2. HP ProLiant meets the demands of virtualized and
data-intensive workloads with a system optimized
for solid state disk, built with embedded data
protection technologies, and designed with smart
data services that analyze workload data in real
time to optimize performance and efficiency.
Servers so intelligent they converge storage, Smart data protection
compute, and I/O to turbo-charge application Confidently protect data and help ensure uptime for
performance continuous business operations.
To stay ahead of data growth, your IT team needs to remove storage The HP ProLiant family now supports up to 50 percent more drives
bottlenecks and accelerate data-intensive application performance. per server, and the built-in Smart Array controller can support twice
These requirements drive the need for smarter servers that converge as many drives, or 227 drives, in one RAID array. To respond to
storage, compute, and I/O to turbo-charge application performance. this massive capacity, HP engineers embedded multiple smart data
protection technologies that simplify data management and protection.
That’s what you’ll find in the next-generation HP ProLiant family with
the HP ProActive Insight architecture. You’ll be poised to meet the The drives inside ProLiant servers are smarter than those of earlier
demands of virtualized and data-intensive workloads with a system generations. They can predict a drive failure and proactively rebuild
optimized for solid state disk, built with embedded data protection from a spare, enabling continuous data protection. If a failure happens,
technologies, and designed with smart data services that analyze ProLiant systems will automatically activate the spare—preventing multi-
workload data in real time to optimize performance and efficiency. day outages and data loss.
By engineering HP ProLiant Gen8 servers for solid state performance Advanced Data Mirroring (ADM), another HP-unique technology,
and by adding intelligent analytics to manage performance, resiliency, increases uptime and improves read performance with three-drive
and data protection in real time, the ProLiant family delivers an all-in- mirroring. This is more than a thousand times safer for data than a
one platform optimized for your storage workload demands. traditional two-drive mirror or three-drive RAID 5 configuration. For
very large arrays of disks, RAID 6 is also supported with our patented
Solid state optimized Advanced Data Guarding (ADG) technology, which can tolerate up to
two simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss.
Achieve a dynamic balance of performance and capacity.
To optimize solid state media performance, ProLiant Gen8 servers Large drive capacities can also mean slower setup of RAID sets.
include an embedded next-generation Smart Array controller with six With unique HP algorithms built in, HP ProLiant servers can initialize
times the performance of previous-generation controllers. Recently, this a RAID array to protect data 95 percent faster than average servers.
technology helped HP ProLiant achieve the No. 1 TPC-C benchmark In one test with a client, we decreased rebuild time of a very large
in the industry. To drive further gains in application performance, array from 42 days to 5 hours with this new technology. With
we’ve doubled the cache capacity in our next-generation servers for ProLiant Gen8 servers and HP Factory Express services, this process
faster writes and reads of data. Compared to the previous generation can now happen before your server arrives, taking the time you
with traditional disk drives, ProLiant Gen8 delivers 10 times faster spend on initialization to zero.
performance and over 500,000 IOPs per server with intelligent solid To increase the overall performance of high capacity drives, the
state storage technology. ProLiant family now includes unique, lifetime data retention using
To support the increased storage performance, the new ProLiant servers flash-backed write cache with twice the capacity versus the previous
feature a balanced system architecture with HP SmartMemory, flexible generation. In the event of a power loss, equipment failure, human
10 gigabit networking, and the latest processor technologies. While the error, or virus attacks, a flash-based approach instantly captures and
servers support 50 percent larger memory capacities, HP SmartMemory holds data indefinitely.
is qualified to run at speeds up to 25 percent faster than industry
standards. All the while, more intelligent, flexible networking helps to
increase throughput and reduce requirements on CPU performance and
network bandwidth.
In total, these innovations enable you to deliver real-world
acceleration for your most important business applications.
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3. Smart data services
Enable real-time application tuning and
acceleration.
HP Smart Storage analytics technology provides
workload-aware intelligence for real-time applica-
tion tuning and acceleration to optimize system
performance. This HP-unique storage technology in
next-generation ProLiant servers helps you achieve six
times higher performance for transactional workloads
and 50 percent more performance for video streaming
applications, compared to previous generations.
Better still, you’ll increase solid state media utilization
and reduce unplanned downtime with our HP Smart
SSD Wear Gauge. This HP-unique technology uses
smart analytics capabilities to predict the lifespan of
solid state drives and recommend when to upgrade.
HP Smart Storage analytics also help with various RAID
data protection technologies, including Advanced Data
Mirroring, Advanced Data Guarding, and predictive
drive failure.
The world’s most self-sufficient servers
In today’s data centers, small advances in technology
won’t solve the big problems. To respond effectively
to exploding demand for applications, data, and
digital content, your IT organization needs intelligent
technology built for the challenges of the cloud era.
That’s the next-generation HP ProLiant family.
With an unprecedented set of innovations, the new
ProLiant family provides the heart and mind of a self-
aware and intelligent converged infrastructure. From
core to cloud, HP is transforming the expectations and
economics of the data center with the world’s most
self-sufficient servers.
To learn more about the new ProLiant family, visit
www.hp.com/go/proliantgen8.
