; facilitates troubleshooting, administration, and
asset information collection
HP OpenView ManageX/SE Event Manager for complete NOS and Application
management
HP Fault Notifier phones home to HP if hardware problems occur. Pre-failure alerts
occur on key system components.
Pre-Failure Warranty receives alerts and proactively directs the system administrator
to replace hard drives, memory or power supplies before they fail and cause
downtime.
The performance of this server is enabled by the use of the Intel Profusion chipset
architecture. This chipset is a five-ported switch that links five 100 MHz buses in a crossbar
switch. The architecture allows direct point-to-point, simultaneous access to all system
resources producing a balanced server platform. (The design of the chipset and server is
discussed in more detail in the Architecture/Technology Overview, a HP white paper on the
Profusion architecture.) This is the second generation of a HP eight-way, SMP processor
design, incorporating proven design technology and expertise to produce a high-
performance, highly available system.
The HP NetServer LXr 8500 brings solid reliability to the demanding data center
environment, especially those that support ERP, data mart, OLTP or thin client application
environments. The server’s robust design provides the high availability so needed by data
centers by using redundant, hot-swappable key components as well as by being certified
for clustering on a variety of platforms. Maximum uptime is further enhanced by a
comprehensive set of server management tools.
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Conclusion
The HP NetServer LXr 8500, an 8-way capable server, is a highly available, scalable and
cost-effective solution ideal for several different application areas. It is especially effective
for those applications where the demand exists for large amounts of CPU power and
memory, or rapid and frequent access to disk I/O or the network. These applications
include enterprise resource planning, data warehousing, data marts and data mining,
database servers and thin client/server-based computing. The performance of this server is
enhanced by the Intel Profusion chipset features and the fastest Intel Pentium Xeon
processors as well as up to 32 GB of memory and dedicated I/O and memory buses.
Combining the power, performance and availability of the HP NetServer LXr 8500 with the
reliability that with every HP NetServer yields the best possible server for demanding
applications and environments.
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For More Information
HP has several white papers and technology briefs that describe in more detail, the HP
NetServer LXr 8500 architecture, memory, processor selection, clustering and availability.
These are available in the product information section for the HP NetServer LXr 8500 at:
http://netserver.hp.com/netserver/products/papers.asp?pid=lxr8500
These and other papers are also listed in the technical papers section of the HP NetServer
web site at:
http://www.netserver.hp.com/netserver/papers/
For more information on the customer success stories referred to in this paper, see:
http://netserver.hp.com/netserver/solutions/customer_story
For more information on data warehousing solutions, see:
http://www.hp.com/go/datawarehouse
For more information on the HP partnership with SAP, see:
http://www.sap.hp.com/public/
Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of, and Windows NT is a trademark of, Microsoft
Corp. All other brand names are trademarks of their respective owners. Technical information in this document is subject to change without notice.
©Copyright Hewlett-Packard Company 1999. All Rights Reserved.
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Compaq D4315B - NetServer - LX Pro Applications

Category
PC/workstation barebones
Type
Applications

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