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HP Blade Workstation Solution - overview

HP Blade Workstation Solution - overview


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Built with HP ProLiant quality and trading-floor proven reliability, the HP Blade Workstation Solution provides data center workstation computing without boundaries.

By combining the centralized security and control of a data center with seamless workstation performance and the flexibility to support professionals in multiple locations, the HP Blade Workstation Solution revolutionizes the business workplace with a new way of working. 


Why HP for this solution

Data center security and control provides risk protection

  • Blade-driven computing keeps data securely in the data center
  • Multi-blade and multi-site capabilities dramatically improve business continuity
  • HP Insight software Management Software gives IT staff efficient, expert control.

Workstation-class experience increases work efficiency

  • HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) enables interactive performance for multi-display 2D/3D graphics and video
  • Data center connectivity delivers workstation power to the client on-demand 
  • The Blade Workstation Solution greatly enhances desk ergonomics

Multi-location flexibility enables greater business possibilities

  • Reliably work locally or remotely over standard network connections
  • Real-time collaboration enables teams to see and share information
  • Multi-site connectivity enables a highly responsive, virtual workforce

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Take control of your Workstation world


The HP Blade Workstation Solution – welcome to the next generation way to work.

HP Blade PC and Workstation Elite Partners

The HP BladeSystem PC and Workstation Elite designation is just one more way that HP is simplifying client choice. With HP Elite partners, you get leading-edge skills and specialized knowledge delivered by a team of experts who are highly recommended by HP and get it right the first time.

HP BladeSystem PC and Workstation Elite Partners have extensive training and certification in HP blade technologies, giving them the skills and knowledge necessary to provide you with industry-leading solutions that meet your unique business IT needs. HP BladeSystem PC and Workstation Elite Partners can help by:

  • Easily implanting blade infrastructure solutions that meet your technical and financial needs
  • Smoothly migrating legacy systems to a networked, managed infrastructure
  • Providing a complete solution that includes design, implementation and support

Find a HP Blade PC and Workstation Elite partner in your area

HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation


  • Multi-display hardware accelerated graphics performance for 2D, 3D and streaming video applications (NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M adapter, up to 4-display support with dual NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M)
  • Integrated Lights Out version 2 (iLO2) management system
  • Blade architecture enables extensive redundancy of power, network, fans and administration path allowing increased business operational continuity


HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation with HP Graphics Expansion Blade module


  • Changing the landscape of available graphics power in a blade architecture, the HP Graphics Expansion Blade module brings, standard, full-size desktop PCI Express graphics adapters to the HP BladeSystem c-Class environment
  • No-compromise ultra high-end 3D graphics adapter NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 and high-end NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 graphics adapter support

HP ProLiant xw2x220c Blade Workstation


  • Combines a mid-range twin workstation into a single, BL c-Class half-height blade package so you can install up to 32 workstation nodes per HP c7000 enclosure
  • and 16 workstation nodes per HP c3000 enclosure
  • Faster performance and greater scalability from up to two powerful Intel® Xeon® 5400 and 5200 series processors, plus broad processor choice points
  • Discrete graphics adapter NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M enables hardware-accelerated 3D graphics for application performance


HP Insight software Management Tools


  • HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
  • single management interface for monitoring health of entire infrastructure
  • Proactive alert of actual or impending component failure
  • Automatic event handling policies and script execution
  • Comprehensive utilities for system data collection and inventory reporting
  • HP Insight Rapid Deployment software
  • Automates the installation, configuration and deployment of high volumes of workstation blades through a web based console
  • Support for un-attended image or script based deployments 
  • Remote control of system resources located in data centers and remote locations
  • Install, configure, monitor, update and troubleshoot ProLiant Blade Workstations anywhere, anytime from a standard web browser, command line or script


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HP Remote Graphics Software Workstation Edition (full feature edition)


  • Flexibility of access with the free Remote Graphics Software Receiver that can be installed on existing Windows XP computers
  • High performance over WAN
  • Delivers a true workstation experience with full utilization of blade workstation hardware and graphics resources
  • Remote, flexible location access over standard TCP/IP network infrastructure
  • Highly secure AES 256-bit encryption of video pixels and input events
  • Enables access to multiple workstation blade resources from a single desktop environment to see more, understand better and decide quicker
  • Non-intrusive, application transparent architecture – requires no modification to application for remote support



HP BladeSystem c-class Data Center Infrastructure


  • Consolidates the central elements of the IT infrastructure – power, cooling, connectivity, redundancy, security, compute, visualization, storage and management into a modular unit, packed with intelligence
  • Accessible, anytime, anywhere for your demanding compute and visualization workloads


Access Clients


  • High-performance native dual-display Thin Clients in a compact form factor, only 1.8" wide
  • Mobile Thin Clients that extend data security when you travel
  • Up to quad-display graphics support for greater productivity
  • Eliminates hard disk or removable media for greater reliability and increased data security
  • Single client device at the desk dramatically removes heat and noise from work space environment
  • Thin Clients provide ease of use, greater security, manageability and lower total cost of ownership (TCO)