Certifying Solaris on ProLiant servers since 1996, HP is expanding its relationship with Sun to include selling Solaris 10 Operating System Subscriptions and support from HP Technology Services on certified ProLiant servers.

HP will provide the subscriptions and support for the Solaris 10 Operating System on certified ProLiant servers and Sun will provide patches and updates directly to HP's customers through Sun's Connection service.

As part of this expanded relationship HP and Sun will work together to enhance the customer experience for Solaris on ProLiant servers and HP will also increase its participation in the OpenSolaris community.

• Single point of purchase, contact, and accountability - HP is your one stop shop support for your combined ProLiant server and Solaris 10 operating system solution.
• Path to proactive support - HP offers, HP Proactive 24 service, HP Critical Service and Integrated hardware/software support.
• Renewal Process - HP offers proactive assistance in ensuring you have up to date subscriptions and support.
• Customization, configuration and integration - HP Factory Express is a robust portfolio of flexible, pre-priced, pre-installed, configured, customized and integrated factory solutions and deployment services-supporting HP ProLiant servers with Linux.
• Financing - HP helps you acquire Solaris 10 solutions cost-effectively, and manage that solution throughout its lifecycle.

• A IT infrastructure management platform for integrating and automating management of thousands of heterogeneous systems as a single system.
  • Unify inventory management
  • Simplify provisioning
  • Intelligently patch

• Manage Solaris 10 environments from a single console
• Automate system deployment and management, from testing through production
• Simplify complex configuration change processes
• Proactively mitigate risk of system vulnerabilities due to missing patches, updates or upgrades
• Learn, compile, and utilize your specific system environment dependencies
• Proactively detect dependency conflicts, analyze incompatibilities, recommend fixes
• Automatically schedule resolution distribution across a whole topology of servers with minimal system downtime

• Regular updates to a steady stream of tested, validated patch and package relationships helps you manage your Solaris 10 environment
• Avoid unnecessary patching, failed jobs, and downtime with complete and accurate vendor patch data via knowledge stream validation and augmentation.
• Meet compliance, regulatory mandates and update to new patching/provisioning policies using report and audit features.
• Discover what IT products are in your environment using the Inventory.

Sun Solaris 10 Subscriptions and Support products are available for purchase separately for use with an existing HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers. Solaris 10 on ProLiant servers delivers the performance, stability and security users and customers demand. With more applications available than for any other open operating system, one OS can span your entire enterprise: the Web tier, the data warehouse, and the most demanding technical compute applications.

Solaris 10, released in early 2005, includes many innovative features. Some of the highest regarded include: ZFS, Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), Solaris Containers, Predictive Self Healing, Solaris Trusted Extensions, and Logical Domains (LDoms). The unique features of the Solaris OS are designed to deliver breakthrough enterprise functionality as well as flexibility in a wide range of business environments.

Solaris advantages are not just on the technical side; it also provides operational benefits to businesses: unique among operating system vendors, Sun protects your IT investments by guaranteeing that existing Solaris applications will run unmodified on Solaris 10, and provides a support life cycle oriented toward deployment longevity.

The latest update to the Solaris 10 OS (5/09) includes significant enhancements to the innovative Solaris ZFS file system. Systems running Solaris 10 can now boot from ZFS and can use ZFS as their root file system. Solaris 10 5/09 also includes virtualization enhancements including the ability for a Solaris Container to automatically update its environment when moved from one system to another, Logical Domains support for dynamically reconfigurable disk and network I/O, and paravirtualization support when Solaris 10 is used as a guest OS in Xen-based environments such as Sun xVM Server. Solaris 10 5/09 also includes support for the latest systems from Sun and other vendors, such as those based on the Intel ® Xeon® Processor 7400 Series.

Sun has maintained binary compatibility between operating system releases for nearly a decade, enabling existing Solaris applications to run unmodified on Solaris 10. This means that Solaris applications developed ten years ago will run on Solaris 10 unchanged, taking full advantage of new and advanced Solaris features. With Solaris 10, Sun now guarantees source code compatibility between SPARC and x86 processors, ensuring applications can run across platforms with a simple recompile.

• Guaranteed application compatibility from release to release of Solaris
• Guaranteed application compatibility between x86 and SPARC platforms
• Binary compatibility in Solaris translates to lower development, testing, and deployment costs.

• Additional information on Sun Solaris and ProLiant/BladeSystem servers:
  • http://www.hp.com/go/solaris

• Additional information Sun Solaris products on ProLiant and BladeSystem Servers:
  • www.hp.com/go/solaris

• Additional Solaris 10 Support Information:
  • http://www.hp.com/services/solaris

• Sun Solaris Certified and Support Matrix:
  • http://www.hp.com/wwsolutions/solaris

Software Technical Support services are bundled with your Sun Solaris 10 subscription; 9x5 support is bundled with Sun Solaris 10 standard subscriptions and 24x7 support is bundled with Sun Solaris 10 premium subscriptions. Below are the highlights of the Software Technical Support Service

• 24x7x365 access to technical resources - Connect with HP Response Center engineers via telephone, electronic communication, or FAX for assistance in resolving software implementation or operations problems. Service is available around the clock every day, including all holidays.
• Problem analysis and resolution - HP Services provides corrective support to resolve identifiable and reproducible software product problems, and to help you identify problems that are difficult to reproduce. You can also receive assistance in trouble-shooting problems and setting configuration parameters.
• Software features and operational support - HP provides information on the latest product features and known problems and solutions, plus operational advice and assistance.
• Escalation management - Established escalation procedures enlist specialized expertise from HP to Sun.
• Installation advisory - Advisory support is available for help with installation and updating of standalone applications or products installed in a network environment.
• Software updates and licensing - Complete HP and selected third-party software product and documentation updates through Sun Connection
• Electronic software information - Access HP's electronic support facility including symptom-solution database, product descriptions

NOTE: For additional information on these services please visit the following web site: http://www.hp.com/services/solaris

• HP's Sun Solaris Product Page: http://www.hp.com/go/solaris
• How to Buy Sun Solaris 10 Products from HP: http://www.hp.com/buy/solaris
• HP's Sun Solaris OS Support Matrix : http://www.hp.com/wwsolutions/solaris

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