HP offers turnkey virtualization

Today, many companies in which a part of server applications have already been transferred to a virtual environment using VMware solutions are considering the possibility of virtualizing their entire server infrastructure and transferring all their applications, including business-critical ones, to virtual machines. However, it is clear that this second stage of the implementation of virtualization will be significantly more difficult to implement, in particular, it will require a complicated calculation of the configuration of the necessary hardware and software, including the licensing of VMware vSphere. An error in sizing can lead to the fact that the processor resources and memory of the servers are not enough to service all virtualized applications, or the company will spend extra money to buy server hardware and licenses.



To make it easier for its customers to implement such large-scale VMware vSphere virtualization deployment projects, HP has developed three complete sets of rack servers and blades, storage systems and network equipment for deploying up to 750, 2500 and 6000 VMware virtual machines, which it introduced in August at the American VMworld. These complexes use both the HP ProLiant DL380 and HP BladeSystem BL servers, which are familiar to most corporate customers of the company, and the disk arrays for Fiber Channel and iSCSI-based SANs that recently appeared in the HP storage system portfolio.

HP VirtualSystems VS1 for VMware in the base base configuration consists of two rack-mount, dual-socket HP ProLiant DL380 G7 servers with 96 GB of memory for each and an HP P4500 disk array with a capacity of 14.4 TB. In the HP VS1 for VMware Extended Extended Configuration, the number of servers has been increased to eight, and the capacity of the array to 57.6 TB. At the same time, the RAM of one server is increased to 192 GB and the volume of their total RAM exceeds one and a half terabytes. HP VirtualSystems VS2 for VMware scales from six to twelve HP ProLiant BL460c G7 blade servers, which are located in one or two c7000 chassis, and from 31.5 to 84 TB of HP P4800 disk storage system capacity. The c7000 also has two Virtual Connect Flex10 modules and 2 SAS switches for connecting the blades to the HP P4800 drives. In the basic configuration of this complex, 72 processor cores and 48 GB of memory per blade are used, and in the expanded configuration 144 cores and 192 GB of memory are used. In addition, when servicing "light" applications, the VS2 for VMware Extended configuration can be extended to 28 blades.
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Virtual Connect Flex10

Finally, the most powerful HP VirtualSystems VS3 for VMware complex in its maximum configuration consists of four c7000 chassis with 64 blades, 768 processor cores and more than six terabytes of RAM and occupying two separate racks of an HP 3PAR F-Series storage system with a capacity of 163.2 TB. This complex uses HP B-Series switches to connect the blade chassis to the disk array over Fiber Channel.

All three complexes are equipped with a management node (this is a dedicated HP ProLiant DL360 G7 rack server) and two HP A5800 24-port Ethernet switches.

HP A5800

HP VirtualSystems for VMware complexes are assembled and tested at the HP factory, so the deployment process at the customer site takes minimal time. HP VirtualSystems for VMware will help customers quickly implement turnkey VMware server virtualization, including the latest version of VMware vSphere 5, and since all the components of these complexes (servers, storage systems, network equipment and software) are received by the customer from one vendor simplified technical support issues.