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How is HP with VMware breaking the dam?
  • Unprecedented ROI with total Datacenter infrastructure acquisition cost per seat below $1K for productivity users
  • Highly scalable compute with G6 Blades, flexibility with BladeSystem architecture, Virtual Connect, LeftHand Networks
  • Storage solutions, Storage Works powered by LeftHand
  • Dynamic scalable network architecture from HP with Flex 10
  • True integrated manageability that HP delivers with HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter
  • HP Virtual Desktop Reference Architecture for VMware View drives virtualization to the desktop with lower TCO and increased scalability by delivering a proven bladed reference architecture to further advance the adoption of desktop virtualization while increasing scalability.
  • The combination of HP compute, storage, networking, and manageability along with VMware View and Intel® Xeon® 5500 processors establishes a new standard for virtualized client infrastructure performance.
  • HP’s infrastructure and software deliver a virtual desktop solution in a rack, complemented by HP clients. By providing prescriptive, easily scaled configurations, HP offers a complete, proven, and tested platform for deployment.
 

  • HP Virtual Desktop Reference Architecture for VMware View enables increased numbers of uses per blade from previous versions at a price well under $1000 per seat with HP BL460c G6 ESX servers with Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processors.
  • Companies can start as low as 200 users and scale all the way to 1,600 users in a rack. Productivity users and large datacenters can easily scale the solution to multiple racks.
  • HP provides customers with detailed pre-defined user types, which eliminates guesswork traditionally needed for IT to determine headcount and performance.
  • Leveraging HP LeftHand P4000 SAN solutions, the bladed storage allows customers to implement fast, reliable storage without expensive Fibre Channel. This simplifies storage administration and reduces costs. The solution provides a storage building block of up to 140 hot pluggable SAS drives as an iSCSI SAN with the ability to keep all storage communication inside the rack without a switch.
  • Virtual desktop implementations can create major network demands. HP meets that challenge with Virtual Connect Flex-10 network architecture. This is the only network technology that truly solves the need for flexible networking bandwidth that virtual environments demand. With Flex-10 you can dial in exactly the bandwidth you need for workloads and applications
The full architecture includes the following technologies that optimize the virtual desktop infrastructure:
  • HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure
  • HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 (2-4 per enclosure based on scale)
  • HP SAS Switches
  • HP BL280c management servers
  • HP LeftHand P4000 series storage blades
  • HP BL460c G6 ESX servers
  • HP MDS600 Storage Array
  • HP sells and supports all components in the rack including the VMware software stack, network and SAS switches, and power distribution components. HP is a single point of contact for customer problem resolution.
  • HP offers virtual desktop migration services.
  • To enable customers with an opportunity to run VDI testing and proofs of concept, HP and Intel are joining forces to have HP VDI Reference Architecture configurations in several HP Solutions Centers worldwide. Workshops at the Solutions Centers will allow IT to test out configurations in the lab in order to further ease the deployment process.