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The HP Virtualization bundles allow organizations to achieve the full potential of virtualization. Bundles range from entry configurations that deliver cost effective application high availability without external storage, to large metro clusters that keep applications online during site failures.

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The HP Virtualization bundles are the world’s first end-to-end solution that delivers application high availability without external storage. An Illuminata white paper explains how these easy-to-buy bundles reduce the complexity of virtualization. Many small and mid-sized organizations are using server virtualization to achieve cost reductions by up to 52% – by reducing the number of servers or to provide cost-effective high availability failover. To take advantage of some of the most critical features in VMware vSphere (HA, VMotion, SRM) customers need to implement highly available storage area networks (SAN). For many midsized customers this is a challenge: adding external storage increases their hardware costs and impacts overall IT management. The HP Virtualization bundles allow an organization to pool all of the storage that is either inside a ProLiant G6 server or directly attached to it, into one virtualized pool of storage. Combined with HP ProCurve data center networking solutions, this allows an organization to quickly implement a fully virtual infrastructure, with all of its benefits, using pre-tested building blocks.

What's New

More information on the virtualization bundles can be found in the new customer solution brochure.

The first end-to-end virtualized environment that delivers cost-effective application high availability without external storage.

Ideal Environments

Ideal for...

Small and Medium business looking for:

  • Pre-defined, Easy to purchase, cost-effective the solutions needed
  • Simple application availability without external storage
  • Standardize your implementation of virtual servers based on best practices
  • Organizations that want to grow their virtual environments over time
And Larger businesses looking for advanced virtualization features
  • Keeping application online during site failuresTested
  • Highly available shared storage is tightly integrated with VMware

Reduced costs
  • A complete solution for virtualization at reduced cost. Simple and predictable standard building blocks of infrastructure means you can scale your environment when needed
  • Virtual server high availability without external storage reduces storage costs
  • Reduced risk, complexity, and time required for server virtualization projects
  • Managed LAN solutions back by HP ProCurve industry leading lifetime warranty
Improve application high availability and business continuance
  • Current approaches to providing this are complex and expensive so have not been implemented in many organizations
  • Applications and storage stay online during site failures
  • VMware vSphere provides application failover; the LeftHand VSA software provides storage failover
  • Network resiliency by supporting redundant links
Deploy with Confidence
  • One contract, one contact: HP sells and supports all the hardware and software products so get one service contract and one HP contact
  • Deploy with confidence: HP has tested each configuration to ensure the solution performs and works as expected
  • Adaptive networking in support of virtualization provides flexibility through standards-based solutions that adapt to meet the changing needs of users, applications and organizational objectives.

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