HP Proliant BL460c G7 The HP Proliant BL460c G7, is a high performance, fully fault tolerant, nonstop server. It‘s well suited for all mid-level operations, including environments with local storage, SAN Storage, or both.
System Overview • System Profile • Storage System • Common Use Casest • Synopsis
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System Profile This HP Proliant BL460c G7, is a high quality, reliable, and very powerful blade server. It supports Quad and Hexacore Nehalem and Westmere Intel Xeon processors, and DDR3 1333Mhz RAM up to 384GB as well as out of the box 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
Memory Mirroring Further enhancing system availability, is this Proliant‘s built in support for memory mirroring. This means that EuroVPS can install for example, 48GB DDR3 ECC memory within a system, but the memory will be mirrored. As a result, the memory which is available to the Operating System is 24GB – however, the system can survive a complete failure of any DIMM module, or even more than 1 DIMM module – without experiencing an NMI or irrecoverable error. Memory failure is not uncommon, and most downtime and subsequent filesystem corruption, customer complaints, or disasters which can result in loss of revenue – stem from Memory Multi Bit Errors that could not be handled by ECC. The EuroVPS recommended configuration is to mirror memory when possible, so when you lease an HP Proliant BL460c G7 from us, you are absolutely safe from memory module failures.
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Storage Systems The HP Proliant BL460c G7, supports up to two internal SAS or SATA disks, with an integrated enterprise HP SmartArray P410i RAID Controller, with a 512MB Battery Backed Write Cache.
Storage Systems It is possible to install up to two internal hotswap disks, as long as they are of the same type – SATA or SAS. For example, two SSD disks can be installed and mirrored or striped, or two SAS 15,000RPM Enterprise class hard disks can be mirrored if capacity is more important than IOPS. EuroVPS provides a wide array of disks to choose from, ranging from Samsung SM843T Solid State disks, of 120-960GB capacity points to Seagate Savvio 10K and 15K SAS disks from 146GB to 1.2TB capacity.
Expandability Further expansion is made possible by two internal PCI-Express mezzanine bays. This makes it possible to interconnect this system to Fibre Channel Storage networks, as well as Infiniband, or “partner storage” blades, such as the HP StorageWorks SB40c for additional SAS RAID local storage.
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10 Gigabit Ethernet Standard Fast Processors, up to 12 cores total Large Memory Support up to 384GB HP SmartArray SAS RAID with Writeback cache
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HP Proliant BL460c Common Use Cases • • • • • •
First Step up to Dedicated Hosting, from a Virtual Server, when downtime is not an option Very Powerful Dedicated cPanel/WHM or Plesk Server, when downtime is not an option Database Master Node, with persistent data stored on local HP SmartArray RAID 1 Storage File Server with large internal mirrored storage, when downtime is not an option Private XenServer or VMware ESXi Hypervisor, optionally interconnected to SAN Windows Terminal Server “Remote Desktop” for Medium or Large Businesses
CASE 1
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We have a Virtual Machine, or up to 2-3 Virtual Machines, and we wish to consolidate them into 1 extremely powerful server to cut down on our budget, as well as increase performance and availability in one go. We cannot accept any downtime, and we must have hardware RAID. Further, SATA disks are not an option, as we require the error control that the SAS protocol affords, and of course, ECC memory is required. We would be glad if we could make use of memory mirroring so that we won‘t go down, if a memory module fails.
Solution
Pricing
HP Proliant BL460c G7, Dual Intel Xeon E5645 Hexa Core Processors, 48GB DDR3 ECC 1333MHz RAM, with 2 x 900GB SAS disks in hardware mirror RAID 1.
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EuroVPS provides bare metal backups, free of charge, on a daily basis to a EuroVPS SAN. No onserver ‚local disk‘ backups are required in this case.
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In the event that an NFS mount is useful, EuroVPS can mount a volume on your system either using SMB or NFS, for readily accessible network storage – even up to 100TB, or more - disk storage can be provided to the BL460c G7
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We heed to build an advanced Drupal, Joomla, or WordPress cluster, and need to keep our site‘s visitors entertained in real time, whilst at the same time keeping our costs down. We also need a MySQL Server to act as a master server, servicing read/write requests from editors, and at the same time replicating databases in realtime to ‚live slave‘ servers.
Solution The HP Proliant BL460c G7 is a solid MySQL or MS SQL Primary/Master server. When equipped with fast Intel Xeon X5570 processors, and at least 24GB DDR3 ECC 1333MHz RAM, this system gives you what you need when you need it. Depending on your workloads and requirements, it‘s possible to deploy a mirrored pair of Samsung Enterprise SM843T SSD disks, or a pair of ultra reliable Seagate Savvio 15K SAS disks. We suggest using SM843T SSD‘s for heavy I/O database servers, the difference between Solid State and normal 15K disks is staggering when heavy query loads are present.
A heavy query involving many joins/selects resulting in ‚copy to tmp table‘ which would normally bring a server with 8 x 73G 15K SAS disks to it‘s knees, will be over before you knew it was running on SSD.
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We need a Windows Remote Desktop Server, for our medium or larger business, so that our remote workers & employees may access their desktops from anywhere in the world, securely. We need daily backup, and we need very high performance. It‘s imperative that this system is never down, as our employees use it to conduct business. This is especially important as realtime operations are conducted on this platform, which may include currency trading, Forex, or other realtime operations.
Solution HP Proliant BL460c G7, Dual x Intel Xeon Quad Core X5570 processors, 48GB DDR3 ECC 1333MHz RAM, and two mirrored SSD disks.
Further enhancing this system, is the standard off-server daily image backups that EuroVPS bundles as standard with our HP Proliant servers.
This configuraton provides realtime responses to user requests, as well as near instanentous reboots and application loading times.
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This configuration can boot a fully configured Windows 2008 R2 operating system, and a suite of applications such as QuickBooks, Navision, Word/Excel suites, in less than 10 seconds from power on to ‚ready‘ state.
€ 550 /month Pricing Information *for a similar configuration as this example
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Synopsis World reknown as the leading blade server chosen by most Fortune 100‘s worldwide.
No other dual processor blade server is as reliable, expandable, and fault tolerant as the HP BL460c within an HP BladeSystem. Thanks in large part to its Intel architecture, as well as the PCI-Express HP SmartArray P410i SAS RAID controller. EuroVPS uses this system to provide Cloud Hosting services to our end users, and this platform also is proud to host EuroVPS‘s “Top Alexa” websites and properties.
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