HP Innovations For Todays IT Infrastructure, Rev PDF

HP Innovations for Todays IT
Infrastructure
Learner guide
HP ExpertOne
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Course #: 00772374
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Infrastructure
Learner guide
HP ExpertOne
Rev. 13.31
Course #: 00772374
Part #: 00*****
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HP Innovations for Todays IT Infrastructure
Learner Guide
July 2013
Contents
Module 1 Introduction .............................................................. M1 1
Explain why traditional IT no longer meets the requirements of todays

business
List and describe traditional IT challenges
Articulate where companies are investing in IT to grow their business
Describe three major IT trends:
Cloud
Big data
Mobility
Explain why IT is converging previously siloed technologies and what the

benefits are of adopting an HP Converged Infrastructure
Describe how an HP Converged Infrastructure provides a foundation to cloud

computing
Module 2 Meeting Fundamental Data Center Needs ............. M2 1
Define the characteristics and goals of a data center
Identify typical challenges IT staff must overcome
Recognize several HP technologies and product families designed to provide

the foundation of a scalable converged infrastructure
Module 3 Business-Critical Data Center................................. M3 1
Define the characteristics and goals of a business-critical data center
Identify challenges emphasized by a mission-critical or business-critical

environment
Recognize HP technologies designed to address the specific needs of a

business-critical data center
Module 4 Branch Office............................................................ M4 1
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List and explain the typical challenges associated with consolidating branch
offices
Identify HP innovations that ease the burden on IT infrastructure and staff

managing a branch office consolidation
Describe a branch office deployment leveraging HP solutions
HP Innovations for Today's IT Infrastructure
Module 5 Data Center at Capacity ........................................... M5 1
Identify the challenges facing expanding data centers
Discuss innovative HP technologies and how they can meet the needs and
overcome challenges in the data center at capacity
Module 6 Workload and Workforce Mobility .......................... M6 1
Define workload mobility
Define workforce mobility
Identify HP innovations that overcome challenges to implementing mobility
Module 7 Information Optimization and Business Intelligence

(Big Data) ....................................................................................... M7 1
Explain the information optimization and business intelligence needs of Fox

River Gaming
Define real-time analytics and big data
Describe HP technologies, products, and solutions specifically targeted at

information optimization and business intelligence
Module 8 Cloud ......................................................................... M8 1
Explain the automated infrastructure, platform, and application provisioning

and lifecycle management needs of Fox River Gaming
Define cloud computing and related terms
Explain different cloud service and deployment models

cloud computing
Module 9 HP Services, Tools, and Resources ....................... M9 1
ii
List and describe HP consulting, outsourcing, and support services
List, position, and describe HP tools and resources
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Introduction
Module 1
Objectives
After completing this module, you should be able to:
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business
List and describe traditional IT challenges
Articulate where companies are investing in IT to grow their business
Describe three major IT trends:
Cloud
Big data
Mobility
Explain why IT is converging previously siloed technologies and what the

benefits are of adopting an HP Converged Infrastructure
Describe how an HP Converged Infrastructure provides a foundation to cloud

computing
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About the course

HP Innovations for Todays Infrastructure is a one-day course that introduces HP
Converged Infrastructure (CI) products and technologies. The course explains how
HP innovations provide solid solutions for enterprise networks and a foundation for
Cloud computing environments.
Many other courses provide extensive information about HP products, as does the
HP website. The goal of this course is to highlight how HP combines technologies
to make a compelling solution. The course focuses on the challenges that IT staff
face, the technologies that address or overcome these issues, and examples of
the products that support these technologies or features.
Over the course of the day, you will learn about the technologies behind HP
innovations and gain a familiarity with related terminology. By the end of this
course, you will be able to identify HP innovations and explain how these
technologies fit into and interoperate within the scalable and extensible converged
infrastructure of a modern data center. You will also be able to identify additional
courses or certifications with which you can gain further expertise in planning and
supporting twenty-first-century data centers.
Of course, you cannot become an expert in each of these technologies within the
scope of a one-day course. However, the course will take you beyond mere
terminology to a high-level knowledge of the technologies, which will guide your
future learning.
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Introduction
Traditional IT infrastructure challenges
Typical siloed IT Infrastructure is:
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Too complexIT sprawl remains a common phenomenon created by years

of building up incompatible, inflexible, and costly islands of IT.
Too costly to operateIT budget and personnel are stuck in operations and
unable to help improve the customer experience, increase employee
productivity, or improve competitiveness.
Too slow to keep up with the speed of businessYou need an

infrastructure that enables agile and rapid application and service delivery
while reducing costs.
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Todays IT challenges
A new dawn of technology innovation is driving unprecedented change. Mobility,
virtualization, high-definition video, rich-media collaboration tools, and cloud
computing are reinventing how businessesand peoplework. Enterprises that
can harness these innovations will have new tools to drive business advantage
and build new opportunities in the global marketplace. However, when legacy
infrastructures are pushed to the limit, they become fragile, difficult to manage,
vulnerable, and expensive to operate. Businesses whose infrastructures are at this
breaking point risk missing the next wave of opportunity.
Consider some of the many challenges that enterprises must meet to profit from
their network services and resources:
Standardization and consolidationMany companies have multiple

facilities with siloed, underused technology assets. Companies need to
replace the assets when they age. Because companies are also under
pressure to cut costs, the upgrade must increase energy efficiency and the
utilization of each asset. To eliminate expensive redundancies, many
companies are trying to consolidate data center facilities and infrastructure.
They can then minimize server, storage, and application sprawl; streamline
operations; and simplify day-to-day management and maintenance.
Infrastructure solutions must assist efficient consolidation with standardized
components and management tools, and an intelligent, open-standard, highly
reliable network that promotes transparent access to consolidated resources.
VirtualizationServer virtualization provides another way for companies to

increase efficiency and cut costs; the company can use each physical
machine, which hosts multiple virtual machines (VMs), more fully. Because
virtualization makes server images replicable and portable, it also helps
companies to quickly scale and optimize their services.
However, for companies to benefit from virtualization, their data center
infrastructure must be designed to meet the unique needs of virtualized
servers. For example, virtualization increases the volume of traffic flowing to
each physical machine. In fact, traffic within the server rack is expected to
grow by 25 times in the future. The mobility introduced by virtualization also
brings challenges. Not only does the network infrastructure need to provide
very low latency and very high availability for migrating workloads, but network
administrators also need unified management tools that orchestrate settings
between migrating virtualized servers and the network that supports them.
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AutomationBusinesses increasingly rely on their network resources, and

must be confident in the availability of those resources. Manual processes can
introduce human error and delay deployment of new services. Infrastructure
solutions must rise to the challenge and deliver standardized, automated
processes for deployment, provisioning, management, and maintenance.
Cloud computingCloud computing lets customers request services on

demand. To meet changing demands for network services, a cloud computing
environment relies heavily on virtualization and automation, and the
infrastructure must meet all the challenges. The environment requires unified
management tools to orchestrate the provisioning of on-demand services.
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IT convergenceNew types of traffic are converging on the IT infrastructure.

Steeped in technology at home, business workers have quickly acclimated to
a rich-media experience and use video and interactive collaboration tools.
Pictures, video, and audio dominate more than 25% of the documents that
workers access in a day. New video applications will push network capacity
needs by four to ten times more than current average levels. Networks must
do more than provide more bandwidth; they must also adapt to the needs of
real-time applications.
IT infrastructure-wide managementCompanies cannot obtain the

automation, flexibility, and scalability that they need from their data center
when IT staff must manage the infrastructure in separate, non-communicating
silos. Disparate management tools and processes introduce overhead that
business cannot afford. An infrastructure solution must rise to the challenge by
providing unified management tools that extend across the IT infrastructure.
SecurityEnterprises must secure the IT resources in which they have

invested so heavily. Not only do companies need to protect their intellectual
property and ensure the availability of their services, they also must comply
with data protection regulations. Companies need solutions that automatically
provide the correct level of access for each user, and close security holes
introduced by the unmanaged user devices that are flooding corporate
environments. Companies also need solutions that police data center traffic
flows, both physical and virtual.
Mission-critical computingA data center that supports mission-critical

services introduces challenges for the infrastructure, which must ensure the
highest availability for those services. The infrastructure must feature
redundancy across the line; however, redundancy alone does not ensure high
availability. Infrastructure solutions must feature built-in innovations, designed
to ensure fast, automatic, and seamless responses to any failure.
Scale-out computingA service-oriented architecture (SOA) calls for scaleout. Services extend across multiple servers, which work together to deliver
services to clients. Scale-out computing, combined with virtualization, leads to
new traffic flows, in which most data center traffic flows between servers
rather than between clients and servers. Cloud computing, which requires
services to be deployed on demand, also drives the scaling out of services.
To ready a data center for massive scale out, the company must obtain
servers and storage designed for scale. The hardware must deliver maximum
performance, combined with extreme density and power efficiency. Finally,
even while the company deploys more hardware, the hardware must remain
affordable, reliable, and manageable.
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Big data and information optimizationInformation is at the core of the

enterprise. The dramatic increase in the volume of data, the velocity at which
the data accumulates, and the variety of forms data takes is transforming
businesses and governments. Organizations need to obtain a return on
information (a new definition for ROI). They need to profit from all the
information assets that they are collecting and storing. HP big data and
information optimization solutions help companies quickly and efficiently to
obtain business value from the influx of data, rather than sink under it.
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New style of IT emerging
The market is a dynamic and accelerating place. This graphic shows tectonic shifts
that have occurred about every decade, starting with the mainframe, then moving
to client/server, then to the Internet, and now the four big mega trends today
around mobility, social, big data, and the cloud.
Each shift has been driven by business needs to speed innovation, improve agility,
and lower costs. That is absolutely the case right now in the latest set of
megatrends while businesses try to create a competitive advantage and better
serve their constituencies.
New access methods and information opportunities:
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Change how technology is consumed and the value it can bring
Open up new business models
Remove inhibitors and unleash the power of innovation
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Introduction
The power of convergence
Traditional data centers often break into stand-alone silos with minimal
communication between administrators in different silosalthough decisions and
operations in one silo can dramatically affect others and divided management
introduces many costs and inefficiencies. On the other hand, HP envisions an HP
CI: a converged data center with integration that helps every component to
operate more efficiently and effectively together.
HP is uniquely positioned to build a converged infrastructure because it is the only
large company that develops its own servers, storage, networks, and management
software. Nonetheless, the HP commitment to open standards means that its CI
solution can integrate products from any vendor. HP CI unifies individual products
within a data center into a cohesive unit, and the HP CI management software and
hardware solutions provide an interoperable platform for the integrated data
center.
In this course, you will discover that CI forms a common context for the
development, deployment, and integration of particular HP products and
technologies. Within each CI segment, you will identify key technologies or product
sets that empower solutions to meet business needs. The HP innovations at the
product level are powerful on their own, but HP CI magnifies resources value by
integrating the resources in a cohesive, well-designed data center.
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Transforming silos into a platform
Isolated products can stand alone as isolated silos within a data center. With just a
small adjustmentan intentional, small but significant change of anglethese
silos come together to support a common platform. Companies confronting the
challenges of establishing data centers that align with, rather than conflict with,
their business needs find HP offerings in every area of the data center. HP has
helped customers move towards infrastructure convergence since 2009 longer
than any other IT vendor in the market.
Strengthened by well-designed, integrated technologies, HP server, storage, and
networking products are no longer silos but rather pillars supporting a Converged
Infrastructure platform. The key components that comprise an HP CI solution are:
ServersServers are the machinery that underlie the solution. Servers

process data and present that data to users. Servers often provide the
intelligence for regulating access to their resources, implementing policies for
authenticating users and for other types of data optimization.
The HP server portfolio encompasses every size and type required for any
data center deployment. HP ProLiant servers fit the needs of almost all
enterprises while HP Integrity NonStop and HP Serviceguard servers provide
an extra layer of high availability and reliability. Enterprises that need to
reduce their footprint, power usage, and overall costs can choose HP
Moonshot systems.
StorageStorage devices maintain data for the complete CI. They provide
data to servers as the raw materials on which the servers act. They also store
the servers finished goods, the processed data.
HP storage solutions include StoreOnce, StoreVirtual, StoreServ, and StoreAll
offerings, which support technologies such as deduplication, Peer Motion, HP
3PAR ASICs, and LeftHand operating systems to virtualize storage.
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NetworkingThe network infrastructure acts as the conduit or connector

among storage, servers, and users. You can think of the network as a utility,
which must deliver fast, secure, flexible, and transparent access to all
services.
HP FlexNetwork architecture provides the flexible network infrastructure
behind users seamless, secure access to data and services. The FlexNetwork
extends from the data center fabric, to the campus network, and to branch or
remote offices.
FacilitiesThe facilities component consists of the physical infrastructure that

houses other components. This infrastructure includes the physical space,
racks in which devices are installed, power systems, and cooling systems.
HP IT infrastructure solutions create highly efficient and intelligent solutions for
existing or new IT data centers. HP Rack and Power infrastructure solutions
are the foundation you are looking for to help secure your long-term IT
success. These products are designed to help you react to changes in the
industry. They deliver efficient, easy-to-use capabilities to manage, monitor,
deploy and provision infrastructure from entry to enterprise. As an industry
leader, HP is uniquely positioned to address the key concerns of power,
cooling, cable management and system access.
ManagementEnterprises also require software or applications to deploy,

monitor, and maintain the other four components of the infrastructure. HP
unified management utilities include:
HP Insight Management suite, which unifies access to a variety of

software tools for managing HP CI solutions
HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC), which provides integrated

network management, visibility into the entire network infrastructure from
one console, administrative task automation, and a variety of tools
designed to maximize uptime and ensure network security
SecurityIndustry-leading security and compliance from HP TippingPoint,

HP ArcSight, HP Fortify and more where software and hardware together
enable the secure enterprise.
Visualizing the HP solutions

There are many ways to visualize technologies and how they integrate. Complex
IT systems can be better understood when simplified and visualized as separate
components coming together to form a chair or a stool. For instance, muscular,
skeletal and circulatory systems are all highly integrated and interdependent within
the human body. These individual systems are often illustrated in isolation to better
understand the function of a single component.
This introductory course aims to help you better understand some of the
relationships, integrations, and functions of a few key products and technologies..
In this course, you will discover the depth of HP integration of facilities, security,
and services into the CI that form a foundation for converged data center
infrastructures and cloud computing environments.
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HP leadership vision
HP CI is all about accelerating IT to deliver what your business needs most. HP

helps you shift more than 50% of your IT resources from operations to innovation,
reduce time to provision applications by 75%, and decrease downtime from 10
hours to just 20 minutes per year.
HP has the research, design and implementation leadership, and intellectual
property in all key areas of IT infrastructure and managementpositioned as first
or second in market share in servers, storage, networking, data center design, and
IT management. HP has heterogeneous, open, standards-based, modular building
blocks that enable integration of your existing IT infrastructure into an overall
converged infrastructureall managed through a common management platform.
You will be able to leverage your existing investments as you move towards
infrastructure convergence. HP has proven itself with decades of experience
deploying application, virtualization, and infrastructure solutions worldwide.
HP CI provides a foundation for cloud computing. HP has a broad and deep
Converged Cloud solution portfolio that helps customers:
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1.
Build and operate cloud services across all models
2.
Consume cloud services
3.
Provide professional services to help/enable/guide customers on the journey

to the Converged Cloud
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Companies are making big bets
To address current challenges, companies are investing in big bets or changes to

grow the business, gain a competitive advantage, and boost the bottom line. The
movement is toward:
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The cloud
Big data
Mobility
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Trend 1Cloud
These challenges have led to several trends within data center solutions.
First, in the past, users at an enterprise campus primarily used applications
running on local servers. Today, the trend is to consolidate all servers and services
in a single, centralized data center or to locate the services in a cloud. This trend
has arisen because of its benefits:
Operational efficiencyIt is easier for staff to maintain (install, monitor,

update, and troubleshoot) systems that are located in the same place.
Resource maximizationThe company avoids duplicating application

servers, storage media, backup resources, and human resources, the staff
that maintains the products.
However, consolidating network resources does introduce its own issues. Users
must now access applications remotely, often over a WAN link and sometimes also
a virtual private network (VPN). Therefore, the total bandwidth available for these
applications is limited by these links, and latency might also increase.
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Introduction
Trend 2Big data
In the past, typical business applications were based on the client-server model. In
this model, the client and server each fulfilled specific functions, although those
functions differed depending on the application and implementation. For example,
some applications implemented table lookups directly at the server whereas others
transferred whole tables to the client, which then conducted the search. Therefore,
depending on the application, the client and the server exchanged varying
amounts of trafficsometimes a great deal.
Todays business applications tend to be completely server-based with a Web
interface as the client. In other words, the client is virtualized in the server and
controlled remotely through a Web-based interface. The server side no longer
consists of a single massive application that runs on a single server. Now a
structured set of servers manage the service. The set typically includes a generic
database server and storage system at the backend, an application server running
the specific application logic in the middle, and a Web server at the frontend,
communicating with the client.
This model greatly reduces traffic between the users station and the server
system (expect possibly when printing) because most information is exchanged
between servers within the data center. The model works well for companies with
a remote data center or cloud environment because it minimizes the traffic that
must cross WAN links and VPN tunnels.
While decreasing traffic to and from the data center, the traffic and processing
within the data center has grown rapidly. The movement toward information
optimization and creating business intelligence using real-time analytics (known as
big data) mean the east-west traffic between servers within the data center is
high and growing.
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Trend 3Mobility
The dynamics of todays mobile work environment make it almost impossible for
people to meet face to face every time they need to collaborate. Yet the need for
unified communication and collaboration (UC&C) is stronger than ever.
Collaboration now requires multimedia applications that include voice, video, chat,
and desktop/application sharing components.
Traditional applications require traffic to flow between a client and server, however
collaboration tools require traffic to flow between clients. Client-to-server traffic is
called north-south (N-S) traffic, and client-to-client traffic is called east-west (E-W)
traffic.
Even when three-tier database applications and remote datacenters reduce the
demand for bandwidth in the campus, collaboration applications reestablish that
demand. In addition, the E-W orientation for the traffic introduces the need for
flatter LANs with fewer tiers whenever possible.
Traffic related to real-time collaboration applications, in particular voice and video
applications, also has different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements than
traditional data traffic. The applications tolerate only low levels of delay, jitter (outof-order delivery or differing levels of delay), and packet loss.
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Introduction
HP Converged Infrastructure motivations
By simplifying, you create or improve agility while reducing ongoing operations

costs and also providing the flexibility to innovate. Lower costs mean freeing
capital to invest in business innovation and increasing investment in IT
infrastructure that continues to return increased yields for your company. Faster
innovation means more freedom to move to better IT platforms, gain more from
your business operations and profit from the business intelligence which can be
harvested and reinvested in your business.
The purpose of IT is to support the business. HP CI helps businesses increase
revenue, reduce cost, and reduce risk.
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HP Converged Infrastructure enables growth to cloud
Next, examine the foundation of the CI design. HP CI provides more than a static
platform for a given deployment. CI is a foundational structure which allows a data
center solution to evolve from a simple deployment on standardized hardware,
through well-defined steps toward a global, virtualized platform that delivers
services on demand. The same underlying technologies, available on both midlevel and enterprise products, provide a common thread through the steps.
Therefore, as their data centers evolve, customers can maintain their investments,
not just in hardware but also in the applications deployed across the hardware.
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Introduction
Introducing the scenario

To help you to understand how HP innovations, CI, and cloud computing are
applied, this course shows how HP solutions meet the needs of a fictional
company, Fox River Gaming. You will see how HP CI provides this company the
framework for expanding its small-to-medium data center into a large enterprise,
cloud-enabled service.
Fox River Gaming is a software and game developer based in a western Chicago
suburb. For the past two years, the company has been building an innovative
system, which it hopes will be the next big thing in gaming. In January, the
company received a significant investment from a venture capital firm impressed
by demonstrations of their platform. It is now February, and the company has
turned to HP to provide the infrastructure to support their anticipated, rapid growth
over the next year.
The company plans to manage the infrastructure upgrade in five phases:
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Phase OneThe company will consolidate its hodge-podge of servers and

storage media, currently located in a server room, into a standardized set of
scalable servers and storage devices in the companys first real data center.
The company currently employees 85 people at its main office. This upgrade
must also support an anticipated growth of 40% to 80% in staff and resources
at this main office over the coming year.
2.
Phase TwoThe company plans to launch its game by November to

capitalize on the holiday sales season. The game will include an online
component. To host the online gaming services, the company requires a
separate, mission-critical and public-facing data center. Phase Two of Fox
River Gamings infrastructure upgrade consists of designing, deploying, and
testing the highly available environment suitable for hosting these missioncritical services. Because this data center is essential to the successful launch
of the game, it must be tested and fully operational before the launch.
3.
Phase ThreeThe next phase involves the incorporation of a remote or

branch office in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fox River Gaming has
contracted a specific piece of game development to three developers in
California. That team has grown to 14 developers working in a rented office
space. With the venture capital funding secured, the company has decided to
hire these contractors into the company and eventually to double the number
of programmers and other staff at this site. The branch office employees
require access to development tools and other applications in the main data
centers in Illinois. The company needs a branch office infrastructure that
promotes efficient, secure access to these resources without overburdening
the current IT staff.
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Phase FourPlanning for the implications of the game launch is Phase Four
in Fox River Gamings upgrade. The capacity of both the main office data
center and the public gaming data center might need to grow at unanticipated
rates at or after the product launch. Although it is economically unfeasible to
overbuild for growth that might never occur, the company needs a plan to
quickly scale the size and capability of one or both of the data centers. The
company wants to be able to expand to a large enterprise scale with as little
as one to six months notice.
5.
Phase FiveIn the final phase, Fox River Gaming explores the capabilities of
its HP CI solution to optimize the business in a variety of ways. You will see
the powerful impact of the HP innovations while you examine how the
infrastructure handles workload and workforce mobility, how it helps the
company to harvest value from the large data sets collected by the online
game environment, and how it integrates with HP Cloud and HP Services
resources.
Over the rest of this course, you will explore the individual HP CI components from
various aspects, learning how the solutions overcome specific challenges in the
Fox River Gaming scenarioan illustration that you can expand and apply to other
data center environments.
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Introduction
Course modules
This course consists of nine modules.
Module 1Introduction
Module 2Standard Data Center

This module defines typical expectations for a data center environment,
identifying common challenges for those environments. It then introduces HP
technologies and product families, which can be used to meet standard,
established goals in any basic data center.
Module 3Business Critical Data Center

The stakes are higher in a data center that supports business-critical services.
The data center environment must provide high availability, automatically and
rapidly recovering without data loss when failures do occur. The need for high
availability pushes companies to implement redundancy at every hardware
component, which in turn introduces the challenges of interconnecting and
synchronizing redundant components, and synchronizing data across them.
The synchronization traffic typically places a heavy burden on the network. In
addition, to obtain true data redundancy, a company requires a multi-site
environment. Ensuring that the infrastructure meets the needs for security,
performance, and bandwidth becomes even more challenging when two or
more data centers must act as one.
This module explores the HP CI products and technologies that meet these
challenging demands.
Module 4Branch Office

In this module, you will consider the challenges of extending network services
to branch offices. In a branch office, IT staff often encounter solutions that
have grown in an ad-hoc manner with heterogeneous hardware. The company
must consolidate and standardize this hardware. At the same time, it must
establish secure, seamless access between the branch office and remote data
centers. Solutions must help IT staff easily manage the branch office
infrastructure remotely. Of paramount importance is also the solutions ability
to secure employee and guest access, whether wired or wireless.
Module 5Data Center at Capacity

With network services forming such a key component of so many companies
missions, companies need these services to be available as the business calls
for them. Often, however, increasing the capacity of a network service takes
months of planning. This module presents the HP solutions and tools that help
IT staff proactively plan for quickly scaling up a data centers capacity. These
tools also help the IT staff to handle the deployment and to maintain the
expanding data center with no or few new members.
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Module 6Workload Mobility and Workforce Mobility

Companies need flexibility for where they locate computing resources. While
companies grow and change, users at any location might need to access
resources at any location. These and other optimization requirements mean
companies need efficient processes for moving workloads between physical
data centers. This module explains how HP CI solutions support these needs.
It also introduces solutions for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) environments,
in which users access resources from any device.
Module 7Information Optimization and Business Intelligence (Big Data)

This module defines big data, and the information optimization, business
intelligence, and real-time analytic applications that transform data into a
valuable resource for the company. You then learn about related HP CI
solutions.
Module 8Cloud
Earlier sections introduce the concept of the cloud briefly, but this module
focuses on the cloud and HP Converged Cloud Solutions. It presents the
benefits of HP private and public cloud services, explaining how they help
organizations to scale their capabilities in an on-demand, virtualized
environment.
Module 9HP Services, Tools, and Resources

Although HP solutions help administrators to manage the infrastructure more
efficiently, an expanding data center might require more staff. Sometimes an
organization cannot or chooses not to scale up its IT staff to meet the
management needs of the expanding IT infrastructure. This module provides
information about the HP services, partners, and managed solutions that can
meet these organizations needs. This module also concludes the course,
tying together all the HP innovations explored throughout the course.
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Introduction
Summary
This module has introduced you to HP CI, HPs innovative approach to meeting
the challenges of a contemporary data center. HP CI includes a variety of productlevel innovations, which you will examine throughout this course, but it also
extends beyond the product level. HP CI integrates the previously separate silos of
servers, storage, network, facilities, and management, replacing the silos with a
cohesive framework that IT staff manage as a whole. This integrated framework
becomes the foundation on which highly available, scalable, and virtualized data
center services rest.
In Module 2, you will begin your exploration of HP CI solutions by examining a
standard data center and learning how to use HP innovations to meet its
fundamental needs.
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Meeting Fundamental Data Center Needs

Module 2
Objectives
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Define the characteristics and goals of a data center
Identify typical challenges IT staff must overcome
Recognize several HP technologies and product families designed to provide

the foundation of a scalable converged infrastructure
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What is a data center?

Years ago, a server room or data closet might have contained only a single
server for the entire business or organization. Today, most services or functions
are separated onto specialized servers.
File servers
Web servers
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) servers
Active Directory servers
Exchange or email servers
And many more
As the number, size, and complexity of servers grow, companies must develop an
infrastructure in which to deploy and support these services.
The Data Center is most simply defined as the physical servers, storage, and
interconnecting network components which house and provide the data and
services demanded by todays businesses and enterprises. The data center must
also provide connections for the main campus and any remote branches or users
to access the centralized data, processing, and authentication resources.
In the past, data centers were defined by size. A data center had to be a larger,
separate room, building, or site. Today, nearly every business of any size must
identify and design a data center of appropriate scale to meet its operating
needs. The data center is defined by function and intentional design. Scale or size
has become only one attribute of a data center design.
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Challenges in the basic or standard data center

There are many types and sizes of data centers. In later modules, you will
consider data centers providing more critical servicesdata centers of larger size
or scale including those spanning multiple sites or being hosted in the cloud. This
module considers a basic or standard data center, although many data center
challenges are universal. In any size or type of data center, the following must be
considered:
StandardizationHow do you minimize the types of products deployed to

reduce support costs?
ConsolidationHow can data and services be moved from older, disparate

servers onto newer hardware with minimal downtime? Regardless of the age
or state of existing servers, the same consolidation challenges might be faced
when merging company resources after a merger or acquisition.
ScalabilityHow can future consolidation challenges be avoided by planning

for growth and upgrades? Can the platform scale to meet future needs without
a forklift upgrade? Can future upgrades be planned and managed without
replacing or redesigning the entire infrastructure?
Redundancy and RecoverabilityHow many 9s do you want or need?

Everyone knows a server could fail, but they expect services provided by a
Data Center to remain accessible 24 x 7, or to at least be quickly restored to
functionality with intact data and minimal downtime.
Physical limitationsHow big is the facility? Can the data center grow within
the existing space or will it grow to a second room, a bigger facility, or multiple
physical sites? How much power is available? Can the required cooling be
provided to offset the heat generated by the data center equipment?
Staying green and minimizing costsHow do you maintain high

performance while minimizing environmental footprint and costs?
Limited IT staff and timeTime is money. It takes a lot of time to keep an IT

staff trained on a range of products and available to manage a data center,
support its operation, plan for its growth and respond to outages. Every time
you standardize and consolidate, you have the opportunity to reduce the
number or diversity of products your staff supports. Every business must plan
to invest in both hardware and the people or services required to make that
hardware into a solution.
What devices and resources do you need to deploy effective solutions with well
managed costs and a satisfactory return on investment (ROI)? The next page
considers a comparatively small data center environment as a basis for discussing
the HP products and technologies used to overcome these challenges.
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Establishing a data center at Fox River Gaming
The introductory module for the HP Innovations course defined a fictional company
known as Fox River Gaming. For more detail and context on the background and
goals for this scenario, please review that introduction.
This module considers an infrastructure upgrade to consolidate Fox River
Gamings data from an assortment of different servers into a standardized set of
scalable servers and storage in what is growing from a server room into their first
real data center. This upgrade must support anticipated growth of 40% to 80% in
staff and resources at this main office in the coming year with minimal increase in
IT staff.
This module focuses on the standardization and consolidation of a number of
aging products from a variety of vendors onto established HP platforms. Goals in
this migration include:
Enhanced productivity
Reliability
Reduced costs
Building trust in a technology partner (HP) with a vision and capability to

provide solid, basic capabilities at a modest cost with a roadmap for how to
scale these solutions as required by the needs of the business.
Although the focus of this module is the formation of a comparatively small data
center, this module could have discussed just as easily the consolidation of
hardware and data after the acquisition of another company. Both projects entail
similar challenges to consolidate hardware and data onto standardized platforms.
While considering solutions for Fox River Gaming, keep in mind how these
technologies and solutions can be successfully applied to a range of other use
case examples.
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HP FlexNetwork architecture
The HP FlexNetwork Architecture forms a key component of HP Converged

Infrastructure (CI). Enterprises can align their networks with their business
needseven while these needs changeby segmenting their networks into the
four interrelated modular building blocks that comprise the HP FlexNetwork
Architecture:
FlexFabricThe network infrastructure for data centers, FlexFabric

converges and secures the data center network with compute and storage. It
provides high-speed, low-latency, and highly available links for the server-toserver and server-to-storage traffic flows that power modern applications.
FlexCampusProviding the infrastructure for mid-size or enterprise campus

LANs, the FlexCampus unifies wired and wireless networks to deliver mediaoptimized, secure, identity-based access.
FlexBranchExtending the network to remote sites, FlexBranch unifies and

standardizes network functionality and services, promoting seamless access
to remote resources and ease of deployment and management.
FlexManagementLaying across the other three building blocks is

FlexManagement. IT staff manage all network segments through a single
pane-of-glass management application, HP Intelligent Management Center
(IMC).
The HP FlexNetwork architecture supports enterprises with more traditional needs

but also helps companies as they navigate their evolution to the cloud. Enterprises
deploying private clouds must implement flatter, simpler data center networks to
support the bandwidth-intensive, delay-sensitive traffic flows associated with cloud
computing. Administrators need solutions that help them to administer and secure
virtual resources and to orchestrate on-demand services. HP FlexNetwork helps
enterprises to securely deploy and centrally orchestrate video, cloud, and mobileoptimized architectures that scale from the data center to the network edge.
In addition, because the FlexNetwork architecture is based on open standards,
enterprises always maintain the freedom to choose the best-in-class solution for
their businesses.
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HP FlexFabric
The network is the foundation of data center connectivity and the foundation of a
converged infrastructure.
This section covers the FlexFabric and the role it plays in the data center. The
FlexCampus and FlexBranch pieces of the puzzle are considered in later modules.
Marketing will tell you the HP FlexFabric simplifies data center infrastructure with
converged network, computer, and storage resources across both virtual and
physical environments to accommodate cloud computing models. What does this
mean?
First, it is an infrastructure. Routers, switches, and routing switches (sometimes
known as Layer 3 or L3 switches) form the physical infrastructure used to transport
data packets through a network. Like roads, bridges, train tracks, and jet fuel,
transportation infrastructure is taken for granted until something goes wrong or is
in short supply. Modern Ethernet networks have become flexible and able to shift
to alleviate bottlenecks and accommodate changing traffic demands. And just how
do they do that?
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IRF virtualization
HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) is an innovation which establishes a high

bandwidth, redundant, connected core. HP Networking routing switches supporting
the IRF can be configured to have several physical devices configured and
managed as a single, logical device.
Network topologies can be simplified. Redundant links between switches can be
established without the need for Spanning Tree to block links. All traffic is
managed by the Comware operating system as if physical links between the IRF
switches were internal links between modules in a chassis based switch. IRF
allows you to form a virtual device with full L2 and L3 redundancy (switching and
routing) with all links open rather than blocked.
IRF virtualization brings a huge degree of redundancy to the data center network.
Not only can multiple physical links be aggregated, but aggregating the routing
switches themselves allows one device to take over all routing, switching, and
management functions with a failover time typically less than 10 milliseconds. IRF
protects the data center network against physical link failures AND against failures
of entire routing switches.
IRF uses standard 10Gb Ethernet connections between switches. Using these
standard links allows the switches comprising a single IRF virtual device to be
physically separated. Routing switches up to 70 kilometers apart can be managed
and perform as a single logical device. This provides the foundation for geographic
resiliency where physically separated or redundant data centers can be
interconnected as one logical networking device.
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IRF advantages
If routing switches were allowed to manage physical links between the switches in
the same way that alternate paths within the chipsets or across the internal fabric
of the switches are managed, IRF could be seen in action.
IRF delivers many advantages over typical network switch connections:
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Design and operational simplification
One logical device to manage
Can be managed through IMC
Flatter topology
Fewer switches in STP
Fewer routers in Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Higher efficiencyLoop-free non-blocking architecture
Scalable performanceDistributed link aggregation to the IRF topology
Faster failoverTypically less than 10 ms
Distributed high availability and resiliencySupports N+ 1 redundancy
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FlexFabric resources
HP offers resources for technology decision-makers, solution architects, and other

experts tasked with improving data center networking which can serve as a
baseline for network planning and design projects. One such document is the
technical white paper, HP FlexFabric Reference Architecture, found at
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/docs/interop/HP_Networking_FlexFabric_Reference_
Architecture_Guide_4AA3-4150ENW.pdf
The white paper presents the building blocks for HPs converged network
infrastructure vision. The white paper first identifies the most important IT trend
todayvirtualization of resources at all levels. It then introduces technologies
supported by HP that improve virtualized computer networks. Finally, it provides
FlexFabric Reference Architecture examples for different types of virtualized server
deployments using a layered approach.
Server-to-server and virtual machine-to-virtual machine communications are best
for L2 networks. HP is continuing to meet these demands with its L2 network and
IRF switching foundation strategy.
The white paper is less of a discussion on specific HP equipment, and more of an
overall focus on two thingsvirtualization and HP Networking technologies that
support virtualization. It provides another level of detail to complement the HP
Converged Infrastructure Reference Architecture Solution Block Design Guide,
found at http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA2-6453ENW.pdf
These documents guide data center architects and IT teams to develop new and
more flexible data center models and methodologies. By doing so, IT can directly
meet new demands, rather than force businesses to adapt to technology
limitations. By providing guidance on network simplification for virtualized
deployments that do not sacrifice performance or deployment flexibility, these
documents provide a foundation for selecting hardware products and solutions to
meet modern data center needs.
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Learning check
QUESTION: Which software virtualization technology developed by HP allows
routing switches to manage physical links between the switches to appear as one
node on the network, thus simplifying and streamlining the management and
reliability of the switches that are managed?
ANSWER:
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Integrated and intelligent racking infrastructure
Power, space, cost, and manageability are key factors in a data center. HP
Innovation integrates intelligence into the racks where server and storage
components are mounted. The next pages show the facilities that help empower
the converged infrastructure.
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HP Intelligent Series racks
HP Intelligent Series racks provide the physical foundation for power and
management of server and storage components within a data center.
The physical foundation is straight forward. Hardware is provided for common
console or terminal access to servers mounted in the racks. Components are
included for rack shelving, grounding, stabilization, and cable management. Cable
management and remote keyboard, video, mouse (KVM) components are
simplified and universal across the data center. Common UPSs are also provided
to deliver battery power to racked components.
Intelligent Series Racks are more than bare metal with screw holes for mounting
devices. HP Intelligent Racks work with your server and storage components to
assist management of discovery, mapping, power, and cooling.
HP rack intelligence is offered by including Intelligent Power Distribution Units
(iPDUs). The iPDU identifies the power consumption for every component in the
rack (with 99% accuracy above 1 watt.) The iPDU helps you track and control
power distribution within the rack.
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Location discovery services
Location discovery is one service empowered by the integration of Intelligent

Racks with HP servers. (The iLO function will be discussed in more detail later in
this module.)
Newer Gen8 server components interoperate with intelligent racks to provide
accurate location services. One component in the Gen8 servers is the iLO
Management Engine.
The iLO, Insight Control, and iPDU components together identify the precise rack
and U Location or physical height or level within that rack where a given server is
mounted. Physical asset data and location tracking can be automated by the
location discovery services eliminating manual errors. As seen on the next page,
the location data can be used by management applications to provide robust,
graphic displays of power use, temperature, and system utilization.
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Data center view for asset management
After you know the location of servers within racks and racks in a data center, you
can consider the management and control of the data center as a whole. HP
Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), shown in this graphic, is but one of the
management applications designed to provide visibility and control of your assets.
One example of a plug-in tool Systems Insight Manager is the Insight Power
Manager. Power monitoring and management of server power consumption and
thermal output are displayed in a visual utility that:
Provides 24-hour maximum observed temperature in each rack
Allows identification of hotspots and poor air flow
Enables you to drill down to individual racks and components within that rack
to identify servers at risk of overheating because of localized airflow or cooling
issues.
Using components of the Insight Management software suite to monitor

temperature and electrical usage in Intelligent Racks along with sensors within
servers and storage devices allows a user to manage power and cooling. This
maximizes performance and increases reliability while reducing costs across a
data center.
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HP power discovery services
With iPDUs, you are no longer required to add servers one-by-one to a new rack
(when configuring it in the software). With the iPDU in the rack, each installed
device is learned, and management software can configure the rack automatically.
There are fewer errors and less time spent with manual entries. The intelligent
infrastructure can identify if critical IT devices have both primary and redundant
power inputs (A and B power feeds). The iPDU can identify the B feed iPDU and
add it to the visualized configuration saving hours of time managing your racks.
HP Insight Control software allows you to pull accurate power information from HP
Intelligent Racks to achieve increased power efficiency. A server assigned more
work (which can occur dynamically as virtual machines are moved or assigned to
different physical servers) will use more power because of increased processor
utilization. Intelligent power monitoring allows you to shift load and reclaim trapped
or unused power capacity.
Insight Control uses the information from the Intelligent Racks with the iPDU and
identifiers of the servers to automate the mapping and discovery of deployed
hardware.
The integrated HP solution reduces the likelihood of errors empowering your IT
staff to work smarter and avoid unnecessary or avoidable downtime.
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HP ProLiant server families
When you are thinking about options for servers for Fox River Gamings data
center, it is helpful to know that HP offers tower, rack, and server blade options to
meet the needs of any deployment.
Many of these physical formats also use consistent components across the server
families. Often, the same mezzanine cards, power supplies, and fans are used all
the way up server line (even into Integrity blades, which will be discussed in a later
module, or the recently announced Moonshot servers). Maintenance, training, and
downtime are decreased when common components can be pulled from a pool of
spares for use in a range of servers.
HP ProLiant Gen8 servers incorporate more than 150 design innovations to help
eliminate common problems that result in failures, downtime, and data loss. The
Gen8 features are available across the range of physical server formats. In
addition to information available on the HP external website, advanced sales and
technical support certification courses are offered that will break down the
individual capabilities, features, and differentiators between the ProLiant server
families. This course module focuses on the common features or similarities
universal to the ProLiant servers.
The next page highlights one of the key Gen8 featuresthe iLO Management
Engine.
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iLO Management Engine
The HP iLO Management Engine is a set of embedded management features that

supports the complete lifecycle of the individual server, from initial deployment
through ongoing management, to service alerting and remote support. Renamed
from Integrated Lights-Out to Insight Lifecycle Onboard, the iLO Management
Engine is embedded on the system board and ships standard in every ProLiant
Gen8 server, including the ProLiant BL, DL, ML, and SL Series servers.
Older versions of the iLO just provided remote access or management of the
server. Todays iLO Management Engine empowers the entire Insight management
system.
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), Insight Remote, and related management
are the keys to rapid provisioning, preparation, and deployment of new servers.
You no longer are required to bring CDs, DVDs, or thumb drives to get updated
drivers. HP Insight management tools and the iLO Management Engine allow you
to pull the appropriate drivers for your operating system directly into dedicated
flash memory on the system board before an operating system is loaded on the
server.
HP innovations move the operating system load process from several reboots and
many steps (often requiring your physical presence at the box), to a streamlined
deployment environment. The deployment can be accomplishedor even
automatedto take only a fraction of the time. The iLO management processor
liberates IT to work faster whether the server is across the hall or across the globe.
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Learning check
Match the technologies to the features empowering the data center.
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HP Storage portfolio
The HP Storage portfolio provides a range of storage systems with a common

vision and common management utilities to meet a variety of needs.
To respond to the different needs of customers who are at different technology
maturity levels, HP is committed to being a key partner in their transformation. HP
is investing heavily into storage for the next era of computing while understanding
and supporting those customers who continue to use traditional IT environments.
HP Storage offers three strategies for customers at different stages of data center
transformation:
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Established platformsThe established storage platforms have for years

offered customers the opportunity to consolidate their IT data storage onto
bulletproof storage platforms. The tape storage and the HP MSA, EVA, and
XP storage platform families continue to offer the capacity and reliability
demanded by enterprise data centers.
Converged StorageModern storage needs in a data center go beyond

individual device capabilities. Innovations in the Converged Storage systems
and technologies allow expansion from individual devices to virtualized
environments. Even starting from a small, initial data center at Fox River
Gaming, products can be selected to lay a foundation for rapid growth into a
global data environment. HP Converged Storage enables customers to scale
their infrastructure to meet future needs by eliminating boundaries between
storage and the rest of IT. This is made possible by combining management
orchestration across storage, servers, and networks with innovative,
federated, scale-out software and standardized hardware platforms, including
HP 3PAR StoreServ, StoreVirtual, StoreOnce, and StoreAll.
Converged Systems and ServicesAccelerating results is possible with HP

Converged Systems and Services, which combine Converged Storage,
servers, management software, and services into integrated, turnkey
solutions. These integrated solutions remove the challenges associated with
application integration, virtualized infrastructure, and cloud services. They also
simplify IT and promote new levels of efficiency and agility by eliminating the
boundaries among the infrastructure, applications, and IT service delivery.
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HP Converged Storage
Although established platforms can be deployed in any environment, HP

Converged Storage solutions are designed to break down traditional IT boundaries
to better meet unpredictable demands. HP Converged Storage represents the
industrys most modern, scale-out storage built for virtualization, cloud, and the
explosion in structured and unstructured data.
These Converged Storage architectures are built on:
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Standardized platforms with common, modular x86 based hardware. Some of

the same components in the HP ProLiant servers such as the Gen8 features
are included in many of the storage platforms.
Federated, scale-out software enabling virtualized storage that supports nondisruptive growth and data mobility. The software gives you freedom to move
data across physical devices, logical tiers, and remote locations, and between
virtual (cloud) and physical storage.
Converged management that automates IT and accelerates application

delivery.
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The main components of an HP Converged Storage environment are:
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The primary storage is the physical platform such as the HP 3PAR

StoreServ. Virtualization occurs within the StoreServ by assembling virtual
volumes made up of storage blocks spread across Solid State Drives (SSDs)
and more traditional disc drives. By having blocks, objects, and files spread
across volumes, each containing high-speed storage areas on the SSDs, the
most frequently accessed data can be placed into these high-speed or Tier-1
access areas. Because this intelligence is built in to the primary storage, costs
can be contained by keeping infrequently accessed data on slower speed
devices or even in physically virtualized storage or extended into IT as a
Service (ITaaS) environments.
The HP StoreAll provides a platform for retention and analytics. First, the
StoreAll platform provides dual NAS controllers for speed and redundancy.
Second, hyperscale means support for billions of objects and files in a single
namespacescaling to more than 1,000 nodes with 16PB capacity. Retention
refers to business or legal obligations to archive unalterable read-only data
to write once, read many (WORM) drives. Analytics, discovery, and
compliance require ultra-fast search and intelligent data extraction at petabyte
scale. Express Query technology from HP Labs and Autonomy IDOL
integration can search billions of files in minutes, extracting value with queries
that had taken too long in the past.
HP StoreOnce provides the deduplication that increases speed, reduces

overall storage size, and reduces costs. In storage, space is also money.
Deduplication technologies overcome the gaps, inefficiencies, and costs
associated with backup and storage. Similar to image and audio compression
codecs, deduplication allows for fewer bytes to be stored while still holding the
complete data set. HP StoreOnce backups run up to 3x faster with 5x faster
recovery than competing systems. StoreOnce reduces total data transfer,
reduces final file storage size, and supports federated deployments that can
start small and scale out to protect up to 768TB.
HP StoreVirtual products and technologies use the LeftHand OS software.

HP Peer Motion is a Software-Defined Storage implementation evolved from
the LeftHand OS, which enables a virtual storage environment across diverse
physical hardware devices. The Peer Motion capabilities shared across the
LeftHand and HP 3PAR products allow for movement or migration of data
across both physical and virtual storage volumes.
HP StoreFabric storage networking products provide expansive

connectivityfrom server/storage to data center to cloud. The HP StoreFabric
Fibre Channel Switches meet the needs of hyper-scale, private cloud storage
environments by delivering market-leading 16Gb Fibre Channel technology
and capabilities that support highly virtualized environments.
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Software-defined storage from HP
Software-based (or software-defined) storage consists of industry-standard

hardware layered with feature-rich storage software.
The storage software is often called a VSA (Virtual SAN Appliance or virtual
storage appliance). The HP StoreVirtual VSA, based on the LeftHand OS, helps
customers gain the benefits of a fully-featured array without dedicated external
storage. A data center can use VSA software Peer Motion capabilities to build
virtual volumes on existing server disk storage. Why does this work? Because
StoreVirtual VSAs are:
Hardware agnostic (deployed across any x86 server or storage platform to

create and open pool of shared capacity) and
Hypervisor independent (meaning you can virtualize your storage across

either of the server virtualization platforms) with
Federated with scale-out capabilities built into the Peer Motion software
(Expansion, recovery and migration of physical devices is transparent and non
disruptive to data access by end users and servers.)
You can use the power of virtualization to turn a set of heterogeneous and
disconnected physical disk drives in your servers and storage devices into a single
pool of logical storage capacity. You can seamlessly migrate all data to StoreVirtual
or HP 3PAR storage arrays when capacity and performance needs evolve.
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Clear benefits of software-defined storage are:
Lower costsUse capacity you already own to deploy new applications
Increase agilityRespond to change more easily and with non-disruptive

data mobility
Boost efficiencyDramatically reduce power, cooling, and floor space

requirements
Reduce riskEnable application high availability across servers, hypervisors,

and locations
HP StoreVirtual VSA is the first and only product of its kind that can run on any x86
hardware platform and span both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
Federated storage is the collection of autonomous storage resources governed by
a common management system that provides rules about how data is stored,
managed, and migrated throughout the storage network. In this definition, storage
resources include disk capacity managed by controllers or appliances controlling
multiple arrays. With federated storage, you can add to capacity or move stored
data across arrays without disruption.
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VIDEOHP Converged Storage overview chalk

talk
Key take-aways from this video include:
There is a Converged Storage system vision: to create polymorphic simplicity

and a simple architecture to simplify deployments.
Converged Storage provides ROI3 - better returns on information,

infrastructure, and individuals.
HP has:
One primary storage architecture.
One information retention protection architecture.

For more information, visit: http://www.hp.com/go/storage/NextEra
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HP StoreVirtual storage
In addition to a software product for deployment on existing servers (VSA), HP has

a StoreVirtual line of products based on the same operating software. An example
of a converged storage product is the HP StoreVirtual 4000 series pictured in this
graphic.
The highlights of HP StoreVirtual storage that are especially appropriate for Fox
River Gamings current IT infrastructure are:
Platform integration that allows easy storage management across a virtualized

environment
Network RAID technology that allows a single, virtual storage pool to scale up
without disruption while removing a single point of failure
Support for both Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) and Fibre
Channel connectivity for maximum flexibility of deployments
Provides the scalablity and reliability needed for the growth of their business.
Although an SMB now, the federated storage capabilities of the StoreVirtual
platform will allow migration to high performance HP 3PAR platforms with no
disruption to their storage environment.
StoreVirtual products are simple, scalable, and available. More details about this
product can be read in the graphic or explored in HP product marketing literature
and certification courses.
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HP StoreVirtual portfolio
The HP StoreVirtual portfolio allows for migration from VSA software deployments
on servers (which can be ideal for Remote Office or Branch Office [ROBO]
environments) across a range of physical product offerings targeted to data
centers of any size or demand.
You can scale from one platform to another, create tiers, or mix-and-match the
product models that best fit your infrastructure while retaining management
simplicity and feature consistency.
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Learning check
QUESTION: Which platform is the basis for HP Peer Motion, Software-Defined
Storage, which can seamlessly create and migrate storage volumes on any x86
server platform up through high end storage arrays?
YOUR ANSWER:
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a.
HP 3PAR StoreServ
b.
HP StoreVirtual
c.
HP StoreAll
d.
HP StoreOnce
e.
HP StoreEasy
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Management from server to cloud
Individual tools within the HP Insight Management suite apply to management at

all scales.
Insight Online and HP Smart Update Manager (HP SUM) are useful in the
management of even a single server. The suite scales up through the capability of
Insight Control to manage an entire data center infrastructure, with HP
CloudSystem Matrix and Cloud Service Automation providing the scope to
manage, provision, and orchestrate server, storage, and network resources in
global, cloud integrated environments.
Unified management tools enable:
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Management of the converged infrastructure, (servers, network, storage, and

the data center environment)
Lifecycle management (to configure, monitor, update, and repair)
Lifecycle support (including alerting, call home capabilities and entitlement

for facilitating support engagement)
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Powerful unified management toolsHP

Insight Management suite
HP Insight Management works with the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you:
Deep insight to make more informed decisions
Precise control to do more in less time
Ongoing optimization to deliver better services
The Insight Management suite is a modular software portfolio that gives customers
the flexibility to choose the level of infrastructure management that is right for their
businesses.
At this stage, you are merely being introducing to the framework of the Insight
Management suite. To consider the fundamental data center needs at Fox River
Gaming, you merely need to know that the Insight Management utilities included
with most HP ProLiant server platforms will extend into consistent, unified tools
with expanded capabilities to control ever more complex deployments, migrations,
and management within the data centers as their needs grow.
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The Insight Management suite includes:
iLO Management EngineThe HP iLO Management Engine is a set of

embedded management features that support the complete lifecycle of the
individual server, from initial deployment through ongoing management to
service alerting and remote support.
HP Insight ControlInsight Control delivers essential server management,

including proactive health management, lights out remote control, optimization
of power usage, rapid server deployment, server migration, performance
analysis, and virtual machine management. Customers can get more from
every hour, watt, and dollar they invest in infrastructure with this software that
unlocks the potential of the virtual and physical ProLiant and BladeSystem
infrastructure.
HP Smart Update Manager and HP Service Pack for ProLiantUpdating

server environments can be one of the most frustrating jobs that system
administrators perform, and maintaining system firmware and software has
become increasingly complex and unnecessarily costly. To address this
problem, HP offers HP SUM with ProLiant servers and BladeSystems. The
Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) includes HP SUM and provides innovative,
flexible, comprehensive firmware and software update capabilities. HP SUM
dramatically simplifies the update process by automating much of your
systems maintenance, making ProLiant easier to manage and more reliable.
With SPP and HP SUM, you can update ProLiant servers and BladeSystem
infrastructures as much as three times faster and achieve 93% less downtime
during online updates.
HP Insight OnlineInsight Online is your personalized IT and support

dashboard. It provides the information you need to monitor the devices in your
IT environment from anywhere, anytime, and at no additional cost.
Insight Online is a key component of the integrated management and support
experience. Through the HP Support Center portal, Insight Online can
automatically display devices remotely monitored by HP Insight Remote
Support and lets you easily track service events and support cases, and view
device configurations.
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Powerful unified management toolsHP

storage software
HP storage software helps you reduce costs, simplify storage infrastructure,

protect vital assets and respond faster to business opportunities.
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Data protection and recovery softwareWhether for a large enterprise or a

smaller business, HP data protection and recovery software will costeffectively protect against disaster and ensure business continuity.
Data archive and migration softwareHP storage software enables you to

comply with data retention and retrieval requirements, improve application
performance, and reduce costs by efficiently migrating infrequently accessed
or less valuable data to lower cost storage.
Storage Resource Management (SRM)HP SRM software reduces

operational costs and provides the command and control foundation you need
to efficiently manage and visualize your physical and virtual environments.
Storage replication softwareHP offers array-based and host-based

replication software for use in disaster recovery, testing, application
development, and reporting.
Storage device management softwareMaximize your investment in HP

storage and networking with software that enables hardware-specific
configuration, performance tuning, and connectivity management.
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Powerful unified management toolsHP IMC
In addition to the Insight Management suite, HP offers another powerful

management tool known as HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC).
HP IMC provides a unified view into the virtual and physical network infrastructure.
This visibility and control of the network accelerates application and service
delivery, simplifies operations and management, and boosts network availability.
Features include:
Discovery and mapping of network devices
Centralized management of network device software and configuration files.

Backup, change control, and deployment can be managed through
configuration templates.
Virtual LANs (VLANs) and access control lists (ACLs) can be visualized,
managed, and deployed to hundreds or thousands of devices from the IMC
management interface.
IMC is a single tool with extensive capabilities. Similar to the suite of Insight tools,
IMC is a modular product with many pieces or plug-ins available. IMC can
manage connections for HP Networking, Virtual Connect, and many third-party
switches. Although many believe IMC to be only a network management utility, it
can do even more.
In addition to offering comprehensive management and monitoring of HP wired
and wireless infrastructure products, IMC gives you the power to manage thirdparty networking products from within the same software management utility. More
than 5,700 devices from more than 150 manufacturers can be managed using this
single application. Other vendors offer up to 30 separate management products to
provide the network management functionality contained in IMC.
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IMC also can be used to manage the deployment and allocation of virtual servers
giving you holistic control of the entire converged infrastructure. Moving resources
or an application from one physical server to another in a virtual environment?
Adding another node to a server cluster? IMC will dynamically modify the VLAN
configuration of the attached routers and switches to assist the server deployment.
Here are just a few of the innovative, virtualization-optimized capabilities of IMC:
Automatic discovery of virtual machines, virtual switches, and their

relationships with the physical network
VM and virtual switch resource management, including the creation of virtual

switches and port groups
Virtual/Physical topology views and status indicators for networks, workloads,

and virtual switches
Automatic reconfiguration of network policies that "move" with VM/workloads

while they "move" within or across the data center
The capability of IMC to coordinate control of virtual server environments with the
required network configuration brings tremendous power to a single pane of
glass for managing both physical and virtual resources within a data center.
For more information on IMC, visit:
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/networking/solutions/networkmanagement/index.aspx
HP is committed to ongoing development of single pane of glass applications for

powerful control of CI infrastructure with powerful integration of third-party
management platforms.
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Learning check
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Describe HP Insight Management in 14 words or fewer.

HP Insight Management is:
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Next, try refining your description to seven words or fewer.

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List or provide a group of 10 words that come to mind or represent aspects of

the HP Intelligent Management Center.
IMC is:
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Meeting IT goals at Fox River Gaming

Although there is no single, best solution for an initial data center at Fox River
Gaming, consider the following hardware as a reference point for discussing a
solution or while you apply and extend this knowledge to other data center
environments. Although individual products, models, and features change over
time, HPs delivery of reliable solutions to meet basic data center needs with a
platform can scale over the life of a deployment.
For the network in this core data center, you can start with two or more of the 5800
series switches. The HP 5800AF-48G Switch (JG225A) is a data-center optimized
design with front-to-back/back-to-front airflow for hot/cold aisles, rear rack mounts,
redundant hot-swappable power, and fans. The 5800AF supports HP IRF
technology.
The rack mounted ProLiant DL 380p Gen8 servers can support up to 768 GB of
memory on up to 24 DIMM slots with 1 Gb and 10 Gb network adapter options and
an onboard Smart Array storage controller. As with all Gen8 servers, Insight
Management utilities and the iLO Management Engine are included.
The HP StoreVirtual 4000 runs the LeftHand operating system with Peer Motion.
By deploying a StoreVirtual product, storage can be extended from a single
physical device to federated storage across virtual or cloud designs as the data
center needs at Fox River Gaming grow and change.
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HP innovations to remember
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HP Networking FlexFabric and IRF technologies delivering simplified,

redundant connectivity at the core of the data center.
Integrating HP Intelligent Rack facilities with power and location management

services using Gen8 server technologies such as the iLO Management
Engine to overcome data center challenges including cooling and optimized
server utilization.
HP StoreVirtual and HP 3PAR Peer Motion software running as a virtual

storage appliance (VSA) on x86 servers or on dedicated storage hardware to
provide extendable platforms which can scale and migrate to enterprise and
cloud implementations.
HP Insight Management suite, HP Storage Software, and HP Intelligent

Management Console providing a powerful, unified foundation for integrated
control for products across the HP CI platform.
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Summary
Data Center standardization and consolidation are opportunities to reduce costs
while increasing productivity and reliability with a technology refresh at the core.
HP innovations in resilient network architecture, integrated power monitoring, and
consistent iLO Management Engine and remote management capabilities across
servers and storage drive:
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Increased productivity
High reliability with simplified technologies and designs
Reduced costs (for maintenance, support and time)
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Business-Critical Data Center

Module 3
Objectives
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Define the characteristics and goals of a business-critical data center

Identify challenges emphasized by a mission-critical or business-critical
environment
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New business-critical data center
Fox River Gaming now has an online component to their game which will require a
separate, mission-critical, public-facing data center to be created, tested and
online prior to product launch. Building a high availability data center to serve the
business-critical applications enabling their game is essential to the successful
launch of their platform.
Designing and deploying this environment is Phase Two of Fox River Gamings
infrastructure upgrade. Although the primary focus remains on implementing a
standardized data center foundation, the design for the new data center has a
strong emphasis on planning the virtualization and automation needed for future
growth or expansion.
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Challenges in the business-critical data center
The stakes are higher in a business-critical data center. Customer expectations

are:
Nothing will ever be down.
Data will always be accessible.
No data will ever be lost.
Systems will be highly availability and rapid recovery without data loss
can be performed when failures do occur.
The desire for redundancy at every hardware component creates a challenge to

interconnect and synchronize devices and data. This typically places a heavy
burden on the network.
The demand for data redundancy and ultra-high availability requires a multi-site
environment. Security and bandwidth demands on the network are more
challenging when two or more data centers must act as one.
The demands are high on both the hardware and IT staff. IT needs to have tools to
effectively monitor, maintain, and rapidly restore services and data in the event of
a failure.
Cost pressure is still significant when considering a business-critical data center.
Company officers may be willing to pay more where required but business needs
will always drive the search to maximize ROI.
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Strong supports
The more critical the environment, the higher the demand to deliver integrated
solutions which are simple, secure, and robust. A solid Converged Infrastructure
platform must answer additional questions when data center challenges are
addressed.
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Can access and connectivity to storage resources be simplified, unified,

or flattened? Simplicity is more elegant and less likely to fail in a critical
environment, and can more easily deliver redundancy when well
designed.
Can performance and reliability of individual products be improved from
the solution level all the way to the component level? Can both
architectures and chipsets meet expectations in a business-critical
environment?
What can be done to make server interconnections more robust? A data
center can be overwhelmed with a tangled mess of SAN, Fibre Channel,
and Ethernet network connections. Can these be consolidated into a
reliable solution?
Can enterprise level security be delivered at the data center core? There
are many moving pieces when storage, servers, and networks are
virtualized. What tools does HP deliver to support the storage, server, and
network infrastructure at the core of the data center?
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Business-critical solutions from HP
Some of the innovative HP tools to meet the needs and overcome challenges in
Fox River Gamings new, business-critical data center include:
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Server blades
Server blade architecture (enclosure) integrated into the FlexFabric
network
Virtual Connect modules
Integrity servers and server blades
Data center storage optionsTiered storage, optimized for speed
HP 3PAR
Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC)Fat-to-thin and thin

provisioned
Peer Motion storage federation
Persistent ports
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Networking FlexCampus
FlexFabricEmpowers virtualization
Virtual Connect modules
Security (HP TippingPoint, HP ArcSight, and HP Fortify)
Multi-site capabilities
Network security and performance
Management
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)
Insight Control
Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
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From rack-mounted servers to BladeSystem
In the past, a server was either a room-sized mainframe or an over provisioned

PC. Most PC-based servers were in a tower format. Over time, space and
efficiency demands pushed most servers into todays traditional rack format.
Servers shrank from occupying three or five rack units (known as Us) down to 1U.
A rack unit is 1.75 inches or 4.45 centimeters.
The BladeSystem footprint has decreased although its capabilities have grown.
BladeSystems are not just smaller, they are also smarter. By combining servers,
storage modules, and network interfaces into a single enclosure, there are fewer
cables and components to install. Redundant power supplies use fewer Watts per
server.
HP Virtual Connect, the management interface for the entire enclosure, requires
less effort to manage and provides more flexibility to dynamically change servers,
storage, and network interfaces within the BladeSystem.
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HP BladeSystem
The architecture of a BladeSystem enclosure maximizes redundancy.

Power, cooling and connectivity including Virtual Connect modules are all
condensed into a single enclosure. The 10U chassis shown in this graphic can
hold up to 16 servers with eight interconnect bays supporting many I/O fabric
connectivity modules.
BladeSystem enclosures are designed for minimal downtime and rapid
recoverability:
Hot-swap power supplies, fans, and I/O modules mean routine

maintenance. Component failures can be resolved without ever taking a
server offline.
Training and sparing costs are minimized with many of these physical
components being common and reusable from entry-level ProLiant up to
higher-end Integrity servers.
The c7000 enclosure is built for high availability from the passive signal midplane
through the power, cooling, blades, and connectivity components connecting within
the chassis.
The BladeSystem c7000 enclosure has redundant signal paths between servers
and interconnect modules. The NonStop signal midplane and separate power
backplane in the enclosure have no active components. Separating the power
delivery in the backplane from the high-speed interconnect signals in the midplane
results in minimal thermal stress to the signal midplane.
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Server blade families
BladeSystem server blades fall into two categoriesHP ProLiant server blades
and HP Integrity server blades.
HP ProLiant server blades

ProLiant server blades feature either the AMD Opteron processors (models ending
with 5, such as the ProLiant BL465c Gen8 or ProLiant BL685c G7) or the Intel
Xeon processors (models ending with 0, such as the ProLiant BL420c Gen8 or
ProLiant BL660c Gen8), a wide variety of I/O options, Virtual Connect, numerous
network interconnect alternatives, Integrated Lights-Out (iLO), multiple redundant
features, embedded RAID controllers, and much more.
ProLiant server blade series are:
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ProLiant BL400cDeliver the same capabilities, features, and benefits

of ProLiant rack servers in a smaller, more power-efficient form factor.
This series is ideal for heterogeneous data centers to host infrastructure,
database, virtualization, messaging, and high-performance computing
applications.
ProLiant BL600cAre dense, large memory footprint and maximum I/O
expandability servers designed for compute intensive workloads. This
series is ideal for deploying many virtual machines delivering the
performance and expansion capabilities that virtualized environments
require.
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HP Integrity server blades

Integrity server blades are flexible mission-critical server blades designed to fit into
the BladeSystem infrastructure and coexist with ProLiant server, storage, and
expansion blades.
Integrity BL8x0c i2 server blades feature unique HP Blade Link technology, which
combines multiple blades to create four- and eight-socket systems (combine two
or four blades). They include:
Integrity BL860c i2
Integrity BL870c i2
Integrity BL890c i2
Integrity BL8x0c i2 server blades are based on the Intel Itanium 9300 Series
processor with two or four processor cores, up to eight processor sockets, and up
to 1.5TB of memory (up to 96 DIMM slots, 24 slots per server blade, with 16GB
maximum DIMM size, DDR3 memory with double-chip spare).
Integrity BL8x0c i4 server blades are flexible and versatile two-, four-, and eightsocket systems that are ideal for mission-critical enterprise applications. With
support for hard partitioning (HP nPars), HP-UX Virtual Partitions (HP-UX vPars),
and HP Integrity Virtual Machines, these Integrity server blades give missioncritical levels of virtualization availability and flexibility.
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HP Integrity portfolio
HP Superdome 2the flagship, high-end Integrity serverpowers some of the

worlds most demanding, mission-critical environments. For enterprise-class
customers who require high availability, rich virtualization capabilities, and longterm investment protection, innovations such as the fault-tolerant crossbar fabric
and Superdome 2 Analysis Engine set the standard for mission-critical computing.
Whether deployed in a Superdome, as a server blade, or as a rack server, HP
Integrity servers provide the reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS)
expected in a business -critical data center.
HP NonStop systems are architected as virtualized systems. Typical virtualized
environments run multiple virtual servers on a single physical server to improve
utilization of that server. NonStop virtualizes in the opposite direction to improve
reliability in business and mission-critical environments. The NonStop environment
virtualizes the underlying hardwareup to 16 physical servers or bladesinto one
single server able to deliver continuous application availability and meet SLAs of
up to 100% uptime.
NonStop is designed around a tightly-integrated hardware and software
architecture that combines hardware fault tolerance and software process-pair
fault tolerance to deliver the very highest availability level.
The tight integration between the NonStop SQL database management system
and the NonStop OS effectively handles all types of workloads executing
concurrently across a potentially very large cluster. NonStop OS plays a critical
role in allocating processor, disk, and I/O resources in an environment where
competing priorities have to be dynamically monitored and processes deemed to
be of the highest priority need to be given precedence. NonStop can virtualize an
application such as SQL across thousands of blades in a grid model. These
virtualization capabilities enable an environment that pools and optimizes all
resources at the application level with processing capacity, storage, and network
resources shared transparently to the user.
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Mission-critical Converged Infrastructure
Whether deployed in a BladeSystem format or as traditional racked servers, HP

Integrity platforms offer a level of reliability required for business- and missioncritical environments.
Todays mission-critical needs are typically addressed with UNIX or mainframe
solutions. An Integrity server with an Itanium chipset supports IA64 for UNIX as
well as the x86 instruction set on the same hardware, for long-term investment
protection. UNIX investments today can adapt to future workloads, including those
on Linux and Windows x86 platforms.
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Always-on resiliency
Reliability is built in to Integrity platforms from the Itanium chipset through server
fabrics, operating systems, solutions, and services.
The Itanium processor is twice as reliable as industry volume CPUs. DDR3
Double-chip sparing provides 17x better reliability with data correction and selfhealing to identify and stop writing to failed DRAM chips.
The HP Superdome 2 Analysis Engine (SD2) runs on the Onboard Administrator
(OA) and collects information from every sensor and component storing it in a
central place in the OA. With all the data in one place, the built-in SD2 Analysis
Engine can automatically analyze the error situation, identify failed or suspected
parts, initiate corrective actions, and notify administratorseven before a reboot
has begun. SD2 allows self healing, often without noticeable performance
degradation, and when repairs must be made, helps ensure that the correct repair
is made.
HP-UX has consistently provided mission-critical availability to core business
functions and applications for more than three decades. HP NonStop and
Serviceguard solutions, the Matrix Operating Environment (which allows scaling to
thousands of nodes), and HP Mission Critical Services offerings can work together
to provide up to 100% solution availability.
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HP Virtual Connect
HP Virtual Connect is one of the cornerstones of the HP FlexFabric architecture

blending the network into a server enclosure. It provides a wire-once interconnect
solution for virtualized and cloud-ready environments.
HP developed Virtual Connect technology to simplify networking configuration for
the server administrator using a BladeSystem environment. The baseline Virtual
Connect technology virtualizes the connections between the server and the LAN
and SAN network infrastructure. It adds a hardware abstraction layer that removes
the direct coupling between them.
Server administrators can physically wire the uplinks from the enclosure to its
network connections once, and then manage the network addresses and uplink
paths through Virtual Connect software. Using Virtual Connect interconnect
modules provides the following capabilities:
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Reduces the number of cables required for an enclosure, compared to

using pass-through modules
Reduces the number of edge switches that LAN and SAN administrators
must manage
Allows pre-provisioning of the network, so server administrators can add,
replace, or upgrade servers without requiring immediate involvement from
the LAN or SAN administrators
Enables a flatter, less hierarchical network, reducing equipment and
administration costs, reducing latency, and improving performance
Delivers direct server-to-server connectivity within the BladeSystem
enclosure. This is an ideal way to optimize for east-west (E-W) traffic flow,
which is becoming more prevalent at the server edge with the growth of
server virtualization, cloud computing, and distributed applications.
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Without Virtual Connect abstraction, changes to server hardware (for example,

replacing the system board after a failure) often result in changes to the universally
unique identifiers (UUIDs), media access control (MAC) addresses, and World
Wide Names (WWNs). The server administrator must then contact the LAN/SAN
administrators, give them updated addresses, and wait for them to make the
appropriate updates to their infrastructure. With Virtual Connect, a server profile
holds the UUIDs, MAC addresses, and WWNs constant, so the server
administrator can apply the same networking profile to new hardware. Having
Virtual LAN assignments and SAN fabric assignments migrate with virtualized
hardware addresses can significantly reduce the time for a service event.
Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology further simplifies network interconnects. Flex10 technology can split a 10 Gb Ethernet port into four physical function NICs
(called FlexNICs). Then multiple, lower-bandwidth NICs can be replaced with a
single 10Gb adapter.
Before Flex-10, a typical server blade enclosure required up to 40 pieces of
hardware (32 mezzanine adapters and eight modules) for a full enclosure of 16
virtualized servers. Use of FlexNICs with Virtual Connect interconnect modules
reduces the required hardware up to 50% by consolidating all the NIC connections
onto two 10 Gb ports.
Virtual Connect FlexFabric adapters broaden the Flex-10 capabilities by providing
a way to converge network and storage protocols on a 10 Gb port.
Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules and FlexFabric adapters can:
Converge Ethernet, Fibre Channel, or accelerated iSCSI traffic into a

single 10Gb data stream
Partition a 10Gb adapter port into four physical functions with adjustable
bandwidth per physical function
Preserve routing information for all data types
Flex-10 technology and FlexFabric adapters reduce management complexity; the

number of NICs, host bus adapters (HBAs), and interconnect modules needed,
and associated power and operational costs. Using FlexFabric technology reduces
the hardware requirements by 95% for a full enclosure of 16 virtualized servers
from 40 components to two FlexFabric modules.
The most recent Virtual Connect innovation is the ability to connect directly to HP
3PAR Storage Systems. HP 3PAR supports either eliminating the intermediate
SAN infrastructure or having both direct-attached storage and storage attached to
the SAN fabric. Server administrators can manage storage device connectivity and
LAN network connectivity using Virtual Connect Manager. The direct-attach Fibre
Channel storage capability has the potential to reduce SAN acquisition and
operational costs significantly and reduce the time it takes to provision storage
connectivity.
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HP Virtual Connect components
Virtual Connect is a portfolio of interconnect modules, adapters, embedded

software, and an optional management application:
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Virtual Connect interconnect modulesFlexFabric, Flex-10/10D, or

Fibre Channel modules plug directly into the interconnect bays in the rear
of the HP BladeSystem c Class enclosure. The modules connect to the
server blades through the enclosure midplane. The Ethernet-based
modules support 1Gb or 10Gb uplinks and downlinks, allowing customers
to purchase 1Gb small form-factor pluggable modules (SFPs) and
upgrade to 10Gb SFP+ transceivers when the rest of their infrastructure is
ready to support it.
Flex-10 and FlexFabric adaptersAre available as either LAN-onmotherboard (LOM) devices or mezzanine cards. Virtual Connect
technology also works with 1GbE adapters and FlexibleLOM devices for
ProLiant BL Gen8 servers. A FlexibleLOM uses a special slot/connector
on the motherboard and offers a choice of the type of NIC that is
"embedded" on the ProLiant Gen8 server. Flex-10 and FlexFabric
adapters allow partitioning a 10Gb link into smaller bandwidth FlexNICs.
Virtual Connect Manager (VCM) firmwareIs embedded in the Virtual
Connect Flex-10/10D and FlexFabric interconnect modules. VCM
manages a single domain of up to four enclosures.
Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)Is an optional software
application that manages up to 250 Virtual Connect domains and up to
1,000 enclosures within those domains. The VCEM software provides
automation and group-based management capabilities beyond what VCM
offers.
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Fabric convergence with FlexFabric adapters
In the virtual server environment, a hypervisor manages both Ethernet and Fibre
Channel storage traffic from the Virtual Machines. FlexFabric adapters within the
BladeSystem allow convergence of the network and storage traffic with Ethernet
and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) both flowing across internal, 10Gb per
second links. The VC FlexFabric modules maintain the identity of traffic in these
combined flows and can separate data into virtual LANs (VLANs) and destinations
at the server edge.
Combined resources within the BladeSystem enclosure reduce cost and
complexity while maintaining secure, individualized network and storage traffic
flows.
Virtual Connect FlexFabric adapters can converge Ethernet, Fibre Channel, or
accelerated iSCSI traffic into a single 10Gb data stream. A FlexFabric adapter
provides more functionality than an off-the-shelf converged network adapter
(CNA). It provides standard NIC functions, FlexNIC capabilities, and Fibre Channel
or iSCSI FlexHBA capability.
Note
HP Virtual Connect also supports traditional network and storage connectivity
(non-converged) with separate Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches.
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Each FlexFabric adapter contains two 10Gb Ethernet ports that can be partitioned
into four Flex-10 physical functions (PFs) per porteither FlexNICs or FlexHBAs.
The bandwidth of the PFs can be adjusted manually or by using scripting tools.
A FlexHBA is a PCIe physical function on the FlexFabric adapter that can be
configured to handle storage traffic. The server ROM, operating system, and
hypervisor recognize the PCIe function as an HBA device. Storage traffic (Fibre
Channel or SCSI) can be assigned as a FlexHBA only to the second PF of each
FlexFabric adapter port. The second PF of each port is used as the storage
function because in a traditional CNA this PF is used for storage access. If block
storage access is not needed, the FlexFabric adapter storage function can be
disabled and the second PF configured as another FlexNIC function. The first,
third, and fourth PFs work only as FlexNIC devices. However, a FlexFabric adapter
will support either Fibre Channel or iSCSI with TCP off-load engine (TOE) and
iSCSI boot functionality on physical function 2.
The FlexFabric adapter encapsulates Fibre Channel packets as FCoE and
consolidates the Fibre Channel and Ethernet traffic into one 10Gb data stream.
The FlexFabric interconnect module separates the converged traffic. Fibre
Channel and Ethernet traffic continue beyond the server-network edge using the
existing native Ethernet and Fibre Channel infrastructure.
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Flat SANDirect-attach Fibre Channel for HP 3PAR
In an enterprise data center, traditional Fibre Channel disk storage has many
shortcomings. A total solution has a high capital acquisition cost, including the SAN
fabric switches and the management software/licenses required for the switch and
disk storage management. There are also high operational costs, with multiple
management points (HBA, enclosure edge switches, SAN core switches, and
target systems) that often require manual and complex coordination.
HP solves these problems by collapsing the storage network and removing the
edge-core architecture. The direct-attach Fibre Channel solution provides an
enterprise storage solution without requiring an expensive external SAN fabric.
The direct-attach Fibre Channel solution combines the scalability of HP 3PAR
storage systems with the simplicity of Virtual Connect.
Highly scalable HP 3PAR storage systems provide connectivity to up to 192 Fibre
Channel host ports and 1.6PB of storage using a single P10000 V-800 storage
system. Combined with HP 3PAR advanced features such as adaptive and
dynamic optimization, thin provisioning, peer motion, and space reclamation, this
direct-connect technology provides another way for Virtual Connect to simplify the
environment.
As shown in the graphic, a network can have both direct-attach and fabric-attach
storage simultaneously. The Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules will continue to
support traditional fabric connectivity but will be enhanced to support direct-attach
Fibre Channel storage with only minimal changes to Virtual Connect firmware.
Choose the direct-attach mode when configuring Virtual Connect, and the firmware
will allow HP 3PAR storage arrays to connect to Fibre Channel uplinks of the
Virtual Connect FlexFabric module.
It is now possible to have data center-wide connectivity through VCM. Separate
licenses for the SAN/storage fabric or training on different management tools are
not required. Manage LAN and storage from VCM or higher-level CloudSystem
Matrix management and orchestration tools.
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BladeSystem management
Three tailored management tools enable powerful, remote management of

BladeSystem specific components:
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The Insight Display on the front of the BladeSystem enclosure, which can
also be viewed remotely.
An Onboard Administrator GUI is available for customized access to the
Onboard Administrator module.
VCM and VCEM offer dynamic customization of the Virtual Connect
modules deployed in one, several, or hundreds of BladeSystem
enclosures.
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Learning check
Match the technologies to their high availability features.
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HP storage solutions
Within a business-critical data center, HP storage solutions are characterized by:
The ability to allow many servers to view data as a single, logical unit
Hardware replacement (for upgrades or maintenance) without impacting
the integrity or accessibility of the data
Scalability for optimal performance, availability, and value
HP 3PAR StoreServ is a family of products that offers the performance, reliability,

and value demanded by the business-critical environment.
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Smart Tiers optimize utilization
In a traditional array deployment, an entire logical unit number (LUN) is allocated

from the same type of media. An administrator will allocate high-speed, expensive
media to a performance critical LUN. Given that the majority of the I/Os to the
performance critical LUN are made to only a small area of the LUN, high-speed,
expensive media is wasted because it will contain unreferenced data that is not
being referenced.
Using Smart Tiers, the portion of the LUN that is being frequently referenced can
stay on the high-speed expensive media (for example, a solid-state drive, or
SSD), while the pages that are being referenced less frequently can be moved to
medium-speed media, and the pages that are not being referenced at all, can be
moved to low-speed, less expensive media. Smart Tiers can monitor and migrate
pages, data, files or blocks automatically.
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Smart Tiers optimize performance and cost
Performance is one key goal and requirement in a business-critical data center.

Tiered storage architectures offer optimized performance on fast, solid state
technologies while keeping the bulk of less frequently used data in lower speed,
lower cost disk technologies.
Tiered storage achieves higher performance by keeping frequently accessed
objects in high performance media. This is similar to processors keeping things in
internal cache, in memory, or on a hard drive. Each level or tier of performance
has a cost associated with using a faster media or storage mechanism.
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Introduction to HP 3PAR StoreServ
The HP 3PAR StoreServ solutions are commonly positioned as the optimal choice
for deployment in a critical data center. Watch this two-minute video for an
introduction to the HP 3PAR StoreServ and note the key benefits of HP 3PAR
StoreServ:
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HP 3PAR StoreServ
Expectations are high for a business-critical storage utility. Storage providers are
trusted to provide the performance and availability to meet business-critical
demands at the largest enterprises and for global, online services.
Innovations in the HP 3PAR product line are optimized down to the chipset level to
get more for less.
The HP 3PAR Gen4 ASIC is specially designed to offload specific, repeatable
tasks and to achieve exceptional performance and density.
The HP 3PAR Thin Built In ASICs feature a uniquely efficient, silicon-based zerodetection mechanism that gives HP 3PAR storage systems the power to remove
allocated but unused space without impacting performance. The ASIC also
performs zero detection to identify portions of a data volume that do not need to be
backed up. This automatic filtering enables rapid fat-to-thin conversions of legacy
data into modern storage architectures.
These custom ASICs also perform much of the error correcting calculations to
ensure data integrity without sacrificing performance.
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HP 3PAR StoreServ is autonomic and effortless
A few differentiators of StoreServ products include:
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The HP 3PAR architecture performs many tasks automatically with little to

no user intervention.
Physical drives are broken into small chunklets that are made visible to
hosts as LUNs. These virtual volumes require only 15 seconds to
provision a LUN.
A full-mesh backplane provides for access to these physical drive
segments from any controller within the system. High performance can
continue even when there is a controller failure.
The entire StoreServ design allows for rapid reprovisioning and
adaptation to change with little IT intervention.
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HP 3PAR StoreServ is efficient
HP 3PAR Gen4 ASICs perform thin provisioning and tiering in hardware, improving
speed while reducing power, compute, and cooling costs. As a result:
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Because of efficient thin provisioning, the disk capacity required is

reduced by at least 50%.
Because of policy-based tiering, a more efficient balance is maintained
between high cost, fast storage and low cost, slow storage.
Because of the HP commitment to green computing, power consumption
and cooling costs are reduced by at least 50%.
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HP 3PAR StoreServ is multi-tenant and bullet-proof
HP 3PAR StoreServ has been designed for cloud computing. It is designed to be:
Shared across multiple tenants
Secure yet preserving of its benefits
Resilient across many major types of failures
Data can be segregated allowing the StoreServ to be shared while remaining

secure. Redundant components and RAID implementations sustain access in
failure scenarios.
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HP 3PAR StoreServ is federated and future-proof
Virtualized and federated resource pooling extends the ability to pool resources
and serve workloads and applications across systems and distance. Being able to
move data and workloads provides mobility and improves utilization by removing
silos instead of using all space available.
HP 3PAR StoreServ enables additional economic improvement, flexibility, and
even security now and during the lifecycle of upgrades and data migration. HP
3PAR StoreServ keeps systems and data online as required in a business-critical
environment.
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HP 3PAR StoreServ architecture overview
This optional 04:38 minute video provides a brief overview of the HP 3PAR
StoreServ architecture.
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HP 3PAR persistent ports
Persistent ports are another asset to the business-critical data center. Using
technology to keep all paths online even during node maintenance or failure
assists the always-on infrastructure expectation.
Typical hosts or servers have dual, redundant interfaces to the storage array. With
the dual controller architecture in the HP 3PAR StoreServ, the controllers set up a
second layer of redundancy. Persistent ports act to virtualize or mask the physical
hardware so that movement or transition of physical ports within the storage
system will not be seen by servers accessing the storage array. Scheduled system
maintenance and controller failures are handled without user intervention and
without the server (host) knowing a transition occurred. As far as the server is
concerned, the array remained persistent or always available. Even during
downtime or a physical hardware outage, the data in the array never goes offline.
Servers use multipathing from the redundant physical links (HBAs) in the same
way an Ethernet network uses Spanning Tree to reconverge to links that remain
up during a failure. Persistent ports make software upgrades on HP storage
systems and attached HBAs nondisruptive. Upgrades can take place online
without relying on multipathing software or initiating failover because the controller
node IDs remain accessible (serviced as a guest identity on the other controller
node).
So even if controllers go down for a planned or unplanned reason, all paths to the
hosts stay active. Otherwise 50% of the paths would go offline. A Tier 1 storage
device must avoid reconvergence of server links and allow hosts to believe all
nodes remain accessible all the time. Persistent ports provide this level of service.
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HP 3PAR StoreServ portfolio
The HP 3PAR StoreServ portfolio offers consistent features across the product
families. Hardware ASICs, backplanes, operating system and design bring Tier 1
capabilities into midrange storage price points and applications with the ability to
scale into product sizes or capacities suitable for even the largest deployments.
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HP 3PAR for Fox River Gaming
The modular HP 3PAR architecture can be scaled from 4.8 to 1600TB, making the
system deployable as a small, remote or large, centralized system. Until now,
enterprise customers were often required to purchase and manage at least two
distinct architectures to span their range of cost and scalability requirements. Fox
River Gaming has the opportunity to purchase a StoreServ solution at a mid-range
cost with the capabilities to scale performance and capacity as their needs grow
rapidly in the coming year.
HP 3PAR StoreServ platform Adaptive Optimization (AO) provides the Smart
Tiering for high performance at only graduated costs. Peer Motion enables
seamless migration of virtualized data volumes from one physical array to another.
Persistent ports deliver the high availability architecture of the HP 3PAR StoreServ
products demanded by a business-critical environment.
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Learning check
Fill in the blanks.
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_________________ ensure all paths to the host stay active in case of

controller node maintenance or failure, thereby eliminating the need for
path failover.
Zero detection performed by the ________________ moves processing

from software into an optimized, silicon solution.
A(n) _______________ accommodates a mix of physical drive types and

sizes within a single drive chassis to optimize performance while keeping
costs contained.
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FlexNetwork architecture
A data center with solid redundancy does little good if it cannot be accessed. The
FlexCampus concept and capabilities are discussed in detail in later modules.
FlexCampus is introduced here to highlight the connection between the FlexFabric
and FlexCampus in delivering a flexible networking infrastructure.
A campus is defined as one or more buildings within a limited geographical area. A
campus network is defined as a network made up of a group of LANs connected
by a cabling infrastructure that is owned or is leased by the enterprise and is
based on Ethernet technologies. The difference between a building in a campus
LAN and a branch office is that a branch office is connected to the rest of the
infrastructure by a WAN technology. The FlexCampus architecture is the HP
networking design for a campus LAN.
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Connecting the FlexFabric
Networking is integrated into the BladeSystem enclosure and Virtual Connect

converging iSCSI Ethernet and Fibre Channel SANs into common data flows. By
using IRF and Virtual Connect to collapse the network design into only two or even
one layer within the data center, the FlexFabric becomes a simplified design for
ease of management and deployment.
By flattening the network, capacity is delivered for high speed east-west (E-W)
traffic between or among servers within the FlexFabric of the data center. IRF
performs the same function also reduces logical components and layers in the
FlexCampus.
Campus networks must evolve to support user requirements for interactive and
video-rich, on-demand applications and services. Management of identity and
security must be at the forefront and backed by industry-leading vulnerability
research. Campus networks must transform to easily support the delivery of
applications and services to wired and mobile workers alike. Flexible capacity
supports E-W collaboration traffic at the edge of the FlexCampus network.
The HP FlexCampus solution delivers a superior user experience, simplifies
network architecture and management, and ensures performance and agility at the
network edge to meet todays business realities. Enterprises deploying a
FlexCampus solution gain a secure, flexible, and agile campus LAN infrastructure
that can deliver video and other demanding applications, whether hosted in
corporate data center or the cloud, to wired or wireless users anywhere on the
corporate campus.
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FlexCampus is based on an advanced two-tier switching architecture that

improves the performance of media-rich collaboration applications. With
FlexCampus, enterprises can eliminate or reduce the aggregation layer, which
improves network performance and reduces cost. For greater simplicity and
savings, IT staff can manage the entire network from a single pane-of-glass
network management platform.
Note
HP modular core switches (11900, 12500, and 12900) would be the best
choice for business-critical DC environments.
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Enterprise security
In a world of sharing information, collaborating, and openly exchanging

information, enterprise security cannot be based on point solutions and isolated
functions. Because threats change quicklyand the market changes even faster
this reactive security posture can be crippling to operations and to business as a
whole. Instead, enterprises need a complete and proactive viewmanaged
security that is flexible enough for high volumes of interactions but still able to
mitigate risk and assure compliance. This takes business-enabling security tools
that cover exchanges both inside and outside the enterprise, allowing the right
people at the right time to access critical applications and resources.
When it comes to data, enterprises want to know their data is secure, whether their
data is on an internal server, in the cloud, or somewhere in between. Security now
overlaps with a need to quickly analyze and share the information. Integrated
security must be everywhere the enterprise moves. It is striking a balance
managing risk by closely guarding assets, resources, and information but still
leaving the enterprise open to interaction, connectivity, and collaboration.
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HP Enterprise Security Solution Framework
In an enterprise security solution framework, there are different levels/areas of

security. When designing a business-critical data center for Fox River Gaming, first
look at the capabilities to secure a virtualized data center and the core network.
HP offers the vision, plan, products, and solutions for unified security operations
and management. HP solutions secure application access and endpoints, in
addition to the network and data center core.
The next few pages provide an overview of these products and capabilities.
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HP Enterprise Security Network Defense

System
HP next-generation intrusion prevention systems (IPSs) have been tested and

proven in some of the most demanding IT environments. This is the core of the HP
enterprise Security Network Defense System (NDS). Components of the system
include:
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DVLabs, an HP research organization for vulnerability discovery and

analysis, provides the security intelligence layer of the NDS.
HP TippingPoint IPS appliances offer the inline, real-time enforcement
capabilities.
HP TippingPoint Security Management System (SMS) gives security
administrators a continual view of security event logs to assist immediate
cyberattack containment, perpetrator location and identification, and
damage mitigation.
HP ArcSight Security and Event Management (SIEM) appliances
supplement the management features adding extremely sophisticated
capabilities for correlating and analyzing many types of security events.
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HP TippingPoint secure virtualization

framework
Some experts believe that the majority of virtual deployments might be less secure
than physical deployments. Their reasoning is:
Information security is not initially involved in the virtualization projects

A compromise of the virtualization layer could result in the compromise of
all hosted workloads
Workloads of different trust levels are consolidated onto a single physical
server without sufficient separation
There are inadequate controls on administrative access to the hypervisor
(Virtual Machine Monitor) layer and to administrative tools
There is a potential loss of separation of duties (SOD) for network and
security controls
The HP TippingPoint secure virtualization framework allows organizations to

control the virtual environment by introducing in-line security policy enforcement.
The HP TippingPoint Virtual Controller (vController) and Virtual Intrusion
Prevention System (vIPS) solutions are purpose-built to secure the virtual
infrastructure, and enable organizations to gain visibility and control of virtual
network traffic flows. They allow for the enforcement of trust zones and network
segmentation with an IPS and a virtual firewall. HP TippingPoint solutions perform
in-line inspection and automated threat blocking within the virtual servers and
between trust zones. They provide the same policies and filters across both
physical and virtual servers to simplify overall security management for the data
center.
HP TippingPoint solutions can be deployed on IPS modules installed in core
switches, as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) appliances or as IPS appliances.
Regardless of the physical form factor deployed, the solution capabilities to secure
both physical and virtual servers remain the same.
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HP ArcSight Security Intelligence
The HP ArcSight Security Intelligence platform helps safeguard your business by

giving you complete visibility into activity across the IT infrastructure:
External threats such as malware and hackers
Internal threats such as data breaches and fraud
Risks from application flaws and configuration changes
Compliance pressures from failed audits
HP ArcSight is the industrys leading security information and event management

(SIEM) solution for collecting, analyzing, and assessing security events. The result
is rapid identification, prioritization, and response to cybersecurity attacks and
insider threats. Only HP ArcSight correlates users, logs, and NetFlow to
understand the who, what, and where of information security.
For more information, visit:
http://www.hpenterprisesecurity.com/products/hp-arcsight-securityintelligence/
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HP Fortify Software Security Center
HP Fortify Software Security Center is a suite of tightly integrated solutions for

fixing and preventing security vulnerabilities in applications. It eliminates software
security risk by ensuring that all business softwarewhether built for the desktop,
mobile, or cloudis trustworthy and in compliance with internal and external
security mandates. HP Fortify Software Security Center secures all software in the
enterprise, regardless of whether it is developed in-house, procured from 3rd party
vendors, or running in production.
HP Fortify Software Security proactively identifies and eliminates the immediate
risk in legacy applications, and the introduction of systemic risk during application
development. This is done through:
Security testingIdentify vulnerabilities throughout the application

lifecycle with static, dynamic or integrated application testing.
Secure developmentAutomate the management, tracking,
remediation, and governance of enterprise software risk.
HP Fortify Software Security Center is available on-premise or on-demand, and

with managed services.
http://www.hpenterprisesecurity.com/products/hp-fortify-softwaresecurity-center/
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IMC connecting management and security
The modularity of HP Intelligent Management Center allows it to become the

interconnection between many hardware and software products in the data center.
IMC is an SNMP network management tool that can be used to manage a large
variety of HP and third-party products. When used with products such as Virtual
Connect Enterprise Manager and HP TippingPoint, IMC helps deliver and manage
a secure interconnect between the server edge and the backbone of a data center
network. BladeSystem servers and attached storage are visible within IMC and
controlled at the interconnect between the data center and the campus network.
HP continues to unify and integrate products from the hardware and software
levels into interoperable solutions to data center challenges.
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Learning check
List some advantages or reasons to flatten the data center network with edge
intelligence in the HP FlexFabric.
Possible answers:
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Proposed data center design for Fox River

Gaming
Fox River Gaming can deploy an online, business-critical data center for their
gaming platform built on scalable, secure, reliable HP components. As a sample
solution, they could deploy:
Integrity server blades or Integrity NonStop BladeSystem
HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000
HP TippingPoint IPS
HP modular core switches (11900, 12500, and 12900) (best suited for the
business-critical DC environments)
This solution and related components place a premium on performance. Each

component has built-in redundancy or reliability to minimize downtime and speed
recovery. The storage, compute, and network components will all scale to larger or
multi-site environments. Each component is designed to minimize initial (capital)
cost and ongoing costs for facilities (space, power, and cooling) and staff.
Other products in each family could be used to achieve the same goals and
perhaps to better effect, value, or future expansion. Refer to the HP reference
architecture and sales guides to learn more about HP product families and to
explore alternatives that might be an even better fit for your environment.
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Integrated support within HP CI
HP Converged Infrastructure offers:
Component level performance and reliability of the Itanium and StoreServ

platforms enhanced by NonStop and Serviceguard solutions
Robust, simplified connections (server to server, server to SAN, and
server to network) with Virtual Connect and IRF
Integrated management and security with HP Insight Management, HP
IMC, HP TippingPoint, HP ArcServ, and HP Fortify solutions
Summary
HP Converged Infrastructure products and innovations deliver the performance,
reliability, scalability, recoverability, and return on investment expected by
business-critical environments.
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Branch Office
Module 4
Objectives
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List and explain the typical challenges associated with consolidating branch
offices
Identify HP innovations that ease the burden on IT infrastructure and staff

managing a branch office consolidation
Describe a branch office deployment leveraging HP solutions
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IT challenges at a typical branch

This module presents HP Converged Infrastructure (CI) solutions that help
companies meet the challenges of establishing new branch locations or
consolidating and centralizing services for existing branches.
Of course, network designers and IT administrators want to provide users at
branches the same high-quality network experience that users at the main office
enjoy. They want to protect local data, provide users with access to vital
information stored at the main site, and deliver quick and efficient support.
However, establishing and maintaining services for remote or branch offices can
present special challenges for the IT staff and the infrastructure.
These challenges include:
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Limited IT personnelAlthough the IT staff remains responsible for

managing data, network access, and services at the branches, each branch
site might have just a few or even no local IT staff members. The lack of onsite
IT assistance can stand prevent branch offices from profiting from centralized
services. How long it takes the IT staff to respond to issues, particularly ones
that require immediate resolution, directly affects branch office productivity
and customer experience. This module offers solutions that reduce that time
by giving IT staff more power from a central location, and by simplifying and
standardizing services.
Restricted performance because of limited WAN speedOn a daily basis,

branch office productivity depends on the quality of the infrastructure
connecting branch office users to the resources at the main office or data
center. The WAN connections, which often provide less bandwidth than
connections in a LAN, might introduce congestion that disrupts employee
access to key resources. Even when bandwidth is adequate, higher latency on
WAN connections can cause issues for services such as file sharing
applications. When employees experience delays in accessing files, or cannot
log in to the network at all, productivity suffers. HP CI solutions presented in
this module help accelerate WAN communications.
Uncontrolled data growthData is expanding so quickly that administrators

rarely have time to deploy resources in the most efficient way. Because
branch offices tend to have lower-speed, higher-latency connections to
resources, inefficiencies associated with data, file, and application access are
magnified. Companies need solutions that help them address these
inefficiencies and promote availability, efficient utilization, and simplified
management for a large amount of data.
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Insufficient data protection and backupBecause lost data represents lost

resources and lost revenue, companies need a solid backup and recovery
solution. However, data growth is straining manual backup and recovery
processes to their limits. Branch offices add to the burden because
maintaining each onsite backup increases time and expense. Lowerbandwidth WAN connections can create bottlenecks for data backups to
central storage, increasing the risk of lost data; yet adding bandwidth is costly.
Without consistent policies and processes, users and IT staff can easily miss
backing up mission-critical data at branches. The performance issues
discussed above can compound the problem. For example, employees
frustrated with non-responsive file servers might store their files locally. Such
files are easily overlooked during backups. In short, the manual processes
inevitably produce gaps and errors, putting the business at risk. The company
needs a solution that automates consistent backup policies across the WAN,
taking into account the particular limitations on WAN links.
Insufficient data securityRegulations and company policies might require

encryption for certain data. The more sites to which such data extends, the
more difficult it is to ensure its security and the higher the risk that some data
will not be encrypted. The branch sites might also lack strict physical security,
introducing the risk of unauthorized users gaining access to PCs and
printersand thus a backdoor to the centralized resources. As a final concern,
WAN connections might be established through untrusted networks,
introducing the need for encryption across WAN links.
Networks that do not meet enterprise standardsBranch offices often

have networks that have grown in an ad-hoc manner and do not meet
enterprise standards. The network infrastructure devices might consist of lowend switches or even hubs. Untrained employees might have deployed the
devices, simply connecting one device to another as more ports were
required, in an inefficient cascading design.
The physical designAn infrastructure with devices left in the open and
vulnerable cables running under desks increases the likelihood of problems.
Cables might break. A switch might be unplugged. An unauthorized user might
connect.
Such an infrastructure is not ready to handle the network services that
employees require. In addition, IT staff will struggle to support the
infrastructure when they encounter a different setup and set of devices at
every location.
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Unmanaged employee and guest wireless accessJust as a typical

branch office LAN has often grown in an ad-hoc manner, its wireless network
is often unofficial. This network usually involves a non-enterprise AP deployed
by non-experts. If the wireless network enforces any security at all, it might
use Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), which anyone can quickly break into
using readily available tools. Even if the AP uses the higher security Wi-Fi
Protected Access (WPA), visiting customers or partners are still placed on the
same network as employees. As the company consolidates resources, making
a wide array of private resources available to the branch offices, such a
wireless guest network can open a huge security gap in the corporate
network.
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Establishing a branch office
Consider these challenges in the example scenario.

With its new data center powered by HP CI, Fox River Gaming has established its
presence in the video game industry. In fact, the company has grown to the point
that it needs more developers. The company had initially contracted out some
work to a team of three developers in California. That team has grown to 14
developers working in a rented office space in San Francisco. With the venture
capital funding secured, the company has decided to hire these contractors within
the company and set up a remote site for them in San Francisco. Fox River
Gaming also plans to double the number of programmers and other staff at this
site. However, the company hopes to avoid hiring a large IT staff in California,
instead leveraging its current staff and their expertise to manage the branch site.
Currently, the rented office space features a rudimentary network:
Several servers with direct-attached storage
Time-consuming, manual backup processes that feature nightly backup to the

direct-attached storage
An unmanaged switch
Cable modem for Internet access
Wireless network with a home office access point
As part of bringing the developers within the company, Fox River Gaming will
make the services and resources in its new data centers available to them. The
network designers need to create a new branch office infrastructure that allows
efficient, secure access to these data centers in Illinois.
The company wants to reduce costs by implementing the branch office solution in
as simple and efficient a manner as possible. On an ongoing basis, the company
hopes that the existing IT staff can continue to maintain the branch office servers
and other infrastructure devices remotely, eliminating the need for hiring IT staff for
the branch site.
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The company faces several challenges, however. The developers will primarily use
bandwidth-intensive applications that require high-speed, highly reliable
connections. The developers work is critical to Fox River Gamings revenue
stream, and the backup processes must become more rigorous and trust-worthy.
The large video game files are beginning to exceed the local storage capacity. For
both of these reasons, the company hopes to back up files over the WAN
connections, but these backups could take up precious bandwidth required for
other applications.
The network designers also need to consider the security implications of making
the companys precious, mission-critical resources available at the new branch.
Will unsecured Ethernet jacks at the branch office become backdoors for
unauthorized access? How can the branch office continue to offer wireless access,
both for employees who enjoy its convenience and their guests, without putting the
company at risk?
This module will discuss solutions to all of Fox River Gamings challenges. As you
examine these solutions, consider not only how they solve Fox River Gamings
problems but also how you could use them to deliver similar benefits in other
scenarios.
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Branch office server issues
First, turn your attention to the local services deployed at each branch.
As you have learned, branch office services have often grown in an organic,
inconsistent manner. Every site uses different servers with different hardware and
different tools. Without consistent tools, IT staff cannot monitor or manage the
servers efficiently from a central location.
Remember that the productivity of a branch office can be limited by how quickly
the IT staff can respond to problems. Ideally, IT staff can address any issue
remotely, without a lengthy and expensive trip. Hiring dedicated, on-site staff for
each branch offers one solution, but one that is too costly for most businesses.
Therefore, useful tools for provisioning and managing services remotely can spell
the difference between successful, productive branch offices and unsuccessful
ones.
Similar concerns emerge whenever the company needs to roll out new services.
Inconsistent hardware and manual provisioning processes can introduce long
delays as IT staff struggle to deploy the services at each site.
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Server solutions
Fox River Gaming is incorporating the branch site at San Francisco. As a first step,
the administrators need to consolidate the local services on some of the same,
standardized server platforms as in the main site data center. They have selected
HP ProLiant servers for the purpose.
Traditionally, such an upgrade requires days and even weeks in which staff visit
the remote site and provision the servers locally. Fortunately for Fox River
Gaming, technologies built into the ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) server portfolio
streamline the provisioning process and address the remote monitoring,
management, and support issues you examined on the previous pages.
Module 2 introduced these technologies. Now consider how they meet the
particular needs of the branch office solution.
As you remember from previous modules, HP iLO provides access to ProLiant
server diagnostic tools and remote console through a dedicated 1 Gb/s port. With
HP iLO also embedded in the branch office servers, administrators have a
homogenous management experience whether they are maintaining the data
center or the branch office resources. IT staff can also manage servers remotely
regardless of the server state. In other words, server issues, precisely the type of
issue that makes a response urgent, will not prevent staff from handling the
problem remotely. In fact, staff can even use the new iLO Mobile App to reach the
server when they are in transit.
The next pages provide detailed information about two other HP technologies that
ease provisioning, deployment, and management of branch office servers:
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Smart Update
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HP Intelligent Provisioning
SmartStart CDs and Smart Update Firmware include standard sets of drivers and
utilities, simplifying provisioning for previous generations of ProLiant servers. HP
Intelligent Provisioning, embedded in ProLiant Gen8 servers, replaces and
improves these tools. It becomes the single server deployment tool administrators
need when installing ProLiant servers.
Intelligent Provisioning helps to manage the installation of the servers operating
system, whether an off-the-shelf operating system or an HP branded version of a
leading operating systems, by automatically installing any drivers and utilities that
the server requires. As with HP SmartStart, Intelligent Provisioning automatically
installs the necessary components and ignores ones that are not required. It can
also install the optimized ProLiant server support software from the HP Service
Pack for ProLiant (SPP). The drivers and utilities are embedded in the system
board 4GB NAND flash memory, so administrators do not need to assemble any
other physical media such as CDs or USB drives.
Intelligent Provisioning also includes options for automatic updating from the HP
Web site. Administrators can even update the drivers and software at the same
time they install the operating system. When they select the update before the
operating system install option, Intelligent Provisioning obtains the updates and
stores them on the NAND with other drivers.
Because Intelligent Provisioning handles so much of the provisioning
automatically, a relatively inexperienced staff member can deploy the server at the
branch office. Provisioning new local services for branch offices becomes cheap,
simple, and standardized.
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Two main features
In more detail, HP Intelligent Provisioning helps to simplify and standardize two

main types of tasks:
Configure and install Intelligent Provisioning does more than help

administrators handle the installation of system firmware and software.
Administrators can also select Quick Config options, which guides them
through the next configurations steps in a simple process for customizing the
server according to the companys needs.
Perform maintenance Intelligent Provisioning continues to streamline

server maintenance after the initial deployment. If administrators encounter an
issue, they can use Intelligent Provisioning to download the Active Health
System (AHS) log, which they can then submit to HP support.
The Intelligent Provisioning Array Configuration Utility (ACU) enables
administrators to configure, manage, diagnose, and support the Smart Array,
which provides storage for the ProLiant server.
At any point, administrators can also adjust the Quick Config options and
Intelligent Provisioning preferences, customizing the tool as required.
Intelligent Provisioning also integrates with other tools embedded in ProLiant
servers. It enables administrators to run Insight Diagnostics to monitor server
health and troubleshoot potential problems. Intelligent Provisioning can also
configure the HP iLO Management Engine and Insight Remote Support tool,
which in turn help administrators manage the server remotely regardless of its
state.
Finally, the Intelligent Provisioning Erase utility helps to streamline the process
of clearing server hard drives and logs.
HP Intelligent Provisioning video

You will now watch a 01:38 minute video that presents Intelligent Provisioning.
To watch this video after class, visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvYuPr9WYXA
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Managing server updates and deployments
Smart Update consists of HP SPP and HP Smart Update Manager (HP SUM).
Together these components streamline the process of deploying software updates.
They consolidate all required packages and software at a single site and help
install the packages across locally or remotely deployed ProLiant rack servers or
server blades.
The traditional firmware management process involves many manual steps.
Administrators must collect information about servers and the version of software
installed on them. They must then locate the correct packages and information for
each server and update, reading different documents for each item and
downloading multiple packages. The administrators must prepare for the updates
on their own with all the opportunities for human error entailed in that process.
Finally, administrators find themselves mired in a complex and time-consuming
process that requires multiple server reboots.
HP SUM radically simplifies the administrator experience by reducing the total
number of steps and by automating as many of those steps as possible. It also
simplifies the few manual steps that administrators must still perform; instead of
hunting down multiple packages and related documents, administrators can find
the SPP ISO on the HP web site, download all the updates in one package, and
read the single related document. At that point, administrators choose the update
method and the automated processes of HP SUM take over. HP SUM fully
supports scheduling and staging of updates and allows the customer to update
multiple systems simultaneously. HP SUM:
Performs dependency checking to make sure that the server environment is

ready for the update
Updates drivers, software, and firmware (in that order)
Makes sure that only required updates are deployed to each device
Allows administrators to script commands through a CLI, promoting simplified

customization for the companys environment
In these ways, the Smart Update tools slash the update process to one-third the
length of a typical manual process. In this way, it reduces maintenance costs and
so the total cost of ownership (TCO) of servers. The intelligent deployment and
automatic staging features of HP SUM can also reduce downtime by as much
93%, sparing companies the lost revenue and productivity associated with even
planned downtime. Finally, companies avoid many of the risks associated with
software updates because Smart Update makes sure that software is stable and
that the environment is ready for it.
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Branch office storage issues
Fox River Gaming finds itself in the same situation as many companies regarding
its branch office backup processes. Branch office employees are producing
valuable data that must be protectedin Fox River Gamings case, the video
games that form the core of the companys revenuebut the branch offices
backup solution does not correspond to the datas mission-critical nature.
The branch office has only manual and local backup processes. Because of the
cost, time, and complexity of these processes, consistent backups are not taking
place. Even when staff back up data, they encounter problems. They experience
frequent issues with the tape to which data is backed up. Branch office local
storage space is also failing to keep pace with the demands on it, further
decreasing the amount of data that can be protected. Finally, the value of backups
is diluted by the great amount of time and effort involved in restoring the data,
some of which derives from the manual processes and some of which from the
tape media, which systems read more slowly than hard disks.
The company wants to centralize data protection. A centralized solution will
provide many benefits. The company can implement an automated backup,
backup management, and restoration process for edge devices and servers. Such
automation will reduce the management burden and also make sure no vital data
is lost. In addition, the company makes sure that storage is synchronized and
accessible across the main office and all branch offices.
However, some challenges stand in the way. The backups between the branch
office and the main data center will consume limited WAN bandwidth, which could
affect branch employee access to other mission-critical network resources. As a
secondary challenge, as the company backs up more data across the complete
network, it needs to minimize the size of files to avoid as many costly storage
upgrades as possible.
Deduplication technology will help the company surmount these challenges,
implementing the centralized backup solution without inundating storage disks and
burying critical WAN traffic under a deluge of data.
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What is deduplication?
Much like audio and video compression technologies, deduplication compresses

data files so that a smaller storage volume can hold the data without a loss of any
information. With deduplication, the backup solution examines all backup streams
after the first. It identifies data that matches the first stream, indicated in blue in the
figure, and unique data, indicated in green. It then adds only the unique data to the
target storage volume.
If deduplication occurs only at the backup targets location, it maximizes storage
media resources. If deduplication also occurs at the backup sources location, the
technology also ensures that backups consume far less WAN bandwidth,
protecting other traffic between the branch office and the WAN.
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HP StoreOnce Backup Deduplication

Now consider a few more benefits of deduplication solutions, such as HP
StoreOnce Backup Deduplication.
Traditionally, companies have used tape for backups rather than disks. Disks
actually provide the better solution because systems can read data from them
much more quickly. However, economic considerations drove the choice; tape is
about ten times cheaper than hard disks.
Deduplication, however, enables disks to store up to 20 times more data, making
backups to disk economically feasible. Users who must restore lost or corrupted
data have a better experience, achieving the restoration in minutes rather than
hours. Deduplication also helps to promote better disaster recovery solutions,
bringing the companys services back online more quickly.
Because each backup adds less data to the total, companies can also retain
backup data on disk for longer periods of time.
Clearly, deduplication underlies the backup processes that companies need.
However, companies have traditionally been limited to implementing deduplication
on systems on which specific vendor technologies allowed it. The HP StoreOnce
Catalyst software accelerator (new in 2012) enables deduplication anywhere.
StoreOnce Catalyst leverages a common deduplication algorithm across the
enterprise and allows deduplication on any system:
Production source for the data to be backed up or client
Backup or media server
Target storage appliance
Because the source also deduplicates data, the StoreOnce solution minimizes
data in transit to the backup storage media. In this way, the solution preserves
precious WAN bandwidth for other purposes and further improves backup and
recovery speeds. With the right architecture, the company achieves disaster
recovery with much less network traffic, further speeding the recovery process.
For more information about StoreOnce solutions, visit:
http://www1.hp.com/storage/pdfs/4AA4-1782ENW.pdf
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HP StoreOnce Backupvideo
First-generation deduplication technologies do have some drawbacks. Each
fragmented storage volume must handle deduplication on its own. Data must be
rehydrated, or have the non-unique data added back, before transfer to another
target. These inefficiencies add to management costs and increase the risk of
gaps in data protection.
Federated storage solutions resolve these issues. HP federated storage provides
a common management system across multiple disk arrays with Peer Motion
enabling painless expansion of storage volumes and seamless movement of data
between volumes. As the only federated deduplication solution available today, HP
StoreOnce Backup manages deduplication for backups across many storage
volumes, overcoming the gaps, inefficiencies, and costs of first-generation
technologies.
The HP StoreOnce Backup solutions are:
Accelerated to meet shrinking backup windowsProviding backups that

are up to three times faster and recoveries that are up five times faster than
competing systems, StoreOnce redefines deduplication. Companies choose
from deployments that can start small and scale out to protect up to 768TB.
Simple to centralize control and eliminate complexityBy integrating with

HP and independent software vendor (ISV) backup applications, HP
StoreOnce Catalyst supports a single point of control for deduplication,
backup, and recovery.
Flexible to dedupe and replicate backup anywhereStoreOnce backup

solutions support multi-site replication plus deduplication at the source, server,
or target at remote or branch offices or at data centers. Large-scale fan-in
replication, which enables multiple source computers to back up data to a
single destination, and large-scale any-to-any replication, which permits
multiple sources to back up to multiple targets as required, ensure enterprisewide protection.
Highly available to eliminate single points of failureThe multinode

StoreOnce B6200 backup system consists of two servers/nodes connected in
a failover couplet. In addition to promoting high availability, the multinode
configuration speeds both native performance and software-assisted
performance. Built on scale-out converged storage technology, StoreOnce
B6200 with Autonomic Restart always completes backups.
The following video is about HP StoreOnce Backup solutions. As you watch the
video, you can take further notes on the benefits of the solutions.
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To read more about HP StoreOnce Backup solutions, visit:
http://www1.hp.com/storage/pdfs/4AA4-1783ENW.pdf
To watch the video after class, visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qd5IqHkfdo
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Branch office network issues
Now, examine the network components of the branch office solution, beginning
with the challenges that companies typically face in this area.
Companies have a compelling reason to centralize resources, allowing branch
users to access central network resources rather than deploying the same
resources and services across every branch site. Centralization increases
standardization, and efficiency and reduces overall costs.
However, implementing a WAN without ensuring that it can handle the
requirements can introduce problems. A slow or high-latency WAN link can
frustrate branch office employees, making it difficult for them to log in or to use the
resources that they need to do their jobs. Worse, an unreliable WAN link can
disrupt the branch office entirely.
In addition, the branch office can pose a security risk for the company. Companies
often find it more difficult to manage and oversee devices at branch offices than at
the main office. With less IT support, employees often introduce their own insecure
wireless networks. They might bring their own devices and connect them to the
corporate network. Often, branch office employees and customers need such
forms of access, but the company must handle these forms of access carefully to
make sure that they do not create a backdoor for unauthorized access to private
resources. The company needs wireless access control solutions and Bring Your
Own Device (BYOD) policies that integrate convenient wireless access and BYOD
devices safely into the overall corporate solution.
Finally, the maintenance of network devices can pose all the same issues as
server maintenance. IT staff need help resolve as many issues as possible
remotely. In addition, branch office solutions that grow in an ad-hoc manner tend to
introduce many types of devices managed by multiple, disjointed network
management tools. IT staff find it difficult to support the network when they
confront a different tool wherever they go. They need one unified tool that supports
all networking devices across the LAN.
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HP FlexBranch
You will now examine the HP solution for meeting these challenges: the HP
FlexBranch component of the HP FlexNetwork Architecture.
The FlexBranch solution converges network functionality with services, enabling
branch office employees to enjoy the same fast and reliable access to data and
applications as workers at the main office. This superior user experience includes
use of data, voice, video, and other unified communications and collaboration
(UC&C) tools. For Fox River Gaming, developers at the branch office can use all
of the applications that the company has deployed at its main site data center,
making sure that the company continues to profit from those investments while
increasing the productivity and job satisfaction of new employees.
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FlexBranch solution components
Some components that power a FlexBranch solution are:
HP Multi-Service Routers (MSRs)These routers deliver services to branch

offices over a myriad of WAN connectivity options, including T1/E1, ADSL-2,
and 3G. The WAN link itself might extend through an untrusted network.
Fortunately, the MSR routers support for distributed virtual private network
(DVPN) simplifies the establishment of secure links between branch offices
and the main office while the built-in firewall, URL filtering, anti-spam, and antivirus features can compose an integrated threat management solution for the
branch. Developers at the Fox River Gaming branch office need the data
center resources to do their jobs. The MSR routers deliver the requisite high
availability using redundant WAN links that handle routing by using Open
Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Multiple Protocol Label Switching (MPLS).
Finally, solid quality of service (QoS) features ensure that Fox River Gaming
can extend its UC&C solution to the branch.
HP modular switchesFox River Gaming could deploy a switch in the HP

5400 zl or 8200 zl Series, which are modular switches designed for branch
offices of many sizes (and for other environments not considered in this
module). HP builds energy-use intelligence into these switches. Companies
can reduce power costs and consumption by using network ports that turn on
and off at administrators command or even automatically.
The HP modular switches also provide scalable, high throughput hosting for
an organizations choice of applications by integrating those applications on
modules with direct backplane access. Deploying necessary local applications
on modules increases performance, reduces demands on limited branch office
space, increases standardization, and speeds the provisioning of branch
services.
HP also provides fixed-port switches with stacking and IRF for customers who
prefer this format.
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HP wireless solutionFox River Gaming could replace the non-enterprise

wireless APs with HP MultiService Mobility (MSM) APs, which can be
managed by controllers in the main office or data center. The MSM solution
can also secure wireless access for both employees and guests, isolating the
two types of users and applying the appropriate security measures for each.
HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) softwareNetwork administrators

use this single management platform for the entire networking infrastructure.
They can manage branch offices remotely to minimize the need for local IT
support for day-to-day operational tasks.
The networking components integrate with the server and storage components
about which you have already learned. The HP branch office solution is
comprehensive, offering organizations not only HP hardware and software, but
also access to an ecosystem of HP partner technology and a broad range of
support and service offerings.
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FlexBranch product family features

General features common within each of the routing, switching, or wireless product
segments include:
FlexBranch RoutingMSR Router product options for the branch features and
options include:
Modular WAN/LAN interface options (T3, E3,T1, E1, xDSL, 802.11n, 3G,
GbE, PoE, OC-3, among others)
Fixed, compact WAN router options
Branch in a box with broad range of integrated services
Router, switch, voice gateway, 3G, WLAN, firewall, VPN in one box
Real-time fail-over and system resiliency
FlexBranch SwitchingSwitching options for the branch feature:
Modular chassis with integrated applications, or stackable models both

with Openflow support
IRF stacking/advanced QoS
Client ports/optional 10 G uplinks and power supplies, with PoE and

PoE+ for investment protection
FlexBranch WirelessWireless options at the branch include:
Direct 802.11 access provided by the compact router
Unified Wired-WLAN switch for branch or remote offices controlling as

many as 40 to 60 access points
Consistent wired/WLAN user security, policy, and QoS
Support for hundreds of simultaneous guest access users
Dual radio 450 Mb/s 802.11n access points powered by 802.3af PoE and
managed centrally by a Mobility Controller
HP provides 90-day warranty on its software management products, and a

warranty of 1 year to lifetime on its hardware networking products. For further
detail, see the HP Networking Product & Support Summary sheet at
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/networking/support/warranty/index.aspx.
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Branch consolidation
By delivering converged solutions, HP Networking shrinks the branch IT foot print

while reducing complexity. Deployment of services modules within MSR routers or
5400/8200 zl series switches can provide branch-in-a-box solutions.
The HP MSR Open Architecture Platform (OAP) MIM Module with VMware
vSphere is an industry-standard open architecture platform that provides the
capability to host one or multiple applications within the networking infrastructure.
Open Application Platform (OAP) modules host applications such as WAN
optimization, firewalls, HP AllianceONE applications or other VMware-ready
applications directly within the MSR router. Integration into MSR routers allows for
branch-in-a-box solutions to be deployed.
The HP MSR OAP MIM VMware vSphere Module virtualized platform is installed
into an HP MSR30 series router. Using virtualization management tools,
applications and services can get installed and configured remotely. With this high
degree of flexibility, IT organizations can quickly deploy extended application
monitoring to virtually any small or medium branch office locations:
Industry-leading VMware vSphere virtualization platform
Supports virtualized AllianceONE applications
High-performance, highly scalable services architecture
Compact form factor for the MSR30 Series routers
One Gigabit Ethernet and two USB ports
HP zl series switches (5400/8200) offer intelligent edge ports (for voice, video,
prioritization, and access control/security) with optional modules that deliver
wireless controller, WAN accelerator, or HP AllianceONE services. While the 5400
and 8200 series switches both support the same connectivity options, the 8200 zl
includes redundant management and switching fabric modules making it a high
availability option.
For a full list of zl Services Modules and AllianceONE solutions, visit: http://
www1.hp.com/us/en/networking/solutions/allianceone/index.aspx
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The HP 5400 zl Switch Series consists of advanced intelligent switches in the HP

modular chassis product line, which includes 6-slot and 12-slot chassis and
associated zl modules and bundles. The foundation for the switch series is a
purpose-built, programmable ProVision ASIC that allows the most demanding
networking features, such as Quality of Service (QoS) and security, to be
implemented in a scalable yet granular fashion. With 10/100, Gigabit Ethernet, and
10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces; choice of PoE+ and non-PoE; integrated Layer 3
features; and HP AllianceONE solutions, the 5400 zl Switch Series offers excellent
investment protection, flexibility, and scalability, as well as ease of deployment,
operation, and maintenance.
The HP 8200 zl Switch Series dramatically reduces complexity and reduces
ownership cost. The 8200zl has dual management modules, dual fabric modules,
and a passive backplane all providing high availability. As part of a unified wired
and wireless network infrastructure solution, the 8200 zl switch series provides
platform technology, system software, system management, application
integration, wired and wireless integration, network security, and support that are
common across HP modular and fixed-port switches. Together, they deliver an
agile, cost-effective, high-availability network solution.
With key technologies to provide solution longevity, the 8200 zl switch series
delivers long-term investment protection without added complexity for network
core, aggregation, and high-availability access layer deployments. It provides
these capabilities while bringing to market the first highly available switch with a
lifetime warranty (for as long as you own the product; you may be required to
provide proof of purchase or lease as a condition of receiving warranty service).
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Wireless controllers
Most enterprises benefit from a controller-based WLAN architecture. Such a

solution automates deployment and software distribution. The controller also
centralizes device configuration and management. Controlling APs centrally makes
a network scalable, reducing the complexity of management, as well as the time
needed to manage a wireless network.
In many cases, companies can deploy a wireless controller, or team of controllers,
at the network core and use those controllers to manage APs deployed across the
branch sites. Generally, the more centralized the solution, the simpler the solution
is to manage. HP wireless controller solutions enable companies to enjoy these
benefits while still promoting efficient traffic flow and fewer points of failure. For
example, branch APs can forward employee wireless traffic locally. The local APs
also provide survivability for employee wireless access, minimizing the risks of less
reliable WAN links.
Some companies might still prefer to deploy a wireless controller at the branch
itself, particularly if the branch is larger or needs to provide improved, more highly
available guest wireless services. HP also has solutions for these customers. Of
course, the company could deploy a standalone controller appliance at such a
branch, but that appliance makes one more piece of hardware at the branch.
Instead, the company can install a wireless controller module within the HP zl
series switch or MSR router, which then delivers a turnkey solution for wired and
wireless access.
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FlexBranch security
Companies need to make sure that their branch office networks do not open
backdoors for unauthorized access to precious network resources, particularly
ones that fall under data protection regulations. Securing network access at
remote sites, with their limited staff, can pose a particular challenge. The site might
have less physical security, introducing the risk of unauthorized users connecting
to unguarded wall jacks. In addition, a remote IT staff would struggle to regulate
the correct VLAN and network resources for each employees wall port. Finally, as
already mentioned, users might connect insecure devices such as their personal
smart phones, opening an unmanaged door to malware and unauthorized access.
The companies need a centralized solution not only to secure access to the
network but also to customize that access according to centralized, automated
policies and even to reconfigure insecure devices according to network policies.
While many tools exist, 802.1X user authentication provides one of the most
powerful.
As explained in more detail on the next page, HP wired and wireless networking
products fully support this standard for network access control (NAC). In addition,
HP provides an authentication server for 802.1X in User Access Manager (UAM),
a plug-in for IMC.
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802.1X
The 802.1X protocol was designed to allow both wired switches and wireless
access points to act as Authenticators providing per-user secure access at the
edge of a network. The protocol provides a mechanism for Authenticators to verify
credentials (whether username/password combinations or certificates) against a
centralized database.
802.1X authentication is applied at the users point of access, whether an Ethernet
switch port or an association to a wireless AP. Switches and APs act as
authenticators or gate keepers, requiring the user to submit credentials before
permitting any access. The authenticating users device does not even receive a
DHCP address until after credentials are verified.
Credentials can be verified against a database on a RADIUS server or the
RADIUS server can relay the request to an Active Directory (AD) or Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server to use the existing enterprise domain or
user authentication database.
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When the RADIUS server verifies the access requests against a centralized
database, additional centralized policies can be applied to the access granted to
the user. Although HP standard based 802.1X solutions can work with many
RADIUS servers, two commonly used RADIUS servers are worth noting.
Windows NPSThe Windows RADIUS server uses Active Directory (AD) as

the database, permitting close integration with the Windows domain.
HP UAMAs mentioned on the previous page, HP also provides its own

authentication server. UAM is a plug-in module for HP IMC (Intelligent
Management Console) which provides RADIUS server functions. Although it
can authenticate users against its own database, it can also authenticate
Windows domain users to AD, using LDAP queries.
Either solution provides a secure, but highly flexible solution across the main site
and all branches:
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Switches and APs can send authentication requests to the same RADIUS
servers for a consistent wireless and wired solution.
The customer can deploy multiple NPS servers and implement load-balancing
mechanisms. Alternatively, the customer can deploy a distributed IMC solution
in which multiple servers support UAM.
RADIUS and network administrators can work together to create policies that
customize users connections based on their identity and a variety of other
criteria such as location and time. Although NPS supports such policies, nonexperts often find it difficult to define the correct policies. UAM provides clear,
graphical utilities to help network administrators configure user access policies
more easily.
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FlexManagement
You have encountered Intelligent Management Center (IMC) in previous modules.

This same simple, integrated, and scalable management platform continues to
manage the complete FlexNetwork architecture as the company expands over
more branches.
IMC has been built from the ground up to support fault, configuration, asset
management and auditing, performance, and security (FCAPS) management, a
standard model for addressing the management needs of enterprise networks.
IMC consists of a base platform for delivering network resource management
capabilities and optional service modules for extending IMC functionality. The
figure shows where the base platform components fit in the FCAPS model. You
also see the role played by various optional service modules, or plug-ins. For
example, as you just learned, UAM provides RADIUS authentication checks as
part of a powerful 802.1X-based security solution.
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Additional information about IMC base platform

components
The base platform provides administrators and operators with the basic and
advanced functionality needed to manage IMC and the devices, users, and
services managed by IMC. Base platform components include:
Resource ManagementUses SNMP, telnet, or SSH to enable

administrators to manage and configure network devices from a unified,
graphical interface. Administrators configure device spanning tree and PoE
energy management settings among many more.
Intelligent Configuration CenterProvides configuration and change

management for device configurations and system software files for managed
devices. Administrators can create, import, store, back up, compare, and
deploy configuration and software files.
Alarms and Syslog and Trap ManagerProvide real-time management of

events and the translation of events into faults and alarms. The components
allow administrators to create, manage, and maintain alarm lists, define trap
and Syslog filters, and set up automatic notifications of alarms.
Performance ManagementMonitors the performance of network

resources, providing reports and alarm generation. It lets administrators
manage global and device specific monitors and thresholds as well as create
views and reports for displaying performance information.
ACL ManagerProvides complete ACL management across the

infrastructure, allowing administrators to create and maintain ACL templates,
resources, and rule sets, as well as to deploy ACLs to devices managed by
IMC. It also includes monitoring ACLs on managed devices and leveraging
them for deployment to other network devices.
Security Control CenterProvides monitoring and management of security

attacks and the associated alarms.
VLAN ManagerProvides global management of virtual LANs (VLANs) for all

VLAN-capable devices managed by IMC.
Virtual Network ManagementProvides insight into virtual switches on

servers that host virtual machines (VMs), enabling unified management of the
physical and virtual resources.
Network AssetsInventories and tracks network assets, helping the

company to manage them more efficiently.
IMC unifies the information collected and used in various components across the
tool. Administrators can create device groups, user groups, and service groups for
easier maintenance of consistent settings and policies. IMC also includes SNMP
management information base (MIB) management, which enables administrators
to load just the MIBs required to manage their devices. Among other system-wide
settings and functions. Finally, it provides all the features that an enterprise needs
in a management tool shared by multiple administrators with different roles. It
allows the definition of multiple users assigned to various operator and manager
groups with customizable access rights.
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Additional information about optional IMC service modules

IMC also includes service modules for extending and unifying its network
management capabilities. You have looked at some of these modules already, and
you will examine more. This list gives you an overview of many of the modules that
companies can add to IMC:
Service Operation Management (SOM)Provides full lifecycle management

of IT resources, helping administrators to align IT resources with business
needs as part of a framework such as Information Technology Infrastructure
Library version 3 (ITILv3).
Positioning/target markets: all environments and network operations centers
Quality of Service Manager (QoSM)Provides a single platform for viewing

and managing the configuration, deployment, and optimization of QoS
configurations. Administrators manage QoS settings for managed devices.
After QoSM automatically discovers existing QoS devices and configurations,
administrators can standardize those configurations. QoSM provides
administrators with QoS analysis and optimization features for measuring the
effectiveness of a QoS deployment as well as optimization recommendations.
Positioning/target markets: all environments
IPSec VPN Manager (IVM)Enables administrators to configure and manage

all components of an IPSec-based VPN from a single console.
Positioning/target markets: campus/branch
MPLS VPN Manager (MVM)Provides a single platform for viewing and

managing the configuration, deployment, and management of MPLS VPN
configurations. Administrators can discover existing MPLS VPN
configurations, configure MPLS VPN settings on appropriate managed
devices, and monitor the VPNs on an ongoing basis.
Positioning/target markets: WAN-specific MPLS management, including
branches
Wireless Service Manager (WSM)Integrates the management of wired and

wireless networks. With WSM, operators can perform WLAN device
configuration, view topology maps of the wireless network, monitor
performance, manage RF coverage and planning, implement WLAN intrusion
detection and defense, and generate WLAN service reports from the same
platform used to manage wired networks. WSM also provides fault and
performance monitoring, reporting, and alarming for the wireless
infrastructure.
Positioning/target markets: WSM is not branch specific but may include
branches
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User Behavior Auditor (UBA)Provides network administrators with

visibility into user behavior for web sites, specific URLs, email sender or
receiver addresses, database access and operations, file transfers, and FTP
access. When used in conjunction with UAM, UBA also provides user
behavior auditing by user name and IP address. UBA provides this visibility by
analyzing data from many sources including network address translation
(NAT) records, NetStream records, NetFlow records, sFlow records, and the
UBA DIG probe logs.
Desktop Asset ManagerAs a component of Endpoint Admission Defense

(EAD), provides a complete inventory of endpoints and also enforces
password and resource sharing policies.
Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA)Integrates network Layer 4-7 monitoring

into IMCs network management platform. NTA leverages the instrumentation
(NetFlow, NetStream, sFlow) already available in network devices such as
routers and switches to provide reporting on network resource usage.
Administrators can tailor NTAs data collection and reporting capabilities to
meet specific reporting requirements and view NTAs reports directly from
IMCs integrated platform. NTA provides thresholds for alarm generation and
notification when problems are detected.
User Access Management (UAM)delivers AAA services, authenticating

users for a variety of access devices such as Ethernet switches, routers,
broadband access servers, and VPN access gateways to centrally manage
access for wired, wireless, and remote users. UAM works in conjunction with
the iNode client and EAD to provide endpoint integrity, policy enforcement,
and quarantine. It also delivers a captive portal for secure guest access.
Endpoint Admission Defense (EAD)Works with UAM and the iNode client
to provide endpoint integrity. Its security policy features enable administrators
to control endpoint admission based on the identity and posture of the
endpoint. If an endpoint is not compliant with required software packages and
updates, EAD will block or isolate an endpoints access in order to protect
network assets. The EAD security policy component also provides nonintrusive actions to proactively secure the network edge including endpoint
monitoring and notification. EAD supports security evaluation, security threat
location, and security event awareness. EAD also identifies endpoint patch
levels, virus engine, and definition file versions, Address Resolution Protocol
(ARP) attacks, abnormal traffic, the installation, and running of sensitive
applications and status of system services to minimize the risk of malicious
code infections. To ensure continued security, EAD provides continual
monitoring of endpoint traffic, installed software, running processes, and
registry changes. These functions ensure that all endpoints connected to the
network are secure and thus that the network is secure.
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Branch Intelligent Management Software (BIMS)Uses an intelligent

component-based architecture to provide powerful support for service
operations, delivering high reliability, scalability, flexibility and IP investment
returns. Based on the TR-069 protocol, IMC BIMS offers resource,
configuration, service, alarm, group, and privilege management. It allows the
remote management of customer premise equipment (CPE) in the WAN.
Positioning/target markets: branch (with infrastructure at the data center or
campus)
Single-pane-of-glass management with IMC
IMC brings these FCAPS tools to the complete FlexNetwork infrastructure as a

single-pane-of-glass solution for comprehensive network management. It not only
bridges the gap between wired and wireless network management, but also
between physical and virtual network management. Further, it supports a multivendor network, managing over 6200 types of devices from 220 manufacturers
including more than 1,400 types of devices from Cisco.
The service-oriented architecture (SOA) and modular design of IMC helps it to
integrate traditionally separate management tools into a single unified platform.
For example, you have seen how UAM plugs into IMC and helps administrators
control user access from the same platform on which they control network
infrastructure devices. Other plug-in components help administrators manage
applications and services. Virtual Network Manager (VNM), available on the base
platform, discovers virtual network resources, bringing them under the unified
umbrella of IMC management.
At the same time, IMC ensures performance and scalability through distributed
and hierarchical deployment models and through variable options for operating
system and database support.
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Branch Office
Learning check
Match the technologies and solutions to the benefits that they provide for the
branch.
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Solution overview
You have examined the HP solution for branch offices component by component.
Fox River Gaming now benefits from this particular solution:
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ProLiant ML Gen8 servers with a consistent set of Intelligent Management

features as at the data center
StoreOnce backup for implementing efficient backups across the infrastructure
HP network infrastructure devices
HP 8200 zl switch with optional modules for local services (a 5400 zl

switch could work for a customer that does not require high availability)
HP MSR with an integrated firewall and VPN capabilities for establishing

a secure tunnel through the Internet to the main office
HP MSM APs that are managed by a team of MSM Controllers at the

main office and support high-quality, secure wireless services for guests
and employees
APs could also be managed by a local MSM 765 zl Mobility Controller

installed as a module in the 8200 zl switch, if the customer chose.
Updated HP clients that work within the 802.1X network access solution
(although the solution could also work well with other clients of the customers
choice)
HP printers
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Branch Office
CI innovations applied to a branch office
Most CI innovations have applications at any size campus or branch. Some

features are most natural to discuss or assess how they add value when
discussing the challenges to be overcome at a branch office. This module has
shown you how:
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HP StoreOnce and StoreOnce Catalyst deduplication speeds performance

and lowers utilization of limited WAN bandwidth.
Intelligent Provisioning with the Insight Management suite empowers remote

deployment and management of Gen8 servers.
FlexBranch WAN acceleration, wireless capabilities, and more can be

delivered through branch-in-a-box modular and chassis routers and switches
secured and managed centrally using 802.1X and UAM capabilities in IMC.
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Summary
Together these components address the particular challenges at the branch office,
delivering a variety of benefits. HP CI innovations:
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Reduce support costs for the new server hardware by providing built-in
features such as Intelligent Provisioning, iLO, and SUM that:
Simplify the initial deployment
Provide remote provisioning, management, and maintenance so that

branch offices receive the IT support they need without on-site staff
Improve the performance and responsiveness of network applications with

applications such as WAN accelerators
Integrate these applications into modules for HP MSR routers or HP zl Series

switches, simplifying the provisioning of branch services and promoting oneor two-box branch solutions
By improving performance, make sure that employees truly benefit from the
companys investments in network services, enhancing their productivity
By improving performance, allow employees to keep data on the server, rather

than on their individual drives, which, in turn, better protects that data
Provide both employees and guests with the convenience of wireless access
without compromising network security
Deliver unified management tools such as IMC and its UAM, which enable IT
staff to:
Configure and manage the branch infrastructure from the head office
Secure the network at the edge, configuring customized policies that are
automatically applied to wired and wireless user connections as required
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Data Center at Capacity

Module 5
Objectives
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Identify the challenges facing expanding data centers
Discuss innovative HP technologies and how they can meet the needs and
overcome challenges in the data center at capacity
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Challenges for a data center at capacity

Regardless of the size of the data center, each data center (DC) has capacity
limitations.
Limitations include the physical spacepower capacity at the site or in the
physical room that is the data center. Cooling capacity also limits the number or
type of devices which can be deployed into a given space. Deploying newer, more
power efficient devices might lessen the cooling challenge.
Existing server and storage devices may also limit capacity. Can additional
compute or storage capacity be added to existing devices or storage volumes?
Can additional server capacity be brought online as clustered or virtual servers?
Perhaps the network capacity limits the addition of more devices. If the network
infrastructure cannot add more ports or support more traffic without performance
degradation, then the network limits scalability.
In some cases, there might not be enough IT technicians or staff to support a
growing infrastructure. Can staff be added and trained? Or must the company
manage additional hardware with limited or existing staff and time?
Often, getting larger sacrifices speed or agility. Can high performance and
flexibility be maintained as the size of the DC grows? Pressure to maintain
business critical service levels at an increased scale can be a particular challenge
as the limits of an existing data center are reached.
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Expanding data centers
Phase Four in Fox River Gamings upgrade is planning for the launch of their
public gaming center. The capacity of both the main office data center and the
public gaming data center may be required to grow at unanticipated rates at or
after the product launch. Although it is economically unfeasible to overbuild for
growth that might never occur, a plan must be in place to increase the size and
capability of one or both of their datacenters to a large enterprise scale with as
little as one to six months notice.
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Efficient server blades
Planning a data center around HP BladeSystem enclosures offers efficiencies in

initial costs, management costs, and power consumption. The formula is:
REDUCE energy + RECLAIM capacity = EXTEND the life of your data center
BladeSystem uses less rack space and power than traditional 1U and larger
racked servers.
A study in an International Data Corporation (IDC) paper titled Business Value of
Blade Infrastructures found that the BladeSystem cut data costs by 68%.
Customers participating in this study were able to pay back their initial investment
in a little more than seven months, a significant factor given the financial
constraints facing most IT organizations. Data costs are cut by increasing the
utilization of hardware, simplifying management, and improving the energy
efficiency of servers. Because the core infrastructure is shared, capital costs can
be significantly lowered. Blades share power, cooling, network, and storage
infrastructure at the BladeSystem enclosure level. Because equipment is not
needed for each server, there is a dramatic reduction in power distribution units,
power cables, LAN and SAN switches, connectors, adapters, and cables. And you
can incorporate the newest-generation technologies by changing the components
that need to be changed.
With BladeSystem server blades, HP Dynamic Power Saver allows the enclosure
to operate at the highest possible power efficiency. When Dynamic Power Saver is
active for a BladeSystem enclosure, the Onboard Administrator for the enclosure
increases or decreases the number of active power supplies to keep them working
at their most efficient level while still maintaining redundant operation.
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Companies can take control of limited power resources with HP Intelligent

Infrastructure and Thermal Logic technology inside BladeSystems. You can
increase the capacity of the data center without adding power infrastructure and
reduce power costs by 36% from a traditional environment. Thermal Logic enables
administrators to dynamically track and control power limits based on workload
demand within the enclosure, so you can reclaim over-provisioned power and
cooling capacity without impacting performance.
Insight Control Suite management software delivers deep insight, precise control,
and ongoing optimization to unlock the potential of your infrastructure.
Using Insight Control, which integrates with HP Systems Insight Manager, you can
monitor the power consumption of a server over long periods and maintain years
of peak and average power consumption data. You can use the power
consumption data for a server to help determine power optimization strategies.
For more information on planning a BladeSystem deployment, visit:
http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA1-4286ENW.pdf
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Managing power
Every watt of power consumed in a data center is converted to heat. Planning and
limiting power consumption is directly related to management of thermal or cooling
capacity.
Module 2 presented the use of Intelligent Power Distribution Units (iPDUs) in the
HP Intelligent Rack infrastructure to gain visibility to power consumption of
individual servers and reclaim unused capacity. HP offers additional tools for
managing power and cooling.
HP Thermal Logic is a portfolio of HP technologies, available throughout HP
server, storage, and networking product lines. It is one of the foundational
technologies of HP BladeSystem and helps customers:
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Deliver the most efficient power suppliesHP offers power supply units
with an 80Plus Platinum rating, 94% efficient, the highest efficiency in the
market.
Automatically optimize power supply efficiencyHP Dynamic Power

Saver automatically puts power supplies into a hot-standby mode to make
sure the remaining power supplies are operating at optimal efficiency.
Optimize Power DeliverySize power supplies exactly match redundant

three-phase data center power, ensuring matched power use across all three
phases. Each power supply precisely matches the data center circuit size,
thus avoiding waste of circuits that can cost more than $25,000 USD/kW.
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Optimize coolingThe entire enclosure shares up to 10 HP Active Cool fans

in zones. These fans (20 patents pending) deliver best-in-class acoustics,
power consumption, and air movement capacity. The zoned cooling precisely
routes airflow over the hottest components and minimizes airflow waste.
Measure and adjust temperature in real timeSea of Sensors technology

in the HP BladeSystem constantly monitors temperature and adjusts the fans
to optimize cooling and provide energy savings.
Cap power at breaker speedHP Dynamic Power Capping enables one

power cap to be set for an entire BladeSystem enclosure that dynamically
adjusts to workload changes between individual blades. The enclosure reallocates power capacity between blades to stay below the power cap based
on changing workloads.
Tune power to application workload requirementsHP Power Regulator

constantly monitors processor use, and auto throttles the processor input
power and frequency to match the application load.
Manage every wattInsight Control power management is an integrated

power monitoring and management application that provides centralized
control of server power consumption and thermal output.
You can also plan power use before purchase with the HP Power Advisor. This HP
tool assists in the estimation of power consumption and proper selection of
components including power supplies at a system, rack, and multi-rack level.
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/thermal-logic/index.html
HP Power Advisor:
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/solutions/power/index.html
Even infrastructure components such as Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS)

can be planned and managed.
The HP UPS Management Module enables you to monitor and manage power
environments through comprehensive control of HP UPSs. The management
module can be configured to send alert traps to HP Systems Insight Manager and
other SNMP management programs or be used as a standalone management
system. The HP UPS Management Module provides remote management of a
UPS by connecting the UPS directly to the network allowing configuration and
management of the UPS from anywhere and at any time through a standard web
browser with detailed system logs facilitating maintenance tasks.
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Shoot the moon
HP is setting new benchmarks for reduced size and power consumption with
Moonshot servers.
Moonshot servers offer high value/compute per watt and U of rack space.
HP Moonshot, is the first software defined server to run internet scale applications.
The advanced architecture of the HP Moonshot System enables customers to
deliver more services with less space, less energy, less cost, and less
complexity. Mobile devices have always been optimized to minimize power
consumption because of limited battery capacity. HP Moonshot applies the everincreasing performance of mobile chipsets and components to a server
architecture to assign targeted compute capacity while dramatically reducing both
power and space consumption.
As with the high performance BladeSystem architecture, the integrated design in
the Moonshot platform uses fewer components per server with shared power,
cooling, and network interfaces. The implementation becomes less complex. The
solution becomes more simple, elegant, and efficient.
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HP Moonshot 1500 chassisFaster innovation and unprecedented scale

begins with the Moonshot 1500 Chassis. Specifically designed to support
servers using mobile device chips, the 4.3U chassis shares management,
networking, storage, power cords, cooling components, direct attached disk
drives, and two network switches. It supports up to 45 hot-pluggable, efficient,
extreme low-energy servers, each tuned to a specific workload.
HP ProLiant Moonshot serverThe first HP ProLiant Moonshot Server is

available today with the Intel Atom Processor S1260. This purpose-built web
server provides optimal results in a dedicated hosting environment and lets
you generate greater revenue from a smaller footprint while reducing your
operational costs using low-energy server processors and direct attached disk
drives.
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HP EcoPOD
Even when space utilization is optimized with BladeSystem or Moonshot servers,

physical space can still be a limitation. If there is no more space in the existing DC
and no more space in the building, you can expand by adding an HP EcoPOD.
HP EcoPODs offer such high efficiency that even physical space capacity is not
yet exhausted. Governmental mandates to limit data center power consumption
may lead more businesses to choose EcoPODs as their primary data center
deployment.
EcoPODs come preconfigured with needed components. Each POD is a preconfigured package or drop-in hardware solution offering high efficiency or Power
Usage Effectiveness (PUE).
PUE is a standard by which data center energy efficiency can be measured. PUE
compares the total power going into a data center with the amount of power used
to power IT equipment (servers, storage, and network). A PUE value of one
represents the optimal data center efficiency. A perfect PUE value of one means
that all power going into the data center is being used to power IT equipment.
Values above one provide measurement of the DC overhead required to support
the IT load.
A PUE value of 2.0 is fairly typical for a data center. The HP EcoPOD has a PUE
as low as 1.05. With efficiencies this high, the HP EcoPOD can become the new
reference standard for optimal data center design.
The HP POD 240aalso known as the HP EcoPODis a self-contained, modular,
ultra-efficient data center that uses a fraction of the energy of traditional brick-andmortar data centers, but with 10 times the IT capacity.
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Built to satisfy the complex demands of data center infrastructure, the EcoPOD
does more with less. A typical brick-and-mortar data center is often
overprovisioned and underused, powering 100% of its resources, but using far
less. The modular design of EcoPOD, by contrast, helps enterprises quickly and
efficiently expand data center capacity. The EcoPOD has the capacity for 44
industry-standard racks, up to 4400 servers, and 44 kilowatt per 50U rackthe
equivalent of just less than 9000 square feet of traditional data center IT in a 900square-foot package.
The EcoPOD also reduces power usage and costs compared with traditional data
centers. The self-compensating HP Adaptive Cooling technology helps the
EcoPOD use 95% less facilities energy compared to legacy data center designs,
at the same time maintaining peak performance. Companies can also reduce up to
75% of the cost of building a new data center because of the modular architecture
of EcoPOD, which saves in real estate, construction, installation, maintenance,
and operations. Also, the EcoPOD can be deployed in as few as 12 weeks, up to
88% faster than traditional data centers.
Introducing the HP EcoPOD video

For an overview of the HP EcoPOD solution, watch this introductory video. The
EcoPOD is fast to deploy, and the energy efficiency may soon be mandated by
governments.
To view this video later, visit:
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/inc/whatsnew/june/videos/video15.html
HP POD 20c and 40c

In addition to the HP EcoPOD, HP also offers two smaller Performance Optimized
Datacenters:
HP POD 20c
HP POD 40c
Their differences are highlighted in this table:
Length with clearance

Max weight
Max non-redundant power
capacity
Power busways
Rack capacity
Total U-space
Flow rate of required chilled
water
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HP POD 20c
HP POD 40c standard

density
24ft
50,000lbs
41.5ft
100,000lbs
290kW
450kW
2x225A
10 50U racks
500U
4x225A
22 50U racks
1100U
10 gpm
240 gpm
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HP Insight Control server provisioning

As the size of a data center grows, the staff time to deploy and maintain the
servers could exceed IT staff capacity. HP Insight management suite offers tools to
manage server deployment and migration for large environments or new
deployments such as a room full of servers delivered in an HP EcoPOD.
HP Intelligent Provisioning assisted with deployment of a single server, whereas
HP Insight Control server provisioning allows you to provision operating systems
and firmware to hundreds of ProLiant servers at the same time using a new
streamlined, consistent provisioning tool.
Three key features in HP Insight Control Server Provisioning are:
Deploying an operating system to bare metal servers and applying firmware

updates, BIOS, Smart Array, and iLO configuration on ProLiant and
BladeSystem servers
Supporting PXE-free deployments in a ProLiant Gen8 environment
Quickening set up time because Insight Control server provisioning is

deployed as a virtual appliance
HP Insight Control server provisioning allows you to provision operating systems

and firmware to hundreds of ProLiant and BladeSystem servers at the same time
using a new streamlined, consistent provisioning tool.
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Physical operating system provisioning to bare-metal servers (Install common

used operating systems for servers: Windows 2012, Windows 2008R2, SuSE
Linux (SLES) 11 SP2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3 to the bare-metal
machines.)
Server firmware, BIOS, and HP Smart Array updating
Optimized for ProLiant Gen8 with PXE-free installation
Simple virtual machine appliance installation
Support server provisioning for ProLiant Gen8, G7, and G6 servers
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HP Insight Control server migration provides an automated, accurate, and

affordable way to migrate existing servers and their content. You can migrate
operating system, applications, settings, and data from one server to another,
instead of manually redeploying these elements on your new server with HP
Insight Control.
HP Insight Control is the one server migration tool for all your ProLiant physical
and virtual migration needs.
Supports migrations from any x86 server (regardless of vendor, physical or

virtual) to HP ProLiant or BladeSystem with a supported operating system or a
supported VM-type
Destination can be a supported ProLiant DL, ML, or BladeSystem server or a

supported virtual machine
Heterogeneous virtualization platform support: the ability to migrate between

virtualization environments; VMware ESX or ESXi, and Microsoft Hyper-V
All data, operating system, applications, and settings are transferred

automatically, reducing the risk for errors
Migrate old servers to new "boot-from-SAN" HP BladeSystem servers or

migrate SAN connections from old servers to the new replacement servers
For more information, visit: http://www.hp.com/go/icserverprovisioning
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Taking storage to scale
Is storage ready to scale up? Earlier modules introduced the 3PAR StoreServ
products. The StoreServ platform is designed to grow with capacity and features
for the largest enterprise deployments.
The modularity of the system delivers a single HP Converged Storage platform
that scales continuously from the small to the large and offers complete fault
tolerance of both hardware and software as part of an HP Converged
Infrastructure.
This module presents a closer look at some of the technologies that allow the
StoreServ products to scale up so effectively to meet the needs of the most
demanding virtual and IT as a service (ITaaS) environments.
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Full mesh backplane
Third-generation, full-mesh interconnects first appeared in the late 1990s in

enterprise servers. However, HP 3PAR utility storage system arrays represent the
first storage platform to apply this interconnect. This design has been incorporated
into HP 3PAR storage systems to reduce latencies and address scalability
requirements.
The HP 3PAR storage system backplane is a passive circuit board that contains
slots for controller nodes. Each controller node slot is connected to every other
controller node slot by a high-speed link (2 GB/s in each direction, or 4 GB/s
totalroughly eight times the speed of 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel), forming a full-mesh
interconnect between all controller nodes in the cluster. In an HP 3PAR V800, a
total of 28 of these links form the full-mesh backplane of the array.
The high bandwidth mesh provides the throughput needed for Tier 1 performance
even when reaching maximum capacities. The redundant controllers each having
access to the entire storage system provides redundancy in addition to parallel
processing for speeding data retrieval and retention.
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Fine-grained virtualization
To ensure performance and maximize the utilization of physical resources, the HP

3PAR StoreServ operating system employs a tri-level mapping methodology.
The first level of mapping virtualizes physical drives of any size into a pool of
uniform-sized, fine-grained chunklets that are 1GB each (256MB on T-Class and
F-Class). The fine-grained nature of these chunklets:
Eliminates underutilization of storage assets
Improves performance for all applications
The second level of mapping associates chunklets with logical disks (LDs). This
association allows logical devices to be created with template properties based on
RAID characteristics and the location of chunklets across the system. LDs can be
tailored to meet a variety of cost, capacity, performance, and availability
characteristics depending on the Quality of Service (QoS) level required. In
addition, the first- and second-level mappings taken together serve to parallelize
work massively across physical drives and their Fibre Channel connections.
The third level of mapping associates virtual volumes (VVs) with all or portions of
an underlying LD or of multiple LDs. VVs are the virtual capacity representations
that are ultimately exported to hosts and applications as virtual LUNs (VLUNs)
over Fibre Channel or iSCSI target ports. Only minimal planning on the part of
storage administrators is required. Specifying virtual volume name, RAID level,
and size, the StoreServ operating system autonomically provisions LDs at the
moment that an application requires capacity. This is also known as just-in-time
provisioning.
Because users or applications generally only fill a VV gradually over a relatively
long period of time, an organization can dramatically increase asset utilization and
defer capital expense, in some cases indefinitely. For example, one can create
3TB worth of VVs but only use 1TB of LDs. Additional physical drives can be
added or allocated later without disruption or reconfiguration as the virtual volume
is already defined with a 3TB capacity.
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HP 3PAR software
The HP 3PAR StoreServ operating system software is core software that runs on
the system and delivers unique storage virtualization, virtual volume management,
and RAID capabilities. This is the operating system that delivers thin provisioning
through the construction of logical drives and virtual volumes from chunklets
discussed on the previous page.
Additional HP 3PAR software products that run on the storage system offer
improved capabilities including thin storage technologies, secure partitioning for
virtual private arrays, storage federation, and virtual and remote copy capabilities.
Examples are Peer Motion federation software and Virtual Copy snapshot
software.
HP 3PAR Host Softwarehost-based or software installed on servers (hosts)
access the storage to enable the system platform to address the needs of specific
application environments, multipathing, and historical performance and capacity
management.
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FlexNetwork
HP FlexNetwork architecture is a purposeful integration of the features needed to

service the data center (fabric), local campus, and remote or branch offices.
Scaling up a data center that has reached the capacity of a single room or location
requires consideration of data center interconnections and the methods by which
the users access resources in a growing or geographically dispersed data center.
As server and storage virtualization grow, so does the need to virtualize segments
of the network.
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HP switch virtualization
Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) is one of three HP FlexNetwork switch

virtualization technologies. Each offers:
Single IP address management
Simple network operation
Distributed link aggregation
Sharing of resources (routing/forwarding tables)
Of these, IRF is the most flexible and most applicable to the data center. IRF was
introduced in earlier modules. Now you will take a closer look at IRF as a key
technology for linking resources within and around the data center as network
capacity is scaled up in the data center.
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Simplifying with IRF
A link between the data centers can be simplified by configuring IRF on the routing
switches at the distribution layer of the data center.
Aggregating the redundant links into LACP trunks allows utilization of bandwidth
on all links (with none blocked by Spanning Tree). The routers become one IRF
virtual device with sub-second failover of both layer 2 (switched) and layer 3
(routed) traffic in the case of a link or device failure.
IRF grants the freedom of geographic redundancy for virtualized servers and
storage. The interconnections between IRF devices can run within data center
rooms, across a hall or up to 70 km apart. After being joined with 10 Gig IRF links,
the four IRF routers act as one and resources can be in different locations. Servers
and storage can synchronize to peers in a POD behind the building, or across
town, without a decrease in performance or increase in network complexity.
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Intro to IRF video

View the IRF video to complete your introduction to IRF:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H0fNZXzpzqA
Consider the following IRF advantages when viewing the video:
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Design and operational simplificationOne logical device to manage and

can be managed through IMC
Flatter topologyFewer switches in Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and

fewer routers in Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Higher efficiencyLoop-free non-blocking architecture
Scalable performanceDistributed link aggregation to the IRF topology
Faster failoverTypically less than 10 ms
Distributed high availability and resiliencySupports N+1 redundancy
Geographic resiliencySwitches can be in different locations
In-Service Software Updates (ISSUs)Can update one switch in the

topology without disrupting networking services
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Extending to the campus
Additional beauty in the IRF solution comes from the ability to extend the same
solution for simplifying or flattening the network to challenges in the Campus and
the data center core.
One of the HP Campus Reference Architectures is shown as an example here.
Consider these references as baselines for building modular networks or
segments of data center fabric, campus, and networks.
FlexCampus performance and integration in the FlexNetwork architecture also
leverages IRF. An optimized, two-tier network design allows flexible methods for
distributing access to an IRF powered core connecting the data center.
Campus connections to that core can be provided by:
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IRF switches such as the 5500EI can be used to replicate the power and
capabilities IRF all the way to the edge.
Meshed 3800 series switches or stacked 2920s can deliver HP switch

virtualization where IRF is not required. Both solutions provide a cost effective
distribution of high capacity bandwidth, management of group of switches
using a single IP, shared routing resources, and intelligent edge features
delivered to the access layer of the network.
Or, as with the Branch-in-a-Box or a segment of the Campus, you can use a
single chassis switch such as the 5400 zl series. Many of the stacking,
meshing, and IRF features are designed to give the redundancy and density
and simplicity of a chassis switch. Remember that deploying a single switch to
deliver intelligent edge connectivity can be the simplest access layer
installation.
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Future of network core is SDN

OpenFlow allows for direct access to and manipulation of the
forwarding plan of network devices such as switches and
routers, both physical and virtual. Open Networking Foundation
OpenFlow hides complexity and
centralizes control simplifying
network management
OpenFlow is the foundation of
software-defined networks
Another trend for delivering flexible capacity at the network core is to move toward
Software Defined Networks (SDN) based on the emerging OpenFlow standard
defined by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) starting in 2011.
OpenFlow hides the complexity of the individual pieces of network devices.
OpenFlow centralizes the control of those devices in a virtualized manner,
simplifying network management for network managers.
This industry standard:
Simplifies network management and programming of the network devices
Allows for dynamic change in the traffic flow
Allows the network to be more responsive to business needs
Software Defined Networking uses OpenFlow enabled hardware to dynamically reprovision and re-prioritize the network for individual data flows or applications.
HP empowers Software Defined Networks built on OpenFlow technology as the
flexible foundation for future networks.
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SDN innovations leading the industry
HP was a founding member of the OpenFlow initiative. HP continues to innovate

and apply that leadership to developing industry standards. Building on open
standards to create powerful, interoperable network solutions.
The OpenFlow protocol is emerging from its roots in the research and education
community and expanding to the enterprise. HP OpenFlow-enabled solutions have
been a top choice for academic and commercial researchers. HP presented the
first commercial, hardware-based switch implementation of OpenFlow at ACM
SIGCOMM in 2008. HP also participated in a public demonstration of OpenFlow at
InteropNet Lab in May 2011.
HP has been an active contributor to the OpenFlow standards effort and is a
founding member of the Open Networking Foundation. HP continues to work
closely with partners such as Indiana Center for Network Transactional Research
and Education (InCNTRE) to drive research in SDN and enable multivendor
interoperability for OpenFlow-enabled solutions.
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HP delivers SDN to achieve agility
The SDN Architecture separates the Infrastructure, Control, and Application layers.
Network intelligence is (logically) centralized in software-based SDN controllers
which maintain a global view of the network. As a result, the network appears to
the applications and policy engines as a single, logical switch.
HP and the ONF define SDNs as requiring the following three elements:
A method for modifying packet forwarding rules, applying policy to packets, or

both
A method for doing element 1 across multiple devices, that is, applying packet
forwarding rules and polices across multiple devices (not just one device) in a
dynamic and coordinated fashion
The ability to perform elements 1 and 2 in a programmable fashion (multiple

layers of API possible)
The OpenFlow protocol uses a standardized instruction set, which means that any
OpenFlow controller can send a common set of instructions to any OpenFlowenabled switch, regardless of vendor.
OpenFlow is an open-standards way of virtualizing the network. Network
managers can specify different policy rules for different groups of devices and
users, which create multiple virtualized networks regardless of the physical
network connections. This allows network managers to easily customize and
manage these virtualized networks to ensure proper policies such as forwarding
path, QoS, and security.
OpenFlow is designed to be programmable. The OpenFlow instruction set allows
network managers to try new ideas or create new protocols to solve problems
specific to their organizations network needs. This allows network architects to
experiment with new services and protocols on a real-world network that cannot be
simulated in a test labor is too risky to undertake in a production network today.
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Legacy networkHuman middleware cannot scale
Modern virtualized server and storage platforms typically run on network

infrastructures no more flexible than those available in the 1990s. Would you like
to optimize your network every time a backup began, a vMotion server migration
was in progress, or a video conference call was initiated? Making dynamic, manual
changes to legacy networks cannot even be considered because they are too time
intensive and error prone.
The trend toward SDN exists because legacy, human-centric approaches to
network configuration changes cannot scale to the cloud or even a large data
center. SDN delivers dynamic control based on application programming interfaces
that liberate IT staff to control the network rather than be controlled by it.
Consider a moderate public cloud service provider who has to support 10,000
provisioning requests per day. Assuming each provisioning request consists of an
average of 20 commands (for example, VLAN creation, tagging, and virtual
routing) per provision request. Those requests quickly add up to 200,000
commands per day. If a person identifies the commands, selects the device or
devices they need to be applied to, and applies even pre-scripted commands, then
even averaging one to two minutes per command is incredibly fast.
Even if it took only one minute to service each command, provisioning requests
would demand 3,333 human hours of effort every day, in other words, 420 network
administrators working 8 hour shifts.
Fox River Gaming does not expect to make 10,000 changes in one day, but they
do not have the extra 2 to 20 network administrators it might take to make 10-100
changes per day either. (And they may be surprised. When they see how easy it is
to make 50 changes per hour by using SDN, they might want to optimize cuttingedge voice and video collaboration SDN makes it cost and time effective to
constantly reprovision or customize your network to match the traffic flows and
applications in use.)
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Distributed load balancing use case
With OpenFlow based SDNs, end users can achieve an unprecedented level of
network control and customization.
With the HP Virtual Application Networks SDN controller, HP can deliver end-toend software-defined networking solutions and also an open ecosystem for custom
applications. When an end user identifies a specific need to optimize their network,
SDN and the OpenFlow switches deliver the flexibility to craft a solution tailored
specifically to their needs.
Consider the following hypothetical. A European research institution, a long-time
valued HP Networking customer, is developing their own distributed load balancing
application on the HP Virtual Application Networks SDN controller.
This institutions goal is to develop an application and network aware load
balancing application using OpenFlow. The load balancing application will turn HP
OpenFlow-enabled switches into traffic distributors and will load-share traffic
across devices such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, servers, or any
network resource for that matter.
The load balancing application will also have the ability to characterize different
types of traffic and load share it across different types of resources. By building
this application on the HP Virtual Application Networks SDN controller, they can
scale beyond traditional limits and bottlenecks associated with dedicated
appliances. In addition, with the added programmability that SDN offers, the loadbalancing OpenFlow-enabled switches can be synchronized in decision making
and can implement adaptive algorithms based on feedback from network devices.
Ultimately, with the HP Virtual Application Networks SDN controller and its open
ecosystem, an end user is able to develop applications to solve real issues in their
network to improve performance, efficiency, and reduce costs.
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IMC makes SDN easier
Another example of SDN in action is the HP Sentinel Security application. Sentinel

Security uses Intelligent Management Center (IMC) and HP TippingPoint to
coordinate network monitoring and initiate a network level response to security
threats on OpenFlow enabled hardware.
Built to eliminate manual provisioning on a device-by-device basis, IMC Virtual
Application Network (VAN) Manager is designed to accelerate the delivery of
applications by providing a consistent policy-based approach that leverages
profiles.
The HP Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller provides a centralized
abstract view of all devices in the infrastructure to automate network configuration.
By eliminating thousands of manual CLI entries, the controller enables network
administrators to easily and flexibly program and scale their network environment
for single-touch, automated applications.
HP Sentinel Security is an example of a network application using the virtual
application controller to deliver a security solution. This controller-based security
application inspects specific traffic flows to detect the presence of botnet, malware,
or spyware threat traffic. The controller does so by leveraging the HP TippingPoint
DVLab cloud-based security intelligence feed, consisting of reputation information
that is continuously updated with malicious websites, which today numbers over
700,000 worldwide. The controller leverages OpenFlow to steer interesting traffic
to itself where it is compared against the locally cached DVLabs reputation
database. Any matches immediately signal a threat condition and the controller
takes a policy-based action of alerting, blocking, or alerting and blocking threat
traffic. Alerts are generated in the HP ArcSight Common Event Format (CEF) to
assist integration with HP ArcSight, the enterprise management platform for
enterprise wide security correlation analysis.
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Leading with innovation

Delivering SDN switches designed for the largest and
densest data center capabilities
Some HP product announcements made at Interop 2013
Resource Automation and VAN SDN added into the IMC family
FlexFabric 12900The first OpenFlow-enabled core switch
FlexFabric 11908An OpenFlow-enabled aggregation switch
FlexFabric Virtual Switch 5900vKernel-based software solution in the
form of a logical switch
HSR 6800 router series (with IRF)The first aggregation router to support
network virtualization
HP VSRA virtualized software router that eliminates unnecessary
hardware
The HP commitment to delivering the most flexible, innovative products to power

business and enterprise networks continues with announcements made at Interop
2013. The data center at capacity requires powerful solutions that are agile
enough to dynamically respond to changing application and performance
requirements.
The HP Networking announcements made at Interop 2013 include the first data
center, core switches with OpenFlow capability, SDN applications for HP IMC
management software, and tight integrations with server virtualization capabilities.
Resource Automation and VAN SDN were added into the IMC family
FlexFabric 12900The first OpenFlow-enabled core switch in the industry
FlexFabric 11908An OpenFlow-enabled aggregation switch
FlexFabric Virtual Switch 5900vKernel-based software solution in the form

of a logical switch
HSR 6800 router series (with IRF)The first aggregation router to support
network virtualization. Note that IRF is now available on HP router platforms
as well as switches and routing switches
The Virtual Switch 5900v software, used with the FlexFabric 5900, allows for
advanced networking features to be delivered to a VMware environment, such as
QoS and policies. The HP Virtual Switch replaces VMware vSwitch with a fully
featured, FlexFabric aware HP implementation directly integrated into VMware.
HP Virtual Services Router (VSR) eliminates the need for unnecessary hardware
by allowing services to be delivered through VM by leveraging Network Function
Virtualization (NFV). HP VSR is a virtualized software router designed to run on
either VMware or KVM hypervisors on industry-standard x86 servers.
To read more, visit: http://h17007.www1.hp.com/docs/interop/2013/4AA46500ENW.pdf
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Lower power requirements and higher density switching

For a data center at its capacity, power management is critical. From the
networking perspective, power savings can be achieved by lowering the power
consumption and increasing the switch port density.
Lower power consumption
Networking equipment has traditionally been designed with the primary focus on
achieving line rate performance, maximum packet processing, and minimum
switch latency while secondarily minimizing peak power consumption, size, and
cost.
If you look at the current power consumption of networking equipment,
approximately 60% of power consumption is associated with the switch ASIC
(packet-processing silicon) and the supporting chips such as memories (DRAM
and TCAM) and the Gigabit Ethernet physical layer (PHY).
HP Networking platforms, built around the HP Provision architecture, achieve
substantial power savings for all customers and in all deployment situations. The
design principles driving the Adaptive-Power silicon architecture include:
Power consumption should scale with utilization
Power consumption should be reduced during idle periods
Networking performance should never be compromised by power saving

features
Thus, the Adaptive-Power Architecture from HP Networking was inspired by the

realization that, for the majority of time networking equipment operates, it does not
experience maximum processing load or throughput. With the HP Networking
Adaptive-Power Architecture, network equipment power consumption can scale
automatically with ports active, traffic intensity, type of traffic, layer 2, and layer 3
active table depths, classification complexity, and application environment.
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HP Adaptive-Power Architecture goes beyond network software manageability

tools and focuses on how to reduce power consumption deep inside the switching
platform. It relies on new ASICs and hardware platforms designed from the ground
up to reduce power consumption as a function of utilization.
The preceding table lists the power saving features of this architecture and
provides examples and description.
Energy Efficient Ethernet

HP has helped develop this new energy-efficient Ethernet standard, IEEE 802.3az
Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), which enables customers to reduce the energy
consumption and operational costs of their IT equipment.
Energy-saving HP E-Series switches automatically enter sleep mode as will
connected EEE-devices, when no traffic is being transmitted. Thus, customers
benefit from lower power consumption, both at the switch and the end-point
device, reducing total cost of ownership.
Higher switch port density
For many networking deployments, some of the most impressive environmental

savings can come from using a chassis-based networking infrastructure with a
higher port density for a given rack space. The higher per-power-supply and perfan density of the chassis, the greater increases in overall system efficiency. Using
a chassis-based infrastructure can also reduce the overall floor space and
associated cooling costs that can occur when customers build out larger networks
using stackable switches with lower port densities. HPN can integrate multiple
applications into its chassis products, thus eliminating the need for additional
power supplies and fans used in these standalone appliances.
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Moreover, chassis-based configurations are easier and more cost-effective to

upgrade or deploy. With a distributed computing architecture, which is based on
the HPN adaptive network vision, the power consumption of the chassis is
optimized based on the utilization. When fewer module slots are populated, the
power consumption is also proportionately lower. HPN chassis products can
support up to 55C operating temperature, thus reducing the cooling costs. For
enterprise deployments, which require higher port density, HPN chassis offer the
ideal energy efficient solutions.
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Server blades use less space and power than equivalent rack servers
Moonshot provides an even smaller format with drastically reduced power

consumption
Adding HP PODs for the most efficient DC capacity means no more need for
more physical room in the existing facility
Insight Control tools allow IT to deploy and manage large numbers of

virtualized servers
HP 3PAR StoreServ has the internal hardware and software architecture to

scale performance and capacity within or across data centers
IRF empowers simplified, extensible FlexFabric and FlexCampus networks
Geographic redundancy of IRF liberates your virtualized servers and storage

to grow within and beyond a single data center location. (Equipment does not
all have to be in the same roominfrastructure can synchronize with a POD in
a parking lot or across town without a performance reduction or increase in
network complexity.)
Software Defined Networking dynamically reprovision and prioritize network

for individual data flows tailoring the network to meet business needs
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Summary
Data center capacity is typically limited by space, power, and cooling. Individual
device capacities are often limited and cannot expand indefinitely. Innovative HP
technologies, products, and solutions scale to virtually unlimited capacities
empowering data centers of any size or geographic scope. The foundation is in
place for mobility, big data, and cloud computingsubjects covered in the next
modules.
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Workload and Workforce Mobility

Module 6
Objectives
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Fox River Gaming scenario
Anticipation of and planning for rapid expansion at game launch presents several
challenges for Fox River Gaming and their IT staff.
They now have a main data center (DC), a separate business critical DC for the
online game portion, the possible need to scale these into additional facilities, and
one remote office (with additional sites possible). This growing company now has
compute facilities dispersed across geographic locations. The need to distribute
the load across multiple facilities is growing. Improved disaster recovery
capabilities are also a desired outcome of multiple data centers.
Workers are also not tied to a unified physical workspace and need to access their
resources from a growing number of locations. The users want consistent access
from both wired and wireless networks. Access is requested not just from company
issued PCs but also from smartphones, tablets, and laptops (both brought from
home and company issued.) Can this dynamic access be individually provisioned
with appropriate levels of access for various levels of users including employees,
contractors, and guests?
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Challenges to mobility
Most of Fox River Gamings challenges are far from unique. Many companies face
challenges presented by geographically dispersed data centers and a mobile
workforce.
IT is asked to handle data and compute resources spread across several
geographically dispersed data centers being accessed by a highly mobile
workforce. Workloads fluctuate and storage utilization is unbalanced across
resources. Rapid growth can result in rapid cost increases if the changes are
incorrectly planned and managed.
IT wants to improve efficiency for client access. Balanced storage loads can lead
to optimized resource utilization and better disaster recovery options. The goal is
to eliminate storage silos and manage storage as a unified entity across the
enterprise. Today, IT is asked to make these resources available to a mobile
workforce across a unified wired and wireless infrastructure.
In this module, you will examine these challenges and explore HP solutions to
achieve these goals.
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Group discussionWhat is workload mobility?

Take a few moments to assess what you already know about workload mobility.
1.
How would you define workload mobility?

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What benefits does it provide?

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How do you address workload mobility challenges at your organization?

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Workload mobility at a distance

Data centers are under pressure from the ever-increasing demand for more
compute and storage capacity at the same time that global economic challenges
result in lower budgets for staff and equipment. These pressures have led to
widespread adoption of virtualization as a technique for maximizing the efficiency
of physical resources for both compute and storage. This trend has supported the
recent explosive growth and adoption of cloud computing and has changed the
approach that data center administrators are taking to address their growth
demands. The new model requires new methods for moving data and applications
non-disruptively within and between geographically dispersed virtual environments
without violating service level agreements (SLAs).
Challenges implementing workload mobility

Traditionally, migrating data and applications within or between data centers
involved a series of manual tasks and activities. IT would either make physical
backups or use data replication services to transfer applications and data to an
alternate location. Applications had to be stopped and could not be restarted until
testing and verification was complete. Because data centers are increasingly
geographically dispersed and the concept of the virtualized data is becoming
realized, IT organizations must find new methods to meet challenges such as:
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Dynamic deployment of new applications
Data center maintenance without downtime
Disaster avoidance
Data center migration, consolidation, or expansion
Workload balancing across multiple locations
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HP workload mobility tools
Virtual machine (VM) mobility or server virtualization eliminates application

downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running virtual machines
between hosts. This allows you to move a running VM from one physical host to
another without having to turn off VM. This migration is without downtime.
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Virtual Network ManagerVirtual Network Manager (VNM) enables the

management of virtual network devices such as servers, virtual machines, and
virtual switches. VNM integrates with the vSwitch on the virtual servers and
works with vMotion or Live Migration to reprovision network services and links.
Storage federation and HP Peer MotionMuch like vMotion in VMware

environments, storage federation goes beyond the capabilities of storage
virtualization. HP storage federation enables the online non-disruptive
movement of storage volumes between arrays in a metro area. Unlike external
storage virtualization appliances that add cost, complexity, and downtime, HP
storage federation creates a persistent pool of capacity using native
communication between system controllers.
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Server virtualization
Whether using VMware vMotion or Microsoft Live Migration, virtual servers are
moved across physical platforms. The process is the same regardless of the
hypervisor, operating system, or virtualization platform. Entire running operating
systems with active application services can be dynamically moved between
physical servers without disruption or downtime.
When the servers are migrated, the network access for those services must be
maintained.
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Virtual Network Manager

HP Virtual Network Manager (VNM) manages network interfaces to maintain
connectivity and access to resources during virtual machine migrations.
VNM enables management of virtual network devices such as servers, virtual
machines, and virtual switches. By creating a vSwitch or port group within IMC,
network and server teams can coordinate functions of physical world to virtual
world mapping. Customized views provide the freedom for each team to use their
preferred interface.
In addition, VNM provides the virtual machine migration function. You can migrate
a virtual machine from a server with limited resources to a server with enough
resources to ensure the efficiency of the virtual machine. VNM automatically
collects data on the vManagera server that manages virtual servers. In the
Migration Recommendation List, you can select manual or automatic migration.
After the migration is complete, you can view the migration report.
VNM can move VMs from under-performing servers to under-used hosts. This
migration can be completed manually or automatically. The use of VM profiles
ensures that the physical switch configuration matches the network connectivity
requirements of the VM.
VNM helps you manage the migration of a VM in coordination with VMware
vMotion or Microsoft Live Migration.
VNM requires the addition of virtual server host software to IMC through a SOAP,
WMI, or Microsoft Windows PowerShell template. VMware ESXi and KVM servers
are managed through SOAP. Hyper-V servers are managed through Microsoft
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and PowerShell.
With the physical top of rack (TOR) or end of row (EOR) switches being managed
by IMC, VNM topology can display the physical connection between the switch
port and server network interface cards (NICs) and the virtual switch configuration
inside the virtual host server.
VNM enables server and network teams to work together to create a seamless
solution. Configurations created to support VM in the physical switches can
migrate with the VM when they are moved between VM hosts. VNM can initiate
the migration or report on its operation. VNM can move the configuration
associated to VM with a VM server profile.
Most VM hosts are connected through multiple links. High availability requires
these links be aggregated. Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) configuration
can be pushed by IMC into the appropriate physical switch to support the
aggregation.
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HP 3PAR storage systems
HP storage virtualization (StoreVirtual), federation, and deduplication (StoreOnce)

technologies have been introduced in previous modules. This module gives you a
closer look at storage federation.
HP Peer Motion is a software-defined storage implementation that evolved from
the LeftHand operating system. It enables a virtual storage environment across
diverse physical hardware devices. The Peer Motion capabilities shared across
LeftHand and HP 3PAR products allow for movement or migration of data across
both physical and virtual storage volumes.
Storage federation eliminates array silos. Instead of data fragmented in separate,
physical storage arrays, federation creates virtual volumes shared and spread
across multiple physical arrays. Similar to the benefits of RAID, physical volumes
can go offline because of system failures or scheduled maintenance and the entire
virtual array remains online.
Storage federation enables you to move data between any HP 3PAR systems to
simplify infrastructure refresh, thin existing volumes, and cost-optimize new
capacity purchases. Federated thin provisioning enables higher utilization of
individual arrays by moving thinly provisioned volumes to the optimal system.
Easily deployed by a single administrator, this do-it-yourself tool is seven times
easier to use than competitive offerings.
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Storage federation with HP Peer Motion
HP Peer Motion software allows balancing of workloads across multiple arrays in

the same location or across geographies. It enables you to shift workloads
between systems dynamically without impacting application performance or
availability.
Storage federation across HP 3PAR StoreServ units allows thin provisioning to fit
as much as 4PB of planned capacity into only 1.6PB of physical storage. Most
systems only use 25% of capacity with the rest wasted by pre-provisioning, empty
blocks, and large buffers.
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Peer-based storage federation
HP has expanded its Converged Storage portfolio with federated storage that
eliminates the boundaries between systems. HP Peer Motion is the first federated
storage to span from entry-level to high-end systems. Available for both Lefthand
and HP 3PAR storage, you can:
Shift workloads to the right resources within a metro area
Boost utilization by logically pooling capacity
Refresh and maintain storage with zero application downtime
With an HP 3PAR StoreServ P10000, you can:
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Deploy thousands of servers on a single array
Reclaim millions in capacity costs with thin improvements
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Learning check
Fill in the blanks.
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1.
______________Non-disruptive data mobility across systems enables

customers to load balance at will, refresh technology seamlessly, costoptimize asset lifecycle management, and lower technology refresh.
2.
______________ is an innovative transport-agnostic solution that extends

Layer 2 network connectivity across globally located data center locations.
3.
______________ enables the management of virtual network devices such as

servers, virtual machines, and virtual switches.
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What is workforce mobility?

Moving to multiple locations or across wireless infrastructure can impact
performance and securitychallenges for providing high quality access change.
The workplace is changing rapidly to accommodate mobile and flexible work
styles. Employees expect the same computing experience working remotely as
they get in the office. Those expectations are rising rapidly among all employees,
not just in the executive hallways or engineering laboratories. Companies are
becoming increasingly global and want to harness offshore talent and secure
access to corporate data and applications anytime from anywhere on any device.
Five years ago, when the average employee toolkit mainly involved a single
operating system on standard desktop or laptop hardware and email-based
collaboration, IT had control over the entire technology productivity stack, from
devices to operating systems to applications, and could implement infrastructurewide security at the network layer. Today:
IT supports six different operating systems, including four mobile platforms.

Forrester Consulting has found that employees use an array of operating
systems; the list has grown to six and counting. This means that the skill sets
and tools needed to maintain service levels and security policies continue to
increase in proportion with platform diversity.
Business and collaboration applications run on mobile devices. Employees

want to run all major applications on their smartphones, tablets, laptops, and
ultrabooks. Although email is the universal application, frequently used mobile
applications include browsers, content sharing, collaboration, unified
communications, and access to systems of record, such as the company
intranet, sales force automation tools, and line-of-business applications.
Because of the proliferation of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs, many

devices and applications are not in direct IT control. Already, nearly 70% of
North American and European enterprises have, plan, or are interested in
implementing a BYO smartphone program, 63% in a BYO tablet program, and
34% in a BYO PC program.
Mobile work styles, in which workers have the freedom to choose the devices,
applications, and flexible work styles that allow them to work most effectively,
offer a host of opportunities for transformative investments that fundamentally
redefine the workplace. The workplace is no longer a single physical place
you go to get your work done, but a collection of support and provisioning
challenges and security concerns for IT to manage.
Todays workforce requires more flexible and mobile work styles, with the ability for
employees to work from any place at any time, using a wide range of companysupplied and employee-owned devices. The growth of cloud computing and mobile
devices further heightens the focus and concern on IT security threats, data
protection, and complianceincluding the need to keep secure data behind the
corporate firewall and at the same time allowing IT to maintain centralized control
through its client virtualization investments. With unpredictable market conditions,
changing competitive pressures, and new technology innovations, IT managers
want to improve their business agility with simplified and highly scalable IT and are
increasingly turning to end-to-end solutions and managed services to deliver
transformative computing experiences.
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Two workforce mobility tools
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) places the user desktop in the data center. It
provides access from any thin client or hardware system with access to the data
center and provides mobility because the user can move to a different physical
workstation and continue with the same virtual session running in the data center.
Because users want to move their physical devices, wired and wireless
infrastructure and policies that permit that freedom are needed. And because
users want to move their own, personal devices brought from home, methods are
needed to securely grant that freedom. This is a BYOD solution.
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
With a VDI, user PCs can be replaced by HP Thin Clients, reducing the need for
desktop support resources. High reliability servers, either ProLiant rack-mount
servers or server blades, provide the backbone of the solution with an optional HP
SAN or local storage component. Optionally, the thin client can be any system
with capabilities to launch the remote session, removing the need for access from
standardized hardware for the remote, physical client. Hardware for IT system
install and maintenance is standardized in the DC.
The user connects to a virtual machine to retrieve the desktop, which can be
controlled by policies. The user can then move from one physical client to another
while accessing the same desktop session hosted on a server in the DC. With a
VDI, you can:
Leverage HP BladeSystem deployments and connectivity
Reduce physical footprint and power and cooling by 50%
Maximize efficiency and performance
Independent scale-out of controllers and drive density without added

networking complexity
iSCSI boot assistant to reduce configuration steps by 90%
Ensure constant data access
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No single point of failure and non-disruptive data mobility plus multi-site

SAN
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VIDEOHP BYOD
Users want to move, and they want to move using their own hardware or devices.
This three-minute video introduces the HP BYOD solution covered in more depth
on the following pages.
Highlights from the video:
HP provides simple, scalable, and secure solutions using unified wired and
wireless management with IMC User Access Manager (UAM) and Smart
Connect virtual clients.
The following products are referenced and introduced:
HP 830 Unified LAN switch
HP 2920 switch series
WiFi Clear Connect
Unified Wired-WLAN module for HP 10500/7500 series switches
SDN based Sentinel Security application

To watch the video later, visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaIKa5vT9pQ
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BYOD challenges
Allowing users to work on personal devices brought from home introduces many
challenges:
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Onboarding usersYou need tools to bring new devices and users onto the
network for the first timesolutions that enable users to get online quickly and
easily, with minimal IT intervention.
Ensuring high service quality and availabilityYou need to ensure that the
wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure can support more mobile devices and
bandwidth-hungry, delay-sensitive applications, while delivering predictable
connectivity and service levels, and high quality of experience (QoE).
Maintaining security and mitigating riskPersonal devices and guest users

present unique security challenges. You must enforce stringent authentication
and authorization controls and security solutions to protect your IT systems,
prevent data leakage, safeguard privacy, and ensure compliance. You also
need systems for revoking access privileges when employees leave the
company or when devices are lost or stolen.
Supporting diverse users and devicesYou need to maintain visibility and

control over an ever-changing collection of company-issued and personal
devicesdesktops, laptops, smartphones, tablets, e-readersrunning many
operating systems and revision levels. And you must manage various users,
such as employees, contract workers, and visitors, with different privileges.
Enabling a consistent user experienceYou must ensure a seamless user

experience across the entire wired and wireless infrastructure. Whether using a
personal smartphone on your corporate WLAN, or a company-issued desktop
PC, employees need predictable access to all their business applications and
collaboration tools.
Accelerating deployment cycles with securityYou need to support new

mobile device types and mobile operating system releases in a timely fashion
without compromising the integrity of your IT infrastructure. With the
consumerization of IT, you lack the luxury of protracted device qualification and
certification cycles.
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Managing the HP BYOD solution
The HP BYOD solution includes intelligent network management software to unify

user and device authentication.
HP Intelligent management Center (IMC) provides the consistent, single-pane-ofglass interface for management of the solution. IMC provides comprehensive fault,
configuration, accounting, performance, and security management functions for
heterogeneous enterprise networks.
A comprehensive BYOD solution relies on the following UMC modules:
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User Access Manager (UAM)Enables you to implement uniform user

security policies and assign access privileges. You can use IEEE 802.1X
authentication, device fingerprinting, and portal self-registration methods for
identifying users depending up on the capabilities of the device they use to
access the network.
Endpoint Admission Defense (EAD)Enables you to implement policies to

evaluate client access devices for vulnerabilities (anti-virus, patch levels, or
presence of specific files or applications) before granting network access. EAD
can grant limited access to non-compliant devices and works with HP
TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention solutions (IPS) for Live Quarantine and autoremediation with patch management software such as Microsoft Systems
Management Server (SMS) or Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and
with popular antivirus programs from Symantec, McAfee, and Trend Micro.
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User Behavior Auditor (UBA)Gives administrators detailed visibility into

user activity. Using UBA, your administrators can audit user behaviorsuch as
track web sites visited by URL, database and application access, file transfers,
among othersto assess productivity, audit compliance, or identify and isolate
security threats.
Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA)Gives network administrators real-time

visibility into how users and applications are consuming bandwidth. This
graphical network monitoring tool that enables administrators to analyze the
bandwidth usage of specific applications and monitor the impact of nonbusiness activities (Facebook, YouTube, network games) on user productivity.
Note
UBA and NTA are optional for BYOD.
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Wireless Services ManagerProvides full visibility and control over the entire
wireless infrastructure. It provides extensive WLAN configuration, monitoring,
and reporting tools that help administrators plan capacity, optimize
performance and coverage, and streamline operations.
iNode clientIs a dissolvable or permanent PC client. It is a software agent

that runs on endpoint computers to deliver secure and reliable access to the
network edge. It can be installed as a permanent PC client or instantiated as a
dissolvable client that is served up to devices to perform security checks before
joining the network. When the device is powered off, the dissolvable iNode
client is automatically removed from the client machine.
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IMC controls entire BYOD admission process
With BYOD, a user can request access to the network from any device:
The user credentials are checked using UAM.
Devices can be authenticated against UAM records, scanned by EAD using an

iNode client, and assigned to quarantine or granted access.
UAM can assign to the appropriate resources by answering the following

questions:
Limited to Internet only?
Assigned to specific VLANS?
Applying advanced policies to limit application usage with Virtual App

Network definitions?
Behavior can be monitored over time with UBA and NTA.
IMC provides end-to-end management of user and device authentication with

Wireless Services Manager or Wireless Traffic Manager (WTM), delivering
management of the underlying HP WLAN access points and controllers that
facilitate the solution.
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BYOD and beyondA holistic approach
By integrating IMC management, HP can deliver Identity-Aware Access with the

capabilities to provide unified network support and at the same time monitor and
control network performance and security.
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SDN extends capabilities
IMC provides management of the unified wired and wireless onboarding,

provisioning, and monitoring of users and their devices on an enterprise network.
When deployed on OpenFlow enabled hardware, the HP BYOD solution uses
Software-defined networking (SDN) to extend the capabilities of the administrators
to create a scalable, agile, and secure network that empowers IT staff and
streamline business operations.
Applications integrated with HP SDN controller can dynamically respond to realtime threats or reprovision resources for increased bandwidth or priority to deliver
high-quality voice, video, or other collaboration traffic at the user edge of the
network.
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Tools to meet mobility goals and overcome challenges:
HP offers Virtual Network Manager (VNM) in IMC to manage migration of

virtual machines and virtual switches across a physical network
infrastructure.
Storage federation from HP using Peer Motion software enables the

online, non-disruptive movement of storage volumes between arrays in a
metro area. Storage federation from HP creates a persistent pool of
capacity using native communication between system controllers.
Client mobility is enabled by:
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, which places the user desktop in the data
center
HP BYOD solutions, which provide the freedom to allow user devices to

securely access company resources
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Summary
Mobilityiskey
HPsolutionsallowyouto:
Movethework
compute(servers)
data(storage)
Movetheuser
mobileaccesstocentralizedresources
mobileresourceswithcentralizedcontrol
HP solutions allow you to:
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Move the work
Compute resources (such as servers)
Data (storage)
Move the user
Mobile access to centralized resources
Mobile resources with centralized control
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Information Optimization and Business

Intelligence (Big Data)
Module 7
Objectives
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Explain the information optimization and business intelligence needs of Fox

River Gaming

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Fox River Gaming scenario

Fox River Gaming wants to:
Increase profit, margins, and market share using
Data in customer registration and licensing database (CRM)
Support call management/history
Improved problem resolution and live game bug fixes
Enhance gaming experience with online/in-game statistics such as
Real-time data displayed to players
Synthesized data delivered back into live game
Analyzing existing and growing data sets on customer registration and licensing
and support calls offer both marketing and increased satisfaction and loyalty.
Customer relationship management (CRM) covers the whole range of interactions
with existing and future customers:
Existing registration and licensing data provides direct contacts for ongoing
marketing
Professional tracking and management of support calls can turn even

frustrated users into loyal customers
Mining support data can provide rapid resolution of issues and even empower
developers to recode live, in-game fixes for identified bugs
Fox River has the opportunity to use big data analytics to provide an enhanced
gaming experience. Many sports broadcasts or news channels offer live statistics,
graphics or analysis during an event. For example:
Pitching and shot locations in various sports
Government employment and GDP data
In game or seasonal trends (tendencies to go left versus right, hit high or low
pitches, and so forth)
Fox River Gaming plans to use these type of statistics to deliver:
Shot locations in first person shooter as well as sports games
Live economic data for in-game virtual worlds
Visibility to both player and opponent tendencies (similar to real-world sports

teams analyzing game film and statistics to plan tactics)
Fox River recognizes the opportunity to provide a differentiated gaming experience

based on the capabilities of HP big data services.
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Information Optimization and Business Intelligence (Big Data)
Real-time analytics demands
Real-time analytics affects almost every part of a businessfrom data managers

and enterprise architects to marketing and sales managersas they all need to
collect, use, and analyze data to help their roles and responsibilities. Today, more
so than in the past, these businesses are dependent upon the immediate
application of this data to stay competitive and respond to their customers
dynamic needs and requirements.
Real-time analytics can be defined as the ability to effectively use available
enterprise data and resources. It consists of dynamic analysis and reporting,
based on information entered and collected a short time ago. This information is
generated by a number of various sources, and differs greatly in its formatit can
be both structured and unstructured. And, the volume of this information is growing
exponentially from sources such as social media and mobile devices.
Big data represents new technologies associated with processing and generating
usable information that is not easily addressed using the existing technologies and
tools.
Additional references
There is a short article by Daniel Burrus on LinkedIn that discusses how real-time
analytics can, and in fact already are, producing business results that help
companies gain competitive advantage and drive an increase in profitability. This
article is titled Big Data Is Already Producing Big Results and can be accessed at:
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130509135928-48342529-big-data-isalready-producing-big-results
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Welcome to the big data world
Big data is a collection of data sets that, because of their size and complexity, are
difficult to process using relational database management tools and desktop
statistics and visualization packages. Instead, big data requires massively parallel
software running on a high volume of servers.
So, big data is not only about the size or volume of the data itself. It is about the
ability of traditional methods to process this data with new sources of information
from social media and mobile devices being added at exponential rates to data
that is traditionally generated. Big data represents new technology challenges
associated with processing and generating usable information that is not easily
addressed using current technologies or tools.
Big data brings a substantive change to the Business Intelligence (BI)
environments, demanding more access to untapped data to derive potential value
and insight.
The four main characteristics of big data, which are often used by the industry to
describe big data, are:
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VolumeThe amount of data that needs to be processed.
VarietyThe range of data types and sources, including structured and

unstructured data.
VelocityThe speed of data coming in and going out.
ValueThe value of the insight derived from this information to the business.
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HP AppSystems
HP AppSystems are complete, pre-integrated solutions that are tuned and

optimized to deliver maximum performance for a single application or suite of
applications. This optimization helps the IT organizations meet demanding servicelevel agreements and keep pace with business needs.
HP AppSystems are built on a common architecture that is designed to integrate
seamlessly with customers existing environments. These systems bring together
applications with high-performance server, storage, networking, solution support,
and hypervisor resources. They also include common management and security
approaches.
The HP AppSystems family includes solutions that incorporate top-tier applications
from Microsoft, SAP, Vertica, and more. They are all open, configurable systems
designed to fit customers current business architecture and applications.
HP AppSystems are:
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Complete business application solutions, which enable proven turn-key

deployments for faster time to application value
Single workload optimized to deliver exceptional quality of service for high

productivity at lower TCO
Agile to leverage existing investments and rapidly scale to meet changing

business needs
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HP AppSystems target these markets:
Online transaction processing and database consolidationHP

Database Consolidation Solution optimized for Microsoft SQL Server enables
consolidation of thousands of transactional databases into a single, virtual
environment to simplify database management with SQL Server and reduces
the cost of operations.
Data managementHP AppSystems for data management help you improve

data access, simplify and accelerate data capture and deliver a single version
of the truth for accurate business decisions. Solutions include:
Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance
Business Data Warehouse Appliance
SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse
AppSystem for Apache Hadoop
AnalyticsHP AppSystems for business reporting and analytics help you

extract more value from more data types at rapid speed and scale, and
accelerate analysis and decision making from months to minutes. Solutions
include:
HP AppSystem for SAP In-Memory Appliance (SAP HANA)
HP Business Decision Appliance optimized for Microsoft SQL Server
HP Vertica Real Time Analytics System
HP Autonomy
HP AppSystem for Apache Hadoop, HP AppSystem for SAP HANA, Vertica, and
Autonomy are discussed in more detail on the next pages.
For additional information about HP AppSystems, visit:
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/convergedinfrastructure/appsystems.aspx
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HP AppSystem for Apache Hadoop
What is Apache Hadoop?

Apache Hadoop is massively scalable, highly fault tolerant, and distributed open
source Linux-based platform for data storage and processing. Hadoop enables
enterprises to make better business decisions by processing vast amounts of
semi-structured and unstructured data, and running multiple analyses on Hadoopbased clusters.
You can find addition information about Apache Hadoop:
http://hadoop.apache.org
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HP AppSystem for Apache Hadoop

HP AppSystem for Apache Hadoop is a turnkey Hadoop solution designed to
address customer concerns about the complexity and maturity of Apache Hadoop
software. The AppSystem contains all the hardware and software components
required of an enterprise grade Hadoop platform. The AppSystem is a factory
assembled and configured Hadoop cluster that is ready to use on the day of
delivery.
The base model of the AppSystem for Apache Hadoop comes in two
configurations:
A half rack configuration (with 9 worker nodes) is suitable for customers to run
a pilot project or contain cost
A full rack configuration (with 18 worker nodes) is suitable for a production

environment
HP AppSystem for Apache Hadoop includes these components:
HP ProLiant DL380e Gen8 serversprovide maximum data density and the

optimal disk-to-core ratio.
HP Networking switchesprovide the deep packet buffers (1GB) required

for good networking performance. The switches are configured in an HP
Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) configuration to accommodate network
interface card (NIC) bonding for both increased bandwidth and resiliency.
HP Insight Cluster Management Utility (Insight CMU)an efficient, robust

tool for deploying and managing Linux-based nodes in large clusters, HP
Insight CMU enables push-button scale-out deployment, remote cluster
management, and real-time and time-series monitoring.
Cloudera Enterpriseleading distribution for Hadoop in the enterprise;

includes 100% open source, enterprise-ready distribution of Hadoop and
related projects, a subscription to Cloudera Manager, and 24x7 production
support from Cloudera.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
HP Vertica Community EditionBroadening this solution into real-time

analysis of structured data, Vertica Community Edition can load data directly
from the Hadoop Data File System (HDFS) using built-in WebHDFS
connectors.
For additional information about HP solutions for Apache Hadoop, visit:
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/us/en/partners/hadoop.html
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HP AppSystem for SAP HANA
SAP HANA is SAP AGs implementation of in-memory database technology. SAP

HANA DB database technology takes advantage of the low cost of main memory,
data processing abilities of multi-core processors, and the fast data access of
solid-state drives relative to traditional hard drives to delivery better performance of
analytical and transactional applications. The in-memory computing technology
allows you to process massive quantities of data in the main memory of the server
to provide immediate results from analysis and transactions.
HP AppSystem for SAP HANA

HP offers two AppSystems solutions for SAP HANA:
HP AppSystems for SAP HANA single-node configurationsfive singlenode configurations based on HP ProLiant DL580 and DL980 servers. In Q2
'13, HP will deliver Virtualized HP AppSystems for SAP HANA to provide a
deployment platform for up to sixteen test and development HANA instances
on a single physical server.
HP AppSystems for SAP HANA scale-out configuration a scale-out

configuration that supports very large data volumes on SAP HANA while
offering an automated failover mechanism for high availability and a disaster
tolerant option featuring semi-automated failover to a secondary site.
For other HP solutions for SAP HANA, go to:
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/converged-infrastructure/convergedsystems/appsystems/sap-hana.aspx
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What is Vertica?
Vertica, an HP company since March 2011, provides big data analytics software.
The Vertica Analytics Platform is designed to manage large, fast-growing volumes
of data and provide fast query performance when used for data warehouses and
other query-intensive applications.
The Vertica Analytics Platform runs on scale-out clusters of Linux-based x86
servers, and is offered as an appliance called HP Vertica Analytics System.
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HP Vertica analytics system: Appliances
The HP Vertica Analytics System is pre-configured, tested, and optimized to

provide easy deployment to users, allowing for fast implementation and minimizing
reliance on IT resources. Realizing one size does not fit all, it is offered in quarter,
half, and full rack configurations.
The HP Vertica Analytics System is built on well-established HP technologies and
functionality, including:
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BladeSystem c7000 enclosure provides a complete infrastructure for power,

cooling, and deployment and management of c-Class server blades.
ProLiant BL460c G7 server blades provide enterprise-class features for high

performance and reliability without compromising energy efficiency or density.
HP MDS600 is high-density, low-cost storage solution for HP BladeSystem

servers, combining the simplicity and cost effectiveness of direct attached
storage without sacrificing flexibility or performance.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, an operating system delivering high performance,

reliability, and security.
HP Vertica Analytics Platform designed and built for today's most demanding
analytic workloads.
Factory Integration assembles and tests the solution and HPs onsite
installation reduces deployment time by over 50%.
HP support provides a single point of contact across all components; the

servers, storage, operating system, and Vertica software. Additional Vertica
configuration services and other Vertica professional services are also
available.
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Autonomy
Autonomy, an HP company, is a market-leading software company that helps

organizations all over the world understand the meaning in information. A pioneer
in its industry, Autonomy's unique meaning-based technology is able to make
sense of and process unstructured, 'human information,' and draw real business
value from that meaning.
Human information makes up the vast majority of content in the world today and
exists almost everywhere: in documents, emails, pictures, audio, video, and mobile
and social media communications. Unlike tagging or keyword solutions, Autonomy
uses ground-breaking, pattern-matching technology to form an understanding of
this data, allowing computers to capture the meaning held within 100 percent of
information, including structured, 'extreme,' or 'big data' amassed in databases
from call detail records, gene sequencing, sensors, algorithmic trading, click
streams, and other sources. Autonomy software helps businesses and
organizations reduce complexity and unlock the real value in data.
Autonomy provides meaning-based solutions that understand the full spectrum of
enterprise information as well as the relationships that exist within it. By enabling
computers to comprehend the 'shades of grey' in our world, rather than only the
black and white found in databases, businesses can automate processes, comply
with regulations, act in real time, and improve business outcomes.
The company uses a combination of technologies born out of research at the
University of Cambridge. It develops a variety of enterprise search and knowledge
management applications using adaptive pattern recognition techniques centered
on Bayesian inference in conjunction with traditional methods.
Autonomys main technology, IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer), enables
searches and processing of text taken from database, audio, video, or text files or
streams. The processing of such information by IDOL is referred to by Autonomy
as meaning-based computing.
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HP StoreAll and HP Autonomy
By bringing together the capabilities of HP StoreAll and HP Autonomy, HP is

providing customers with an exceptional leap forward in the rate to keep up with
exploding data volumes.
HP has integrated the power of HP StoreAll Express Query and HP Autonomy
IDOL to provide extremely efficient searching for the freshest data relevant to a
particular problem. The integration of HP StoreAll and Autonomy Consolidated
Archive platform enables data immutability and autonomic maintenance of
massive data sets.
Note
HP Autonomy Consolidated Archive (ACA) is a modular, secure, and
integrated solution that enables customers to leverage the same archiving
technology via an on-premise, cloud-based, hybrid, or appliance-based
approach. HP Autonomy ACA provides the intelligent governance layer from
which business can drive their compliance, eDiscovery, and records
management initiatives directly from archived data.
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Hyperscale servers from HP
Hyperscale servers from HP fall into two categories:
HP ProLiant Scalable Systems
HP ProLiant Moonshot System
HP ProLiant Scalable Systems

The HP ProLiant Scalable Systems server family is designed to enable massive
compute environments. With its modular architecture based on an ultra-efficient
design philosophy, the SL family reduces the number of components and cuts
energy use compared to traditional server designs, while offering versatility in
configurations. By using ProLiant SL systems, customers can save data center
space, power and cooling costs, and other maintenance costs.
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HP ProLiant SL4500 server is purpose-built for big data workloads such as

object storage, exchange, and parallel data processing.
HP ProLiant SL6500 scalable system represents a modular series of dense

servers, in a multi-node, high-efficiency 4U chassis. It is ideal for high
performance computing (HPC) and extreme density environments.
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HP ProLiant Moonshot System

HP ProLiant Moonshot System represents the worlds first software defined web
server that yields 89% less energy, 80% less space, 77% less cost, and 97% less
complexity, as compared to traditional servers. HP ProLiant Moonshot web servers
are designed and tailored for specific workloads to deliver optimum performance.
HP ProLiant Moonshot System consists of:
HP Moonshot 1500 ChassisSpecifically designed to support servers using

mobile device chips, the 4.3U chassis shares management, networking,
storage, power cords, cooling components, direct attached disk drives, and
two network switches. It supports up to 45 hot-pluggable, efficient, extreme
low-energy servers, each tuned to a specific workload.
HP ProLiant Moonshot ServersThe first HP ProLiant Moonshot Server is

available with the Intel Atom Processor S1260. This purpose-built web server
provides optimal results in a dedicated hosting environment and lets you
generate greater revenue from a smaller footprint all while driving down your
operational costs using low-energy server processors and direct attached disk
drives.
These purpose-built servers are best suited for service providers, highperformance computing, and big data environments. They deliver rapid
deployment, greater agility, and lower operational costs.
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Moonshot 101 video
Watch this optional 05:21 minute video on HP ProLiant Moonshot System and
write your notes in the space provided.
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Enterprise storage for content/big data

solutions
To support the information optimization and business intelligence Fox River

Gaming is looking for, what are the corresponding storage requirements?
IT needs to support the applications needed by business. For many organizations,
it means enabling IT to provision applications in a much more seamless way than
ever before. For storage, this translates to primary storagethe core storage for
applications, independent of data type (object, file, or block) or delivery mechanism
(physical, virtual, or cloud).
As already stated, information is the heart of the business, and businesses are
always looking to get more value from their information. Part of this is big data, as
already defined, but data mining and other analytical activities have actually been
going on for years. The challenge now is the velocity of data growth and variety of
data types. For storage, the lines around information archival and information
analytics are starting to blend. Organizations keep data for longer periods, and
need to manage the data lifecycle accordingly. At the same time, these
organizations use the same data to perform analytic queries and meaning-based
computing models to make better-informed decisions.
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HP StoreAll provides the ideal platform for information retention and analytics. It
represents hyperscale storage to tame and mine your content explosion. It has
these characteristics:
Hyperscaledscales to over 1000 nodes, 16PB, and billions of objects and

files in a single namespace, to provide massive object and file scalability for
polymorphic simplicity.
Efficient and economicoffers automated policy-based tiering and costefficient capacity with a scale-out pay-as-you-grow architecture. It also
enables discovery, compliance, and analytics with Express Query and
Autonomy IDOL integration.
Content depot and archivingprovides custom metadata tagging,

snapshots, data immutability with retention policies and WORM, constant data
validation, and ISV support.
The HP StoreAll storage platform includes HP StoreAll Express Query, a

breakthrough embedded metadata database technology created by HP Labs, the
companys central research arm that allows organizations to locate files and
perform file system analytics up to 100,000 times faster than previous file system
search methods.
HP StoreAll Express Query can be used standalone or in conjunction with big data
retention and analytic applications, enabling clients to react to business-critical
data in real time.
In addition, HP StoreAll Express Query IDOL connector integrates with HP
Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) to streamline the processing of
dynamic content across large data sets. HP StoreAll Express Querys accelerated
file namespace scan delivers inline updates to IDOL-based applications, making it
possible to rapidly process new data changes and deliver up-to-date analytics so
that decisions are based on real time vs. outdated information, while using
considerably less compute resources than conventional storage technologies.
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Networking for big data environments
With more and more customers implementing real-time analytics and information
optimization solutions, understanding their impact on data center network design
becomes critical. Based on industry research, inter-data center traffic is growing
34% CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate), and DCI traffic is growing at a
faster pace than intra-data center traffic over five years. Enterprises respond to
this increased network demand by building multi-10Gbps inter-data center
networks, and some are already building 100Gbps networks. Collection,
transmission, and storage of big data dramatically increases the DCI traffic. In
other words, big data results in big traffic across data center networks.
More data needs to be moved back and forth between storage solutions and often
replicated. Some of this data is generated in an unstructured fashion by various
machine sensors and other collection devices and is distributed across large
geographies. Collecting this data in a central location for processing alone
represents another factor for increasing wide area network traffic.
Network traffic characteristics

Characteristics of big data network traffic require different approaches to WAN
design and optimization, which has been historically focusing on branch-to-data
center traffic and built around applications and end users (resulting in north-south
network traffic).
These are the most important trends and characteristics of big data and its impact
on the network:
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Data is more horizontally scaled and distributed throughout the network

nodes. Most real-time analytics and information optimization solutions run as
clusters of nodes and operate on distributed data.
Traffic between servers and storage devices is more significant as compared

to traffic between servers and end users. This machine-to-machine network
traffic and data sharing is referred to as east-west network traffic.
Performance is largely dependent on network latencies.
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Network requirements
These network characteristics drive the following requirements for a scalable, highperformance network design used in big data environments:
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Availability and resiliencyA network failure can affect multiple compute

nodes within the cluster and degrade or stall the cluster performance.
Therefore, network availability and resiliency are critical factors in big data
network design and implementations.
Burst handling and queuingA network that cannot handle bursts of traffic
will drop packets. Therefore, network architectures and devices must employ
adequate buffering and queuing technologies.
Oversubscription ratioOversubscription, in wide area network terms, is a

strategy that allows a total committed information rate of a given port to be
greater than the port speed. The premise is that the network architecture
needs to handle the possibility of traffic congestion at critical points of the
network at critical times.
High bandwidth, low latencyData shuffle and sort operations between the
nodes cause east-west network traffic and require high bandwidth, low
latency, and any-to-any node connectivity. Inter-data center bandwidth needs
to be in Gbps, with individual flows supporting 1Gbps or higher speeds. The
architecture also needs dedicated hardware to process packets at rates of 10s
of Gbps with microseconds of port-to-port latencies. 10Gbps Ethernet will be
increasingly common.
Scale-outMany implementations start smaller in size and grow over time as

customers realize returns on investment and want to grow their capabilities.
Thus, the underlying network architecture must be scalable.
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Solutions
What kind of a network then best meets the requirements of big data
environments?
One of the biggest innovations in the networking industry over the past few years
has been the introduction of point-to-point switching fabric. Switched fabric (or
switching fabric) is a network topology where network nodes connect with each
other via one or more network switches. A switched fabric is able to function as a
simple point-to-point interconnect and scale out to thousands of nodes. The
advantage of the switched fabric is overall system bandwidth and performance.
(Loosely adopted from Wikipedia)
Taking into consideration the network traffic characteristics and requirements of big
data environments, switched fabric:
Creates a point-to-point connection between nodes with a single hop in the

switching infrastructure and thus increases bandwidth and reduces the
latencies between the nodes
Enables virtualized switching fabric where multiple networking components

behave as a single component, simplifying the network management
A flat network architecture is another major benefit since it eases the expansion of
the infrastructure and allows for rapid enhancements within the environment.
HP FlexNetwork Architecture delivers five primary benefits big data environments
can take advantage of. It:
Is an open and standards-based solution
Scales on three dimensionsfunctionality, connectivity, and capacity
Is secure
Provides agility
Delivers a consistent and simplified operating experience
HP Data Center Interconnect (DCI) is an innovative transport-agnostic solution that

extends Layer 2 network connectivity across globally-located data center locations.
It enables several data centers to work as one and be more responsive while
delivering higher efficiency, availability, and business resiliency. With HP DCI, you
can migrate live server workloads, increase applications performance with load
balancing, and achieve optimum degree of high availability and disaster avoidance
to enable business continuity.
The HP FlexFabric 12900 Switch series provides an ideal highly scalable data
center core switching platform with Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) for
performance and high availability, with energy efficiency features, and
unprecedented levels of performance, buffering, scale, and availability with high
density 10GbE and 40GbE today, and 100GbE in the near future.
The HP FlexFabric 11900 Switch series is a high-performance data center
aggregation switch which provides line-rate, high-density 10GbE and 40GbE
connectivity designed for cost-effective end-of-row (EoR) and small core
deployments.
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Learning check
1.
Give some examples of target markets for HP AppSystems.

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Can you correctly categorize the HP AppSystems solutions according to their

main purpose?
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Summary
As Fox River Gaming introduced their new gaming experience, the company
needed to embark on the journey of information optimization and business
intelligence by collecting, analyzing, and applying the intelligence represented by
vast amounts of information to their strategic and tactical decisions. Fox River
found the HP Converged Infrastructure provided a platform for Big Data analytics
and applications.
As Fox River Gaming began exploring the possibilities and opportunities in the
real-time analytics and big data world, it learned that HP already offered a number
of solutions specifically targeting this computing space:
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AppSystems
Vertica
Autonomy
Hyperscale servers
StoreAll storage
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Cloud
Module 8
Objectives
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Explain the automated infrastructure, platform, and application provisioning

and lifecycle management needs of Fox River Gaming
Explain different cloud service and deployment models

cloud computing
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Fox River GamingOpportunities and goals for

cloud computing
With the modernization of Fox River Gamings IT infrastructure and data centers,
IT processes have gradually improved because of standardization, consolidation,
automation, and virtualization. The IT organization has adopted modern
technologies to reduce the complexity and time it takes to deliver an application
infrastructure from weeks or even months down to a few days.
Fox River Gaming is now carefully evaluating cloud technologies and looking at
the benefits of cloud computing. They want to expand their capabilities to provide a
flexible development platform that is to be provisioned on demand. Access to this
development platform would not be restricted to internal development
organizations, but must also be available to outside developers and the gaming
open-source community. So, multi-tenancy and data security in a multi-tenant
environment is critical. They want as little overhead as possible, so provisioning
must be easy and automatic, preferably through a user-friendly portal. When the
project finishes, all resources must be returned to a central pool and reallocated to
the next project. Billing must occur on a usage basis (pay only for what you use).
Fox River Gaming also wants to provide an elastic hosting environment for its
online gaming customers. This environment must dynamically add resources when
its use exceeds a certain threshold (during peak hours), and reduce and recycle
resources when the use falls (during off-peak hours).
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Cloud
Furthermore, they want their IT department be able to quickly, efficiently, and

effectively create services which are aligned to business needs. The Chief
Technology Officer of Fox River Gaming set cost reduction goals, which include
reducing capital expenditure and operational expenditure while increasing
capabilitiesgoals that seem diametrically opposite.
Fox River Gaming realizes that moving their IT infrastructure to cloud has many
benefits and potential risks, if not implemented properly. For example, some of
their outstanding questions include:
Which cloud deployment model is best for them?
Which service model do they need?
How secure is cloud for their sensitive data?
What would be the return on their investment?
How would they implement showback and chargeback for the users of cloud
resources?
How complex would the environment become?
How do you achieve elasticity? Where do the IT resources come from? What
happens when you run out of resources? And on and on
When addressing their other prior challenges, HP has proven to be a trusted

advisor for Fox River Gaming, so again, they turn to HP to understand what
technologies and solutions are available.
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Why are companies moving to the cloud?
Traditional IT infrastructures are built on silos of server, storage, network and

software components. Every service uses its own server, is connected to a
traditional network (mostly Gigabit or 100Mbit), uses direct-attached storage, and
is managed through a dedicated tool or management website. In a traditional
environment, the new applications and servers for new customer services cause
sprawl which can no longer be managed.
Old architectures cannot be used with new technologies such as virtualization,
cloud, or big data (information optimization). New server, network, storage, and
management solutions are needed to provide a flexible infrastructure which
supports customer business needs and eliminates server sprawl.
Traditional IT challenges can be summarized as:
Customers cannot afford extensive IT staff to design, plan, and optimize their
server, network, and storage infrastructure.
They need a solution they can rely on even if business requirements change
rapidly.
They are virtualizing 100% of their servers today, so they need an

infrastructure that can deliver the same simplicity and flexibility.
Their people need to manage the complete application stack rather than
having focused experts for each part, and thus need integrated solutions.
The promise of the cloud

The cloud promises many benefits to todays organizations:
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By leveraging cloud to dramatically improve the speed of delivery to business

requests, IT gains credibility with the business. This enables IT to be seen as
a true business partner.
It increases the speed of innovation to customers.
It enables the development of systems people want to use, not have to use.
It helps meet obligations to drive leverage in the cost structure by optimizing,

lowering costs, or both.
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What is cloud computing?
There are several different definitions of cloud computing. Gartners definition is a

good place to start.
Gartner
Cloud computing is a style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-enabled
capabilities are delivered as a service to external customers using Internet
technologies.
To connect this definition to a real-life example, consider the Gmail service from
Google. The key attributes of cloud computing, according to Gartner, are:
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Service basedWhen users want to send or receive email, they do not have
to think about the infrastructure that underlies the Gmail system. They do not
need to install an email client on their computer or concern themselves with
having to set up the service. They simply log in to their Gmail account, click
Compose message, write the message, and click Send.
Scalable and elasticThe service can grow to accommodate new users and
the storage space per user can be expanded virtually endlessly.
SharedThe Gmail servers and storage systems are shared between

multiple different users, also referred to as multi-tenancy.
Metered by useThe Gmail service is free (paid for by advertising), but if a

user were to run out of storage space, they could buy an additional 20
gigabytes of storage for $5 a year.
Delivered by Internet technologiesThe Gmail service is hosted on servers

that are owned by Google and delivered over the Internet.
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NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) definition of cloud
computing is similar to the Gartner definition in many respects, although it uses
slightly different terminology.
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand
network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (for
example, networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be
rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service
provider interaction.
Notice that the NIST definition specifically includes applications and services.
The essential characteristics of cloud, according to NIST, are:
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On-demand self-serviceA consumer can provision computing capabilities,

such as server time and network storage, automatically without requiring
human interaction with each services provider.
Broad network accessCapabilities are available over the network and

accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous
thin or thick client platforms (for example, mobile phones, laptops, and PDAs).
Resource poolingThe providers computing resources are pooled to serve

multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and
virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer
demand. There is a sense of location independence because the customer
generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided
resources but might be able to specify location at a higher level of abstraction
(for example, country, state, or data center). Examples of resources include
storage, processing, memory, network bandwidth, and virtual machines.
Rapid elasticityCapabilities can be rapidly and elastically provisioned, in

some cases automatically, to quickly scale out, and can be rapidly released to
quickly scale in. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning
often appear to be unlimited and can be purchased in any quantity at any
time.
Measured serviceCloud systems automatically control and optimize

resource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level of abstraction
appropriate to the type of service (for example, storage, processing,
bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can be monitored,
controlled, and reported, providing transparency for both the provider and
consumer of the used service.
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Forrester Research
Forrester defines cloud computing as:
A standardized IT capability (services, software, or infrastructure) delivered over
the Internet in a pay-per-use and self-service way.
The definition provided by Forrester identifies some important characteristics:
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StandardizedThe use of standardization brings many advantages including

operational and provisioning cost savings.
Pay-per-useThe consumer of the service pays depending on how they use

the service. Various payment models can be proposed to the consumer to
best match their needs.
Self-ServiceThis is one of the fundamental characteristics of cloud

computing. The user/consumer has the possibility to choose the service which
best suits their requirements.
Services, software, infrastructureAll are important pieces. However, the

term services, which includes all other necessary resources, including both
software and infrastructure, is commonly used.
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Cloud service and deployment models
There are two dimensions to cloud implementations: service models and

deployment models.
Service models
The first dimension, service models, determines the level of resources that are
provided to the consumer. Is it, for example, a virtual server with an operating
system (IaaS), does it also include software development tools (PaaS), or does it
include full applications as well (SaaS)?
Infrastructure as a ServiceCloud infrastructure services, or Infrastructure

as a Service (IaaS), is probably the easiest model to understand. IaaS
delivers computer infrastructure, typically a virtualized environment, as a
service. Rather than purchasing servers, software, data center space, power
and cooling, or networking equipment, clients instead buy those resources as
a service. The service is typically billed on a utility computing basis and the
cost is calculated based on the level of activity. This effectively gives users the
opportunity to buy services by the hour, day, week, or month.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is one example of infrastructure as a
service. It delivers a computing environment with an operating system on
which users install and run their own applications. EC2 is a central part of the
Amazon.com cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The
HP Cloud (www.hpcloud.com) is another example of IaaS.
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Platform as a ServiceCloud platform services, or Platform as a Service

(PaaS), deliver a computing platform, solution stack as a service, or both.
PaaS enables deployment of user-created or acquired applications, created
using programming languages and tools supported by the provider, without
the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and
software layers. The consumer does not have control over the underlying
infrastructure (networking, servers, operating systems, or storage), but does
have control over the applications that are deployed. Installing Linux, Apache,
MySQL and PHP/Perl/Python (commonly known as the LAMP stack) on a
virtual machine is one example of PaaS.
Google App Engine is another example of PaaS. It offers a full development
stack for people who want to develop and host applications on Googles
infrastructure. Google App Engine supports applications written in several
programming languages.
Software as a ServiceCloud application services, or Software as a Service

(SaaS), provide access to software applications over the Internet. This means
that the users of the software service do not need to develop the application,
or even to install and run the application on their own computers, which
means that the users do not need to be concerned with the management of
the underlying cloud infrastructureor the cost of providing the infrastructure
in the first place.
There are two variants of SaaS:
Applications as a service (AaaS)One example of AaaS is the

Microsoft Office 365 service. Rather than locally installing and running
applications, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, the Office
365 service enables the features of these applications to be accessed
with any web browser. By accessing the Office 365 web portal, users can
gain access to Outlook email, contacts, calendar, instant messaging, and
shared documents (through the SharePoint Online service).
Cloud services as a serviceService providers, such as

Salesforce.com, provide access to enterprise Customer Relationship
Management (CRM) applications over the Internet. Their services include
the Sales Cloud and the Service Cloud. The Sales Cloud is an application
that allows sales managers to see in real-time the activities of their teams
and enables sales representatives to manage customer information
easily. The Service Cloud allows companies to meet customers wherever
they areincluding social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and
enables service agents to provide fast, responsive service to customers.
The main difference between SaaS and PaaS is that with SaaS, the user is not
developing the applications; instead, they are simply accessing applications that
have been developed by someone else. With PaaS however, the user is
developing and deploying their own applications using software development kits
(SDKs) and programming languages.
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Deployment models
The second dimension, deployment models, deals with who manages the
resources that deliver the service.
Private cloudIn a private cloud, services are provided to specific users,

such as members of departments within a company. Services are delivered
over the network, but remain private in the sense that the data remain behind
the company firewall rather than being transmitted over the Internet. The
underlying resources are shared (also known as multi-tenancy) but only
between the departments within the company. Although private cloud requires
an investment in infrastructure and incurs ongoing maintenance costs, it can
be made to be highly available and flexible. The fact that the data remain
behind corporate firewalls can help to address concerns regarding security,
governance, availability, and control.
HP recently introduced a service known as HP Enterprise Cloud Services
Compute that is hosted on HP infrastructure. This type of off-premise (HP
owned), remotely hosted service is known as a virtual private cloud and
provides server, storage, network and security bundles that are provisioned
and configured using a self-service web portal, consumed as a service, and
paid for on a pay-as-you-go basis. In contrast to a public cloud, which offers
minimum service-level agreement (SLA) guarantees and public Internet levels
of security, a virtual private cloud offers high levels of performance, availability,
and strict security and privacy.
Public cloudWith a public cloud (also known as an external cloud), the

cloud assets are owned and operated by the provider (with the exception of
the Internet) and are shared by all users (also known as multi-tenancy). The
services are accessed over the Internet, and are provided to users on a utility
computing (pay-per-use) basis. Users do not have to invest in the acquisition
and maintenance of the computer infrastructure. The users could be
employees of different companies, located in different countries, legal
jurisdictions, or time zones. Unlike a private cloud scenario, where the data
resides securely behind the company firewall, the public cloud sees users
data being transmitted over the public Internet and stored in an unknown
location. This clearly raises concerns regarding security, governance,
availability, and control. Sensitive business data could be stored in a different
country, with a different legal system, with potentially many barriers to
remediation in the event of an outage or loss of data.
These examples of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS are all part of the public cloud
category. The entire infrastructure was owned by Amazon (IaaS example),
Google (PaaS example), and Microsoft/Salesforce.com (SaaS example), and
the services were delivered over the Internet and were charged for on a payper-use basis.
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Hybrid cloudCloud users sometimes believe that they have unlimited

resources at their disposal, and with the public cloud, this belief might be
almost true. Providers such as HP, Amazon, and Google make a massive
amount of resources available. In the private cloud however, the resources
could be limited to, for example, a single CloudSystem Matrix system.
Although the CloudSystem Matrix, when correctly sized and configured, can
provide a large amount of resources, it will not be able to match the resources
of the HP, Amazon, or Google data centers. To overcome this potential
resource limitation, a hybrid cloud environment makes use of services sourced
from internal and external providers and seamlessly manages services
delivery from public, private, and traditional IT sources. This can be achieved
using bursting.
Note
Bursting is a way to temporarily increase resources to handle peak loads or an
unanticipated spike in activity. For example, the HP CloudSystem solutions
use internal resources under normal conditions, and during an increased
demand, the systems will automatically begin to use resources sourced from
either external providers, such as Amazon (EC2) and Savvis (Symphony
Virtual Private Data Center), or from other internal infrastructure resources.
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Hybrid world
As organizations move toward the cloud, HP believes that most will be adopting a
hybrid form of cloud computing, leveraging the best of private cloud, managed
cloud, public cloud, as well as traditional IT.
A recent HP study revealed that:
75% of IT executives plan to pursue a hybrid delivery model.
72% said that portability of workloads between cloud models is important to

their cloud implementations.
65% are concerned with vendor lock-in.
A hybrid approach enables addressing the IT service delivery challenges facing IT

organizations today in the most efficient and cost effective way. This means taking
advantage of the capabilities (for example, SLAs, availability, security,
performance, compliance, and cost.) offered across private cloud, managed cloud,
public cloud, as well as traditional IT.
It also means looking at the portfolio of applications in the organization,
segmenting them according to their respective SLA requirements, and then
aligning them to the appropriate deployment models, thus creating the most
optimal use of internal and external resources.
In this new hybrid world, the role of the Chief Information Officer and IT
organization expands from the traditional builder of services to a builder and
broker, creating a seamless experience for end users, independent of service
sources.
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HP Converged Cloud
HP Converged Cloud is the industrys first hybrid delivery approach and portfolio
based on a common architecture that enables customers to build, manage,
secure, and consume cloud services that span private, managed, and public
clouds as well as traditional IT.
HP Converged Cloud is based on open standards and supports multi-vendor,
heterogeneous software and hardware. It is built on industry-leading HP
Converged Infrastructure, HP Converged Management and Security, HP
Converged Information, and OpenStack technologies.
The HP Converged Cloud solution portfolio has two core pillars:
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Market leading products and solutions so you can build and operate cloud
services yourself; whether youre an enterprise or service provider. The
underlying components include industry-leading hardware, software and
services.
Managed and public cloud services from HP and HP CloudAgile partners that
you can consume.
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HP delivers this hybrid cloud strategy and solution portfolio with:
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Choice
Open, standards-based integration across traditional infrastructure, build

your cloud, managed and public clouds
Supports multiple hypervisors, operating systems, development

environments and heterogeneous infrastructure
Extensible for partner ecosystem
Confidence
Policy-based, model-driven service delivery
Management and security spans information, applications and

infrastructure
Consistency
Common architecture across all delivery models
One simple consumption experience across all models
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Conceptual introduction to HP CloudSystem

video
Watch this 02:42 minute conceptual video on HP CloudSystem and write your
notes in the space provided.
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HP CloudSystem
HP CloudSystem solution combines servers, storage, networking, and security

with automated system and hybrid service delivery management. At its base is the
HP Converged Infrastructure, a shared infrastructure that enables you to move
toward a service-oriented approach to IT.
Through automation and orchestration, you have the ability to allocate servers,
network, and storage resources into one common pool which you can manage
non-disruptively. Then, from this resource pool, you can provision what you need
with a few simple mouse clicks.
You can either create new application templates that specify the infrastructure
needed or go to the service catalog with predefined services that are ready to
provision. This ability includes applications, which can be automatically
provisioned with HP CloudSystem from a service catalog.
Such orchestration and automation of the entire environment dramatically reduces
the manual tasks and provides you with the ability to charge back server, storage,
and networking resource usage to individual organizations. Furthermore, this
automation and orchestration works with cloud-enabled applications and also in
the current IT environment.
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HP CloudSystem offerings videos
Watch these short introductory videos on the HP CloudSystem offerings and write
notes about their positioning and differences in the space provided.
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HP CloudSystem offerings
HP CloudSystem is tailored for the requirements of enterprises and service

providers at various stages of cloud maturity with three offerings:
Entry configuration for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) with HP

CloudSystem Matrix that enables IT customers to provision infrastructure
and applications in minutes.
Full-scale deployment of private and hybrid cloud environments with HP

CloudSystem Enterprise, which enables customers to unify management
across private, public, and hybrid clouds and also adds advanced applicationto-infrastructure lifecycle management.
Advanced capabilities for service providers with HP CloudSystem Service

Provider, which assist deployment of public and hosted private clouds that
deliver complete service aggregation and management.
HP CloudSystem is optimized for HP Converged Infrastructure technology,

including HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, the high-performance FlexNetwork
architecture from HP Networking, mission-critical HP-UX, and comprehensive
security capabilities.
HP CloudSystem also supports third-party servers, storage, and networking to
protect customers investments. Clients who have already invested in HP
Converged Infrastructure and HP Software technology can easily expand their
current architectures to achieve a private, public, or complete hybrid cloud
environment.
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HP CloudSystem Matrix
HP CloudSystem Matrix is IaaS for private and hybrid cloud environments,

enabling users to provision infrastructure in minutes for physical and virtual
servers. This offering includes a self-service infrastructure portal for quick autoprovisioning, along with built-in lifecycle management to optimize infrastructure,
manage the resource pools, and help ensure uptime. Using included cloud
application programming interfaces (APIs), you can easily customize the operating
environment to specific requirements, enabling chargeback and billing integration,
integration into approval processes, and other process automation tasks. Matrix is
integrated by design with broad support of heterogeneous environments, and it
offers cloud bursting to a variety of public cloud providers including HP Cloud
Services. The core elements of a CloudSystem Matrix solution are:
HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures (one or more)
HP Virtual Connect
HP Matrix Operating Environment
HP Implementation Service
With release 7.2 of CloudSystem Matrix, you can manage and consume Red Hat
Linux KVM virtual machines and implement out-of-the-box bursting to broker
service delivery across multiple clouds from a single, integrated point of control.
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CloudSystem Matrix also includes a comprehensive Implementation Service

performed by HP trained experts. The CloudSystem Matrix Implementation Service
provides you with a project manager to manage the technical preplanning,
installation, configuration, testing, demonstration, and orientation of your integrated
Matrix package solutions (including all enclosures and blades that are part of the
Matrix order). This service is an integral part of the full Matrix solution and is
included in each order.
HP Insight Capacity Advisor consolidation software allows you to monitor and
evaluate system and workload use of CPU cores, memory, network and disk I/O,
and power. With this information, you can load your systems to make best use of
the available resources. Capacity Advisor helps you evaluate system
consolidations, load balancing, changing system attributes, and varying workloads
to decide how to move workloads to improve use. The quantitative results from
Capacity Advisor can aid the planner in estimating future system workloads and in
planning for changes to system configurations.
Matrix recovery management provides simplified disaster recovery of logical
servers. With a mouse click, you can transfer application environments running on
HP BladeSystem or on virtual machines to a remote recovery site.
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HP Matrix Operating Environment
Matrix Operating Environment (OE) is an integrated command center that enables

you to continuously analyze and optimize your cloud and converged infrastructure.
It builds on the HP infrastructure management portfolio, including HP Systems
Insight Manager (HP SIM) and HP Insight Management.
Matrix OE provides an integrated graphical environment for managing physical
servers, logical servers, virtual machines, server blades, nPartitions, virtual
partitions, applications, and workloads. You can dynamically resize virtual servers
and migrate resources where they are needed, based on service-level objectives
and business requirements.
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Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration
Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration (IO) extends Matrix OE to provide rapid

provisioning and repurposing of infrastructure services from shared resource pools
using a self-service portal. Infrastructure orchestration delivers advanced templatedriven design, provisioning, and ongoing operations for multi-node, multi-tier
infrastructure services. It is only supported on a central management server (CMS)
running Microsoft Windows.
Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration supports four main activities to automate the
deployment of infrastructure services:
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DesignAn architect uses the graphical designer to create simple and

complex infrastructure templates that, when tested, can be published for users
to create infrastructure services.
ProvisionA self-service user selects an existing template and then requests

infrastructure provisioning from it against an assigned pool of resources. The
administrator can approve or deny this request and monitor its progress.
OperateThe administrator manages server, network, and storage pools,

defines virtual machine images and software deployment jobs, performs
manual provisioning tasks as part of the fulfillment of self-service requests,
and uses Insight Management software to monitor the health and use of the
managed environment.
IntegrateMatrix infrastructure orchestration ships with a limited version of

HP Operations Orchestration. This version is launched from within the IO user
interface and is used to trigger workflows that can be performed before or
after IO operations.
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For example, architects and administrators can:
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Create a service or add a server
Add new servers to a cluster or add servers for load balancing
Add a server to a backup service
Send approval notices
Remove a server or service
Gracefully shut down applications and the operating system
Remove a server from a cluster or load balancing
Suspend server monitoring
Resume a server or service
Add a server to a cluster or load balancing
Resume server monitoring
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Demo of HP CloudSystem Matrix provisioning video
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capability of the HP CloudSystem Matrix to provision infrastructure and
applications in minutes. Write your notes in the space provided.
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Integration between HP storage and Matrix
Beginning with the 7.0 release, HP Matrix Operating Environment delivers

improvements to further increase the productivity of IT staff though server and
storage automation.
Capabilities provide the tools for storage administrators to set one-time storage
policies or templates for a particular storage type (such as HP 3PAR Gold
Windows disk and HP 3PAR Silver Linux disk).
Designed for use with HP 3PAR and HP EVA storage, after the policies are defined
using HP Storage Provisioning Manager, the storage administrator is free from
responding to a server administrator request for new storage LUNs. The server
service architect simply specifies a storage template in the service design. When
the service is ordered through the user portal and approved, Matrix automatically
creates the policy-driven storage on demand. This just-in-time storage provisioning
technology allows IT to turn around service requests more quickly and efficiently
using consistent methods.
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HP Storage Provisioning Manager
HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) is a software tool that provides a servicecentric management interface to storage, allowing storage requests to be fulfilled
with available storage services from a storage catalog. It securely automates
storage management tasks alongside the Matrix OE visualization software. After
storage policies and storage resources are input to the storage catalog using the
SPM user interface, you can use the Matrix OE logical server management to
request and have storage set up to meet server needs.
SPM is a bridge that automates the delivery of storage services. SPM
automatically finds the right resources to deliver the right service.
Both server and storage administrators have control and visibility with this single
solution. With SPM, the storage administrator provides credentials to storage
resources and SAN resources. SPM discovers those resources. Then, the
administrator defines a catalog of different services based on resources and their
capabilities.
For example, to meet a Bronze class SLA, the administrator might define a service
based on thin provisioned SATA using RAID 5. A Gold SLA might include a
multiple-controller platform with autonomic tiering and RAID 10. After the catalog is
established, the Matrix user has storage self service.
This capability is offered for both HP EVA and HP 3PAR Fibre Channel storage
arrays, and can also be integrated with HP XP storage. It is built on improvements
to the existing SPM interface introduced in version 6.3 and is included with Matrix.
HP EVA and HP 3PAR arrays are supported out of the box with on-demand
provisioning with 7.0. This matches the current SPM support model with Matrix for
managing the storage pool catalog, where HP EVA and HP 3PAR are the only two
supported by default. HP XP support for storage pool catalogs is enabled with an
object-oriented script that is provided, but it is not an out-of-the-box solution.
Because SPM is delivered as part of Matrix Operating Environment, there is no
additional fee.
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Demo of on-demand storage provisioning using SPM
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IMC VAN Manager
A typical data center with 500 physical servers, including approximately 20 virtual
machines per server, requires manual provisioning of more than 50,000
networking attributes on a port-by-port basis. Those 50,000 network attributes may
require over 250,000 command-line entries on dozens of network switches.
To accelerate the move to the cloud, the network must offer tools and processes
that predictably automate previously manual processes, streamlining orchestration
of both physical and virtual resources to give businesses speed and reliability.
Virtual Application Networks is a framework that delivers business agility for
traditional and software-defined networks (SDN). With Virtual Application
Networks, you can separate network provisioning from device management and
leverage proven network virtualization technologies to simplify management and
reduce the time to deploy cloud applications.
HP Intelligent Management Console (IMC) allows IT to shift to centralized control
and orchestration of the network. Using VAN Manager eliminates CLI configuration
and instead provisions the network using automation. The in-depth IMC network
intelligence integrates into hypervisor management with a VAN plug-in to automate
the creation of VLANs and simplify both physical and virtual switch management
and configuration.
The VAN Designer provides a flexible, intuitive, graphical interface for network
administrators to quickly and efficiently design network connectivity for cloud
applications. Administrators can design connection profiles which are stored in the
VAN Policy Engine.
When a new cloud application workload needs to be deployed, the server
administrator can simply select the appropriate connection profile, select the
power on button and the Policy Engine in the VAN Connection Manager will
automatically configure the data center access switch eliminating the manual
configuration previously required. Within five minutes, the new cloud application
workload can be connected to the network and be available to users.
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Networking in a cloud
In traditional IT environments, it takes months of manual configuration tasks and

redesign of networks to connect data centers in order to achieve higher reliability
and agility for disaster recovery and business continuity. HP Ethernet Virtual
Interconnect (EVI) and Multitenant Device Context (MDC) are new solutions
that are aimed at interconnecting geographically dispersed data centers, enabling
multi-tenancy and private clouds easily, quickly, securely and reliably.
The HP EVI solution establishes active/active links between data centers. EVI
provides an innovative IP transport solution that can be deployed without requiring
changes in existing networking infrastructure. HP EVI extends Layer 2 connectivity
across networks eliminating the need to deal with Layer 3 interconnect
dependencies. EVI also makes it possible to implement loop isolation and prevent
undesirable failures.
Improved network resiliency is achieved by combining HP EVI with the capabilities
of HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF). As an STP-free implementation, EVI
frees network bandwidth for applications and improves performance with faster reconvergence time. HP tests show that EVI improves long distance vMotion
performance by up to 80% over STP solutions when combined with HP IRF
solution.
HP EVI supports up to eight data centers and can be deployed using five simple
commands. This gives customers the ability to connect new data centers in
minutes rather than in months by using HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
to simplify DCI management into a single-pane-of-glass management platform
across virtual and physical networking environments.
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By virtualizing and automating a Layer 2 domain across data centers, HP EVI

delivers the elements necessary to enable a softwaredefined networking (SDN)
data center infrastructure.
HP Multitenant Device Context (MDC) is an innovative data center virtualization
software solution that is part of the HP Virtual Application Network architecture. HP
MDC provides complete and secure separation of logical switches between the
multiple tenants residing on the same physical switching platform. With MDC,
there is complete separation of control planes, data planes, and forwarding
capabilities of logical tenants. In addition to that, each tenant can take advantage
of its VLANs (up to 4000 VLANs), IRF configurations, and EVI networks.
MDC gives customers the ability to virtualize one physical switch into up to four
logical devices, with each logical switch having its own tenants. This allows up to a
75% reduction in physical devices while retaining complete and secure isolation of
tenants. More efficient use of physical networking platforms delivers higher
vMotion capacity and scales to 128 EVI networks for different sites and
applications.
The HP MDC and EVI solution offers customers a 56% lower cost of ownership
and simplified management using IMC. It enables several data centers to work as
one that is more responsive, with higher efficiency and solid high availability for
business resiliency.
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Optimizing data center networks for cloud
Enterprises are turning to the cloud to accelerate business innovation, improve

business agility, and contain costs. Cloud computing reshapes the way
applications and deployed and consumed and influences data center network
designs.
Virtualization is a fundamental element/building block for cloud and is having
profound effects on existing enterprise networks, primarily due to the order of
magnitude increases in raw bandwidth requirements that are needed to support
multi-GbE VM and workload mobility and server-to-server traffic.
HP FlexNetwork solutions address these challenges by delivering:
Flatter and more efficient 10/40G data center networks with fewer layers,
equipment and cabling, and greater port densities
High performance, low latency intra-data center connectivity for VM migration

and bandwidth-intensive server-to-server (east-west) traffic, which results in:
Reduced VM workload mobility transit time
Doubled VM application performance
Improved VM disaster recovery times
Virtualization-aware security to partition multi-tenant environments and isolate

virtual resources
WAN performance optimized for the highest quality end user and application
experience
Orchestration of thousands of physical and virtual resources from a single

pane of glass (IMC)
The best HP Networking solutions to meet these challenges are the HP 12500
Series and the HP FlexFabric 11900 Series switches.
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HP CloudSystem Matrix recovery management
Matrix recovery management provides simplified disaster recovery of logical

servers. With a mouse click, you can transfer application environments running on
HP BladeSystem or on virtual machines to a remote recovery site. Logical servers
that are included in a Matrix recovery management configuration are referred to as
DR Protected logical servers.
A Matrix recovery management configuration consists of a Local Site and a
Remote Site. Symmetrically configured logical servers are paired across the two
sites. One logical server in the pair is activated at one site, and the other (the peer
logical server) is deactivated at the other site. The boot images of these DR
Protected logical servers, including applications code and data, reside on disk
array volumes.
By using the data replication capabilities of supported storage environments, the
source volumes at the site where one of the logical servers in the pair is activated
are replicated at the other site where its peer logical server is deactivated. If, for
example, a disaster occurs at the Local Site, the administrator at the Remote Site
can trigger a site failover by using the Matrix recovery management GUI to
activate the logical servers at the Remote Site.
Other Matrix recovery management features include:
DR protection for Matrix infrastructure orchestration services.
Support of cross-technology logical servers that can run on physical servers or

virtual machines.
Support of resource provisioning by allowing logical servers to be active on

the Local Site or the Remote Site.
Matrix recovery management is only supported on a CMS running Windows.
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HP CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Suite
The HP CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Suite combines all the components of the
HP automation software portfolio and enables you automate the complete lifecycle
of IT services, from routine, repetitive tasks such as infrastructure and applications
deployment and configurations to the delivery of on-demand platform and
application services. If you are ready to take the first steps in becoming a cloud
applications service broker, this solution will help you do itat low cost and
minimal risk.
It enables you to:
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Offer PaaS/SaaS services alongside IaaS services
Manage cloud services with an enterprise grade, comprehensive, unified

cloud management toolset
Access all cloud applications from a single end-user portal
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Cloud
The HP CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Suite includes licenses for:
HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) Foundation Server, which includes

Server Automation (SA) and Operations Orchestration:
HP Server Automation provides lifecycle server management with

automated application deployment. It scales across platforms in the data
center and automates tasks in provisioning, patching, configuration, and
compliance management.
HP Operations Orchestration provides an intuitive automation of tasks,

processes, and workflows. It executes change with greater speed, quality,
and consistency.
HP Database and Middleware (DMA) Data Solution Pack automates

manual, repetitive administrative tasks with databases and application
servers.
Note
HP CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Suite replaces HP Cloud Service
Automation for Matrix (CSA for Matrix), which was previously available as an
add-on software component to HP CloudSystem Matrix. It consisted of two
main products: Server Automation and SiteScope.
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HP CloudSystem bursting capability
To help customers meet peak and unexpected demands, HP CloudSystem

includes the dual bursting capability to dynamically scale and provision IT
resources either via through a public cloud provider (external bursting) or through
an onsite pay-as-you-go cloud model (local bursting).
Customers are able to select expanded resources from a catalog of HP authorized
cloud bursting providers. These resources are very easy to useyou just select an
application, click create service, and then select a service provider as the
resource pool instead of the local CloudSystem resource pool.
This capability is available with all three CloudSystem offeringsMatrix,
Enterprise, and Service Provider.
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Cloud
HP Cloud Maps
HP Cloud Maps are an easy-to-use navigation system which can save you days or
weeks of time architecting infrastructure for applications and services. HP Cloud
Maps accelerate automation of cloud service deployments for HP CloudSystem so
you can reliably and consistently accelerate the implementation of service
catalogs.
HP Cloud Maps consist of tested engineering components such as:
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Templates for hardware and software configuration that can be imported into
your CloudSystem, saving days or weeks of solution design time
Sizers to help guide capacity and performance planning
Workflows and scripts designed to automate installation more quickly and in a

repeatable fashion
Reference whitepapers to help customize the Cloud Map for your specific
implementation
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HP Cloud MapsRespond to new application requests in

minutes, not months
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service designing, provisioning, and lifecycle management can be achieved in
minutes rather than months. Write your notes in the space provided.
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Cloud
Maturing your capabilities
Customers such as Fox River Gaming evolve to cloud at different speeds.

Customers who are just starting to virtualize their environments are probably not
ready for private clouds. They need to first focus on standardization, consolidation,
virtualization, and automation. Gains in these areas lay the groundwork for cloudbased approaches.
Generally, those customers who have already virtualized significant parts of their
infrastructure are the most ready for private cloudthe next logical step in IT
evolution.
The most advanced customers are those who can understand the full vision of
cloud and the possibility to broker services across many different delivery models.
Most customers are not ready for that today, but they should understand that
ultimate vision.
Regardless of where you are on your journey, HP offers solutions that meet your
needs today while laying the groundwork for future expansion. HP Cloud Maps
enable you to move along the maturity curve by accelerating cloud service design
as well as offering the capabilities to deploy IaaS, PaaS, and lifecycle capabilities.
If you are just starting to standardize and virtualize (the gray zone of the maturity
graphic), VirtualSystem is a good place to start. HP VirtualSystem delivers the
fastest time to value for virtualizationit saves clients months of integration work
with hardware, software, management, and services pre-integrated in one solution
delivered turnkey by HP. The solutions are designed to support workloads for
medium to large enterprise organizations. They can be customized to clients
requirements and extended with modular components to add performance and
capacity.
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HP CloudSystem is for clients who are ready for self-service IT and the other
benefits of the cloud, and you can move from VirtualSystem to CloudSystem
through an upgrade. CloudSystem supports all cloud service models and
deployment models, so clients can use it to get started with self-service
infrastructure provisioning and grow to add applications and service brokering
across hybrid environments.
CloudSystem Matrix is ideal for clients who are looking for self-service
infrastructure, usually delivered to IT.
For clients looking to deploy a more robust cloud environment with self-service
applications delivered directly to line of business users, HP offers CloudSystem
Enterprise. This is a critical differentiator. Most other cloud solutions on the market
stop after self-service infrastructure.
And finally, the HP CloudSystem Service Provider specifically addresses the
requirements of service providers to generate new revenue, decrease time-tomarket, and simplify adoption of new value-added services.
All CloudSystem offerings are built on the same underlying architecture, which is
also the same as HP VirtualSystem, so clients can easily transition to open, hybrid
cloud computing. They are all built on a foundation of Converged Infrastructure
and the robust HP Software automation, management, and security portfolio. They
are supported by a full range of consulting services from discovery workshops and
strategy development to solution design and implementation.
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Learning check
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Match the HP management product with its correct function.
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Summary
Cloud computing has recently caught nearly everyones attention. Its agility, cost
efficiency and capital expenditure reduction, flexibility, scalability and elasticity,
connectivity, billing and metering services, and self-service provisioning appeal to
many IT organizations. Like with the adoption of any new IT trend, cloud
computing comes with challenges, concerns, and perhaps some hesitance.
Fox River Gaming is indeed one of those customers whose IT infrastructure is
mature enough to be ready for cloud. There are many number of driving forces at
Fox River Gaming for cloud, including a need for an on-demand development
platform for internal and external developer communities, a need for an elastic
gaming environment for its online customers, a need for rapid service creation to
better meet business requirements, and at the same time a need for lowering
response times to such business requests and costs.
HP is a leader in cloud computing with its HP Converged Cloud strategy and
technologies, which include HP CloudSystem offeringsMatrix, Enterprise, and
Service Provider. HP is uniquely positioned to enable customers to build a cloud,
consume a cloud, as well as manage a cloud environment. It even delivers a
public cloud infrastructure that is business grade, open source-based, and
developer focusedHP Cloud Services (http://www.hpcloud.com).
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HP Services, Tools, and Resources

Module 9
Objectives
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HP at Fox River Gaming
A successful game platform launch might require Fox River Gaming to expand
their IT infrastructure and services faster than they can or choose to scale their IT
staffing.
This module provides a brief overview of the HP Services that deliver solutions to
individual challenges, provide on-demand support during outages, installations, or
transitions, and run an entire global IT services infrastructure, such as on behalf of
Fox River Gaming. HP Services allow companies to focus on growing their
business while HP enables their IT infrastructure. Consider how these solutions
could be applied to companies and environments you have encountered.
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HP Services
HP ServicesApplication Services
HP Application Services can transform legacy applications to the agile computing

environments of the future. HP Application Services provide application consulting
and applications transformation consulting for application rationalization and
modernization, development, integration, and outsourcing.
HP has the experience and a proven track recordsupporting more than 1 million
applications worldwide and meeting or exceeding service levels 98% of the time.
For information on each service, visit:
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/business-services/itservices.html?compURI=1079039
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HP ServicesOutsourcing Services
HP Outsourcing Services falls into two categories:
Business Process Outsourcing HP Business Process Outsourcing

services provide world-class processes, technology, and best practices
needed to propel an organization forward. HP offers full-service, industryspecific outsourcing solutions for corporations and the public sector. HP
applies proven technology and uses its economies of scale, buying power,
and Best Shore approach to reduce costs.
IT Infrastructure OutsourcingCompanies grow their business by

relentlessly focusing on customers and business innovation. HP Infrastructure
Technology Outsourcing helps IT do its part. HP brings expertise, automation,
and a Best Shore delivery model to reduce costs. HP provides flexible,
adaptive technology, and multiple sourcing options to help you respond to
changing business demands. HP also enables compliance, security, and
business continuity to reduce risk.
For information on the HP Outsourcing Services offerings, visit:
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/business-services/itservices.html?compURI=1079461 (Business Process Outsourcing)
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/business-services/itservices.html?compURI=1079635 (IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Services)
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HP ServicesTechnology Consulting
Businesses are dealing with one or more of the following IT challenges: rigid
infrastructure, old applications, security threats, information explosion, custom-built
stacks, and shrinking budgets. They are considering new IT opportunities with
cloud, mobile computing, or big data.
HP technology consultants can help address these challenges by offering
technology initiatives to:
Build data centers of the future with converged infrastructure
Make converged cloud real with cloud computing
Implement data center virtualization and automation
Harness big data for better intelligence
Focus on mobility to gain a competitive advantage and boost productivity
HP consulting service experts leverage a portfolio of services that is tightly aligned

with and optimized for the HP enterprise product portfolio. These experts help to
plan, design, implement, and operate solutions built on a converged infrastructure
platform and enabled by cloud-based or shared infrastructures.
The HP consulting services portfolio includes Converged Cloud, Mobility, and Big
Data consulting services, and HP enterprise products-focused consulting and
professional services. These services include Data Center, Network, and Storage
Consultingall supported by Education Services, which delivers technical training,
education consulting, and collaboration tools.
For more information on HP Technology Consulting offerings, visit:
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HP ServicesSupport Services
HP Support Services support portfolio is a simplified and standardized portfolio of

support services across all technologies, offered uniformly in all geographies. In
addition, HP Automation provides 24 x 7 coverage, proactive problem prevention,
accurate problem diagnosis, faster problem resolution, and interactive support
portals and tools. This is an integral and cost-free part of the HP support
relationship.
HP Networking products set the standards for quality and reliability and ship with
product warranties you would expect from HP. From industry-leading lifetime
warranties (for as long as you own the product) through competitive one-year
warranties, HP Networking product warranties complement a broad portfolio of HP
services to effectively meet your needs.
For more HP Networking warranty information, visit:
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/networking/support/warranty/index.aspx
For information on HP Support Services, visit:

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Confidently evolve to HP Converged Cloud
Today, most enterprise organizations are moving beyond investigating the cloud to
now adopting cloud technologies to grow their revenues and gain competitive
advantage. HP believes organizations need to implement a hybrid delivery
strategy that can leverage cloud services as part of their IT delivery and
consumption strategy. HP can lead organizations on a pragmatic journey to the
cloud and hybrid delivery.
HP experts can help an organization understand all aspects of cloud models,
analyze the organizations current state, plan for the future, and help design, build,
operate, and evolve a cloud solutionstarting with the organizations specific
needs. HP can help an organization to understand the implications of the
technological aspects of a given strategy and identify the people and process
elements.
For quickly designing and building secure cloud environments, HP offers
predefined, pre-scoped, time-bounded sets of short-term CloudSystem consulting
and implementation services such as CloudStart. Specific cloud protection and
application transformation portfolios help organizations with integrated security,
workload analysis, and application modernization for the cloud.
After the cloud environment is built, full environment support covering hardware
and software for the hybrid environment becomes critical. HP Datacenter Care
offers a comprehensive, relationship-based approach to provide organizations
end-to-end, customized support for their existing IT environments and at the same
time aid customers on their converged cloud journey. HP Datacenter Care offers
innovative capabilities like custom call handling and relationship management, an
optional OPEX model that provides on-premise bursting, and options for
multivendor and multi-sourcing management.
Last but not least, HP Education Services offer specific cloud trainings and cloud
simulations to help organizations manage, change, and reskill their staff for greater
organizational adaption.
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HP Services website
For additional information on HP consulting, outsourcing, and support

services, visit: http://www.hp.com/go/services
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HP tools and resources

HP Networking Switch Selector tool
HP Networking Switch Selector is a web-based tool that helps you select the
correct HP Networking product based on specific requirements, such as:
Switch type (fixed-port or modular)
Port count
Management (fully managed, smart managed, or unmanaged)
Routing/switching (Layer 3 Advanced, Layer 3 RIP, Layer 3 Lite, or Layer 2

only)
Predominant port type (10GbE, gigabit copper, gigabit fiber, or Fast Ethernet)
Uplink speed/media (10/100/1000 copper, 100MB fiber, 1000MB fiber, 10GbE

copper, 10GbE fiber, and 40GbE fiber)
Features (PoE, PoE+, Fanless, IPv6 Host/Management, IPv6 Routing, and

OpenFlow [SDN] Enabled)
High availability (redundant power, redundant fabric, replaceable fans, and

stacking)
You can access the HP Networking Switch Selector tool at:
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/networking/products/switches/select
or/index.aspx
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HP Simple Configurator
HP Simple Configurator is a guided self-service tool to help sales and nontechnical people provide customers with initial configurations in three to five
minutes. You may then send the configuration to HP for special pricing or
configuration help, or use it in your existing ordering processes.
You can access the HP Simple Configurator tool at:
http://h22174.www2.hp.com/SimplifiedConfig/PublicLogin
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HP Unified Sizer for Server Virtualization
The HP Unified Sizer for Server Virtualization is an automated, downloadable tool

that provides quick and helpful sizing guidance for best-fit HP server and storage
configurations running in VMware vSphere 5.0 or Microsoft Hyper-V R2
environments. The tool is intended to assist with the planning of virtual server
deployment projects on HP server and storage technologies. It enables the user to
quickly compare different solution configurations and produces a customizable
server and storage solution complete with a detail Bill of Materials (BOM) that
includes part numbers and prices.
The HP Unified Sizer for Server Virtualization allows users to create new solutions,
open existing solutions, or use other types of performance data collecting tools,
such as the Microsoft Assessment and Planning tool (MAP), to build rich
virtualized configurations based on HP server and storage technologies. The tool
allows rapid comparison of virtualized solutions using various HP server and
storage choices and offers a choice of VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V
virtualization technologies in one common tool.
You can access the HP Unified Sizer for Server Virtualization at:
http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswers/us/en/sizers/unified-sizerserver-virtualization.html
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HP Power Advisor
The HP Power Advisor tool assists in the estimation of power consumption and
proper selection of components including power supplies at a system, rack, and
multi-rack level. A variety of additional features are also provided including a
condensed bill of materials, a cost of ownership calculator, and a power report.
HP Power Advisor is a downloadable Windows-based application that operates on
your desktop.
You can access HP Power Advisor at:
http://www.hp.com/go/HPPowerAdvisor
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HP Networking Online Configurator
HP Networking Online Configurator enables you to quickly and easily create

quotations of HP Networking products using your web browser. Quotation files can
be saved locally to your hard drive and are exportable in several formats including
Microsoft Excel.
You can access the HP Networking Online Configurator at:
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/th/en/products/configurator/index.aspx
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HP Storage Sizer
The HP Storage Sizer is a downloadable sizing tool that helps design a storage
infrastructure to meet customer needs. It:
Simplifies the process of designing a storage solution
Applies storage design rules, licensing, and services rules
Produces a valid supported configuration
Provides localized parts and pricing for Americas, APJ, and EMEA
Encompasses the HP Storage family
Becomes updated at every new product launch

You can access the HP Storage Sizer at:
http://h30144.www3.hp.com/SWDSizerWeb/
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Other sizers
HP ActiveAnswers is an online portal that provides various tools that enable you to
configure, size, performance analyze, and use HP products and solutions.
ActiveAnswers solution sizers are automated tools that assist you with managing
the size and scope of a solution environment. The sizing information and
algorithms have been developed using testing and performance data on a wide
range of HP servers running solutions from HP partners such as Citrix, Lotus,
Microsoft, and VMware. These tools provide a consistent methodology to help you
determine a "best fit" server for your environment.
Sizers are downloaded and run on a user's PC.
You can access ActiveAnswers sizers at:
http://www.hp.com/solutions/activeanswers
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SPOCK
The HP Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK) is the primary portal

used to obtain detailed information about supported HP storage product
configurations.
You need an HP Passport account to enter the SPOCK website.
You can access SPOCK at: http://h20272.www2.hp.com/
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Solution Demo Portal
The HP Solution Demo Portal showcases how HP technologies lead, innovate,

and transform enterprise business by providing a central location for all
demonstrations, webinars, and supporting collateral. Live and prerecorded demos
feature HP hardware, software, services, and partnerships in an exciting
multimedia format to show how HP can help solve business and IT problems.
You can access the Solution Demo Portal at:
http://www.hp.com/go/solutiondemoportal
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HP Converged Infrastructure Capability Model
As data centers become more complex, the time, risk, and cost to deliver IT
projects increase. It can take several months to bring new applications online.
These long delays restrict business agility. Business application owners need to
achieve faster time to value, quicker returns on technology investments, and better
service levels. But too often, IT cannot meet these needs in a timely, cost-effective
manner. To achieve these goals, customers need to simplify their existing
environment and move the saved resources to more strategic or innovative
projects.
To overcome IT sprawl and improve business outcomes, data centers need to
make fundamental changes. The solution to sprawl lies in a Converged
Infrastructure with an architecture that enables shared-service management as the
foundational operating environment, a highly flexible system and network fabric;
adaptive, modular resource pools, and intelligent energy management. This
transformation is not restricted to just data center systems and technologies. It can
also extend to facilities in terms of design, construction, operations, staffing, and
processes. What is important is that the organization work toward developing
metrics that capture effectively how the data center adds true value to both top-line
contributions and expenses that affect the bottom-line.
Many leading analysts agree that the next-generation data center is about
improving IT across three characteristicsoperational efficiency, quality of service,
and speed of implementing IT projects. A successful plan toward a next-generation
data center requires both a tactical and a strategic dimension. Tactically,
customers need to break down the IT silos by standardizing, modularizing, and
virtualizing the IT environment and at the same time automating error-prone
manual processes and simplifying and tightening management control.
Strategically, customers need to change how IT interacts with their business
bringing together people, process, and technology.
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HP understands how tactical and strategic dimensions relate to and depend on

each other. HP also knows that customers have specific needs and objectives.
These considerations are brought together with the HP Converged Infrastructure
Capability Model (CI-CM).
HP CI-CM focuses on how to migrate to a converged infrastructure. It is about
building a holistic roadmap in a consultative fashion.
HP CI-CM uses a pragmatic and structured approach, based on business and IT
objectives and quantitative metrics. It provides a high-level, customized roadmap
of suggested next-steps and recommended projects to meet overall business and
IT priorities. This roadmap helps customers move toward a next-generation data
center.
HP CI-CM provides a holistic approach for assessing the current state of a data
center and helps define an action-oriented, step-by-step, high-level roadmap for
reaching the desired future state. HP CI-CM uses a broad set of real-world
metrics, based on research and industry best practices that align business metrics
for IT: operational efficiency, quality of service, and IT agility.
Note
HP CI-CM is a restricted tool. It is available only to HP employees to conduct a
capability assessment for a customer jointly with a qualified HP channel
partner. It is important, however, that partner and customer communities are
aware of and understand this tool and its capabilities.
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HP Enterprise ROI
HP Enterprise ROI is the HP Business Value Selling Suite developed

independently by the leading IT research firm IDC and the leading ROI tool
developer Alinean, Inc. This analysis tool helps customers examine opportunities
and quantify potential benefits from implementing several HP business and IT
solutions. Analyses include:
HP Networking Campus LAN Calculator
HP Networking Data Center Calculator
HP BladeSystem TCO Analysis
HP Moonshot TCO Calculator
HP Client Virtualization ROI Calculator
HP ProLiant Scalable Systems ROI Analysis
HP Integrity Systems TCO-ROI Calculator
ProLiant ROI Calculator
HP CloudSystem Matrix ROI Analysis and TCO Calculator
HP Software ArcSight ROI Analyst
HP Software TippingPoint ROI Analyst
HP 3PAR StoreServ TCO Assessment Tool

You can access the Rack to Blades System TCO Calculator at:
https://alinean.austin.hp.com/rack2bladesystem/tco/launch.html
You can access the Enterprise ROI tool at:
http://roianalyst.hp.com/roianalyst/AuthenticateLogin.do
Note
Some analyses might be restricted to HP employees and select partners. It is
important, however, that partner and customer communities are aware of and
understand these tools and their capabilities. To save and access analyses
and print reports, you must have or create an account.
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HP CloudSystem Matrix TCO Calculator
The CloudSystem Matrix TCO Calculator is an online tool that helps you evaluate
a companys current capabilities, costs, and opportunities. This tool also quantifies
potential advantages for HP solutions to reduce current IT and business costs,
improve productivity, reduce business risks, and improve availability and service
levels.
You can access the HP CloudSystem Matrix TCO Calculator at:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/matrix/tco/
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Personalized Cloud Assessment
The assessment contains 15 questions, and when completed, a customized cloud

recommendation email is generated (if company information and an email address
are provided).
You can access the Personalized Cloud Assessment at:
http://h41085.www4.hp.com/hp-cloud-assessmenttool2/FormGenerator.php
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ActiveAnswers
ActiveAnswers is the online solutions portal where HP shares its experience and
best practices for planning, deployment, and operation of enterprise solutions. It
includes up-to-date technical information, the system configurator, server sizers,
and storage and performance tools.
You can access HP ActiveAnswers at:
http://www.hp.com/solutions/activeanswers
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Product Bulletin, QuickSpecs, and Product Data Sheets
The Product Bulletin website, accessible from your desktop or mobile device, is a
convenient central resource providing technical overviews and specifications for
HP hardware and software.
It contains:
QuickSpecs
Product Data Sheets
Product photo library
From this website, you can also download the Product Bulletin application and
install it on your desktop.
You can access the HP Product Bulletin, QuickSpecs, and product data
sheets at: http://www.hp.com/go/quickspecs
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Summary
This course has introduced many innovative HP technologies, products, platforms,
and solutions by illustrating their integration and connectedness. By pursuing
certifications on HP server, storage, networking, or converged infrastructure
platforms, you can expand your knowledge of the visionary HP leadership woven
into a unified product design. There is much more to learn.
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Learner survey
After completion of this training, you should be receiving a learning evaluation

survey from Hewlett Packard via Knowledge Advisors/Metrics That Matter. Please
take a few minutes to share with us your evaluation of this training. In particular,
we would like to know whether this training appealed to you, met its objectives,
and provided value to you. Your feedback will be instrumental in making future
improvements to this training.
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Learner guide
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Infrastructure
Learner guide
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HP Innovations for Todays IT Infrastructure
Learner Guide
October 2013
Contents
Objectives ................................................................................................................ 1
About the course ...................................................................................................... 2
Traditional IT infrastructure challenges .................................................................... 3
Todays IT challenges and requirements .................................................................. 4
A new style of IT emerging ....................................................................................... 7
A new style of IT emerging (cont). ............................................................................ 8
Transforming silos into a platform ............................................................................ 9
The power of convergence..................................................................................... 11
HP leadership vision for the new style of IT ........................................................... 12
Companies are making big investments ................................................................ 13
Cloud ............................................................................................................... 14
Big data ........................................................................................................... 15
Mobility ............................................................................................................ 16
Security ........................................................................................................... 17
HP Converged Infrastructure motivations .............................................................. 19
HP Converged Infrastructure enables growth to cloud........................................... 20
Introducing the scenario ......................................................................................... 21
Course modules ..................................................................................................... 23
Summary ................................................................................................................ 25
Module 2HP Innovations

Objectives ................................................................................................................ 1
HP innovations helping YOU innovate ..................................................................... 2
HP market leadership and continuous innovation .................................................... 3
HP innovations for servers ....................................................................................... 4
HP Moonshot: the worlds first software-defined server .................................... 6
HP Moonshot 1500 .................................................................................... 7
VideoMoonshot 101................................................................................ 8
HP ProLiant Gen8 servers ................................................................................ 8
Benefits of the HP ProLiant Gen8 servers ................................................. 9
Integrated Lifecycle Automation ............................................................... 10
Dynamic Workload Acceleration .............................................................. 10
Automated Energy Optimization .............................................................. 10
ProActive Insight Experience ................................................................... 11
System architecture and design ............................................................... 11
ProActive Insight architecture alliance ..................................................... 12
HP Virtual Connect .......................................................................................... 12
Switch interconnect modules ................................................................... 13
Virtual Connect interconnects .................................................................. 13
HP Virtual Connect components .............................................................. 14
Benefits of HP Virtual Connect................................................................. 15
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HP innovations for storage ..................................................................................... 17

Converged Storage ......................................................................................... 18
Converged Storage components ............................................................. 18
VideoHP Converged Storage overview chalk talk ................................ 20
HP 3PAR StoreServ portfolio .......................................................................... 21
VideoHP 3PAR StoreServ overview chalk talk ..................................... 22
HP 3PAR StoreServ architecture ............................................................. 23
Benefits of HP 3PAR StoreServ architecture ........................................... 24
HP StoreOnce ................................................................................................. 28
VideoHP StoreOnce chalk talk ............................................................. 30
HP StoreOnce VSA ......................................................................................... 31
VideoHP StoreOnce VSA chalk talk ..................................................... 32
HP innovations for networking ............................................................................... 33
HP FlexNetwork ....................................................................................... 33
HP Virtual Application Networks (VAN) .................................................... 33
HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) ................................................. 33
FlexNetwork architecture ................................................................................ 34
Challenges ............................................................................................... 34
Meeting the challenges with the FlexNetwork .......................................... 35
SDN................................................................................................................. 37
SDN and the Converged Infrastructure .................................................... 38
VideoHP SDN overview chalk talk ........................................................ 40
HP IRF ............................................................................................................ 41
Traditional network issues ........................................................................ 41
IRF advantages ........................................................................................ 42
VideoHP IRF overview chalk talk ......................................................... 43
Learning check ................................................................................................ 44
HP innovations for IT management ........................................................................ 45
Automated IT management...................................................................... 45
Simple, unified management ................................................................... 45
Service and support integration with HP Insight Remote Support ........... 45
Single-pane-of-glass management with IMC .................................................. 46
Benefits of HP IMC.......................................................................................... 47
Optional IMC modules ............................................................................. 49
HP OneView .................................................................................................... 50
HP Insight Management and SIM ............................................................ 50
HP Insight Control .................................................................................... 50
VCEM ....................................................................................................... 51
All these benefits and more with HP OneView ......................................... 51
HP OneView resource-oriented architecture ................................................... 51
HP innovations for IT convergence and cloud........................................................ 53
HP Converged Cloud: Hybrid delivery of a common architecture across
traditional and cloud models ........................................................................... 54
HP Converged Cloud architecture: Hybrid delivery of a common architecture
across traditional and cloud models ................................................................ 54
HP Converged Cloud portfolio ................................................................. 55
Paths to the HP Converged Cloud ........................................................... 56
Summary ................................................................................................................ 58
Learning check ....................................................................................................... 59
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Module 3Meeting Fundamental Data Center Needs

Objectives ................................................................................................................ 1
What is a data center? ............................................................................................. 2
Challenges in the basic or standard data center ...................................................... 3
Establishing a data center at Fox River Gaming ...................................................... 5
HP FlexFabric: The network foundation ................................................................... 6
FlexFabric resources................................................................................................ 7
Integrated and intelligent racking infrastructure ....................................................... 8
HP Intelligent Series Rack: An enclosure for the server and storage solution ......... 9
Location discovery services ................................................................................... 10
Data center view for asset management ................................................................ 11
HP power discovery services ................................................................................. 12
HP ProLiant server families .................................................................................... 13
iLO Management Engine ....................................................................................... 14
Learning check ....................................................................................................... 15
HP Storage portfolio ............................................................................................... 16
Software-defined storage from HP ......................................................................... 18
HP StoreVirtual storage.......................................................................................... 20
HP StoreVirtual portfolio ......................................................................................... 21
Learning check ....................................................................................................... 22
Management from server to cloud ......................................................................... 23
Powerful unified management toolsHP Insight Management suite .................... 24
Powerful unified management toolsHP storage software ................................... 26
Powerful unified management toolsHP IMC ....................................................... 27
Learning check ....................................................................................................... 28
Meeting IT goals at Fox River Gaming ................................................................... 29
HP innovations to remember .................................................................................. 30
Summary ................................................................................................................ 30
Module 4Meeting Business-Critical Data Center Needs

Objectives ................................................................................................................ 1
New business-critical data center ............................................................................ 2
Challenges in the business-critical data center ........................................................ 3
Strong integration ..................................................................................................... 5
Business-critical solutions from HP .......................................................................... 6
HP BladeSystem ...................................................................................................... 7
HP BladeSystem architecture .................................................................................. 8
Server blade families ................................................................................................ 9
HP ProLiant server blades ................................................................................ 9
HP Integrity server blades ............................................................................... 10
HP Integrity portfolio ............................................................................................... 11
HP Superdome 2............................................................................................. 11
HP Integrity NonStop ...................................................................................... 11
Mission-critical Converged Infrastructure ............................................................... 13
Always-on resiliency............................................................................................... 14
BladeSystem management .................................................................................... 15
Learning check ....................................................................................................... 16
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HP storage solutions .............................................................................................. 17

Smart Tiers optimize utilization .............................................................................. 18
Smart Tiers optimize performance and cost........................................................... 19
HP 3PAR StoreServ ............................................................................................... 20
HP 3PAR StoreServ is autonomic and effortless ................................................... 21
HP 3PAR StoreServ is efficient .............................................................................. 22
HP 3PAR StoreServ is multi-tenant and bullet-proof .............................................. 23
HP 3PAR StoreServ is federated and future-proof ................................................. 24
HP 3PAR Persistent Ports ...................................................................................... 25
HP 3PAR for Fox River Gaming ............................................................................. 26
Learning check ....................................................................................................... 27
Enterprise security priorities ................................................................................... 28
HP Enterprise Security Solution Framework .......................................................... 29
HP Enterprise Security Network Defense System ................................................. 30
HP TippingPoint Secure Virtualization Framework................................................. 31
HP ArcSight Security Intelligence ........................................................................... 33
HP Fortify Software Security Center ...................................................................... 34
HP Sentinel Security Application ............................................................................ 35
IMC connecting management and security ............................................................ 36
Proposed data center design for Fox River Gaming .............................................. 37
Integration within the HP Converged Infrastructure ............................................... 38
Summary ................................................................................................................ 38

Objectives ................................................................................................................ 1
Challenges for a data center reaching its capacity .................................................. 2
Expanding data centers ........................................................................................... 3
Efficient server blades .............................................................................................. 4
Managing power....................................................................................................... 5
HP UPS Management Module ................................................................... 6
Hyperscale servers from HP .................................................................................... 7
HP ProLiant Scalable Systems ......................................................................... 7
HP ProLiant Moonshot System ......................................................................... 7
Shoot the moon ................................................................................................. 8
Converged infrastructure in the data center (Traditional physical topology) .......... 10
Top of rack (ToR) ............................................................................................. 11
EoR or MoR for the access layer .................................................................... 11
HP FlexFabric can double your fabric capacity ...................................................... 12
HP IRF (Flatter data center design) ....................................................................... 13
IRF review ....................................................................................................... 13
Leveraging IRF in data center designs ........................................................... 14
HP Virtual Connect ................................................................................................. 15
Additional flexibility and efficiency with Virtual Connect Flex-10 .............. 16
Additional flexibility, efficiency, and convergence with Virtual Connect
FlexFabric ................................................................................................ 16
Fabric convergence with FlexFabric adapters ....................................................... 17
Flat SANDirect-Attach Fibre Channel for HP 3PAR............................................ 18
HP Converged Infrastructure in the data center (Simplified design) ...................... 19
HP Insight Control server provisioning ................................................................... 21
Learning check ....................................................................................................... 22
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Contents
Taking storage to scale .......................................................................................... 23

Full mesh backplane ....................................................................................... 23
Fine-grained virtualization ............................................................................... 24
HP 3PAR software .......................................................................................... 25
HP EcoPOD ........................................................................................................... 26
HP POD 20c and 40c ...................................................................................... 27
VideoIntroducing the HP EcoPOD ............................................................... 27
FlexNetwork architecture ....................................................................................... 28
Connecting FlexFabric and FlexCampus ........................................................ 28
Extending to the campus................................................................................. 30
Virtual Application Networks............................................................................ 31
VideoHP Virtual Application Networks overview .......................................... 32
SDN is the future of the network core .................................................................... 33
Legacy networkHuman middleware cannot scale ....................................... 34
HP delivers agility with SDN............................................................................ 35
Leading the industry with SDN innovations..................................................... 36
Distributed load balancing use case ............................................................... 36
Ballarat Grammar School and SDN ......................................................... 37
Microsoft Lync and SDN .......................................................................... 38
IMC makes SDN and security easier .............................................................. 39
IMC VAN Manager .......................................................................................... 40
Leading with innovation (SDN ecosystem and switches for the largest and
densest data centers)...................................................................................... 41
Recent FlexFabric innovations ................................................................. 41
HP creates an open SDN ecosystem....................................................... 42
Leading with innovation (Energy efficient networking and high density
switching) ........................................................................................................ 42
Lower power consumption ....................................................................... 43
Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) ............................................................... 43
Higher switch port density ........................................................................ 44
Learning check ................................................................................................ 44
Summary ................................................................................................................ 46
Module 6Cloud
Objectives ................................................................................................................ 1
Fox River Gaming: Achieving opportunities and goals with cloud computing .......... 2
Activity ............................................................................................................... 3
Why companies are moving to the cloud ................................................................. 4
What are the cloud and cloud computing? ............................................................... 5
Gartner .............................................................................................................. 5
NIST .................................................................................................................. 5
Forrester Research ........................................................................................... 6
Cloud service and deployment models .................................................................... 8
Service models.................................................................................................. 8
Deployment models .......................................................................................... 9
Hybrid world ........................................................................................................... 12
HP Converged Cloud ............................................................................................. 13
VideoConceptual introduction to HP CloudSystem ............................................ 15
HP CloudSystem .................................................................................................... 16
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VideosHP CloudSystem offerings ....................................................................... 17

HP CloudSystem offerings ..................................................................................... 18
HP CloudSystem Matrix ......................................................................................... 19
HP Matrix Operating Environment ......................................................................... 21
Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration ............................................................ 21
VideoDemo of HP CloudSystem Matrix provisioning................................... 23
Integration between HP storage and Matrix OE .............................................. 24
HP Storage Provisioning Manager ......................................................................... 25
VideoOn-demand storage provisioning using SPM ..................................... 26
Networking in a cloud ............................................................................................. 27
HP EVI ............................................................................................................ 27
HP MDC .......................................................................................................... 28
HP MDC and EVI ............................................................................................ 28
Optimizing data center networks for cloud ...................................................... 28
HP CloudSystem Matrix recovery management .................................................... 30
HP CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Suite.............................................................. 31
HP CloudSystem bursting ...................................................................................... 33
HP Cloud Maps ...................................................................................................... 34
VideoHP Cloud Maps .................................................................................. 35
Maturing your capabilities ...................................................................................... 36
Learning check ................................................................................................ 37
Summary ................................................................................................................ 38
Module 7Workload and Workforce Mobility

Objectives ................................................................................................................ 1
Fox River Gaming scenario...................................................................................... 2
Challenges of mobility .............................................................................................. 3
Group discussionWhat is workload mobility? ....................................................... 4
Workload mobility at a distance ............................................................................... 5
Challenges implementing workload mobility ..................................................... 5
HP workload mobility tools ....................................................................................... 6
Server virtualization.................................................................................................. 7
Virtual Network Manager .......................................................................................... 8
HP 3PAR storage systems ....................................................................................... 9
Storage federation with HP Peer Motion ......................................................... 10
Peer-based storage federation........................................................................ 10
Learning check ................................................................................................ 11
What is workforce mobility? ................................................................................... 12
Three workforce mobility tools ............................................................................... 13
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure ................................................................................. 14
VideoHP BYOD .................................................................................................. 15
BYOD challenges ................................................................................................... 16
Managing the HP BYOD solution ........................................................................... 17
IMC controls the entire BYOD admission process .......................................... 18
Delivering a complete unified solution for BYOD ................................................... 20
HP value proposition and differentiation .................................................. 21
Solution positioning in the Enterprise Business portfolio ......................... 22
SDN extends capabilities ....................................................................................... 23
Learning check ....................................................................................................... 23
Summary ................................................................................................................ 24
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Module 8Information Optimization and Business Intelligence (Big

Data)
Objectives ................................................................................................................ 1
Fox River Gaming goals........................................................................................... 2
Real-time analytics demands ................................................................................... 3
Additional references ........................................................................................ 3
Welcome to the big data world ................................................................................. 4
HP AppSystems ....................................................................................................... 5
HP AppSystem for Apache Hadoop ......................................................................... 7
Apache Hadoop ................................................................................................ 7
HP AppSystem for Apache Hadoop .................................................................. 7
HP AppSystem for SAP HANA ................................................................................. 9
Vertica .................................................................................................................... 10
HP Vertica Analytics System .................................................................................. 11
Autonomy ............................................................................................................... 12
HP StoreAll and HP Autonomy ............................................................................... 13
Enterprise storage for content and big data ........................................................... 14
Networking for big data environments .................................................................... 16
Network traffic characteristics ......................................................................... 16
Network requirements ..................................................................................... 17
Solutions ......................................................................................................... 17
Learning check ....................................................................................................... 19
Summary ................................................................................................................ 20

Objectives ................................................................................................................ 1
IT challenges at a typical branch .............................................................................. 2
Fox River Gaming .................................................................................................... 4
Branch office server issues ...................................................................................... 6
Server solutions ....................................................................................................... 7
HP Intelligent Provisioning ................................................................................ 7
HP Intelligent Provisioning: Two main features .......................................... 8
VideoHP Intelligent Provisioning ............................................................ 9
Managing server updates and deployments ................................................... 10
Branch office storage issues .................................................................................. 11
What is deduplication? .................................................................................... 12
HP StoreOnce Backup Deduplication ............................................................. 12
VideoHP StoreOnce Backup ....................................................................... 13
Branch office network issues ................................................................................. 15
HP FlexBranch ................................................................................................ 16
FlexBranch solution components .................................................................... 17
Key FlexBranch product family features ......................................................... 18
Branch consolidation ....................................................................................... 19
Wireless controllers ......................................................................................... 21
FlexBranch security......................................................................................... 21
802.1X ............................................................................................................. 22
FlexManagement ............................................................................................ 23
Learning check ................................................................................................ 24
Solution overview ................................................................................................... 25
HP Converged Infrastructure innovations for branch offices .................................. 26
Summary ................................................................................................................ 27
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Objectives ................................................................................................................ 1
HP at Fox River Gaming: Innovative HP Services for reliable solutions .................. 2
HP Services ............................................................................................................. 3
HP ServicesApplication Services .................................................................. 3
HP ServicesOutsourcing Services ................................................................. 4
HP ServicesTechnology Consulting ............................................................... 5
HP ServicesSupport Services ....................................................................... 6
Confidently evolve to HP Converged Cloud ...................................................... 7
HP Services website ......................................................................................... 8
HP tools and resources ............................................................................................ 9
HP Networking Switch Selector ........................................................................ 9
HP Simple Configurator .................................................................................. 10
HP Unified Sizer for Server Virtualization ....................................................... 10
HP Power Advisor ........................................................................................... 11
HP Networking Online Configurator ................................................................ 12
HP Storage Sizer ............................................................................................ 13
Other sizers ..................................................................................................... 14
SPOCK............................................................................................................ 15
Solution Demo Portal ...................................................................................... 16
HP Converged Infrastructure Capability Model ............................................... 16
HP Enterprise ROI .......................................................................................... 18
HP CloudSystem TCO Calculator ................................................................... 19
Personalized Cloud Assessment..................................................................... 20
ActiveAnswers................................................................................................. 21
Product Bulletin, QuickSpecs, and Product Data Sheets................................ 22
HP FlexNetwork Dropbox................................................................................ 23
Summary ................................................................................................................ 24
Learner survey ....................................................................................................... 24
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Introduction
Module 1
Objectives
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businesses
Explain why IT is converging previously siloed technologies
Describe HPs Converged Infrastructure strategy and the benefits of adopting

the HP Converged Infrastructure
Describe how the HP Converged Infrastructure provides a foundation for

modern enterprises, data centers, and cloud computing
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Introducction
Trad
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IT Infra
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s:
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Todays IT challenges and requirements

Current technology innovation is driving unprecedented change. Mobility,
virtualization, high-definition video, rich-media collaboration tools, and cloud
computing are reinventing how businessesand peoplework. Enterprises that
can harness these innovations will have new tools to drive business advantage
and build new opportunities in the global marketplace. However, when legacy
infrastructures are pushed to the limit, they become fragile, difficult to manage,
vulnerable, and expensive to operate. Businesses with infrastructures at this
breaking point risk missing new opportunities.
Enterprises are facing several requirements and challenges now:
Standardization and consolidationMany companies have multiple

facilities with siloed, underused, and proprietary technology assets. Because
companies also need to cut costs, upgrades must increase energy efficiency
and the utilization of each asset. To eliminate expensive redundancies, many
companies are trying to consolidate data center facilities and infrastructure.
They can then minimize server, storage, and application sprawl. This helps
them streamline operations and simplify day-to-day management and
maintenance.
Infrastructure solutions must use standardized components and management
tools for efficient consolidation. The goal is an intelligent, open-standard,
highly reliable network that promotes transparent access to consolidated
resources.
VirtualizationServer virtualization provides another way for companies to

increase efficiency and cut costs. Companies can use each physical machine,
which hosts multiple virtual machines (VMs), more fully. Because virtualization
makes server images easy to replicate and move, it also helps companies to
quickly scale and optimize their services.
However, for companies to benefit from virtualization, their data center
infrastructure must be designed to meet the unique needs of virtualized
servers. For example, virtualization increases the volume of traffic flowing to
each physical machine. In fact, traffic within the server rack is expected to
grow tremendously in the future.
The mobility introduced by virtualization also brings challenges. The network
infrastructure needs to provide very low latency and very high availability for
migrating workloads, and network administrators also need unified tools that
manage settings between migrating virtualized servers and the network that
supports them.
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AutomationBusinesses increasingly rely on their network resources, and

they must be confident in the availability of those resources. Manual
processes can introduce human error and delay deployment of new services.
Infrastructure solutions (server, data, and network) must deliver standardized,
automated processes for deployment, provisioning, management, and
maintenance.
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Introduction
Cloud computingCloud computing lets customers request services on

demand. To meet changing demands for network services, a cloud computing
environment relies heavily on virtualization and automation. The infrastructure
must meet the challenges these enhancements bring. The environment
requires unified management tools to provision on-demand services.
IT convergenceNew types of traffic are converging on the IT infrastructure:

voice, video, and data. Accustomed to consumer technology, business
workers have quickly acclimated to a rich-media experience and use video
and interactive collaboration tools. Pictures, video, and audio dominate more
than 25% of the documents that workers access in a day. New video
applications will increase network capacity needs by four to ten times over
current levels. Networks must do more than provide more bandwidth; they
must also adapt to the needs of real-time applications.
IT infrastructure-wide managementCompanies cannot obtain the

automation, flexibility, and scalability that they need from their data center
when IT staff must manage the infrastructure in separate, non-communicating
silos. Disparate management tools and processes introduce overhead that
companies cannot afford. Companies need unified management tools that
extend across the IT infrastructure (server, data, and network).
SecurityEnterprises must secure the IT resources in which they have

invested so heavily. Companies not only need to protect their intellectual
property and ensure service availability, but also comply with data protection
regulations. They need solutions that automatically provide the correct level of
access for each user, and close security holes introduced by the unmanaged
user devices that are becoming common in corporate environments.
Companies also need solutions that control data center traffic flows, both
physical and virtual.
Mission-critical computingA data center that supports mission-critical

services introduces challenges for the infrastructure, which must support the
highest availability for those services. In fact, the infrastructure must provide
redundancy throughout the data center. However, redundancy alone does not
ensure high availability. Infrastructure solutions must feature built-in
innovations that ensure fast, automatic, and seamless responses to any
failure.
Scale-out computingA service-oriented architecture (SOA) calls for scaleout. Services extend across multiple servers, which work together to deliver
services to clients. Scale-out computing, combined with virtualization, leads to
new traffic flows, in which most data center traffic flows between servers
rather than between clients and servers. Cloud computing, which requires
services to be deployed on demand, also drives the scale-out of services.
To ready a data center for massive scale-out, the company must have servers
and storage designed to scale. The hardware must deliver maximum
performance, combined with extreme density and power efficiency. Finally,
even while the company deploys more hardware, the hardware must remain
affordable, reliable, and manageable.
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Big data and information optimizationInformation is at the core of the

enterprise. The dramatic increase in the volume of data, the speed of data
growth, and the variety of forms data takes are transforming businesses and
governments. Organizations need to obtain a return on information (a new
definition for ROI). They need to profit from all the information they are
collecting and storing. HP big data and information optimization solutions help
companies quickly and efficiently to obtain business value from the influx of
data.
Bring your own device (BYOD)With more employees using home

computers, smartphones, and tablets to telecommute, corporate IT is faced
with a new set of challenges with user devices. Corporate IT must now
secure, support, and manage network solutions that might require access to
any application, from any device, from any location.
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Introducction
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Introducction
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data to userss.
Serv
vers often prrovide the inttelligence fo
or regulating access to th
heir resource
es,
implementing po
olicies for au
uthenticating
g users, and optimizing d
data.
p
serrvers that me
eet the requiirements forr any data ce
enter
HP provides
deployment. HP
P ProLiant se
ervers fit the needs of alm
most all ente
erprises, while
HP Integrity Non
nStop and HP Servicegu
uard serverss provide an extra layer o
of
high availability and reliabilitty. Enterprise
es that need
d to reduce ttheir footprin
nt,
power usage, an
nd overall co
osts can cho
oose HP Moo
onshot syste
ems.
StorrageStora
age devices maintain
m
datta for the complete HP C
Converged
Infra
astructure. These device
es provide da
ata to serverrs as the raw
w materials o
on
whic
ch the serverrs act. They also store th
he servers finished goo
ods, or the
proc
cessed data.
HP storage
s
solutions include
e StoreOnce
e, StoreVirtu
ual, StoreSerrv, and Store
eAll
offerrings. These
e storage solutions supp ort technolo
ogies such ass deduplicattion,
HP Peer
P
Motion, HP 3PAR ASICs,
A
and H
HP LeftHand
d operating ssystems to
virtualize storage
e.
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NetworkingThe network infrastructure acts as the conduit or connector

among storage, servers, and users. You can think of the network as a utility,
which must deliver fast, secure, flexible, and transparent access to all
services.
HP FlexNetwork architecture provides the flexible network infrastructure
behind users seamless, secure access to data and services. The FlexNetwork
extends from the data center fabric, to the campus network, and to branch or
remote offices.
FacilitiesThe facilities component consists of the physical infrastructure that

houses other components. This infrastructure includes the physical space,
racks in which devices are installed, power systems, and cooling systems.
HP offers highly efficient and intelligent solutions for existing or new IT data
centers. HP Rack and Power infrastructure solutions are designed to help
secure your long-term IT success and react to changes in the industry. They
deliver efficient, easy-to-use capabilities to manage, monitor, deploy, and
provision infrastructure from entry-level to enterprises. As an industry leader,
HP is uniquely positioned to address the key concerns of power, cooling,
cable management, and system access.
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ManagementEnterprises also require software or applications to deploy,

monitor, and maintain the other four components of the infrastructure. HP
unified management utilities include:
HP Insight Management suite, which provides unified access to a variety

of software tools for managing HP Converged Infrastructure solutions
HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC), which provides integrated

network management, visibility into the entire network infrastructure from
one console, administrative task automation, and a variety of tools
designed to maximize uptime and ensure network security
SecurityIndustry-leading security and compliance from HP TippingPoint,

HP ArcSight, HP Fortify, and more. These solutions bring software and
hardware together to secure the enterprise.
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Introducction
The power of co
onvergence
d a converge
ed infrastruccture: it is the only
HP is uniquely positioned to build
y that develo
ops its own servers,
s
storrage, networrks, and man
nagement
company
software. HP Converrged Infrastrructure unifie
es individuall products w
within an
enterpris
se into a cohesive unit. Because
B
HP is committe
ed to open sttandards, itss
Converge
ed Infrastruc
cture solution can integrrate productss from any vvendor. The HP
Converge
ed Infrastruc
cture manag
gement softw
ware and hardware soluttions provide
e
an intero
operable plattform for the integrated d
data center ((servers and
d systems,
storage, and network
king).
ourse, you will
w discover that
t
HP Con
nverged Infra
astructure fo
orms a comm
mon
In this co
context for the development, dep
ployment, an
nd integratio
on of particullar HP produ
ucts
and technologies. (Y
You can see some of the se products and techno
ologies in the
e
above fig
gure.) Within
n each Converged Infrasstructure seg
gment, you w
will identify kkey
technologies or products used to
o create solu
utions to mee
et business needs.
uct level are powerful on their own. T
The HP
The HP innovations at the produ
ed Infrastruc
cture magniffies the reso
ources value
e by integrating them into
oa
Converge
cohesive
e, well-design
ned data center.
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HP leaders
l
ship vision for
f the new s
style off IT
verged Infras
structure hellps accelera te IT to delivver what you
ur business
HP Conv
needs most. You can
n leverage HP
H products and technologies to:
Shiftt more than 50% of yourr IT resource

es from operrations to inn
novation
Reduce time to provision ap

pplications byy 75%
Decrrease downttime from da

ays or hours to just minu
utes per year
HP has the research

h, design, and implemen tation leadership, as we
ell as
intellectu
ual property in
i all key are
eas of IT infrrastructure a
and manage
ement. The
company
y is positione
ed as first orr second in m
market share
e in servers, storage,
networkin
ng, data cen
nter design, and
a IT mana
agement.
HP provides heterog
geneous, ope
en, standard
ds-based, modular building blocks th
hat
enable you to integra
ate your exis
sting IT infra structure intto an overall converged
infrastruc
ctureall ma
anaged thro
ough a comm
mon manage
ement platform. You will be
able to le
everage your existing inv
vestments a
as you move toward infra
astructure
converge
ence.
HP has proven
p
itself with decade
es of experie
ence deploying applicatiion,
virtualiza
ation, and inffrastructure solutions
s
wo
orldwide. HP
Ps solution ffor enterprise
e
networks
s is based on
n:
Conv
verged Infra
astructure
Conv
verged Clou
ud
Virtu
ual applicatio
on networks implemente
ed with Softw
ware-Defined
d Networks
(SDN
N) and Softw
ware-Defined
d Data Centters (SDDC))
You will learn more about

a
these componentss in this courrse.
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Introducction
Com
mpanie
es are making big iinvestm
ments
To addre
ess current challenges,
c
companies
c
a
are investing
g in technologies to
increase their busine
ess, gain a competitive
c
a
advantage, a
and boost th
he bottom line.
They are
e making the
ese investme
ents in:
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Clou
ud
Big data
d
Mob
bility
Secu
urity
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Cloud
b
and
d IT challeng
ges have led
d to several trends within data cente
er
Current business
solutions
s.
First, in the
t past, use
ers at an entterprise cam
mpus primarilly used applications
running on
o local serv
vers. Today, the trend is to consolida
ate all serverrs and servicces
in a singlle, centralize
ed data centter or to hostt the service
es in a cloud. These shiffts
provide the
t following
g benefits:
Ope
erational effficiencyTh
he staff can more easily maintain (in
nstall, monito
or,
upda
ate, and trou
ubleshoot) sy
ystems that are located in the same
e place.
Resource maximizationT
The compan
ny avoids du
uplicating application
serv
vers, storage
e media, bac
ckup resourcces, and eve
en human resources (the
e
stafff who mainta
ains the prod
ducts).
Howeverr, consolidating network resources in

ntroduces isssues as welll. Users musst
now acce
ess applications remotely, often ove
er a WAN linkk, a virtual p
private netwo
ork
(VPN), or even the In
nternet. Therefore, netw
work designe
ers face thesse challenges:
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The total bandw

width availablle for these a
applicationss is limited byy remote linkks.
Late
ency might also increase
e, which migh
ht cause app
plication issu
ues.
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Introducction
Big data
d
ast, business
s applications were base
ed on the clie
ent-server m
model. In thiss
In the pa
model, th
he client and
d server each fulfilled sp
pecific functio
ons, althoug
gh those
functions
s differed, de
epending on the applicattion and imp
plementation
n. For examp
ple,
some applications im
mplemented table lookup
ps directly att the server. Other
applicatio
ons transferrred whole ta
ables to the cclient, which
h then condu
ucted the
search. Depending
D
on
o the applic
cation, the cl ient and the
e server exch
hanged varyying
amounts of traffics
sometimes a great deal. Client-to-se
erver traffic iss typically
called north-south (N-S)
(
traffic.
b
applications te
end to be com
mpletely serrver-based w
with a Web
Todays business
interface as the clien
nt. In other words,
w
the cliient is virtua
alized in the sserver and
controlled remotely through a We
eb-based intterface. The
e server side
e no longer
consists of one mass
sive applicattion that runss on a single
e server. Now a structurred
set of servers manag
ges the service. This sett of servers ttypically includes:
A ge
eneric databa
ase server and
a a storag e system at the back en
nd
An application
a
server runnin
ng the speciffic applicatio
on logic in the middle
A Web server att the front en

nd, communiicating with tthe client
del greatly re
educes traffic between th
he users sta
ation and the
e server
This mod
(except possibly
p
whe
en printing) because
b
mo
ost informatio
on is exchan
nged among
servers within
w
the da
ata center. This model w
works well forr companiess with a remo
ote
data center or cloud environmen
nt because itt minimizes tthe traffic tha
at must crosss
WAN link
ks and VPN tunnels.
Although
h traffic to an
nd from the data
d
center d
decreases, tthe traffic an
nd the
processin
ng within the
e data cente
er rapidly inc rease. As co
ompanies m
move toward
information optimizattion and bus
siness intellig
gence using
g real-time an
nalytics (kno
own
as big da
ata), the trafffic among da
ata center se
ervers is hig
gh and growing. This
server-to
o-server trafffic is called east-west ((E-W) traffic..
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Mobiility
amics of todays mobile work enviro nment make

e it almost im
mpossible fo
or
The dyna
people to
o meet face--to-face everry time they need to collaborate. Yett the need fo
or
unified co
ommunicatio
on and collaboration (UC
C&C) is stronger than evver.
Collabora
ation now re
equires multimedia appli cations that include voicce, video, ch
hat,
and desk
ktop/applicattion-sharing capabilities .
As you have learned
d, traditional applicationss require trafffic to flow be
etween a client
and serv
ver (north-south traffic). Collaboration
C
n tools, on th
he other han
nd, require
traffic to flow betwee
en clients (ea
ast-west) tra ffic.
a
e
Even when three-tierr database applications
and remote data centerrs reduce the
mpus, collab
boration applications ree
establish that
demand for bandwidth in the cam
est orientatio
on of the trafffic introduce
es the need for
demand. In addition, the east-we
flatter LA
ANs with few
wer tiers whe
enever possi ble.
Traffic re
elated to reall-time collaboration appl icationsin particular vvoice and vid
deo
applicatio
onsalso ha
as different Quality
Q
of Se
ervice (QoS) requirements from
traditiona
al data traffic
c. The applic
cations tolera
ate only low
w levels of de
elay, jitter (ou
utof-order delivery or differing
d
leve
els of delay), and packett loss.
o latency-se
ensitive appllications, enterprises mu
ust carefully
With morre reliance on
plan users access to
o the networrk, whether tthey access the networkk from a main
n
campus, a branch offfice, or a rem
mote locatio
on using a VP
PN or the Internet.
Compounding this issue is BYOD
Dusers brringing their own devicess and
attemptin
ng to use the
em to access
s a companyys resource
es. BYOD cre
eates securiity
and supp
port issues th
hat must be addressed in a converg
ged infrastru
ucture solutio
on.
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Introducction
Secu
urity
hree investm
ment strategie
es companie
es
Security is an importtant component of the th
are making:
Clou
ud
Big data
d
Mob
bility
With com
mpanies consolidating re
esources to ffewer data ccenters, som
me resourcess
may be in private data centers (p
private cloud
d) while othe
er resources are in a pub
blic
cloud (su
uch as HP, Google,
G
or Am
mazon). No matter wherre resourcess are stored,,
however,, companies
s must protec
ct data and ccontrol acce
ess to it.
Imagine if you ran a credit card processing
p
ccompany and during pea
ak months o
of
the year, such as No
ovember and
d December,, the numberr of transacttions doubled
d or
tripled. Building
B
a data center to handle this temporary in
ncrease in re
esource
utilization
n would not make sense
e. Instead, th
he credit carrd company could emplo
oy a
public clo
oud to handlle the additio
onal transacctions. Howe
ever, securityy would be a
critical co
oncern beca
ause credit card informattion would b
be accessed and stored on
non-com
mpany resourrces.
When co
ompanies centralize data
a and applica
ations in a d
data center to reduce
infrastruc
cture and ma
anagement costs,
c
contro
olling accesss to these re
esources is a
real conc
cern. For exa
ample, a com
mpany could
d have a bla
ade server so
olution with
many rac
cks of blade server enclo
osures and a centralized
d storage arrea network
(SAN). Like many co
ompanies, th
his company could also d
deploy virtua
al machines
(VMs) ac
cross the serrver enclosu
ures and use
e these VMs to run front--end
applicatio
ons and bac
ck-end datab
bases. With ssuch a soluttion, the IT sstaff must
ensure th
hat the applications are authorized tto access on
nly the data n
needed to
complete
e the require
ed transactio
ons. For exam
mple, a finan
ncial transacction
applicatio
on that is pro
ocessing ord
ders made th
hrough an In
nternet serve
er should no
ot
be able to
t access co
ompany payrroll informati on, which iss stored on th
he same SA
AN.
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Users in the campus, branch offices, and Internet need to access resources
located in the data center. An effective security solution is required to ensure that
only authorized users can access their services, and only their services, in the
data center. If users access these resources over a public network, sensitive
information must be encrypted. In addition, users can use a variety of devicesa
company laptop, their own tablet, or even a home computerto access network
resources. Identifying who is attempting to access resources and determining the
trustworthiness of their device can present problems. Once authorized users are
granted access, applications such as VoIP and collaboration applications need to
work seamlessly as users move around the network, where reliability and security
are a major concern.
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Introducction
HP Conve
C
erged Infrastrructure
e motiv
vation
ns
c
or imp
prove agility while reduciing ongoing operational
By simplifying, you create
d providing the
t flexibility
y to innovate
e. Lower cossts free up ca
apital so that
costs and
your com
mpany can in
nvest in business innova
ations and IT
T infrastructu
ure
investme
ents that will provide ong
going benefitts for your company. Faster innovation
gives you
ur company the freedom
m to move to
o better IT pla
atforms. You
ur company
also gain
ns more from
m its busines
ss operationss and profitss from the bu
usiness
intelligen
nce, which yo
ou can harve
est and reinvvest in the ccompany.
The purp
pose of IT is to support th
he businesss. HP Converged Infrastrructure helpss
business
ses increase revenue, re
educe cost, a
and reduce rrisk.
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HP Conve
C
e enab
bles grrowth tto
clou
ud
uld next examine the fou

undation of tthe Converged Infrastruccture design
n.
You shou
HP Conv
verged Infras
structure pro
ovides more than a staticc platform fo
or a given
deployme
ent. Converg
ged Infrastru
ucture is a fo
oundational structure, w
which allows a
data center to evolve
e from a simple deploym
ment on standardized hardware,
through well-defined
steps towarrd a global, vvirtualized p
w
platform that delivers
echnologiess, available o
services on demand. The same underlying te
on both mid-level and
d enterprise products, prrovide a com
mmon thread
d through the
e steps.
Therefore, as your data center evolves,
e
you can maintaiin your invesstments, nott
just in ha
ardware but also in the applications
a
deployed accross the hardware.
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Introduction
Introducing the scenario

To help you to understand how to apply HP innovations, Converged Infrastructure,
and cloud computing, this course shows how HP solutions meet the needs of a
fictional company, Fox River Gaming. You will see how HP Converged
Infrastructure provides this company with a framework for expanding its basic IT
services into a large enterprise, cloud-enabled service.
Fox River Gaming is a software and game developer based in a western Chicago
suburb. For the past two years, the company has been building an innovative
system, which it hopes will be the next big thing in gaming. In January, the
company received a significant investment from a venture capital firm impressed
by demonstrations of its system. It is now February, and the company has turned
to HP to provide the infrastructure to support their anticipated, rapid growth over
the next year.
The company plans to manage the infrastructure upgrade in five phases:
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Phase OneThe company consolidates its various servers and storage

media, currently located in a server room, into a standardized set of scalable
servers and storage devices in the companys first real data center. The
company currently employees 85 people at its main office. This upgrade must
also support an anticipated growth of 40% to 80% in staff and resources at
this main office over the coming year.
Phase TwoThe company plans to launch its game by November to

capitalize on the holiday sales season. The game will include an online
component. To host the online gaming services, the company requires a
separate, mission-critical and public-facing data center. Phase Two of Fox
River Gamings infrastructure upgrade consists of designing, deploying, and
testing the high-availability environment suitable for hosting these missioncritical services. Because this data center is essential to the successful launch
of the game, it must be tested and fully operational before the launch.
Phase ThreePlanning for the implications of the game launch is Phase

Three in Fox River Gamings upgrade. The capacity of both the main office
data center and the public gaming data center might need to grow at
unanticipated rates at or after the product launch. Although it is economically
infeasible to overbuild for growth that might never occur, the company needs a
plan to quickly scale the size and capability of one or both of the data centers.
The company wants to be able to expand to a large enterprise with as little as
one to six months notice.
Phase FourFox River Gaming explores the capabilities of its HP Converged

Infrastructure solution to optimize the business in a variety of ways. You will
see the powerful impact of HP innovations while you examine:
How the infrastructure handles workload and workforce mobility
How the infrastructure helps the company to harvest value from the large
data sets collected by the online game environment
How the infrastructure integrates with HP Cloud and HP Services

resources
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Phase FiveThe next phase involves the incorporation of a remote or branch

office in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fox River Gaming has contracted a
specific piece of game development to three developers in California. That
team has grown to 14 developers working in a rented office space. With the
venture capital funding secured, the company has decided to hire these
contractors into the company and eventually to double the number of
programmers and other staff at this site. The branch office employees require
access to development tools and other applications in the main data centers in
Illinois. The company needs a branch office infrastructure that promotes
efficient, secure access to these resources without overburdening the current
IT staff.
Over the rest of this course, you will explore the individual HP Converged
Infrastructure components from various aspects. You will learn how the solutions
overcome specific challenges in the Fox River Gaming scenarioan example that
you can expand and apply to other data center environments.
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Introduction
Course modules
This course consists of the following modules:
Module 2HP Innovations

This module introduces some of the HP technologies and products a company
commonly employs to achieve their converged infrastructure goals. These
products span server, storage, networking, and management solutions.
Module 3Standard Data Center

This module defines typical expectations for a data center environment,
identifying common challenges for those environments. It then introduces HP
technologies and product families, which can be used to meet standard,
established goals in any basic data center.
Module 4Business-Critical Data Center

This module explores the HP Converged Infrastructure products and
technologies that meet the challenging demands of a business-critical data
center. This data center environment must provide high availability,
automatically and rapidly recovering without data loss when failures do occur.
The need for high availability pushes companies to implement redundancy at
every hardware component. This, in turn, introduces the challenges of
interconnecting and synchronizing redundant components and then
synchronizing data across them. The synchronization traffic typically places a
heavy burden on the network.
In addition, to obtain true data redundancy, a company requires a multi-site
environment. Ensuring that the infrastructure meets the needs for security,
performance, and bandwidth becomes even more challenging when two or
more data centers must act as one.

With network services forming a key component of so many companies
missions, companies need these services to be available as the business calls
for them. Often, however, increasing the capacity of a network service takes
months of planning. This module presents the HP solutions and tools that help
IT staff proactively plan for quickly scaling up a data centers capacity. These
tools also help the IT staff handle the deployment and maintain the expanding
data center with few or even no new members.
Module 6Cloud
This module focuses on the cloud and HP Converged Cloud Solutions. It
presents the benefits of HP private and public cloud services, explaining how
they help organizations to scale their capabilities in an on-demand, virtualized
environment.
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Module 7Workload Mobility and Workforce Mobility

Companies need the flexibility to be able to place computing resources in any
location. While companies grow and change, users at any location might need
to access resources at any other location. These and other optimization
requirements mean companies need efficient processes for moving workloads
between physical data centers. This module explains how HP Converged
Infrastructure solutions support these needs. It also introduces solutions for
BYOD environments, in which users access resources from any device.
Module 8Information Optimization and Business Intelligence (Big Data)

This module defines big data. It introduces the information optimization,
business intelligence, and real-time analytic applications that transform data
into a valuable resource for the company. You also learn about related HP
Converged Infrastructure solutions.

In this module, you consider the challenges of extending network services to
branch offices. In a branch office, IT staff often encounters solutions that have
grown in an ad-hoc manner with heterogeneous hardware. The company must
consolidate and standardize this hardware. At the same time, the company
must establish secure, seamless access between the branch office and
remote data centers. Solutions must help IT staff easily manage the branch
office infrastructure remotely and secure employee and guest access, whether
wired or wireless.

Although HP solutions help administrators to manage the infrastructure more
efficiently, an expanding data center might require more staff. Sometimes an
organization cannot increase its IT staff to meet the management needs of an
expanding IT infrastructure. This module provides information about the HP
services, partners, and managed solutions that can meet these organizations
needs. This module also concludes the course, tying together all the HP
innovations explored throughout the previous modules.
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Introduction
Summary
This module has introduced you to HP Converged Infrastructure, HPs innovative
approach to meeting the challenges of todays data centers. HP Converged
Infrastructure includes a variety of product-level innovations, which you will
examine throughout this course, but it also extends beyond the product level. HP
Converged Infrastructure integrates the previously separate silos of servers,
storage, network, facilities, and management, replacing these silos with a cohesive
framework that IT staff manages as a whole. This integrated framework becomes
the foundation for building highly available, scalable, and virtualized data center
services.
In Module 2, you will begin your exploration of HP Converged Infrastructure
solutions by examining some of the key HP technologies and products used in
achieving a companys converged infrastructure goals.
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HP Innovations
Module 2
Objectives
This module introduces some of the key technologies and products HP offers to
help you achieve an efficient, scalable, and cost-effective converged infrastructure.
You will learn more about these technologies and products, as well as many
others, throughout the other modules in this course.
After completing this module, you should be able to list and describe key HP
innovations for:
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Servers
Storage
Networking
IT management
IT convergence and cloud
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i
ations helpin
ng YOU
U innov
vate
even to 10 ye
ears, techno
ology deliveryy undergoess a tectonic sshiftone th
hat
Every se
opens up
p new busine
ess and access models.. From mobility, to social media, to b
big
data, to the
t advent of
o cloud computing, thes e shifts chan
nge the wayy that
technology is consum
med and the
e value that i t can bring.
ent challenge
es. In order tto derive the
e most value
e
Howeverr, these shifts also prese
from your IT investm
ment, your bu
usiness mustt have a stra
ategy not only for coping
g
with the massive
m
datta growth tha
at faces toda
ays IT organ
nizations butt also for
exploiting
g these new
w technology areas. With
h legacy infra
astructure, IT
T staff can
barely ke
eep up with maintaining
m
the networkk, let alone in
nnovate or a
adapt the
infrastruc
cture to chan
nging needs
s.
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verged Infras
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g:
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d building blo
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nect solution
ns, which briidge the gap
p between se
erver, storag
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omplexities iin managing
g server blad
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s
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acks, fans, power supplie
es, and diskk drives to re
educe costs
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eterogeneou
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automation
capa
abilitiesas well as open, standardss-based, mo
odular buildin
ng blocks for
serv
vers, storage
e, and netwo
orkingenab
ble you to inttegrate yourr existing IT
infra
astructure intto an overalll converged infrastructurre, all manag
ged through
ha
common manag
gement platfo
orm. You ca n leverage yyour existing
g investmentts
as you move tow
wards infrasttructure convvergence wiithout becom
ming locked into
the HP
H technology stack.
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ades of pro
oven experie
enceIn ad
ddition to orcchestrating
HPs
s own large scale
s
transfo
ormation, HP
P has helped
d hundreds of customerrs
just like you unle
eash the pow
wer of the da
ata center ass a driver for business
grow
wth. And its not just exp
perience with
h data cente
er hardware; HPs experttise
extends to softw
ware, applica
ations, facilitiiesin shorrt, data cente
ers as a who
ole.
ntroduce you
u to some off these key ttechnologiess
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will discuss these components in more
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w you can im
mplement th em, as well as other HP
P technologie
es,
solutions
s, and products, and gain
n these adva
antages you
urself.
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HP innova
i
ations for serrvers
ers superior choices for servers thatt can reliablyy support an

ny workload.
HP delive
HPs com
mmitment to focused inn
novation allow
ws HP serve
er customerss to do more
e
with less. Because te
echnology acts as a keyy way for you
u to differenttiate yourself
from com
mpetitors, it makes
m
sense
e for you to examine how
w your curre
ent
infrastruc
cture can be
est meet your future nee ds. System migration to
o HPs
converge
ed infrastruc
cture solution
ns can have profound bu
usiness impa
acts, including:
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Bette
er energy effficiency and
d general red
duction in tottal cost of ow
wnership
(TCO
O):
Reduced po
ower and cooling costs d
due to energ
gy efficiency built in to th
he
hardware
Holistic data
a center ene
ergy manage
ement built in
n to HP ProL
Liant serverss
and extendiing across th
he data centter:
Therma
al Logic
Intellige
ent Power Discovery
Data Center Smart Grid
Perform
mance Optim
mized Data C
Center (POD
D)
Reductions in other ope

erating costss including licensing and
d maintenancce
Lower hardw
ware acquisition costs
Increased price-perform
p
mance of Inte
el Xeon proccessors, whiich puts you
ahead of the
e price perfo
ormance currve
Innovative BladeSystem
B
ms and Virtu al Connect ssolutions, ass well as the
e
ground-brea
aking HP Mo
oonshot solu
utions, which
h share reso
ources
intelligently
The resilience yo
ou require fo
or mission crritical appliccations
ased system
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b
in to the
e hardware w
with UNIX-ba
ms
Efficient, inn
novative BladeSystems and Virtual C
Connect solutions that
deliver high availability at a fraction of the cost
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Intelligence and automation built in to HP ProLiant servers and other

innovations that improve administrative efficiency:
More efficient and comprehensive tools
Minimized management overhead with a standardized, common

infrastructure
Decreased server count and a higher server-to-administrator ratio
HP offers an open, modernized portfolio that provides:
Investment protection and choice of mission-critical infrastructure with Project

Odyssey
Innovative Atom processors
Greater focus on Linux/Windows platforms
Less exposure to proprietary technologies
Important HP converged server products include:
HP ProLiant servers
HP Integrity servers
HP Moonshot servers
HP BladeSystem blade server solutions
Virtual Connect
HP Intelligent rack series
HP automated energy optimization through HP Location Discovery Services,

HP Thermal Discovery Services, and HP Power Discovery Services
HP Data Center Smart Grid
The rest of this section lets you explore some of these products and technologies
in more depth.
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HP Moonsho
M
ot: the worlds
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first softtware-de
efined se
erver
nshot, the wo
orlds first so
oftware-defin
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HP Moon
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sign, delivering the spee
ed, scale, an
nd specializa
ation required
for the ne
ew style of IT
T. HP has ta
aken all the ccommon ele
ements of a ttraditional
servertthe power su
upply and th
he power corrds, the coolling fans, the
e manageme
ent
interface and the ma
anagement network,
n
the network inte
erface and th
he network
uplinks
and transfo
ormed them into a resou rce pool tha
at is shared a
across manyy
servers. In effect, HP
P shared eve
erything othe
er than the ssoftware-deffined portion of
the desig
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The fabriic that interc
connects this
s communityy of servers p
presents one of the mosst
innovativ
ve parts of th
he Moonshott architecturre. Servers, sstorage, and
d other
resource
es interconne
ect and communicate ovver the fabriccall within the same
chassis. Multiple fabrics and inte
erfaces engin
neered in the chassis offfer scalabilitty
for now and
a the futurre.
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M
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ystem suppo
orts a range
e of software-defined serrvers that are
e
tailored and
a optimize
ed for specifiic workloadss. Aligning th
he right amounts of
compute, memory, sttorage, and I/O to a spe
ecific workloa
ad is the keyy to achievin
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ency at scale
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ny before: a ccommunity o
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share ev
verything the
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maximum efficiency witho
out
servers that
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mising individ
dual servers dedicated a
and specialized servicess. In this wayy,
HP Moon
nshot serverrs achieve a 10:1 scaling
g compared to traditiona
al servers.
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p
18 years
s, the next re
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erver CPU ha
as occurred on an 18
month ca
adence. But you depend
d on benefitin
ng as soon a
as possible ffrom new
specialized applicatio
ons and sma
art device in novations. K
Knowing thiss, HP will
release new
n
technolo
ogy for Moonshot every four monthss.
You also need suppo
ort for the lattest technolo
ogy and solu
utions from a variety of
vendors. Using the HP
H Pathfinde
er Innovation
n Ecosystem
m, HP bringss together
leading technology partners,
p
delivering whatt they do besst on the Mo
oonshot
System
at a ground
dbreaking tim
me-to-marke
et cadence.
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HP Moonshot 1500
onshot 1500
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esign to disccover how fa
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a tremendous
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ver/storage cartridges
c
an
nd two low-la
atency netw
work switch ccartridges. The
hot-plug cartridges are
a architecte
ed for efficie
ency and flexxibility. Curre
ently, one
cartridge
e supports on
ne server, so
o the chassiss supports u
up to 45 servvers. Quadserver ca
artridges, av
vailable in the
e near future
e, will increa
ase the serve
er count to 1
180
servers per
p chassis
all sharing the five dua
al-rotor fan m
modules (up to about
4500W of
o cooling), tw
wo common slot power ssupplies, or four commo
on slot powe
er
supplies for redundancy. (Initially
y, power sup
pplies provid
de 1200W ea
ach but
additiona
al options will be availab
ble in the futu
ure). A stand
dard 42U racck, holding n
nine
HP Moon
nshot 1500 Chassis,
C
willl scale to 1,6
620 servers (405 serverss with the
single-se
erver cartridg
ge).
The four integrated 2D
2 toroid clu
uster commu
unication fab
brics, conneccted through
ha
passive baseboard/b
b
backplane, provide
p
pointt-to-point con
nnectivity fro
om cartridge
e to
cartridge
e over simple
e copper trac
ces. Protoco
ol and functio
onality can b
be driven by the
applicatio
on requirements, reducing complexiity and costss while incre
easing flexibiility,
reliability
y, and scalab
bility.
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y located swiitch cartridge
es provide h
high bandwid
dth and low latency. Eacch
embedde
ed switch giv
ves each cartridge serve
er a single 1 GbE port fo
or up to two
ports perr cartridge. To
T ensure iso
olation and rredundancy, each switch
h cartridge
connects
s to a different fabric. Ea
ach switch ca
artridge also
o maps to a n
network uplink
module. These stack
kable module
es provide th
he rear cabling standard
d to rack-mo
ount
servers but
b the cable
e consolidation of a Top of the Rack (ToR) switch, delivering
g up
to six 10G
GbE ports to
oday or four 40GbE portts in the nea
ar future.
The stora
age fabric op
ptimizes CPU cores, me
eeting your n
needs wheth
her your
applicatio
ons have minimal or rich
h storage ne
eeds and whether multip
ple servers
share a single
s
drive or
o a single server
s
requirres multiple d
dedicated drrives.
The man
nagement mo
odule manag
ges the infra
astructure po
ower and co
ooling. Even
better, it provides a single
s
point of
o managem
ment for all se
ervers with p
point-to-poin
nt
connectio
ons to each cartridge through a ded
dicated mana
agement fab
bric.
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h the
HP is pro
intelligen
nce needed for
f the scale
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More
e intelligence
e and autom
mation built in
nto a single server than ever before
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ore ways, in
ncluding adm
ministration, a
applicationss, and service
es,
than
n anyone has
s ever attem
mpted
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Analyzing
g over 100,0
000 situation
ns from real world data ccenters, HP has identifie
ed
common root causes
s behind high operating costs, data loss, poor application
performa
ance, downtime, and waste. HPs revview of outa
age reports a
and
conversa
ations with customers re
evealed culprrits such as::
Man
nual processes
Lack
k of overall data
d
and insiight from the
e IT systemss
Lack
k of real-time
e information
n in the hand
ds of the righ
ht people at the right tim
me
Based on
n this inform
mation, HP invested more
e than two yyears and $3
300 million at
hundreds
s of beta tes
st sites, inclu
uding Microssoft, Accentu
ure, Nth Gen
neration, and
d
Purdue University
U
C
Carter cluster, where HP
P powers the
e fifty-fourth largest
university
y research computer
c
in the
t world. W
With over 900
0 patents file
ed, HP creatted
over 150
0 unique customer and partner
p
innovvations in ord
der to bring more
intelligen
nce and auto
omation and to eliminate
e as many m
manual steps, touches, and
processe
es as possible.
Beneffits of the
e HP ProL
Liant Gen
n8 serverrs
d by the HP ProActive
P
Insight archite
ecture, ProLiant Gen8 se
ervers
Powered
continuously analyze
e thousands of system p
parameters tto optimize a
application
performa
ance, proactiively improve uptime, an
nd give you insight into e
every aspecct of
your IT in
nfrastructure
e.
ProLiant Gen8 serve
ers help you eliminate co
ommon prob
blems that ca
an cause
failures, downtime an
nd data loss
s. The serverrs 150 innovvations inclu
ude:
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Integ
grated Lifecy
ycle Automa
ation
Dyna
amic Worklo
oad Accelera
ation
Auto
omated Enerrgy Optimiza
ation
ProA
Active Insigh
ht Experience
ProA
Active Insigh
ht Architecturre Alliance
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Integrated Lifecycle Automation

In today's data centers, your IT team members lives are harder than they should
be. Too often, their workday is a steady stream of error alerts, system events,
installation and update issues, and calls to support desks.
To respond, your IT team needs intelligent servers that eliminate tedious, timeconsuming taskswhich is exactly what the new HP ProLiant family with the HP
ProActive Insight architecture provides. This architecture, embedded inside each
next-generation ProLiant server, gives you deep insight into your IT environment
and a rich set of capabilities that automate and simplify system provisioning,
troubleshooting, and software updates.
HP Intelligent ProvisioningFind everything you need built into the server,

providing painless system setup and deployment.
HP Active HealthExperience 24/7 mission control for automated

monitoring, diagnostics, and alerting.
HP Smart UpdateSchedule, stage, and deploy updates across hundreds of

servers with a click.
For more information on this subject, view this video:
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/inc/whatsnew/proliantgen8/lifecyclevideo.html
Dynamic Workload Acceleration

Storage is the top performance bottleneck for your virtualized and data-intensive
workloads. By converging server and storage together and optimizing for solid
state performance, ProLiant Gen8 servers get rid of the bottlenecks and accelerate
your most demanding applications.
Solid state drives (SSDs)Optimize storage performance with speeds

hundreds of times faster than traditional disks.
Smart data protectionGain confidence in your data and help to ensure

uptime.
Smart data servicesEnable real-time application tuning and acceleration.

http://h17007.www1.hp.com/inc/whatsnew/proliantgen8/workloadvideo.html
Automated Energy Optimization

As data centers grow, power and cooling costs grab an ever larger piece of the IT
budget. The automated energy optimization capabilities in the new ProLiant family
are enabled by HP 3D Sea of Sensor technologies. Embedded in servers, the Sea
of Sensors provide intelligence across three dimensions: sense of location, power
utilization, and thermal demand. Clients gain a unique level of visibility and control
over their data center energy efficiency:
M2 10
HP Location Discovery ServicesEnable energy-aware workload

placement and automate asset management.
HP Thermal Discovery ServicesReduce energy usage and increase

compute capacity.
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HP Innovations
HP Power Discovery ServicesEliminate power configuration errors and

precisely track power usage by rack and server.
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/inc/whatsnew/proliantgen8/energyvideo.html
ProActive Insight Experience

In today's data centers, too much of your time is lost on IT support issues. When a
system goes down and a service call begins, you might spend hours digging
through spreadsheets and log files to find and communicate dozens of pieces of
data to a support desk.
Taking advantage of the rich insight collected by the HP ProActive Insight
architecture, the ProLiant Gen8 helps you proactively resolve issues, accelerate
problem resolution, and gain valuable insights into your data center operations.
HP Insight OnlineExperience the industry's first cloud-based IT

management and support portal.
Proactive servicesImprove uptime and performance with innovative new

services based on the HP ProActive Insight architecture
HP ServiceONE advantageLeverage local expertise backed by HP's global

resources.
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/inc/whatsnew/proliantgen8/proactivevideo.html
System architecture and design

From the moment your first HP ProLiant Gen8 server emerges from the box, you
will feel and see the built-in quality. Guided by HPs Client-2-Innovation design
philosophy, HP engineers and developers created more than 150 innovations that
help you get tasks done simply, reliably, and with confidence. These nextgeneration servers were designed for the way you work.
Clients who have trusted ProLiant servers for years will be instantly familiar with
the consistent experience and yet appreciative of the attention to detail in the new
features and design. Taken together, the sweeping architecture and design
innovations in the new ProLiant family will help your IT team increase productivity,
improve server and application uptime, and drive higher levels of system
performance.
Rev. 14.11
Designed-in qualityVirtually eliminate common problems that cause

downtime and data loss.
Hassle-free serviceabilityIncrease your productivity and confidence during

setup, upgrade, and repair.
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Intuitive simplic
cityReduc
ce errors an d improve p
productivity w
with an intuittive,
efficient user exp
perience.
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deo:
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ProAc
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a
ProActive
e Insight arc
chitecture is more than a design or e
even a transforming dessign
philosoph
hy. Over 900
0 patents, ov
ver 150 custtomer innova
ations, and a
alliances witth
the world
ds top techn
nology provid
ders all align
n to transform
m the serverr experience
e.
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st of these HP
H Alliance Partners
P
at:
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HP Virtual
V
Connect
B
ms, the innov
vations do no
ot stay confiined within the enclosure
e.
For HP BladeSystem
HP c-Cla
ass blade en
nclosures support three fflexible apprroaches to cconnecting
blade servers to an external
e
swittched netwo
ork:
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Pass
s-through moduleTh
m
his solution ffunctions mu
uch like a pa
atch panel
placed in the enclosure. An Ethernet po rt on every sserver blade
e connects to
o
p
h module; ea
ach server p
port has a de
edicated uplink port, whiich
the pass-through
conn
nects to an external
e
netw
work switch.
Swittch moduleThis soluttion function s much like an Ethernett switch placced

in the enclosure. An Etherne
et port on evvery server b
blade conneccts to the
ch module; however,
h
network admin
nistrators control how the
e module
switc
carriies traffic between those
e ports and u
uplink ports in much the same way a
as
netw
work adminis
strators configure Top off Rack (ToR)) switches. F
For SAN
solutions, you would
w
need a separate sw
witch module
e.
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Virtual Connect moduleThe Virtual Connect modules combine many of the

benefits of switch modules with benefits specifically designed for HP
BladeSystems. A port on every server blade connects to the Virtual Connect
module, and server administrators map ports to the correct uplinks in the
correct VLANs and SAN fabrics.
Customers often ask about the differences pass-through, switch, and Virtual
Connect modules. Pass-through modules require little administration since they
simply connect server blade ports to external switch ports on a one-to-one basis.
However, these simple solutions do not allow blade servers to share uplink
bandwidth.
Both switch and Virtual Connect modules reduce TCO by allowing such sharing.
The sections below explain key differences between switch and Virtual Connect
interconnect modules, explaining where each type of module fits within the data
center architecture and who manages the module.
Switch interconnect modules

A switch is part of the Ethernet or the storage network, depending on the specific
I/O connectivity it supports. The switch is directly connected to either a server NIC
or a storage Host Bus Adaptor (HBA). The switch module communicates with the
other switches that make up the overall data center communications environment,
and it is managed as part of that environment. For example, if the environment
includes network loops for redundancy, the switch module forms part of the
spanning tree that manages those redundant paths. Administrators must have total
control over their network to make sure it operates properly, securely, and
efficiently. Therefore, in most enterprises, Ethernet switch modules are managed
by the network operations group and FC switch modules, by the storage
operations group.
Virtual Connect interconnects

Like switch modules, the Virtual Connect modules allow servers to share uplink
connections. However, they form a further layer between the server and storage
devices and the Ethernet and storage networks, making device changes
transparent to those networks.
The Virtual Connect module is managed by the server administrator as part of the
overall server or storage system. Because the Virtual Connect module is less
complicated than a switch, and specifically designed for the HP BladeSystem, the
server or storage administrator can easily handle the configuration tasks without
detailed networking knowledge.
The next pages provide more information about the unique benefits that Virtual
Connect solutions bring to converged infrastructures.
Note
Virtual Connect is in effect an edge port aggregator that provides Layer 2
networking capabilities. Virtual Connect does forward frames as a switch does,
but its uplink ports appear as termination ports to upstream switches not as
transit ports.
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HP Virtual Con
nnect com
mponents
s
sts of:
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rtual Conne ct Ethernet, Fibre Channel,
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ar of
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ver adapters
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Beneffits of HP
P Virtual Connect
C
al Connect components
c
s simplify ma
anagement a
and
Togetherr these Virtua
maintena
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erver ports sshare in a fle
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netw
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mit traffic in multiple
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erent networrks to share an uplink.
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For the Virtual Connect uplinks themselves, you can choose from a variety of
connectivity options. For example, on a Virtual Connect Ethernet module, you
might begin with 1 GbE small form-factor pluggable modules (SFPs), which you
upgrade to 10Gb SFP+ transceivers when you are ready. Ethernet uplinks can
connect to any vendors Ethernet switches because they support industry-standard
protocols and communication interfaces. Similarly FC uplinks connect to standard
SAN switches.
Converges LAN and SAN connectivity (FlexFabric and Flex-10/10D)

All of this functionality, which has been provided in the past by separate Virtual
Connect Ethernet and Fibre Channel modules, is combined and enhanced within
the Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules. These converged, wire-once network
solutions minimize extension modules, cables, and software licenses, enhancing
flexibility and delivering a low TCO.
Each Virtual Connect FlexFabric module has up to eight external Ethernet uplink
ports. Some of these ports can alternatively provide FC connections to a SAN
switch, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connections, direct attach FC
connections to an HP 3PAR system, or stacking connections to other modules.
(Refer to the HP Web site for specific information about the connectivity options for
current offerings.)
You receive the full benefit of these solutions when server blades have FlexFabric
adaptors, built into ProLiant BL Gen8 servers and also available on mezzanine
cards. These adaptors allow you to divide one 10GbE port into smaller bandwidth
FlexNICs, one of which can even act as a FlexHBA and support FCoE or Internet
Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) storage traffic. In this way, a single
server port, or two redundant server ports, can provide a server with all of its
production data, management, and storage connectivity needsrepresenting a
huge savings for you in equipment, power, and cooling costs.
Virtual Connect Flex-10/10D modules and server Flex-10 adaptors provide similar
benefits with support for iSCSI but not FC or FCoE.
Simple management tools across Virtual Connect domains

VCM provides an intuitive GUI that server administrators use to manage the server
connections and profiles. In fact, administrators access a single instance of VCM
to control an entire Virtual Connect domain.
For larger deployments, HP helps administrators manage multiple Virtual Connect
domains from a single pane-of-glass solution. The optional VCEM manages up to
250 Virtual Connect domains, which might extend over up to 1,000 enclosures.
VCEM provides automation and group-based management capabilities beyond
those offered by VCM.
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HP innova
i
ations for sto
orage
verged Stora
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HP Conv
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s
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P 3PAR StorreServ syste
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al, virtual, or in
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eAll solutions
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m
value frrom your datta. You can a
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speed backups
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and
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Get HP Converged
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Retu
urn on inform
mation:
More data that you can search and process mo

ore quickly, h
helping you
make betterr decisions
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earch and data-tiering
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nsolidation and
a federate
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Retu
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duals
Simplified solutions thatt save time ffor administrrators
Common management from entry-l evel to enterprise-class
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Conv
verged Storage
S
Although
h established
d platforms can
c be deplo
oyed in any e
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wn traditiona
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mands. HP C
Converged S
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industrys
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and
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data.
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ndardized pla
atforms with
h common, m
modular x86--based hardware
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me of the HP ProLiant Ge
en8 server fe
eatures are also include
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devices, logical
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between virtu
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age.
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verged management tha
at automatess IT and acccelerates application
deliv
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Converged Sto
orage componentts
The main
n componen
nts of an HP Converged Storage envvironment arre:
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StoreS
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ms provide th
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Information retention and analytics with HP StoreAllAn HP StoreAll

platform provides dual Network Attached Storage (NAS) controllers for speed
and redundancy. These hyperscale solutions support billions of objects and
files in a single namespace, scaling to more than 1,000 nodes with 16
petabyte (PB) capacity. They are designed specifically to provide retention:
the business or legal obligation to archive unalterable read-only data to write
once, read many (WORM) drives. Express Query technology from HP Labs
and Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) integration let you
search billions of files in minutes, meeting all your analytics, discovery, and
compliance needs for ultra-fast search and intelligent data extraction at the PB
scale.
Information protection with HP StoreOnceObtain a backup solution that

provides the consistency, simplicity, and speed that you require. You will
learner more about the highly scalable HP StoreOnce solutions in a moment.
HP StoreVirtualHP StoreVirtual products and technologies use the

LeftHand OS software. HP Peer Motion is a Software-Defined Storage
implementation evolved from the LeftHand OS, which enables a virtual
storage environment across diverse physical hardware devices. The Peer
Motion capabilities shared across the LeftHand and HP 3PAR products allow
for movement or migration of data across both physical and virtual storage
volumes.
HP StoreFabricThe HP StoreFabric storage networking products provide

expansive connectivity between servers and storage from the data center to
cloud. The HP StoreFabric Fibre Channel Switches meet the needs of
hyperscale, private cloud storage environments by delivering market-leading
16Gb FC technology and capabilities that support highly virtualized
environments.
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Video
oHP Co
onverged Storage overview
w chalk ta
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3
minute video
v
(M02b
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k.avi), availa
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upplement to
o this course
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m this video include:
HP has
h a vision for its Converged Stora
age systems: creating po
olymorphic
simp
plicity and a simple architecture to siimplify deplo
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verged Stora
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nd individuals.
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y storage architecture
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HP 3PAR Sto
oreServ portfolio
gers today fa
ace ever-evo
olving IT req
quirements. T
They need tto leverage
IT manag
business
s information
n, consolidate storage asssets, and support meassurable servvice
levels wh
hile dealing with
w the old problems off mushroomiing corporate
e data and a
shortage
e of skilled sttorage specialists. Tradittional storag
ge solutions have not
effectivelly adapted to
o the new IT
T requiremen
nts that have
e evolved ovver the last
decade or
o more. As a result, com
mpanies havve had to add
d layers of h
hardware and
software to meet their needsa costly and ccomplex pro
oposition. IT managers
need a solution that can bring sim
mplicity and efficiency b
back to the storage
infrastruc
cture.
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R StoreServ storage is a family of m
modern storag
ge systems with Tier-1
models that range fro
om less than
n $40,000 to
o multi-million dollar systtems found iin
the world
ds largest cloud data ce
enters. Its ad
dvantages include:
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onomicIncrease stora
age manage
ement efficie
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cientRedu
uce capacity
y requiremen
nts by 50%, guaranteed1
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guarranteed
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eratedAch
hieve non-diisruptive datta mobility between systtems2
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3
StoreS
Serv portfolio offers con sistent featu
ures across tthe product
families. Hardware ASICs,
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backp
planes, OS, and design bring Tier 1 capabilities
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p
with
h midrange storage
s
pric e points.
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s the use of HP
H 3PAR Thin
n Conversion Software and
d HP 3PAR T
Thin Provision
ning
Software. For details, refer
r
to the Get Thin Guara
antee Terms and Conditions. More
informatio
on is available
e at: http://ww
ww.hp.com/sto
orage/getthin
2
This gua
arantee is sub
bject to the as
ssumptions an
nd compliancce with the conditions set o
out
in the Gett Virtual Guarrantee Terms and Conditio
ons.
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Video
oHP 3PA
AR Store
eServ ove
erview ch
halk talk
ef overview of the HP 3P
PAR StoreSe
erv solutionss, watch thiss optional 7:4
45
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HP 3P
PAR Store
eServ arc
chitecture
e
ment, you willl dive deepe

er into the H P 3PAR Sto
oreServ arch
hitecture. To
In a mom
fully unde
erstand the benefits, you
u should und
derstand how
w this archittecture
compare
es to legacy store
s
system
ms architectu
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Trad
ditional mod
dular storag
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c
of in
ndependentt disk arrays, typically
deployed in a re
edundant dua
al-controller design. The
ese systems are costefficient but limitted in scalab
bility and ressiliency.
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ditional mon
nolithic storrageTradiitional mono
olithic storage
e systems,
illusttrated at the bottom left of the figure
e, distribute tthe controlle
er functions
acro
oss the disk arrays
a
and host
h
connecttions. These
e systems arre highly
scala
able and res
silient but co
ostly and do not meet mu
ulti-tenant re
equirements
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mesh
hed and actiiveThe HP
P 3PAR storrage solution
n shown on tthe
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e combines the best fea
atures of mod
dular and monolithic
stora
age. A high-s
speed, full-m
mesh interco
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es to form a cache-cohe
erent, active--active cluste
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eactiv
ve controller architecturresin whic h each volum
me is active on only a
single controller
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o be active o
on every messh
conttroller in the system. As a result, the cluster delivvers robust, load-balancced
perfo
ormance and
d greater he
eadroom for cost-effectivve scalabilityy. In this wayy, it
mee
ets cloud-com
mputing requ
uirements fo
or efficiency, multi-tenanccy, and
auto
onomic mana
agement.
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Beneffits of HP
P 3PAR SttoreServ architectture
nt HP 3PAR StoreServ A
Architecture allows you tto
The tighttly clustered, multi-tenan
start sma
all and grow as you go, adding
a
new applicationss and worklo
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bly
and non--disruptively
all within a single, auttonomically ttiered, flash--optimized
array. Th
he Mesh-Active design is
s just one off the benefitss offered by this unique
architecture. The sec
ctions below
w describe m
more.
HP 3PA
AR ASIC with Thin Bu
uilt In
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StoreS
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eatures an e
efficient, siliccon-based, zzero-detectio
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3PAR StoreS
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the powe
er to remove
e allocated but unused s pace withou
ut impacting performance
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extends the
t life of fla
ash-based media
m
by avo
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Cs memory optimization
n features exxtract the mo
ost value fro
om flash-bassed
media. For
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controller node can directly
d
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oreServ ASIC
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workloads wiith extremelyy
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vels to alleviate legacy sstorage perfo
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ncerns and ccut
storage costs.
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orkloads run on the same
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r
without contention, thereb
by cutting ca
apacity purch
hases in half.
This abiliity is particularly valuable in virtual sserver enviro
onments, wh
here HP 3PA
AR
StoreSerrv Storage allows you to
o double VM density so yyou can incrrease serverr
and stora
age consolid
dation and im
mprove ROI..
The acce
elerated perfformance of the purpose
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with Rapid
RAID Re
ebuild capabilities, also fuels
f
the plattforms Fast RAID 5 and
d Fast RAID 6
capabilitiies, which en
nable clients
s to achieve the perform
mance of trad
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sh-Active des
sign is one of
o many feattures that op
ptimizes HP 3PAR
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ystems for flash-based m
media. The Mesh-Active
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general-purp
pose disk
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ot designed for high-perfformance fla
ash-based m
media.
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Fine-grained virtualization and system-wide striping

Fine-grained virtualization divides each physical disk into granular allocation units,
or chunklets, each of which can be independently assigned and dynamically
reassigned to different virtual volumes. This fine-grained virtualization unit means
that a given media device (a traditional disk or SSD) can support hundreds of
volumes and up to a dozen RAID definitions at the same time, allowing the system
to make the most efficient use of physical assets.
The systems intelligently place the frequently accessed data for all volumes on the
high-speed Tier-1 access areas on SSDs. Other data is stored on the lower-cost,
slower-speed devices, placed in physically virtualized storage, or extended into IT
as a Service (ITaaS) environments. In this way, the HP StoreServ solutions
maximize performance while keeping costs low.
Data and I/O for each volume are striped widely across all system resources
(controllers, ports, cache, and drives). This system-wide striping, unique in the
industry, delivers high-capacity utilization and high performance levels because
even small volumes can leverage the performance of hundreds of media devices
and all controller nodes. For flash-based media, such striping spreads wear evenly
across the entire system. System-wide sparing also helps protect against
performance degradation with fast many-to-many rebuilds if any media fails.
Because the system autonomically manages this system-wide load balancing, it is
optimized without any IT management effort.
HP 3PAR Persistent Cache

HP 3PAR Persistent Cache removes performance impacts that result from
unplanned component failures, making it a must-have for maintaining service
levels in the virtual data center. This Tier 1 resiliency featurewhich you cannot
get from any other storage platform available for the midrangewas designed to
gracefully handle component failures by eliminating the performance penalties
associated with write-through mode. A feature of all quad-node and larger HP
3PAR StoreServ arrays, Persistent Cache leverages the platforms unique MeshActive design to preserve write caching by rapidly remirroring the cache to other
nodes in the cluster in the event of a failure. You may not need this level of Tier 1
resilience today, and you may not choose to deploy a quad-node system to start.
But the grow-as-you-go capabilities of HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage mean that you
will not need to rethink your storage strategy if and when your circumstances
change.
HP 3PAR Persistent Ports

HP 3PAR Persistent Ports, another Tier 1 resiliency feature available on all 3PAR
StoreServ systems, including midrange models, provide non-disruptive online
software upgrades without relying on multipathing software to initiate failover. The
use of standard N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) technology enables a single hostfacing 3PAR StoreServ port to assume the identity of additional predesignated
partner ports, thus enabling transparent switchover of host path connections.
HP 3PAR software
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage leads the industry in management features that
remove the layers of complexity that typically weigh down storage administration.
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage products enhance visibility and control while
eliminating costly, repetitive, and error-prone manual tasks.
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HP 3PAR OS software employs advanced internal virtualization to enhance

administrative efficiency, system utilization, and storage performance. It simplifies
storage management by handling provisioning and change management
autonomicallyintelligently, at a subsystem level, and without administrator
intervention.
HP offers a range of standalone software products and bundled software suites
that build on the HP 3PAR OS to enhance the agility and efficiency of your
infrastructure. HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000, 7450, and 10000 Storage support the
same OS and software offerings as the other members of the HP 3PAR StoreServ
family, but these specific 3PAR StoreServ models give you the opportunity to
purchase software bundled into a series of suites designed to simplify purchasing
(although you can also purchase software separately). Refer to the HP Web site
for details on the current software suite offerings.
The HP 3PAR Management Console simplifies administration through a unified,
point-and-click interface that supports all HP 3PAR software and provides
uncommonly rich instrumentation for the physical and logical objects within all of
your HP 3PAR StoreServ arrays. This rich instrumentation, combined with robust
and customizable reporting capabilities, eliminates the need for add-on software
tools and consulting services related to diagnosis and troubleshooting. Open
administration support is provided via Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP), Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), and a recently
added Web Services API.
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Video
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ure chalk talk
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PAR StoreSe
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HP StoreOnc
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ce
he main prob
blems with backups
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and
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growing by
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50% to 60%
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year-by-year, yet IT
T budgets typ
pically remaiin static. The
e need to
protect more
m
data mo
ore quickly with
w less mo
oney createss a problema
atic gap for
traditiona
al IT infrastru
uctures.
HP Store
eOnce is the
e first federatted dedupliccation solutio
on to provide
e leading disskbased ba
ackup for the
e full spectru
um of IT envvironments frrom small, re
emote sites to
large entterprises. Th
he systems provide
p
auto mated backkup and disaster recoverry
(DR) ope
erations with
h all the featu
ures you exp
pect from dissk backup
and some
features you can only get from HP.
H
Note
HP StoreOn
nce VSA is a scaled down version of the
e HP StoreOn
nce Backup
solution.
Key featu
ures and benefits of HP StoreOnce include:
StoreOnce dedu
uplicaton tec
chnology
e and audio compression
c
n codecs, de
eduplication allows for
Simiilar to image
fewe
er bytes to be stored while still holdin
ng the comp
plete data se
et. In this wa
ay,
HP StoreOnce
S
solutions:
s
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Increase sp
peed (backup
ps up to thre
ee times fastter and recovery times u
up
to five times
s than competing system
ms)
Reduce ove
erall storage size (by as much as 95
5%)
Fede
erated deduplication acrross the ente
erprise
Deduplicate
e at the application sourcce, at the ba
ackup serverr, or at the
target applia
ancewhere it makes ssense for you
ur business,, not where
technology vendors lim
mitations man
ndate. Then store the de
eduplicated
data in dediicated HP SttoreOnce ap
ppliance or a HP StoreO
Once VSA.
StoreOnce delivers
d
a un
nified solutio
on for seamless data mo
ovement acrross
the enterpris
se with cost-effective virrtual backup
p machines ideal for sma
aller
remote offic
ces, high-perrformance d edicated appliances for larger sites,,
and highly scalable,
s
pow
werful syste ms for your data center..
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Industry-leading, scale-out architecture with greater resiliency:
A scale-out architecture allows you to start small and add virtual capacity,
shelves, or nodes as needed.
Native capacity points suit enterprise wide requirements, ranging from

large-scale 768 TB raw (512 TB usable) in the data center, to 96 TB raw
(76 TB usable) for mid-size regional offices, down to 1 TB for small and
remote offices.
You can add capacity and performance online, minimizing planned

downtime.
With StoreOnce VSA, backup service providers can rapidly stand-up or

retire up to 10 TB of capacity per VSA to meet changing customer
requirements.
HP StoreOnce B6200 uniquely delivers industry-leading availability with

no single point of failure. If a node fails, its companion node picks up the
load, and the backup continues without any operator involvement. All
StoreOnce Backup systems are built with RAID protection.
Backup within your window
Federated deduplication is available across the HP StoreOnce Backup

portfolio including dedicated appliances and VMware virtual appliances.
The feature even extends to media servers and application servers with
HP Data Protector and Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec software
through OST. Save time and money by moving data around the enterprise
in its deduplicated state.
A broad range of superior price/performance points meet backup window

requirements across the enterprise:
Up to 100 TB/hour backup speeds at the high-end (down to 500

GB/hr with the StoreOnce VSA using StoreOnce Catalyst if you have
less rigorous requirements)
Up to 40 TB/hour backup speeds when used as a virtual tape library

(VTL) target
Up to 32 TB/hour restore speeds (industry-leading)
Attain centralize monitoring through StoreOnce Enterprise Manager.
Automated, efficient backup and DR operations with StoreOnce Catalyst
Manage backup and DR operations from a single pane of glass

management application.
Implement DR plans at a branch, regional, or worldwide level.

Previously many DR plans were not feasible due to a lack of multisite
capabilities in HP Data Protector, Symantec NetBackup, and Backup
Exec solutions. HP StoreOnce Catalysts one-to-many backup capabilities
surmount these obstacles while the solution as a whole minimizes
bandwidth and time requirements.
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StoreOnce Enterprise Managers alerting and trending features help you

manage your backup capacity.
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HP StoreOnc
S
ce VSA
cally lower th
he cost of prrotecting dat a at smallerr sites with H
HP StoreOncce
Dramatic
VSA software-defined storage
e that provide
es backup a
and recoveryy for virtualized
environm
ments. HP SttoreOnce VS
SA provides fast, efficien
nt backup wiithout
dedicated hardware while reduciing storage ccosts up to 6
65%. HP Sto
oreOnce VS
SA
eliminate
es the need for
f dedicated
d infrastruct ure and movves data effiiciently from
remote sites
s
to centrralized data centers.
c
Wh
hether you prrotect data a
at smaller sittes
or are loo
oking to expand your ho
osted service
es, StoreOncce VSA has you covered
d.
HP Store
eOnce VSA is:
i
Virtu
ualElimina
ate the need
d for dedicate
ed hardware
e or backup appliances.
Softw
ware-based VSA cuts sttorage costss by up to 65
5%, rack spa
ace by up to
50%
%, and powerr by up to 70
0%.
Con
nsolidated
Manage your entire bacckup environ
nment from a single
cons
sole. Save operational
o
and
a managem
ment time. U
Use the backkup software
e of
yourr choice.
Fede
eratedReduce risk an
nd increase a
agility, securrely moving and replicatting
data
a without eve
er having to rehydrate.
MulttitenantObtain manag
ged data pro
otection servvices. Meet ccustomer da
ata
prote
ection needs
s while reducing CAPEX
X and OPEX
X.
Who can
n benefit from
m HP StoreO
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Ente
erprisesY
You can deploy backup ssolutions at rremote office
es without
adding any dedicated hardw
ware.
Sma
all and mids
size cloud service
s
prov
vidersYou
u can offer simple, low-ccost
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kup and reco
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ged servicess.
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all and mids
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ssesYou ccan deploy b
business applications an
nd
data
a protection on
o the same
e physical inffrastructure.
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HP innova
i
ations for nettworkiing
HP FlexNetwo
ork
Networking is the fab
bric of organ
nizations, con
nnecting em
mployees, cu
ustomers, an
nd
partners to applicatio
ons. HPs Fle
exNetwork iss the fabric o
of the HP Co
onverged
Infrastruc
cture, seamllessly conne
ecting users,, applications, and data. FlexNetworrk
delivers simplicity
s
with a unified, consistent, standards-b
based archite
ecture from the
applicatio
onin your data center or the cloud
dto the use
eron a wirred or wireless
connectio
on at the headquarters or
o a branch.
plication Networks
s (VAN)
HP Virtual App
VAN is a framework for automatiing network operations u
using HPs in
ding
ndustry-lead
software--defined nettwork (SDN) technology . It delivers tthe agility re
equired for
business
s to respond to changing
g needs in m
minutes, not m
months. HP simplifies,
integrate
es, and autom
mates netwo
orking so org
ganizations ccan focus on
n their core
competencies.
work (IRF))
HP Intelligent Resilientt Framew
HP FlexN
Network solu
utions are bu
uilt on IRF viirtual device
es, each of w
which is a gro
oup
of physic
cal switches that operate
es as a singl e logical sw
witch. As you will learn, IR
RF
not only simplifies
s
management but also sim
mplifies and e
enhances avvailability forr
the network topology
y.
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FlexN
Network
k archite
ecture
celerating tec
chnology inn
novations are
e driving unp
precedented
d change.
Ever acc
Mobility, virtualization
n, high-defin
nition video, rich-media ccollaboration
n tools, and
cloud com
mputing are reinventing how busine
essesand p
peoplework. Enterprisses
that can understand and success
sfully implem
ment these innovations w
will have new
w
tools to drive
d
busines
ss advantage and build new opportu
unities in the
e global
marketplace.
Challe
enges
Howeverr, when legacy networks
s are pushed
d to the limit,, they becom
me fragile,
difficult to
o manage, vulnerable,
v
and
a expensivve to operate
e. Businesse
es whose
networks
s are at this breaking
b
point risk missing the next wave of opp
portunity.
New tra
affic pattern
ns
Virtualiza
ation has tak
ken root acro
oss businessses of all sizzes. Today, rroughly 50% of
all worklo
oads are virttualized, and
d Gartner exxpects that th
his percenta
age will hit 75
5%
by 2015 and continue to grow be
eyond this le
evel.
Virtualiza
ation and application-driv
ven, service
e-oriented arrchitecture (S
SOA) have
made the
e client-server model of traffic flow ssomewhat ob
bsolete. Cloud computin
ng
also mak
kes heavy us
se of server virtualization
n, which resshapes data center trafficc
flows and
d increases bandwidth demands
d
at tthe server e
edge. By 201
14, network
planners should expe
ect more tha
an 80% of tra
affic in the d
data centerss local area
ervers. Trafficc within the server rack is also
network (LAN) to be between se
expected
d to grow by 25 times.
Conventiional three-tier data center networkss cannot me
eet the securrity, agility an
nd
performa
ance requirements of virttualized and
d cloud comp
puting enviro
onments. Th
hey
cannot provide high enough bandwidth and low enough latency betw
ween serverr
connectio
workloads.
ons to suppo
ort highly mo
obile virtual w
Explodiing levels of
o traffic
Immerse
ed in technology at home
e, business w
workers havve quickly accclimated to a
rich-media experienc
ce and are using
u
video a
and interactivve collabora
ation tools.
Soon, mo
ore than 25%
% of the doc
cuments thatt workers se
ee in a day w
will be
dominate
ed by picture
es, video, an
nd audio. Ne
ew video app
plications willl push network
capacity needs by fo
our to 10 time
es above cu
urrent averag
ge levels.
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Legacy networks, with their decade-old architectures, are likely to be overwhelmed

by the steady growth of applications, virtualization, and rich media. The legacy
three-tier network architecture is constrained by oversubscription, low bandwidth,
and high latencythe exact opposite of what video collaboration requires.
Mobility
Mobility has quickly become a right, not a privilege. Soon, the combined installed
base of smartphones and browser-equipped smartphones will exceed 1.82 billion
units (www.hp.com/networking). The preferred way to connect will be through
wireless LAN (WLAN), rather than lower speed 3G or 4G networks. Workers need
to access applications and content from anywhere to stay productive, and that
means applications must be delivered flawlessly from a virtual data center to a
virtual workplace.
Yet many enterprises have experienced disappointing results with their existing
WLAN deployments because of a poor user experience and a network that does
not scale to meet the increasing demands of mobile users. The embrace of
smartphones and tablets at work will also break the traditional models for identity
management and security that allow access based on a network port, rather than a
users identity. This is especially true for users that bring their own devices
(BYOD).
Meeting the challenges with the FlexNetwork

Todays networks must be designed to meet the unique requirements of the data
center, corporate campus, and branch office. By segmenting their networks,
enterprises will be able to more easily align business initiatives with the underlying
network requirements. Companies can create functional building blocks that will
meet the requirements of the specific application or business service.
Within functional building blocks, businesses can choose best-in-class solutions
that fit their needs, rather than being locked into a one-size-fits-all solution. By
using standard protocols at the network boundaries, businesses can enable
interoperability among the network segments and gain both agility and scale.
The HP FlexNetwork architecture forms a key component of HP Converged
Infrastructure. Enterprises can align their networks with their business needs
even while these needs changeby segmenting their networks into the four
interrelated modular building blocks that comprise the HP FlexNetwork
architecture:
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FlexFabricThe network infrastructure for data centers, FlexFabric

converges and secures the data center network with compute and storage. It
provides high-speed, low-latency, and highly available links for the server-toserver and server-to-storage traffic flows that power modern applications.
FlexCampusProviding the infrastructure for mid-size or enterprise campus

LANs, the FlexCampus unifies wired and wireless networks to deliver mediaoptimized, secure, identity-based access.
FlexBranchExtending the network to remote sites, FlexBranch unifies and

standardizes network functionality and services, promoting seamless access
to remote resources and ease of deployment and management.
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FlexManagementLaying across the other three building blocks is

FlexManagement. IT staff manage all network segments through a single
pane-of-glass management application, HP Intelligent Management Center
(IMC). You will learn more about this solution later in this module.
The HP FlexNetwork architecture is ideal even for those companies planning to

move to cloud solutions. Enterprises deploying private clouds must implement
simpler data center networks to support the bandwidth-intensive, delay-sensitive
server-to-server VM and workload traffic flows that are associated with cloud
computing. They must also be able to administer and secure virtual resources and
orchestrate on-demand services. HP FlexNetwork helps enterprises to securely
deploy and centrally orchestrate video, cloud, and mobile-optimized architectures
that scale from the data center to the network edge.
The benefits of the HP FlexNetwork architecture are summarized in Table 2-1.
Table 2-1: Benefits of the HP FlexNetwork architecture

Benefits
Open
Scalable
Secure
Agile
Consistent experience
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Explanation
Because the HP solutions adhere to open standards, you know
that they will integrate seamlessly into your environment. Choose
from a wide range of HP AllianceOne partner-developed
products and applications for best-in-class networks.
HP solutions scale on the dimensions of functionality,
connectivity, and capacity.
With consistent security, based on industry-leading research,
across the architectural building blocks, HP networks protect
your data and network resources, both physical and virtual.
By reducing network tiers and devices required at both the data
center and campus, HP saves you money.
Simplified orchestration enables rapid changes to adapt to
business needs.
Common underlying technologies enable consistent
management and administration, and a single management tool
extends over physical and virtual networks.
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SDN
e unable to implement b
business inno
ovations beccause of aging
Many enterprises are
ng environm
ments. Netwo
ork design a nd architectures have re
emained larg
gely
networkin
unchanged for more than a deca
ade. While a
applications a
and systemss have evolvved
to meet the
t demands
s of a world where real ttime rules, th
he underlyin
ng network
infrastruc
cture has no
ot kept pace.
SDN redefines the network and removes the
e barriers to innovation b
by giving clo
oud
providers
s and enterp
prises complete program
mmatic contro
ol of a dynam
mic, abstraccted
view of th
he network. IT can beco
ome more ag
gile by orche
estrating netw
work service
es
and auto
omatically co
ontrolling the
e network ac cording to high-level policies, ratherr
than low--level network device co
onfigurationss.
This secttion of the module
m
gives
s an overview
w of SDN an
nd explains h
how HP is
leveragin
ng SDN with its VAN fram
mework.
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SDN and
a the Converge
C
ed Infrastructure
gled to bridge
e the gap be
etween the ssystems theyy
Traditional networks have strugg
a the serv
vices they de
eliver. Enterp
prises seek ssimple, auto
omated
support and
solutions
s that monito
or application
n traffic and dynamicallyy configure n
network devices
to respon
nd. Howeverr, as you can
n see from th
he figure, leg
gacy networrks are difficult
to autom
mate because
e the control plane intelliigence is disstributed.
SDN abs
stracts the co
ontrol plane,, presenting you with a ssingle, simplle interface ffor
interactin
ng with the network
n
dyna
amically. SD
DN exposes tthe networks status and
d
capabilitiies directly to
o the applica
ation layer, a
allowing bussiness system
ms to requesst
services from the nettwork directlly, rather tha
an trusting th
he network to
o guess
successffully. In this way,
w
SDN simplifies man
naging, provvisioning, and changing the
network. SDN also le
evels the pla
aying field fo
or network innovation. Byy lowering th
he
barriers that
t
have pre
eviously kep
pt new entra nts from brin
nging new and interestin
ng
capabilitiies to the ma
arket, SDN allows
a
busin esses to unleash the tru
ue power of the
network.
hnologies arre still maturring, so you sshould not e
expect all of these beneffits
SDN tech
at once. Initially, pure
e SDN deplo
oyments will probably be
e confined to
o massive
provider networks that require SDN to solve their scaling
g problems. Nonetheless,
enterpris
se networks can benefit from
f
SDN a lmost immed
diately. Hybrrid networkss
can continue to operrate in a trad
ditional fashio
on but leverrage SDN for additional
features and function
nality.
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o the SDN components
c
an SDN
A brief ex
reveals the benefits tha
promises
s to unlock.
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Infrastructure layer
The infrastructure includes the underlying ports and forwarding hardware that
move data across your network. To implement SDN, network infrastructure devices
must separate their control plane and data plane functions; they must also be able
to receive commands from the centralized SDN controller (which provides the
control plane).
In practice, OpenFlow typically serves these functions. This open standard
technology, for which HP has long been a key supporter, enables network
infrastructure devices to use OpenFlow tables, rather than their traditional routing
tables and MAC forwarding tables, to forward traffic. The devices receive the
OpenFlow tables from the centralized controllers, essentially moving their control
plane to that centralized location.
OpenFlow also supports more sophisticated actions such as QoS actions.
Control layer
One or more centralized SDN controllers handle the control plane for the complete
network infrastructure. The controller presents an abstracted view of the
infrastructure, presenting applications with this view and then enforcing any
policies applied by those applications.
The controller mediates between the infrastructure devices and applications using
APIs.
Northbound APIscommunicate between controllers and applications
Southbound APIscommunicate between controllers and infrastructure

devices (OpenFlow is often used, as you learned)
East/Westbound APIscommunicate between groups or federations of

controllers to synchronize states for high availability
Application layer
SDN applications can take responsibility for tasks such as path computation, loop
avoidance, and routing, but their functions do not stop there. With a view of the
entire network, SDN applications can focus on optimizing business applications
and providing a true end-to-end SLA comprising performance, quality of service,
and security. SDN promises to support easy-to-develop applications to
accommodate virtually any use case. As applications communicate with the control
layer using open, standards-based APIs, your enterprise can develop applications
in-house, as required.
Note
There are many misunderstanding about SDN. You should understand that:
SDN is neither just OpenFlow nor just OpenStack. OpenFlow is a protocol, and
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OpenStack is an orchestration tool. These technologies may be used to deliver SDN

elements, but they are not synonymous with SDN.
SDN is not a software implementation of a network device, and HP does not label
software routers or virtualized appliances as SDN. Rather SDN is an orchestration
of a complete network infrastructure through software.
SDN is not just the exposure of proprietary device configuration APIs. Rather it
shares these APIs with developers as part of a larger scheme for complete network
virtualization, orchestration, and automation.
SDN definitely does not mean the end of hardware innovation. HP will continue to
drive hardware innovation in support of SDN.
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DN overview chalk
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RF
a
you to
o manage m
multiple switcches through
h a single IP
Traditional stacking allows
witch in the stack
s
continu
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dently. As a
address, but each sw
aditional stac
cking simpliffies manage
ement but prrovides few a
additional
result, tra
benefits.
H virtualization technolo
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mware switch
hes, transforrms multiple
IRF, an HP
physical devices into
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gical device. IRF not only lets you m
manage and
maintain multiple dev
vices as a siingle device , it also transforms the n
network
topology into a highe
er-capacity, more
m
resilien
nt system. F
Further, IRF sstreamlines
operation
ns, facilitates
s expansion, increases p
performance
e, and decre
eases costs.
You can easily deplo
oy IRF at any
y location in your networrk: the core layer,
distributio
on layers, orr access laye
ers.
Tradittional nettwork iss

sues
Within a web of interrlinked switches, STP is used to dete
ect and prevvent loops
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highly un
ndesirable, sometimes
s
disastrous sittuation that ccan occur w
when there are
multiple active
a
paths to the same
e switch. To eliminate loo
ops, STP an
nd its more
modern variants,
v
suc
ch as Rapid Spanning T
Tree Protocol (RSTP) and Multiple
Spanning
g Tree Proto
ocol (MSTP), allow only one active p
path from on
ne switch to
another, regardless of
o how many
y actual conn
nections mig
ght exist in the network. If
the active
e path fails, the protocoll automatica
ally selects a backup con
nnection and
d
makes th
hat the active
e path, allow
wing the netw
work to operrate normallyy again afterr a
brief interruption.
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used and
a is fairly effective
e
at m
making a network resilie
ent. But for
STP is widely
modern, high-speed,, mission-critical networkks, this apprroach may n
not offer the
ution. You miight experien
nce these isssues with ST
or MSTP,
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particularly as Layer 2 networks grow:
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ceThe reco
onvergence time for STP
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computing
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eral seconds
sa lifetime by modern
sstandards. W
When a typiccal
computer can ex
xecute millio
ons of instrucctions in the blink of an e
eye, a multi-seco
ond network hiccup will have
h
end ussers cursing the spinning
g hourglass on
theirr monitors. And
A a financiial transactio
on that execcutes in millisseconds can
nnot
wait several sec
conds for an outdated ne
etwork protocol to do its job.
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Management complexityEven though MSTP and RSTP converge more

quickly than the original STP, all of these protocols can be devilishly difficult to
configure properly, especially in a large network. You must manage the
switches individually, and you need to set up spanning-tree instances on each
switch in turn, making sure that the parameters for one switch match those of
its neighbor. Worse, troubleshooting spanning-tree-related issues is no easy
task, usually requiring a great deal of time to locate the root cause of the
failure.
Poor performanceBecause STP blocks all parallel paths except the active
one, it actually reduces the effective bandwidth. In fact, half (or more) of the
available system bandwidth can be squandered in a backup role, off-limits to
data trafficnot a very good use of the network equipment investment.
Too many tradeoffsEven choosing which STP version to use is difficult.

For example, you need to handle traffic forwarding over redundant links:
should you implement MSTP, which is highly efficient but complex, or should
you use RSTP, which is less efficient but easier to configure?
IRF advantages
Fortunately, HP networking offers a better way: IRF. This innovative technology
gives you a network that is fully resilient, yet simpler to set up and manage, faster
to converge, and easier to scale. IRF provides:
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Design and operational simplificationWith IRF, no longer must you

laboriously connect to, configure, and manage switches individually. You
perform a configuration on the primary switch, and that configuration is
distributed to all associated switches automatically, considerably simplifying
network setup, operation, and maintenance.
Flatter topologyIRF makes possible a simplified, higher-performing, more

resilient, and flatter network design. In fact, thanks to IRF and HP Comware
switches, enterprise networks can be designed with fewer devices and fewer
networking layersa big improvement over the low-performance, high-cost,
and crippling latency of conventional multi-tier legacy solutions, which often
rely on a variety of different OSs and complex resiliency protocols.
Higher efficiencyIRFs loop-free, non-blocking architecture keeps all links

active, enabling highly efficient and high-bandwidth connectivity throughout
the switching plane. Simply stated, you get all the bandwidth you are paying
for.
Scalable performanceIRF and Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

used together can further boost performance by bundling several parallel links
between switches and servers, allowing scalable on-demand performance
and capacity to support critical business applications.
Faster failoverShould a network failure occur, IRF can deliver rapid

recovery and network reconvergence in less than 10 millisecondsmuch
faster than the several seconds required for STP. Table 2-2 details failover
times.
Distributed high availability and resiliencyFor high availability, the IRF

fabric can be configured for full N+1 redundancy while mission-critical
virtualization capabilities, such as live migration and application mobility, are
available across the IRF domain and extend across the Layer 2 infrastructure.
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Geographic resiliencyWithin an IRF domain, the geographic location of

switches does not matter. Switches can be extended horizontally, and they
continue to function as a single logical unit whether they are installed locally,
distributed regionally, or even situated at distant sites. Moreover, employing
IRF can enhance disaster recovery by linking installations up to 70 kilometers
apart and giving them the same fast failover as if they were sitting side by side
within the data center. Such location independence is extremely important to
support the global on-demand application access and dynamic traffic flows of
todays technology-oriented businesses.
Higher availability with In-Service-Software-Upgrade (ISSU)IRF delivers

a network-based ISSU capability that allows an individual switch to be taken
offline for servicing or software upgrades without affecting traffic going to other
switches in the IRF virtual device.
Table 2-2. IRF failover speed

Scenario
Link aggregation: port
removal/insertion
Link aggregation: board
removal/insertion
Chassis off/on
Software upgrade
Failover time
2 ms/0.7 ms
2 ms/1 ms
2 ms/0.14 ms
2 ms
VideoHP IRF overview chalk talk
For a summary of these advantages, watch this optional 3:04 minute video (M02hHP IRF overview chalk talk.avi). As you watch the video, make note of key benefits
of IRF for your business.
This video is available:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H0fNZXzpzqA
In the supplement to this course, which contains all videos used within this
course
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Learning check
QUESTION: Which HP virtualization technology allows routing switches to appear
as one node on the network? What benefits does this technology provide?
ANSWER:
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HP innova
i
ations for IT manag
gemen
nt
agement solutions help you

y to gain tthe full bene
efit of all the Converged
HP mana
Infrastruc
cture compo
onents that you
y have exa
amined. The
e final section of this
module guides
g
you th
hrough the HP
H innovatio
ons for IT ma
anagement.
Autom
mated IT managem
ment
HP autom
mates IT ma
anagement with
w a varietyy of converg
ged solutionss. These
solutions
s include the unified man
nagement to
ools discusse
ed below as well as clou
ud
solutions
s, which you will learn ab
bout in the n ext section o
of this modu
ule.
Simple, unified
d manage
ement
HP offers
s simple but powerful ma
anagement tools for the
e converged infrastructurre.
The HP IMC
I
Enterprrise Software
e Platform iss a standalon
ne, compreh
hensive
managem
ment solution that meet the needs o
of advanced,, heterogene
eous enterprrise
networks
s.
HP OneV
View presents a single in
ntuitive interf
rface for man
naging the e
entire
converge
ed infrastruc
cture. You will learn more
e about thesse solutions in a moment.
Servic
ce and su
upport in
ntegration
n with HP
P Insight R
Remote S
Support
Spend le
ess time solv
ving problem
ms and more time focusin
ng on your b
business.
Mitigate risks, reduce
e cost, and keep
k
your bu
usiness up a
and running.. Offload som
me
IT tasks and
a actually
y do more with less. Con
ntinuously monitoring your
environm
ment, this sollution proacttively alerts yyou and pro
ovides up to 66% faster
provides nea
problem resolution and up to a 95%
9
first time
e fix rate. It p
arly 100%
accurate diagnostics
s; information
n is sent to H
HP call cente
er staff, whicch can remo
otely
log in and determine if the proble
em can be re
esolved imm
mediately or if it needs an
onsite vis
sit.
HP Insight Online, a new addition to HP Sup
pport Centerr, can automatically display
devices remotely
r
mo
onitored by HP
H Insight R
Remote Supp
port 7.0.5. It allows you a
and
your HP Channel Pa
artners to eas
sily track se rvice eventss and related
d support
cases, viiew device configuration
c
ns, and proacctively monittor your HP contracts an
nd
warrantie
es from anyw
where and at
a any time.
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Single-pane--of-glass
s manag
gement with IMC
C
n
examine
e several of these unifie
ed managem
ment solution
ns in detail, sso
You will now
you can discover the
e benefits forr your enterp
prise.
platform that allows you tto manage
IMC is a centralized network management p
nd virtual ne
etworks. From
m a single in
nterface, you
u can monito
or
both your physical an
and manage network
k traffic and devices. HP
P IMC suppo
orts both HP and third-pa
arty
network devices. In fact,
f
IMC 5.2
2 manages o
over 6200 tyypes of devicces from 220
0
manufacturers includ
ding more than 1400 typ
pes of device
es from Ciscco.
The solution cohesiv
vely integrate
es fault man agement, ne
etwork infrasstructure
configura
ation, and ne
etwork monittoring from a central van
ntage point. Network
administrrators centra
ally manage all network elements. T
They can auttomate a
variety off tasks, inclu
uding discov
very, categorrization, and baseline co
onfiguration a
and
software deploymentt. Add-on mo
odules exten
nd the mana
agement cap
pabilities,
enabling administrato
ors to manage not just t he network infrastructurre but also th
he
users, ap
pplications, and
a services
s that the inffrastructure ssupports.
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Bene
efits of HP
H IMC
d
IMC provides
p
thes
se features:
In more detail,
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Auto
omatic disc
coveryIMC
C can locate
e all the devicces on the n
network,
categorize the devices into types
t
(such as switchess, routers, se
ervers,
desk
ktops, and so
o on), and map
m the deviices on a ne
etwork topolo
ogy.
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nfiguration and
a softwarre managem
mentIMC a
allows you to establish
base
eline configu
urations and software im
mages. You ccan compare
e
conffigurations, track version
ns, and estab
blish alerts if configuration changes are
mad
de.
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dular archite
ectureAdd
d-on module
es enrich a n
network's ma
anagement
capa
abilities. Mod
dules for use
er access m anagement,, VPN management, and
d
traffiic analysis can
c be quickly added and
d provide insstant benefitts. The
arch
hitecture allows modules
s to share infformation an
nd provide co
ollaborative
polic
cy creation and
a reports.
Virtu
ualization managemen
m
ntHP IMC is one of the
e first manag
gement toolss to
integ
grate manag
gement and monitoring o
of physical a
and virtual ne
etworks,
inclu
uding supporrt for both VM
Mware and Hyper-V. IM
MC discoverss VMs and
virtual switches, showing the
eir relationsh
hip to the ph
hysical netwo
ork. You can
n
also easily migra
ate VMs to new
n
physica l servers, an
nd IMC automatically
reco
onfigures the
e network inffrastructure a
accordingly, ensuring that network
polic
cies remain tied
t
to VMs and
a virtual w
workloads.
High
hly flexible and scalable deploym ent models
sIMC Stan
ndard Edition
n
deliv
vers an extensive set of capabilities for managin
ng large hete
erogeneous
netw
works. This self-containe
s
ed solution p
provides scallability and h
high availabiility
throu
ugh a flexible hierarchical and distrib
buted deployyment mode
el.
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Rich resource managementIMC provides powerful network discovery and

topology features, including a detailed inventory of the network and highly
accurate depictions of how the network is configured. Supported views include
Layer 2 and Layer 3 topologies, as well as VLAN topologies. Traffic topologies
show the traffic conditions of various links. Customization features, such as
custom views that can be added to the dashboard, enable administrators to
organize and control the network infrastructure based on their preferred
organizational model.
Flexible, centralized reportingCentralized report management simplifies

your report administration. IMCs flexible historical reports provide the
information necessary for network trend analysis and capacity planning. IMC
offers predefined reports or customization options to define parameters.
Reports can be viewed in a number of formats, including .pdf and .xls.
Administrators can run reports as needed, or they can schedule periodic
reports, which IMC automatically runs and sends via email.
ACL managementIMC simplifies the definition, deployment, and control of

ACLs, providing effective policy-based control of network security and QoS
across an organization's network infrastructure.
Identification and access managementWith the User Access Manager

(UAM) add-on module, IMC manages users LAN, WAN, WLAN, and Virtual
Private Network (VPN) access in a unified, centralized manner. UAM supports
strong authentication using smart card, certificate, and other methods. Highly
customizable, easy-to-configure service policies allow network access points
to adapt dynamically to the current user and circumstances. Administrators
provision connections more easily and have greater power to connect users to
the correct resources.
Protection against insecure endpointsTogether UAM and Endpoint

Admission Defense (EAD) analyze a network endpoints security status to
locate security threats, detect security events, and carry out protective
measures to reduce network vulnerabilities. EAD can determine endpoint
patch level, as well as detect ARP attacks, abnormal traffic, and the
installation and operation of illegal software. Administrators can choose
enforcement policies and remediation options that are appropriate to particular
endpoints.
Network traffic analysis and optimizationWith the add-on Network Traffic

Analyzer (NTA) module, the system can collect flow information from sFlow-,
NetFlow-, and NetStream-capable devices. Through traffic analysis, NTA can
help you identify network bottlenecks, recognize anomalous traffic, and
pinpoint how much bandwidth traffic various services and applications
consume. The correlation of traffic flows to users is available with the
additional User Behavior Auditor (UBA) module.
Assurance that configurations comply with policiesThe compliance

center associates compliance policies with devices that need to be checked.
The compliance check function can promptly fix non-compliant configurations
and resolve a potential security problem.
Virtual Connect SupportIMC can discover Virtual Connect modules,

display information about their connections and statuses, and even allow
administrators to configure those connections.
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IMC mobile app

plicationIM
MC providess a new mob
bile applicatiion for the
iPho
one and Android. Now ad
dministratorss can monito
or the netwo
ork from
anyw
where.
Teln
net/SSH proxySometimes adminisstrators nee
ed to manage
e devices
throu
ugh the CLI,, and IMC prrovides the rrequisite flexxibility. With the Telnet/S
SSH
prox
xy, an administrator can use a browsser to remote
ely access a
and manage
devices through Telnet/SSH without insttalling a loca
al Telnet/SSH
H tool. This
apprroach promo
otes secure and
a controlle
ed access to
o devices wh
hile providing
g
auditing of change on any device.
Uniffied Task Ma
anagement and Wizard
d CenterT
The IMC Wizzard Center
gran
nts administrrators quick access to m
many of IMCss configuration wizards
such
h as quick sttart, third-party device co
onfiguration wizard, and
d so on. New
w to
IMC 5.2 is Unifie
ed Task Man
nagement, w
which hosts a
all tasks with
hin IMC.
Customized fun
nctions and
d third-party
y device supportThe
e IMC platforrm
perm
mits extensio
ons to its dev
vice manage
ement and cconfiguration
n functions. Y
You
can extend an existing
e
functtion to suppo
ort third-partty devices byy compiling
interractive scriptts and XML files.
f
You ca
an also custo
omize a funcction by
compiling interac
ctive scripts, XML files, a
and UI confiiguration file
es.
Optio
onal IMC modules
m
As you le
earned, you can extend IMCs capab
bilities by ad
dding optiona
al modules,
each of which
w
fulfills a specialize
ed role but a lso integrate
es with the ccomplete IMC
C
solution, sharing info
ormation and
d integrating reports and
d alerts. The figure briefly
outlines IMC module
es that provid
de various fu
unctions. Re
efer to the HP
P Web site ffor
more info
ormation abo
out these mo
odules.
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HP OneView
O
w
View replace
es HP SIM, Insight Contrrol, and VCM
M/VCEM. To
o understand
d
HP OneV
the bene
efits of OneV
View, you mu
ust understan
nd a bit about the solutio
ons that it
replaces
because OneView
O
continues to p rovide all tho
ose benefitss and more.
HP Insight Managemen
nt and SIM
M
Using HP
P Insight Ma
anagement with
w HP ProL
Liant serverss increases yyour control
over your entire serv
ver managem
ment infrastrructure. You gain:
The flexibility tha

at comes fro
om the world
ds best server managem
ment portfolio
o
Sing
gle-console access
a
to virrtual and phyysical resources
Imprroved visibility into your server mana

agement sysstem
Reductions in un
nplanned do
owntime
Incre
eases in infrrastructure capacity
c
Align
nment betwe
een infrastru
ucture manag
gement and business ne
eeds
With ove
er 8 million lic
censes sold, HP Insight Management is the most popular
server management system in th
he industry. H
ght
HP SIM centralizes Insig
Managem
ment making
g it easier for administra
ators to mana
age many se
ervers together.
HP Insight Control
A comple
ete server liffecycle mana
agement sollution resultss in lower ma
anagement
costs and
d greater ag
gility. HP Insight Control delivers:
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Imprroved IT stafff efficiency
Incre
eased serve
er uptime
Max
ximized serve
er and facilitties utilizatio
on
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VCEM
M
As you le
earned earlie
er, VCEM sim
mplifies man
nagement off blade serve
ers and theirr
connectiv
vity by providing a single
e-pane-of-gl ass solution
n for up to 25
50 Virtual
Connect domains.
All these bene

efits and more
m
with HP One
eView
The solutions outline
ed above we
ere designed
d to enhance
e server man
nagement.
OneView
w, on the other hand, ma
anages the ccomplete con
nverged infra
astructure,
including
g server, storrage, and ne
etworking co
omponents.
HP OneV
View provide
es distinct ad
dvantages o ver current a
and competiitive offering
gs:
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gle managem
ment platform
m
Softw
ware defined
d infrastructu
ure
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mplicity
Open integration
n
HP OneView
O
w resourc
ce-orien
nted arch
hitecturre
View uses a resource-orriented archiitecture orch

hestrate the managemen
nt
HP OneV
of all con
nverged infra
astructure re
esources.
Every res
source, iden
ntified by a Uniform
U
Reso
ource Identiffier (URI), re
epresents a
physical device or logical constru
uct. OneView
w manipulattes the resou
urces with
Representation State
e Transfer (R
REST) APIs.. (REST is a web service
e that perforrms
basic Cre
eate, Read, Update, and
d Delete [CR
RUD] operations on reso
ources using
g
HTTP PO
OST, GET, PUT,
P
and DE
ELETE messsages.)
The RES
ST APIs func
ction in the background
b
w
within severa
al Resource
e Managers,
which ma
anage dedic
cated physica
al and logica
al componen
nts. Some off the Resourrce
Managerrs that help your
y
IT staff manage the
e converged infrastructure include:
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Environmental Resource Managerm

M
manages HP
P Intelligent Power
Distrribution Unit (iPDU), rac
cks, and othe
er power devvices
Physical Server Resource Manager

manages se
ervers and e
enclosures
Con
nnectivity Re
esource Ma
anagerma
anages LAN and SAN sw
witches
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A RESTful interface provides administrators and other data consumers with a

single-pane-of-glass interface to these managers.
You can implement custom scripts on HP OneView to make it meet your particular
requirements. These custom scripts not only integrate with REST APIs but also
with OneViews State-Change Message Bus (SCMB), which gives the scripts
direct access to state changessuch as the introduction of new server hardware
or a change in server status.
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HP innova
i
ations for IT convergence
e and c
cloud
s a complete
e portfolio off solutions and services to
Only HP Converged Cloud offers
ur needs. Inc
cluding priva
ate, manage
ed, public, an
nd hybrid options, HP clo
oud
meet you
solutions
s are built on
n a common foundation o
of HP innova
ation and en
nterprise
experience. Today, HP
H cloud solutions run th
he worlds AT
TMs and kee
ep the skies
safe for travel.
t
From complex ma
anufacturing
g systems to
o secure financial
transactions, HP Con
nverged Cloud provides the agility, rreliability, an
nd support
needed to
t run the mo
ost business
s-critical app
plications and processess.
With Ope
enStack, you
u gain the ra
apid innovati on and bene
eficial econo
omics of an
open sou
urce approac
ch. Only HP,, a long and valued conttributor to OpenStack,
oud OS. HP
delivers an
a enterprise-grade Ope
enStack solu
ution: HP Clo
P Cloud OS
provides a common architecture for Converg
ged Cloud so
olutions, whether private
e,
public, orr hybridthe
e worlds firs
st OpenStacck-based platform for hyb
brid cloud
delivery. More than a product, HP Cloud OS is a core foundational ccomponent o
of
existing HP
H cloud solutions and new innovattive offeringss. HP Cloud OS technolo
ogy
platform provides:
Simp
plified servic
ce delivery with
w automatted live conte
ent distributiion and easiier
insta
allation and configuration
c
n processess
It tra
ansforms ma
anually intensive operatio
onal processses of hundrreds of stepss
overr multiple packages into one simple, automated process.
Enha
anced servic
ce lifecycle managemen
m
nt with mode
el-based infra
astructure
topo
ology
Exte
ensible administration an
nd monitorin g dashboard
ds further alllow you to
strea
amline IT op
perations. Yo
ou reduce bo
oth costs and
d operationa
al risks with
auto
omated deplo
oyment of ap
pplications o
on heterogen
neous, hybriid cloud
environments.
Clou
ud workload optimization
n and mode
el once and p
provision anywhere
capa
abilities
HP Cloud
C
OS prrovides repe
eatable, conssistent worklload placem
ment across
diverse cloud de
eployment models.
m
Your customers ccan align wo
orkloads with
h
reso
ources and optimize
o
reso
ource utilizattion.
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Flex
xible, industry
y-leading, ve
endor-neutra
al, open-sou
urce cloud arrchitecture
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ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
HP Converge
C
ed Cloud: Hybrid delive
ery of a commo
on
archiitecture across traditional and cloud m
models
C
Cloud
C
is the industrys fi rst hybrid de
elivery appro
oach and
The HP Converged
portfolio based on a common arc
chitecture sp
panning trad
ditional data centers,
private clouds, mana
aged clouds,, and public clouds. Eng
gineered for tthe enterprisse,
HP Conv
verged Cloud
d extends th
he power of tthe cloud accross infrastrructure,
applicatio
ons, and info
ormation. Th
he solution p
provides:
Cho
oiceWheth
her you are building
b
onto
o existing inffrastructure o
or from the
grou
und up, multii-platform, multi-hypervis
m
sor HP cloud
d solutions g
give you ope
enstandard-based technology with no vend
dor lock-in.
Con
nfidenceH
HP provides a complete m
model with tthe right seccurity and
reliability levels across
a
all de
elivery platfo
orms. Trust H
HP to scale w
with you as
yourr business ev
volves and transforms.
t
Con
nsistencyW
Whatever yo
our environm
ment, HP hass a solution already
designed and te
ested with no
o need for re
ework. Due tto the HP common
arch
hitecture, you
ur customers
s will apprecciate the sam
me applicatio
on experiencce
rega
ardless of the
e back-end.
HP Converge
C
ed Cloud archittecture: Hybrid delivery
y of a
comm
mon arc
chitecturre acros
ss traditional an
nd cloud
d models
s
e the compon
nents of the unique HP C
Converged C
Cloud comm
mon
Examine
architecture:
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HP Converged
C
Infrastructure
e, integrating
g servers, sttorage, and networking
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HP Converged Management & Security, providing monitoring, security, and

automation
HP Converged Information, integrating with both structured and unstructured

Autonomy and Vertica solutions for handling big data
Enterprise hardened OpenStack technology
HP Converged Cloud portfolio

The broad and deep HP Converged Cloud portfolio helps you in three areas.
Build, manage, and secure cloud environments across all models

You can procure industry-leading, best-of-breed technology components from the
HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio and IT Performance Suite offerings. You can
also choose integrated offerings such as the flagship HP CloudSystem solution,
which brings together HP Converged Infrastructure and Cloud Service Automation.
Available as part of the CloudSystem or as standalone software, HP Cloud Service
Automation is the industrys most comprehensive, unified platform for brokering
and managing enterprise-grade application and infrastructure cloud services. The
open, extensible architecture allows you to easily adapt to changing business
requirements while supporting heterogeneous IT environments. Key benefits are:
Reducing service deployment time from months to minutes
Increasing server utilization by up to 80% and reducing TCO by up to 30%
Brokering and managing on-demand application and infrastructure services
Securing multi-tenant environments with role-based access
Managing multiple cloud environments across private, public, and hybrid cloud
Consume off-premise cloud services

HP provides you with several options for consuming the cloud services:
HP Managed CloudEnterprise-class, managed, highly secure cloud

solutions include Enterprise Compute Services, IT Performance Suite as a
service, and Autonomys Protect and Promote services.
HP Cloud ServicesPublic cloud offerings (currently in beta) offer

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with compute, object store, and content
delivery acceleration.
HP CloudAgileChoose cloud services from service provider partners.
Obtain Professional Services

HP offers a full spectrum of services to guide you on your journey to the cloud,
including strategy, design, implementation, integration, and support services.
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Paths to the HP Converged Cloud

Now that you understand the HP Converged Cloud portfolio, you can consider
your path to your cloud solution. HP helps you tailor your journey to your
organizations objectives, maturity, risk profile, and other factors. You first identify
your entry point or on-ramp use case. You then combine this initial use case with
others to create your own path to the Converged Cloud and hybrid delivery. HP
does not force you to move linearly from traditional data center to private cloud to
public cloud; you can move back and forth between the various deployment
models as business needs dictate.
Use cases
You can choose from and combine these use cases:
Standardize/Consolidate/Virtualize/AutomateMany customers begin here

as they prepare their own on-premise environments for the move to the cloud.
With this use case, you standardize and consolidate solutions to reduce the
footprint, energy consumption, and cost of your infrastructure. You virtualize to
enhance efficiency and mobility for workloads. You also automate, significantly
reducing administrative efforts, errors, and operating costs.
Build CloudSelect this use case to create a private cloud environment. This
self-service infrastructure improves operational efficiency, reduces time to
provision, and enhances agility so you can meet business demands more
efficiently. You also create the foundation for richer on-premise services such
as Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Similarly,
you establish the fundamental management and security components for the
Converged Cloud even after it evolves into a hybrid environment.
Development & Test CloudIn this use case, you focus on reducing time to
provision a development and testing environment and using automation to
minimize errors. You can accelerate application functionality and performance
testing by leveraging a dynamic, flexible, self-service infrastructure both onpremise and off-premise.
Application TransformationDevelop new applications or modernize

existing ones, rearchitecting the applications or simply moving them to new
hosts in a cloud that is optimized for scalability and flexibility.
SaaS ApplicationsReplace legacy applications with third-party SaaS.

Note
Service providers (such as system integrators, IT outsourcers, network service
providers, and hyperscale cloud providers) might embrace many of these use
cases as part of delivering cloud services to other organizations or markets.
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Example paths to Converged Cloud

HP supports the precise path to an HP Converged Cloud that you need. To get an
idea of the many choices available to you, consider a few example customer
engagements:
Renovate Applications & Business ProcessesThe enterprise accelerates

functionality and performance testing for applications by leveraging a public or
private self-service infrastructure. It next readies existing applications for the
cloud, finally moving them directly into the public cloud for production.
Cloud Enable The Data Center (Shared Services)The enterprise first

obtains a private cloud solution to deliver IT-focused IaaS from internal
sources. Next the enterprise develops new applications and transforms
existing applications into cloud-ready offerings. Finally, it leverages some
software service offerings from external sources, combining these with internal
offerings to create a true hybrid delivery environment.
Cloud Enable The Data Center/Service Provider (Externally Delivered

Services)In this scenario, an enterprise or service provider first creates a
private cloud solution to deliver IT-focused IaaS from internal sources. It then
leverages the private cloud investments to deliver commercial services to
external entities. At this phase, the service provider might also transform
existing applications into cloud-ready sources for external delivery,
establishing a true hybrid delivery environment.
Consider a final case study that illustrates how you can obtain the right
environment for your business, retaining the agility and flexibility to adapt to
changing business needs:
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1.
You want to unroll a new application that will enable mobile employees to
download product information from and upload sales data to your company
database.
2.
The application developers use your HP Cloud solution to set up a public

cloud environment, in which they complete coding and perform functionality
tests. The HP model-based approach for this environment ensures that the
application they develop will run anywhere you choose to host it.
3.
The application will handle sensitive and proprietary information. Therefore,

after the application is ready for production, you choose to deploy and host it
on your private cloud behind your firewall.
4.
As the demand on the application and the underlying infrastructure grows, you
may choose to shift some of the workload to extra capacity in a public cloud or
managed cloud IaaS, as needed. Designed with the model-based approach,
the application is portable and can run without recoding.
5.
More importantly, you need a unified (not siloed) management approach with
a single pane-of-glass solution for monitoring, managing, and securing such
applications across various environments. You can run BSM (offered as a
SaaS from HP) to monitor services in your private cloud and public cloud.
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Summary
This module has introduced you to the key HP technologies and products in an HP
Converged Infrastructure environment. HP Converged Infrastructure integrates the
previously separate silos of servers, storage, network, facilities, and management,
replacing the silos with a cohesive framework that IT staff manages as a whole.
This integrated framework becomes the foundation on which highly available,
scalable, and virtualized data center services rest.
Remember that HP has many innovations, which this module could only touch on
briefly. The remaining modules in this course will discuss how the technologies and
products discussed in this chapter are applied in enterprise networks, as well as
introduce you to many other important HP technologies and products.
In Module 3, you will begin your exploration of HP Converged Infrastructure
solutions by examining a standard data center and learning how to use HP
innovations to meet this data centers fundamental needs.
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Learning check
QUESTION: Which solutions does HP OneView replace? What role does HP
OneView play in the converged infrastructure?
ANSWER:
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Module 3
Objectives
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Define the characteristics and purposes of a data center
Identify typical challenges that IT staff must overcome when deploying and
managing data center solutions
Recognize several HP technologies and product families that provide the

foundation of a scalable HP Converged Infrastructure data center
M3 1
What is a data center?

Years ago, a server room or data closet might have contained only a single server
for the entire business or organization. Today, the typical enterprise requires a
variety of services or functions, each of which is hosted on one or more
specialized servers. Such servers includeamong many others:
File servers
Web servers
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) servers
Active Directory servers
Exchange or email servers
As the number, size, and complexity of servers grow, companies must develop an
infrastructure in which to deploy and support these services.
A data center is most simply defined as the physical server and storage devices
that host the data and services demanded by todays businesses and enterprises,
as well as the network infrastructure that interconnects these devices. The
infrastructure also connects services to consumers of services at the main campus
and any remote branches. The data center provides centralized file storage
(including backup files), data processing, and authentication resources.
In the past, data centers were defined by size. A data center had to be a larger,
separate room, building, or site. Today, nearly every business of any size must
identify and design a data center of appropriate scale to meet its operating needs.
The data center is defined by function and intentional design. Scale or size has
become only one attribute of a data center design.
M3 2
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Challenges in the basic or standard data center

Data centers come in many types and sizes. In later modules, you will consider
data centers that provide more critical services, larger data centers that might span
multiple sites, and data center services hosted in the cloud. This module
considers a basic or standard data center. Of course, the definition of basic is
somewhat subjective. For the purposes of this module, a basic data center does
not require the highest levels of availability, is confined to one site, and does not
provide the hosted services and flexibility of a cloud solution.
Many data center challenges are universal, common to both basic and more
advanced environments, and this module addresses these challenges. In any size
or type of data center, you must consider the following issues:
StandardizationMany different types of products make solutions more

difficult and expensive to manage. How do you minimize the types of products
while still meeting all of your needs?
ConsolidationHow can data and services be moved from older, disparate

servers onto newer hardware with minimal downtime? How do you
consolidate services when merging company resources after a merger or
acquisition?
ScalabilityHow can you minimize future consolidation challenges by

planning for growth and upgrades? Can the platform scale to meet future
needs without a forklift upgrade? How can you design your solution now so
as to support future upgrades without requiring you to replace or redesign the
entire infrastructure?
Redundancy and recoverabilityHow many 9s do you want or need?

Everyone knows a server could fail, but users also expect services provided
by a data center to remain accessible 24 x 7 or at least to be quickly restored
to functionality with data intact and minimal downtime.
Note
The term 9s refers to the number of nines in the percentage of time that a
solution is available. For example, a solution with five 9s availability is up
99.999% of the time.
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Physical limitationsHow big is the facility? Can the data center grow within
the existing space, or will it grow to a second room, a bigger facility, or
multiple physical sites? How much power is available? Can the required
cooling be provided to offset the heat generated by the data center
equipment?
Need to stay green and minimize operational costsHow do you

maintain high performance while minimizing your environmental footprint and
power and cooling costs?
Limited IT staff and timeTime is money. IT staff spend a lot of time

managing the data center, supporting its operation, planning for its growth,
responding to outages, and getting trained on new products and solutions. As
you standardize and consolidate, can you reduce the number or diversity of
products your staff supports? How can you get the most from your hardware
investments by investing in services?
M3 3
To address these concerns, you need energy-efficient, standardized solutions with

consistent management tools, well-managed costs, and a satisfactory return on
investment (ROI). General goals of a data center design include:
Reducing the number of networking switches
Consolidating all data in a centralized storage area network (SAN)
Reducing the number of physical servers
Monitoring power and air conditioning usage and dynamically adapting these
usages to current requirements to save money
Reducing cabling requirements
Providing a single management solution to manage and support your

virtual machines (VMs), virtual switches, and other networking devices
Quickly rolling out new applications with minimal network configuration
The next page introduces a comparatively small data center environment. You will
use this scenario as a basis for discussing the HP products and technologies that
overcome challenges in the data center.
M3 4
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Meeting Fundamental D
Data Center Ne
eeds
Esta
ablishiing a data
d
ce
enter a
at Fox R
River G
Gaming
oductory mod
dule for this course defin
ned a fictional company known as F
Fox
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River Ga
aming. For more
m
detail and context o
on the backg
ground and g
goals for thiss
scenario, please reviiew that intro
oduction.
dule conside
ers an infrasttructure upg rade that mo
oves the com
mpanys
This mod
services from a serve
er room to th
he companyys first real d
data center. This upgrad
de
will consolidate Fox River Gamin
ngs data fro m an assorttment of agin
ng products
from othe
er vendors to
o a standard
dized set of sscalable HP
P servers and
d storage.
Goals in this migratio
on include:
Enha
ancing productivity by de
eploying the
e latest techn
nologies
Reducing costs by simplifyin

ng operation
ns
pite the expa
anding serviices, the com
mpany wantss to avoid an
n extensive
Desp
incre
ease in IT staff. The com
mpany also h
hopes to avo
oid soaring p
power and
cooling costs.
Ensu
uring busine
ess continuity
y with reliab le, cost-effective solutions
Prov
viding a foun
ndation for fu
uture growth
h or expansio
on
Scallability is key
y. The company anticipa
ates 40% to 8
ees
80% growth of employe
and resources at
a the main office
o
in the n
next year.
Build
ding a partne
ership with a technologyy partner
With
h its expanding business
s and service
es, the comp
pany will nee
ed to invest in
IT so
olutions on an
a ongoing basis.
b
Fox R
River Gaming
g hopes to b
begin building
g
trustt in a techno
ology partnerr with the vission and cap
pability to pro
ovide solid,
basic solutions at
a a modest costas we
ell as a roadmap for sca
aling these
solutions as required by cha
anging busin
ness needs. This module
e demonstra
ates
what Fox River Gaming
G
gain
ns with HP a
as its partnerr.
Although
h this module
e focuses on
n the formati on of a com
mparatively small data
center, th
he concepts also apply to
t other scen
narios, including the con
nsolidation o
of
hardware
e and data onto
o
standard
dized platforrms after a ccompany acquisition. While
considering solutions
s for Fox Riv
ver Gaming, keep in min
nd how you ccan apply these
technologies and sollutions succe
essfully to otther use casses.
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HP Innov
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ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
HP FlexFa
F
abric: The
T ne
etwork found
dation
Fabric solutio
ons provide the networkk infrastructu
ure for the da
ata center. A
As
HP FlexF
the found
dation of datta center con
nnectivity, th
hey play a ke
ey role in the
e converged
infrastruc
cture. (The FlexCampus
F
s and FlexBrranch piecess of the puzzzle are
considered in later modules.)
m
Fabric simpliifies data center infrastru
ucture with cconverged n
network,
HP FlexF
computer, and storag
ge resources
s across botth virtual and
d physical environmentss to
accommo
odate cloud computing models.
m
Considerr this statem
ment closely to
t appreciate
e the role that the FlexF
Fabric plays in
the data center soluttion. First, the FlexFabricc is infrastru
ucture: all the
e routers,
switches, and routing
g switches (s
sometimes kknown as La
ayer 3 switch
hes or L3
switches
s) that transp
port data pac
ckets throug h a network. Like roads, bridges, tra
ain
tracks, and jet fuel, network
n
infra
astructure is taken for grranted until ssomething goes
s
The FlexFabric
F
a
achieves its purpose whe
en you can
wrong orr is in short supply.
almost fo
orget about it; the simpliffied, yet high
hly available
e topology simply works..
Transparrently conne
ecting users and servicess, the flexible infrastructture can ada
apt
to allevia
ate bottlenec
cks and acco
ommodate c hanging trafffic demandss.
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Data Center Ne
eeds
Flex
xFabric
c resou
urces
s resources for technolo

ogy decision--makers, solution archite
ects, and oth
her
HP offers
experts tasked
t
with improving da
ata center ne
etworking. Y
You can use these
resource
es as a baseline for netw
work planning
g and design
n projects. O
One such
resource
e is the techn
nical white paper, HP Fle
exFabric Reference Arch
hitecture, fou
und
at:
http://h17
7007.www1.hp.com/doc
cs/interop/HP
P_Networkin
ng_FlexFabrric_Referencce_
Architectture_Guide_
_4AA3-4150E
ENW.pdf
The white paper pres
sents the bu
uilding blockss for HPs co
onverged ne
etwork
infrastruc
cture vision. It first identiifies the mosst important IT trend today
n introducess technologie
virtualiza
ation of resou
urces at all levels. It then
es supported
d
by HP that ensure th
he network meets
m
the pa
articular need
ds of a virtua
alized
environm
ment. Finally,, it provides FlexFabric R
Reference A
Architecture e
examples fo
or
different types of virtualized serv
ver deployme
ents using a layered app
proach.
P equipment,, the paper iss an explana
ation of the H
HP
Less a discussion off specific HP
are specifically designed
d to
design sttrategies, architectures, and technollogies that a
meet the
e needs of virtualized env
vironments. In particularr, the paper explains how
w
trends su
uch as virtua
alization, serrvice-oriente
ed architecture (SOA), an
nd cloud
computin
ng have shiftted traffic flo
ows: now mo
ost traffic invvolves serverr-to-server a
and
VM-to-VM
M communic
cations. Suc
ch communiccations in turrn drive the need for larg
ger
and flatte
er Layer 2 ne
etworks. HP
P is continuin
ng to meet th
hese demands with its
flattened architecture
e built on the
e Intelligent Resilient Fra
amework (IR
RF) technolo
ogy.
mplements th
he HP Conve
erged Infrasstructure: Re
eference
The white paper com
Architectture Solution
n Block Desiign Guide, fo
ound at
http://h18
8004.www1.hp.com/prod
ducts/solutio
ons/4AA2-64
453ENW.pdff
These do
ocuments gu
uide data center architeccts and IT te
eams in deve
eloping data
center ne
etworking models and methodologie
m
es that simpllify server de
eployment
without sacrificing
s
pe
erformance or
o flexibility. The correctt design, com
mbined with the
correct hardware
h
pro
oducts and solutions,
s
let s IT meet ne
ew demandss directly rather
than forc
ces business
ses to adapt to technolog
gy limitations.
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HP Innov
vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Integrated
d and intelligent rac
cking infrasttructurre
a manage
eability are kkey factors in
n a data cen
nter. Innovatiive
Power, space, cost, and
nology integrrates intelligence into th e racks whe
ere server an
nd storage
HP techn
compone
ents are mou
unted. The next
n
pages sshow the pro
oducts and te
echnologiess
that save
e you power,, space, and
d money acro
oss the convverged infrasstructure witth
minimal effort
e
on the part of yourr IT staff.
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Data Center Ne
eeds
HP Intellig
I
gent Se
eries Rack:
R
A
An enc
closure
e for th
he
serv
ver and
d stora
age so
olution
I
Se
eries Rack provides
p
the physical fou
undation for a data cente
ers
The HP Intelligent
power as
s well as the foundation for server an
nd storage m
managemen
nt solutions. It is
easy to see
s how the racks provid
de the physi cal foundatio
on. They offfer these
compone
ents:
Hard
dware for co
ommon console or termin
nal access to
o servers mounted in the
rack
ks
Rack
k shelving, grounding,
g
and
a stabilizattion compon
nents
Simp
plified cable management, standard
dized across the data ce
enter
Simp
plified and standardized remote keyyboard, video
o, mouse (K
KVM)
components
Com
mmon univerrsal power su
upplies (UPS
Ss) for delive
ering batteryy power to
rack
ked compone
ents
Howeverr, an Intellige
ent Series Rack is more than bare m
metal with sccrew holes fo
or
mounting
g devices. HP Intelligentt Series Raccks work with
h your serve
er and storag
ge
compone
ents to assis
st you in disc
covering, ma
apping, and managing power and
cooling components.
c
. The racks Intelligent P
Power Distrib
bution Units (iPDUs)
provide this
t
intelligen
nce. The iPD
DU identifiess the power cconsumption
n for every
compone
ent in the rac
ck (with 99%
% accuracy a
above 1 wattt). The iPDU
U helps you
track and
d control pow
wer distribution within th e rack.
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ucture
Location discov
d
very se
ervices
s
ou integrate Intelligent Se
eries Racks with HP Ge
en8 servers, you also ga
ain
When yo
location discovery
d
se
ervices.
The Gen8 server Ins
sight Lifecyclle Onboard ((iLO) Manag
gement Engine, the Gen
n8
server Insight Contro
ol, and the In
ntelligent Se
eries Rack iP
PDU compon
nents together
ation within the
identify each
e
servers
s precise rac
ck and locattion in that ra
ack. The loca
rack is prresented as U Location
n, which ind icates the se
ervers heigh
ht within the
rack as a U value.
Using the
ese services
s, you can au
utomate ted ious physica
al asset data
a and locatio
on
tracking. Removing the
t manual processes
p
v irtually eliminates errorss. As seen on
the next page, mana
n also use th
agement app
plications can
he location d
data within
detailed, graphical displays of po
ower use, te mperature, a
and system utilization.
Note
The iLO Ma
anagement En
ngine provide
es many more
e benefits, wh
hich this modu
ule
covers laterr.
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Data Center Ne
eeds
Data
a cente
er view
w for asset m
manage
ement
u know the lo
ocation of se
ervers within
n racks and o
of racks with
hin in a data
After you
center, you can cons
sider the management a
and control o
of the data ce
enter as a
whole. HP Systems Insight
I
Mana
ager (HP SIM
M), shown in
n this graphiic, is only on
ne
of the ma
anagement applications
a
that provide
es visibility in
nto and conttrol of your
assets.
s
sev
veral plug-in
n tools, includ
ding Insight Power Manager. Togeth
her
HP SIM supports
with HP Intelligent
I
Se
eries Racks and sensors
rs built into H
HP server an
nd storage
devices, this tool helps you monitor and man
nage power consumption and therm
mal
output. The
T utilitys visual
v
display
ys and graph
hs:
Prov
vide 24-hourr maximum observed
o
tem
mperature in
n each rack
Enab
ble you to drrill down to individual raccks and com
mponents witthin those
rack
ks
Allow
w identification of hotspo
ots and poorr air flow
Help
p you identify
y servers at risk of overh
heating beca
ause of localized airflow
w or
cooling issues
e reliability w
ay, you can maximize pe
erformance a
and increase
while reducin
ng
In this wa
costs acrross a data center.
c
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HP power
p
discovery service
es
C
uses the server id
dentifiers pro
ovided by HP Intelligentt Series Racks
Insight Control
with iPDU
Us to automate the map
pping and disscovery of deployed harrdware.
Formerly
y, you had to
o add servers
s in a new ra
ack to the se
erver manag
gement tool o
one
by one. With
W iPDUs in
i the racks,, on the othe
er hand, the managemen
nt software
automatically discove
ers each ins
stalled device
e and config
gures its view
w of the rackk
accordingly. The inte
elligent infras
structure can
n even identtify whether critical IT
devices have
h
both prrimary and redundant
r
po
ower inputs (A and B po
ower feeds).
The iPDU
U can identiffy the B feed
d iPDU and a
add it to the visualized cconfiguration
n.
The integ
grated HP so
olution saves IT staff ho urs of mana
agement time
e, so
administrrators can shift their focu
us to innova
ation. At the ssame time, tthe solution
reduces the likelihoo
od of error, helping to pre
event unneccessary down
ntime.
oftware also allows you to pull accurate power information
HP Insight Control so
S
Racks
s to increase
e power efficciency. In a vvirtualized
from HP Intelligent Series
ment, VMs might
m
be mov
ved or assign
ned to differe
ent physical servers, wh
hich
environm
leads to physical serrvers that ha
ave varying w
workloads ovver time. The
e varying
workload
ds, in turn, ca
ause servers
s to consum
me varying am
mounts of po
ower (becau
use
higher workloads driv
ve up proces
ssor utilizati on, which drrives up pow
wer
consump
ption). Intellig
gent power monitoring
m
a
allows you to
o shift load, m
moving pow
wer
where it is required at
a the mome
ent and recla
aiming trappe
ed or unused power
capacity.
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eeds
HP ProLia
P
ant serrver fam
milies
Think back to the exa

ample scena
ario of Fox R
River Gaming. This company is
attemptin
ng to standardize its serv
ver hardwarre; yet it might have diffe
erent
requirem
ments for serv
vers deploye
ed in the futu
ure. Fortuna
ately, HP offe
ers tower, ra
ack,
and serv
ver blade opttions to mee
et the needs of any deplo
oyment.
Many of these form factors
f
use consistent
c
co
omponents a
across the H
HP server
families. Often, the same
s
mezza
anine cards, power supp
plies, and fan
ns are used all
the way up
u the serve
er lineeven
n in Integrityy blades, whiich will be diiscussed in a
later mod
dule, and in the recently announced Moonshot sservers. Maiintenance tim
me,
training time,
t
and downtime are all decrease
ed when IT sstaff can pulll common
compone
ents from a pool
p
of spare
e componen
nts for use in
n a range of servers.
In additio
on, HP ProLiiant Gen8 se
ervers incorp
porate more
e than 150 de
esign
innovatio
ons to help eliminate
e
com
mmon proble
ems that ressult in failure
es, downtime
e,
and data
a loss. The Gen8
G
feature
es are availa ble across the range of physical forrm
factors.
ures that are
e universal to
o all ProLian
nt servers. If
This course focuses on the featu
d more inform
mation abou
ut individual capabilities, features, an
nd
you need
differentiators of various ProLian
nt server fam
milies, you ca
an refer to in
nformation
e on the HP external
e
Web site or atte
end advance
ed sales and
d technical
available
support certification
c
courses.
c
The nextt page highlights one of the key Gen
n8 features
the iLO Ma
anagement
Engine.
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iLO Manag
gemen
nt Engiine
ement Engine
e is a set of embedded managemen
nt features th
hat
The HP iLO Manage
t complete
e lifecycle off the individu
ual server fro
om initial dep
ployment,
support the
through ongoing
o
man
nagement, to
o service ale
erting and re
emote suppo
ort. Rename
ed
from Inte
egrated Ligh
hts-Out to IInsight Lifecyycle Onboarrd, the iLO Managemen
nt
Engine is
s embedded
d on the system board an
nd ships sta
andard in all ProLiant Ge
en8
servers, including the
e ProLiant BL,
B DL, ML, a
and SL Serie
es servers.
O versions only
o
provided
d remote acccess or man
nagement of the server.
Older iLO
Todays iLO Manage
ement Engine
e powers the
e entire Insig
ght Management system
m.
mote, and rellated manag
gement soluttions give yo
ou the keys tto
HP SIM, Insight Rem
ovisioning, prreparation, and
a deploym
ment of new servers. You
u no longer
rapid pro
need to bring
b
CDs, DVDs,
D
or thu
umb drives to
o update drivvers. HP Inssight
Managem
ment tools and the iLO Managemen
M
nt Engine allo
ow you to pu
ull the
appropria
ate drivers fo
or your operrating system
m (OS) direcctly into the ssystem boarrds
dedicated flash mem
mory before you
y load an OS on the sserver.
l
process
s used to inv
volve severa
al reboots an
nd many steps, often
The OS load
requiring
g your physic
cal presence
e at the serve
er. HP innovvations have
e streamlined
d
that proc
cess. Now th
he deployme
entwhich ccan even be automated
can be
accompliished in a fra
action of the
e time. The iL
LO Managem
ment Engine
e liberates IT
T to
work fastter whether the
t server is
s across the hall or acrosss the globe
e.
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Learning check
Match each HP technology or product to the description of how it transforms the
data center.
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HP Intelligent Series Racks

(with iPDUs)
Reduced maintenance time, training

time, and downtime with consistent
physical components
HP ProLiant server families
Remote control, discovery, and

deployment
Physical environment integration for
advanced management capabilities
HP iLO Management Engine
Visibility into devices physical

location, power utilization, and
temperature
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ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
HP Storag
S
ge porttfolio
S
porttfolio provide
es a range o
of storage syystems that a
are managed
The HP Storage
with com
mmon utilities
s and are de
esigned with a common vvision to me
eet a variety of
needs.
mmitted to partnering
p
wiith customerrs to transform their storrage solution
ns
HP is com
no matte
er what the customers
c
te
echnology m
maturity level. Therefore, HP is both
investing
g heavily in emerging
e
sto
orage solutio
ons for the new era of co
omputing wh
hile
continuin
ng to support customers with traditio
onal IT enviro
onments.
HP Stora
age offers three strategie
es for custom
mers at diffe
erent stages of data centter
transform
mation:
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Esta
ablished pla
atformsTh
he establishe
ed storage p
platforms ha
ave for yearss
offerred custome
ers the opporrtunity to con
nsolidate the
eir IT data sttorage onto
bulletproof storrage platform
ms. HP tape
e solutions, a
as well as HP
P MSA, HP
EVA
A, and HP XP
P storage pla
atform familiies, continue
e to offer the
e capacity an
nd
reliability deman
nded by ente
erprise data centers.
Con
nverged Sto
orageMode
ern data cen
nters storage needs go beyond
indiv
vidual device
e capabilities
s. HP innova
ations in Con
nverged Storage system
ms
and technologies help you expand
e
your storage solution from in
ndividual
devices to virtua
alized environments. Eve
en customerrs starting w
with a small d
data
centterlike the example Fo
ox River Gam
mingcan sselect Conve
erged Storag
ge
prod
ducts that lay
y a foundatio
on for rapid g
growth into a global data
a environme
ent.
HP Converged
C
Storage
S
enables you to sscale your in
nfrastructure
e to meet futture
need
ds by elimina
ating bounda
aries betwee
en storage a
and the rest of IT. It doess so
by combining ma
anagement orchestratio
on across sto
orage, serve
ers, and
netw
works with innovative, federated, sca
ale-out softw
ware and standardized
hard
dware platforrms, includin
ng HP 3PAR
R StoreServ, HP StoreVirrtual, HP
StoreOnce, and HP StoreAll.
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Converged Systems and ServicesYou can accelerate the rate at which

your storage solutions adapt to your business needs with HP Converged
Systems and Services. These solutions combine Converged Storage systems,
servers, management software, and services into integrated, turnkey
solutions. These integrated solutions remove the challenges associated with
application integration, virtualized infrastructures, and cloud services. They
also simplify IT and promote new levels of efficiency and agility by eliminating
the boundaries that separate the infrastructure, applications, and IT service
delivery. As you recall from Module 2, Converged Storage architectures are
built on:
Standardized platforms with common, modular x86-based hardware

Some of the HP ProLiant Gen8 server features are also included in many
of the storage platforms.
Federated, scale-out software enabling virtualized storage that supports

non-disruptive growth and data mobility
The software gives you freedom to move data across physical devices,
logical tiers, and remote locations, as well as between virtual (cloud) and
physical storage.
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Converged management that automates IT and accelerates application

delivery
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vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Softtware-d
defined stora
age fro
om HP
P
e-based (or software-def

s
fined) storag
ge consists o
of industry-sttandard
Software
hardware
e layered witth feature-ric
ch storage ssoftware.
The stora
age software
e is often called a Virtua
al SAN Applia
ance or Virtu
ual Storage
Applianc
ce (VSA). The HP StoreV
Virtual VSA, based on th
he LeftHand OS, helps
customers gain the benefits
b
of a fully-feature
ed array with
hout dedicated external
storage. A data cente
er can use VSA
V
Peer Mo
otion software capabilitie
es to build
virtual vo
olumes on ex
xisting serve
er disk storag
ge.
HP Store
eVirtual VSA
As help you achieve
a
thesse benefits b
because theyy are:
Hard
dware agno
osticDeplo
oy the VSAss across any x86 server or storage
platfform to creatte an open pool
p
of share
ed capacity.
Hypervisor inde
ependent
Virtualize yo
our storage across eithe
er of the major
serv
ver virtualizattion platform
ms. HP Store
eVirtual VSA
A is the first a
and only
nd span both
prod
duct of its kin
nd that can run
r on any xx86 hardware
e platform an
VMw
ware and Mic
crosoft Hype
er-V environ ments.
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erated with scale-out capabilities
c
otion
softw
wareExpa
and, recoverr, and migratte storage vo
olumes in a transparentt
man
nner that doe
es not disrup
pt end users and serverss access to data.
Note
Federated storage
s
is the
e collection off autonomouss storage reso
ources govern
ned
by a commo
on management system th
hat provides rrules about ho
ow data is
stored, man
naged, and migrated
m
throu
ughout the sto
orage networkk. These
storage resources includ
de disk capaccity managed by controllerss or appliance
es
m
array
ys. Federated storage lets you add capa
acity or move
e
controlling multiple
stored data across array
ys without disrruption.
wer of virtualization to turrn a set of heterogeneou

us and
You can use the pow
disconne
ected physical disk drive
es in your se rvers and sttorage devicces into a sin
ngle
pool of lo
ogical storag
ge capacity. You can sea
amlessly mig
grate all data
a to
StoreVirttual or HP 3P
PAR storage
e arrays as ccapacity and
d performancce needs
evolve.
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Benefits of software-defined storage are:
Rev. 14.11
Reduce costsUse capacity you already own to deploy new applications.
Increase agilityRespond to change more easily and with non-disruptive

data mobility.
Boost efficiencyDramatically reduce power, cooling, and floor space

requirements.
Reduce riskEnable application high availability across servers, hypervisors,

and locations.
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HP Innov
vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
HP StoreV
S
Virtual storag
ge
on to VSA, a software prroduct for de

eployment on
n existing se
ervers, HP
In additio
offers a StoreVirtual
S
line of produ
ucts based o
on the same
e OS. An exa
ample of succh a
converge
ed storage product
p
is the
e HP StoreV
Virtual 4000 S
Series Stora
age system
pictured in this graph
hic.
eVirtual stora
age meets th
he needs of companies like Fox Rivver Gaming,
HP Store
seeking to
t extend the
e value of cu
urrent IT infrrastructure a
as they migra
ate to a basic
data center. Highligh
hts of the solution for com
mpanies succh as this incclude:
Platfform integration that allo

ows easy sto
orage manag
gement acro
oss a virtualized
environment
Netw
work redundant array of independen
nt disks (RAIID) technolo
ogy that allow
ws
a sin
ngle, virtual storage
s
pool to scale up
p without disruption and also remove
es a
single point of fa
ailure
Supp
port for both
h Internet Sm
mall Compute
er System In
nterface (iSC
CSI) and Fib
bre
Channel (FC) co
onnectivity fo
or maximum
m flexibility off deploymen
nts
The scalability and

a reliability
y required to
o meet the ne
eeds of a grrowing busin
ness
Altho
ough Fox River Gaming is a small-to
o-medium business (SM
MB) now, it iss
grow
wing and mig
ght require high-perform
h
mance storag
ge systems in
n the future.
The federated sttorage capabilities of the
e StoreVirtua
al platform w
will allow
migrration to high
h-performance HP 3PAR
R platforms w
with no disru
uption to the
e
existting storage environmen
nt.
StoreVirttual products
s are simple, scalable, a
and available
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he graphic fo
or
more dettails about th
his product or
o explore H P product m
marketing lite
erature and
certificatiion courses..
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Data Center Ne
eeds
HP StoreV
S
Virtual portfo
olio
S
portfolio allo
ows for migrration from V
VSA software
e deploymen
nts
The HP StoreVirtual
on servers (which ca
an be ideal fo
or Remote O
Office or Branch Office [R
ROBO]
environm
ments) to dep
ployments on a range off physical prroducts targe
eted to data
centers of
o any size or
o demand.
You can scale from one
o platform
m to another, create tiers, or mix-and-match the
product models
m
that best fit yourr infrastructu re while reta
aining management
simplicity
y and feature
e consistenc
cy.
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11
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Learning check
QUESTION: Which Software-Defined Storage solution uses HP Peer Motion to
seamlessly create and migrate storage volumes on systems from x86 server
platforms to high-end storage arrays?
YOUR ANSWER:
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a.
HP 3PAR StoreServ
b.
HP StoreVirtual
c.
HP StoreAll
d.
HP StoreOnce
e.
HP StoreEasy
Rev. 14.11
Data Center Ne
eeds
Man
nagement fro
om serrver to cloud
al tools within
n the HP Ins
sight Manage
ement suite apply to ma
anagement a
at
Individua
all scales
s:
HP Insight Onlin
ne and HP Smart Update
e Manager (HP SUM) arre useful in tthe
man
nagement of even a sing
gle server.
HP Insight Contrrol lets you manage

m
an e
entire data ccenter infrasstructure.
HP CloudSystem
C
m Matrix and
d Cloud Servvice Automa
ation provide
e the scope tto
man
nage, provision, and orch
hestrate servver, storage, and networrk resourcess in
global, cloud-inte
egrated env
vironments.
Unified management
m
t tools enablle:
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11
Man
nagement of the converg
ged infrastru cture (includ
ding servers, network,
stora
age, and the
e data centerr environme nt)
Lifec
cycle manag
gement (inclu
uding config
guration, mon
nitoring, upd
dates, and
repa
air)
Lifec
cycle supporrt (including alerting, ca
all home cap
pabilities, an
nd entitlemen
nt
for fa
acilitating su
upport engag
gement)
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HP Innov
vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Pow
werful unified
u
d mana
ageme
ent toolsHP
P
Insight Ma
anagem
ment suite
s
ment works within

w
the HP
P Converged
d Infrastructu
ure to give yyou:
HP Insight Managem
Deep insight to make

m
more informed de
ecisions
Prec
cise control to
t do more in
n less time
Ongoing optimiz
zation to deliiver better se
ervices
dular Insight Managemen

nt software p
portfolio give
es you the flexibility to
The mod
he
level
of
in
choose t
nfrastructure
e manageme
ent that is rig
ght for your b
business.
At this sttage, you are
e merely being introduce
ed to the framework of the Insight
Managem
ment suite. To
T consider the
t fundame
ental data ce
enter needs at Fox River
Gaming, you only ne
eed to know the basic fe atures of Inssight Manag
gement utilitie
es
included with most HP
H ProLiant server
s
platfo
orms. These
e basic features extend tto
consisten
nt, unified to
ools with exp
panded capa
abilities to co
ontrol ever m
more comple
ex
deployme
ents and mig
grations, em
mpowering exxisting IT sta
aff to continu
ue managing
g
the data center as th
he businesss
s needs grow
w.
ght Managem
ment suite in
ncludes:
The Insig
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iLO Manageme
ent Engine
As you learrned, the HP
P iLO Manag
gement Engine
is a set of embedded manag
gement featu
ures that support the co
omplete lifecyycle
of th
ugh ongoing
he individual server from initial deplo
oyment, throu
g manageme
ent,
to se
ervice alertin
ng and remo
ote support.
HP Insight Con
ntrolInsigh
ht Control de
elivers essen
ntial server m
management,
inclu
uding proactive health management
m
, lights out re
emote contrrol, optimizattion
of po
ower usage, rapid serve
er deploymen
nt, server migration, perrformance
analysis, and VM
M managem
ment. You can
n get more ffrom every h
hour, watt, an
nd
dolla
ar you investt in infrastruc
cture with th
his software that unlockss the potentia
al
of th
he virtual and
d physical ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure.
Rev. 14.11
HP SUM and HP Service Pack for ProLiantUpdating server environments

can be one of the most frustrating jobs that system administrators perform,
and maintaining system firmware and software has become increasingly
complex and unnecessarily costly. To address this problem, HP offers HP
SUM with ProLiant servers and BladeSystems. The Service Pack for ProLiant
(SPP) includes HP SUM and provides innovative, flexible, comprehensive
firmware and software update capabilities. HP SUM dramatically simplifies the
update process by automating much of your systems maintenance, making
ProLiant easier to manage and more reliable. With SPP and HP SUM, you
can update ProLiant servers and BladeSystem infrastructures as much as
three times faster and achieve 93% less downtime during online updates.
HP Insight OnlineInsight Online is your personalized IT and support

dashboard. It provides the information you need to monitor the devices in your
IT environment from anywhere, at any time, and at no additional cost.
Insight Online is a key component of the integrated management and support
experience. Through the HP Support Center portal, Insight Online can
automatically display devices remotely monitored by HP Insight Remote
Support. It lets you easily track service events and support cases, as well as
view device configurations.
For more information on HP Insight Management products, visit:
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/management/inde
x.aspx#top and click the Videos tab.
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HP Innov
vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Pow
werful unified
u
d mana
ageme
ent toolsHP
P
storrage so
oftware
e
age software helps you reduce costss, simplify sto

orage infrastructure,
HP stora
protect vital
v
assets, and
a respond
d faster to bu
usiness oppo
ortunities.
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Data
a protection
n and recov
very softwarreWhethe
er for a large enterprise o
or a
smaller business
s, HP data protection
p
an
nd recovery ssoftware will costeffec
ctively protec
ct against disaster and e
ensure busin
ness continu
uity.
Data
a archive an
nd migration software
HP storage software e
enables you to
comply with data
a retention and
a retrieval requiremen
nts, improve application
perfo
ormance, an
nd reduce co
osts by effici ently migrating infrequently accesse
ed
or le
ess valuable data to lowe
er cost stora
age.
Storrage Resource Manage

ement (SRM
M)HP SRM
M software re
educes
operrational costs and provid
des the comm
mand and ccontrol found
dation you ne
eed
to effficiently man
nage and vis
sualize yourr physical an
nd virtual envvironments.
Storrage replica
ation softwa
areHP offe
ers array-bassed and hosst-based
replication softw
ware for use in disaster re
ecovery, tessting, applica
ation
elopment, an
nd reporting.
deve
Storrage device
e manageme
ent software
eMaximize your invesstment in HP
P
stora
age and netw
working with
h software th
hat enables h
hardware-sp
pecific
conffiguration, pe
erformance tuning,
t
and cconnectivityy manageme
ent.
Rev. 14.11
Data Center Ne
eeds
Pow
werful unified
u
d mana
ageme
ent toolsHP
P IMC
on to the Insight Manage

ement suite, HP offers a
another powe
erful
In additio
managem
ment tool in HP Intelligent Managem
ment Center (IMC). In Mo
odule 2, you
u
learned how
h
HP IMC
C discovers, monitors, an
nd managess your compllete,
heteroge
eneous netw
work infrastru
ucture. Now consider a ffew capabilitties that makke
this single-pane-of-glass solution
n an ideal fitt in a virtualizzed data cen
nter.
You can use IMC to manage the deploymentt and allocattion of virtua
al servers,
obtaining
g holistic con
ntrol of the entire
e
converrged infrastru
ucture. Do yyou need to
move res
sources or an
a application from one p
physical servver to another in a virtua
al
environm
ment? Perhaps you need
d to add ano
other node to
o a server clu
uster. IMC ccan
dynamica
ally modify the VLAN co
onfiguration o
of the attach
hed routers a
and switchess to
assist the
e server dep
ployment.
Just a few
w of the inno
ovative, virtu
ualization-op
ptimized cap
pabilities of IM
MC are:
Auto
omatic discovery of VMs
s, virtual swittches, and th
hese compo
onents
relattionships witth the physic
cal network
VM and
a virtual switch
s
resource manage
ement, includ
ding the crea
ation of virtual
switc
ches and po
ort groups
Virtu
ual and phys
sical topology
y views and status indiccators for nettworks,
work
kloads, and virtual
v
switch
hes
Auto
omatic recon
nfiguration off network po
olicies that "m
move" with V
VM/workload
ds
while
e the VMs "m
move" within
n or across tthe data center
IMCs ab
bility to coord
dinate netwo
ork configura
ations with virtual serverr requiremen
nts
brings tre
emendous power.
p
You obtain
o
a true single-pane
e-of-glass forr managing
both phy
ysical and virrtual resourc
ces within a d
data center.
n IMC, visit:
http://h170
007.www1.hp
p.com/us/en /networking//solutions/ne
etworkmanagem
ment/index.as
spx
mmitted to ongoing
o
deve
elopment of single-pane
e-of-glass ap
pplications th
hat
HP is com
give you ever more control
c
over your converrged infrastru
ucture with p
powerful
integratio
on of third-pa
arty manage
ement platfo rms.
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11
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Learning check
1.
Describe HP Insight Management in 14 words or fewer.

_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
2.
List 10 words that represent aspects of HP IMC.

IMC is:
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
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Rev. 14.11

Now that you have a solid understanding of the basic data center components of
an HP Converged Infrastructure, you can consider the complete solution for the
Fox River Gaming scenario.
Although there is no single, best solution for Fox Rive Gamings initial data center,
consider the options listed below as a reference point for discussion. You can also
use this reference point as you apply and extend your knowledge, exploring other
solutions for other data center environments. Although individual products, models,
and features change over time, HP continues to deliver reliable solutions to meet
basic data center needs over the life of a deployment.
For the network in this data center, you can start with two or more of the HP
Comware 5800 Series switches. The HP 5800AF-48G switch (JG225A) features a
data-center optimized design with front-to-back/back-to-front airflow for hot/cold
aisles, rear rack mounts, redundant hot-swappable power supplies, and fans. The
5800AF supports HP IRF technology, making it the foundation for a simplified,
resilient topology.
The rack-mounted ProLiant DL 380p Gen8 servers can support up to 768 GB of
memory on up to 24 DIMM slots. Options for their network connectivity include 1
GbE and 10 GbE adapters, and the servers support an onboard Smart Array
storage controller. As with all Gen8 servers, Insight Management utilities and the
iLO Management Engine are included.
The HP StoreVirtual 4000 runs the LeftHand OS with Peer Motion. By deploying a
StoreVirtual product, the company gains the ability to extend storage from a single
physical device to a federated storage solution that spans virtual or cloud
environments. In this way, the solution adapts as the Fox River Gaming data
center grows and changes.
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HP Innov
vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
HP innova
i
ations to rem
member
ecial note of these HP innovations:

Take spe
HP Intelligent Series
S
Rack
k and iLO Ma
anagementt EngineH
HP Intelligentt
Serie
es Racks an
nd the iLO Management
M
t Engine (am
mong other G
Gen8 server
technologies) inttegrate with power and llocation man
nagement se
ervices to
overrcome data center
c
mana
agement cha
allenges and
d to optimize
e power,
cooling, and serrver utilizatio
on.
HP StoreVirtua
S
l and HP 3P
PAR Peer M otion softw
wareThe P
Peer Motion
softw
ware runs as
s VSAs on x86
x servers o
or on dedica
ated storage hardware.
Thes
se extendab
ble platforms
s can scale a
and migrate to enterprise
e and cloud
implementations
s.
HP Insight Man
nagement su
uite, HP Sto
orage Softw
ware, and HP
P IMC
Toge
ether, these managemen
nt tools provvide a powerrful, unified ffoundation fo
or
integ
grated contro
ol of productts across the
e HP Conve
erged Infrastrructure.
Sum
mmary
Data cen
nter standard
dization and consolidatio
on present yyou with the opportunity to
reduce costs
c
while in
ncreasing prroductivity an
nd reliability with a techn
nology refressh.
HP innov
vations deliv
ver a resilient network arrchitecture, integrated po
ower
monitorin
ng, and cons
sistent iLO Management
M
t Engine and
d remote ma
anagement
capabilitiies across se
ervers and storage.
s
With
h HP, you ca
an gain:
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Incre
eased produ
uctivity
High
h reliability with
w simplified
d technologiies and desiigns
Reduced time and costs for maintenancce and suppo

ort
Rev. 14.11
Meeting Business-Critical
Data Center Needs
Module 4
Objectives
Rev. 14.11
Define the characteristics and purposes of a business-critical data center

Identify challenges particular to a mission-critical or business-critical
environment
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HP Innov
vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
New
w busin
ness-c
critical data c
center
er Gaming no
ow has an online
o
compo
onent to its g
game which will require a
Fox Rive
separate
e, mission-critical and pu
ublic-facing d
data center. The compan
ny must crea
ate
and test this environm
ment so thatt it is online prior to the p
product laun
nch. As the h
host
for the ga
aming applic
cations, the high-availab
bility data center is essen
ntial to the
successfful launch off the game.
Designin
ng and deplo
oying this env
vironment iss Phase Two
o of Fox Rive
er Gamings
infrastruc
cture upgrad
de. Although the compan
ny retains ass its primary goal deployying
standardized data ce
enter solutions, it also prrioritizes the
e virtualizatio
on and
automation needed for
f future gro
owth or expa
ansion.
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Rev. 14.11
Meeting Bussiness-Critical D
Data Center Ne
eeds
Cha
allenge
es in th
he business--critica
al data centerr
kes are highe

er in a business-critical d
data center. Customers expect:
The stak
Data
a will always
s be accessib
ble.
No data
d
will ever be lost.
Systtems will be highly availa

able, and, if failures do o
occur, system
ms will recovver
rapid
dly without data
d
loss.
Data
a and service
es are securre.
Highly av
vailable serv
vices rely on redundancyy in every ha
ardware com
mponent.
Howeverr, redundanc
cy itself creates the challlenge of con
nnecting redundant
elements
s and synchrronizing data
a, services, and function
nality acrosss them. The
resulting traffic often places a he
eavy burden on the netw
work.
er, to achieve
e
Companies are centrralizing application and data resourcces; howeve
full data redundancy and ultra-high availabiliity, they need a reliable multi-site
ment. Design
ning a netwo
ork that can m
meet the seccurity and ba
andwidth
environm
demands
s becomes more
m
challen
nging when ttwo or more data centerrs must act a
as
one.
A business-critical da
ata center pllaces high d emands on both the harrdware and IT
staff. IT needs
n
tools that
t
help the
em effectivelly monitor, m
maintain, and
d, in the eve
ent
of a failure, rapidly re
estore servic
ces and data
a. Complicatting the situa
ation are the
e
nvolved a bu
usiness-criticcal data centter:
many components in
Serv
vers
Storage
Appllications
Netw
working devices
Secu
urity
Administtrators can no
n longer wo
ork in a siloed
d environme
ent of separa
ate teams th
hat
rarely communicate. Because all products a nd technologies interactt within the
business
s-critical data
a center, adm
ministrators must also w
work together to ensure tthe
solution continues
c
to
o function seamlessly.
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11
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True high availability comes at a cost, and, understanding that, you might be
willing to pay more for a business-critical data center. Nonetheless cost pressures
remain; you will invest in a highly available converged infrastructure but appreciate
when that infrastructure maximizes your return on investment (ROI).
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Rev. 14.11
Data Center Ne
eeds
Stro
ong inttegration
e critical the environmen

nt, the more the environment deman
nds a simple
e,
The more
secure, robust,
r
and integrated so
olution. As yyou impleme
ent a solid co
onverged
infrastruc
cture, you must
m
ensure that
t
your sollution addressses your ch
hallenges:
Does the solutio

on simplify, unify,
u
and flattten connecttivity betwee
en servers and
stora
age resource
es?
Simp
pler, flatter to
opologies arre not only m
more elegantt but also lesss likely to fa
ail
beca
ause every complexity
c
or
o hop introdu
uces the cha
ance of som
mething going
g
wron
ng. In additio
on, when the
e topology iss simple to understand a
and easy to
main
ntain, errors are less like
ely to introdu
uce unplanne
ed downtime
e. When welldesigned, a simplified topolo
ogy delivers the best red
dundancy.
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Do products
p
pro
ovide the nec
cessary perfformance an
nd reliability ffrom the
solution level all the way to the
t compone
ent level? C
Can both arch
hitectures an
nd
chipsets meet ex
xpectations in a businesss-critical en
nvironment?
Are server interc
connections sufficiently rrobust? A da
ata center ca
an be
overrwhelmed wiith a tangled
d mess of Fib
bre Channell (FC) and E
Ethernet cablles.
Do products
p
help you conso
olidate these
e connections into a relia
able solution
n?
Does the solutio
on deliver en
nterprise-leve
el security at the data ce
enter core?
Do centralized
c
management
m
t tools help yyou to monittor and manage the movving
pieces introduce
ed by virtualiized storage
e, servers, an
nd networkss?
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Bus
siness--critica
al solutions ffrom H
HP
r
of inno
ovative prod
ducts to mee
et the needs and overcome
HP provides a wide range
es in business-critical da
ata centers llike Fox Rive
er Gamingss new data
challenge
center:
Integ
grity servers
s and server blades
Blad
deSystem en
nclosures
Virtu
ual Connect modules, inttegrating se rver blades into the FlexxFabric netw
work
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3PAR StoreServ
v systems, optimized
o
forr speed and designed fo
or businesscritic
cal environm
ments with:
Smart Tiers
Fat-to-thin and
a thin-prov
visioned fou rth generatio
on applicatio
on-specific
integrated circuits
c
(ASIC
Cs)
Peer Motion
n storage fed
deration acro
oss physical and virtual domains
Persistent Ports
P
nments
Flex
xFabric switc
ches optimize
ed for virtua
alized environ
Multti-site, high-p
performance
e security so lutions, such
h as HP Tipp
pingPoint, HP
ArcS
Sight, HP Fo
ortify, and HP
P Sentinel Se
ecurity
Man
nagement too
ols, such as HP System s Insight Ma
anager (HP S
SIM), HP
Insig
ght Control, and
a HP Intelligent Mana
agement Cen
nter (IMC)
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Data Center Ne
eeds
HP BladeS
B
System
m
ast, a server was either a room-sized

d mainframe
e or an over--provisioned
In the pa
PC, usua
ally with a form factor. Over
O
time, sp
pace and efficiency dema
ands pushed
d
most serrvers into tod
days traditio
onal rack fo
orm factor. S
Servers shrank from
occupyin
ng three or fiv
ve rack units
s (Us) down to 1U. (A ra
ack unit is 1.75 inches or
4.45 centimeters.)
ue to meet th
he needs of many comp
panies. Howe
ever,
Rack serrvers continu
companies can obtaiin even grea
ater efficienccy in space, power, cooliing, and
connectiv
vity by evolv
ving again.
The HP BladeSystem
B
m further dec
creases servvers footprin
nt while provviding more
capabilitiies for the se
ervers. An HP
H blade encclosure is no
ot just smalle
er than a
traditiona
al rack, it is also
a
smarterr. The enclossure manage
es the powe
er and coolin
ng
for the se
ervers and storage
s
blade
es stored wi thin it. The p
pooled resou
urces increa
ase
efficiency
y, so redundant power supplies use fewer wattss per server. You save
money in
n power and cooling with
hout compro
omising perfo
ormance. Be
ecause the
blade enclosure houses servers,, storage, an
nd network in
nterfaces, yo
ou have few
wer
nd compone
ents to install.
cables an
The interrconnect mo
odules installled within th e enclosure further enha
ance the
BladeSys
stem. You le
earned about several inte
erconnect options in Mo
odule 1, but HP
Virtual Connect modules deliver many beneffits for virtua
alized, business-critical
ministrators u
use the Virtu
ual Connect management
data center. With little effort, adm
interface to manage not only serrver connecttivity but also
o server proffiles. These
profiles provide
p
the flexibility
f
for administrato
ors to move or replace sservers,
storage, and network
k interface hardware wit hin the Blad
deSystem dyynamically.
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HP BladeS
B
System
m architecturre
hitecture of an
a HP BladeSystem encclosure maxi mizes redun
ndancy.
The arch
Power, cooling, and connectivitysuch as th
hat provided
d by the Virtu
ual Connect
modules
are all con
ndensed into
o a single en
nclosure. The 10U chasssis shown in
n
this graphic can hold
d up to 16 se
ervers with e
eight intercon
nnect bays ffor modules
that deliv
ver I/O conne
ectivity.
HP Blade
eSystem enc
closures are
e designed fo
or minimal d
downtime and rapid
recovera
ability:
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Hot-swappable power
p
supplies, fans, an
nd interconn
nect moduless allow
adm
ministrators to
o complete routine
r
main
ntenance without disrupting servicess.
Adm
ministrators can
c resolve component
c
ffailures witho
out ever taking a serverr
offlin
ne.
Man
ny BladeSysttem physical componen ts are comm
mon across tthe HP serve
er
portffolio from en
ntry-level Pro
oLiant serve rs up to high
her-end Integrity serverss.
Adm
ministrators can
c manage the BladeSyystem without extensive
e retraining, and
you save on the costs of sto
ocking spare
e componentts.
The c7000 enclo
osure is builtt for high ava
ailability from
m its passive
e NonStop
signal midplane through its redundant
r
p
power and co
ooling components.
op signal mid
dplane and sseparate pow
wer backpla
ane have no
The NonSto
active comp
ponents. Sep
parating the power delivvery in the ba
ackplane fro
om
the high-spe
eed intercon
nnect signalss in the midp
plane proteccts the signall
midplane fro
om thermal stress.
s
The NonSto
op signal mid
dplane also provides red
dundant sign
nal paths
between servers and interconnect m
modules.
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Data Center Ne
eeds
Serv
ver bla
ade fam
milies
stem server blades fall into two fam iliesHP PrroLiant serve
er blades an
nd
BladeSys
HP Integrity server blades.
b
HP ProLiant
P
server blades
b
ProLiant server blade
es feature either:
AMD
D Opteron prrocessors (m
models endin
ng with 5, ssuch as the ProLiant
BL46
65c Gen8 orr ProLiant BL685c G7)
Intel Xeon proce
essors (mode
els ending w
with 0, such
h as the Pro
oLiant BL420
0c
Gen8 or ProLian
nt BL660c Gen8)
G
ProLiant blades prov

vide a wide variety
v
of I/O
O options, inccluding oness specificallyy
designed
d to work witth Virtual Connect FlexF
Fabric and Fllex-10 solutiions; iLO;
multiple redundancy
r
features; em
mbedded RA
AID controlle
ers; and mucch more.
Note
For server generations
g
before
b
Gen8, Integrated Lig
ghts Out (iLO
O) provides
remote man
nagement. Fo
or Gen8 serve
ers, the Insigh
ht Lifecycle O
Onboard (iLO))
Management Engine pro
ovides those b
benefits and m
many more re
elated to servver
provisioning
g, optimization, and mainte
enance, as yo
ou learned in Module 3.
ProLiant server blade

e series are:
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ProL
Liant BL400
0cThese servers
s
delivver the same
e capabilitiess, features, a
and
bene
efits of ProLiant rack serrvers in a sm
maller, more power-efficiient form facctor.
This series is ide
eal for heterogeneous d ata centers that host inffrastructure,
data
abase, virtua
alization, mes
ssaging, and
d high-performance com
mputing (HPC
C)
applications.
ProL
Liant BL600
0cWith a large memorry footprint a
and maximum
m I/O
expa
andability, th
hese servers
s are designe
ed for compu
ute-intensive
e workloads.
This series is ide
eal for hostin
ng many virttual machine
es (VMs) and
d delivering the
perfo
ormance and
d expansion
n capabilitiess that virtualiized environ
nments requiire.
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HP Integrity server blades

Integrity server blades are flexible, mission-critical server blades designed to fit
into the BladeSystem infrastructure and coexist with ProLiant server, storage, and
expansion blades.
Integrity BL8x0c i2 server blades feature unique HP Blade Link technology, which
combines two or four blades to create four- and eight-socket systems. These
blades include:
Integrity BL860c i2
Integrity BL870c i2
Integrity BL890c i2
Integrity BL8x0c i2 server blades are based on the Intel Itanium 9300 Series
processor with two or four processor cores, up to eight processor sockets, and up
to 1.5TB of memory (up to 24 DIMM slots per server blade for 96 DIMM slots total,
16GB maximum DIMM size, and DDR3 memory with double-chip spare).
Integrity BL8x0c i4 server blades are flexible and versatile two-, four-, and eightsocket systems that are ideal for mission-critical enterprise applications. With
support for hard partitioning (HP nPars), HP-UX Virtual Partitions (HP-UX vPars),
and HP Integrity Virtual Machines, these Integrity server blades deliver missioncritical levels of virtualization availability and flexibility.
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eeds
HP Integri
I
ity porrtfolio
on to the Inte
egrity blades
s that you jusst examined
d, HP offers Integrity
In additio
servers in other form
m factors, inc
cluding rack sservers and Superdome
e.
HP Superdom
S
me 2
HP Supe
erdome 2 (SD
D2)the flagship, high--end Integrityy serverpo
owers some of
the world
ds most dem
manding, mis
ssion-criticall environmen
nts. For ente
erprise-classs
customers who require high availability, rich virtualization capabilitie
es, and long-term inve
estment prottection, innovations such
h as the faullt-tolerant cro
ossbar fabric
and SD2
2 Analysis En
ngine set the
e standard fo
or mission-ccritical compu
uting.
Whether deployed in
n a Superdom
me, as a serrver blade, o
or as a rack server, HP
Integrity servers prov
vide the relia
ability, availa
ability, and se
erviceability (RAS)
expected
d in a busine
ess-critical da
ata center.
HP In
ntegrity NonSto
op
HP Integrity NonStop
p systems arre architecte
ed as virtualiized systems. Typical
virtualize
ed environme
ents run multiple VMs on
n a single ph
hysical serve
er to improve
utilization
n of that serv
ver. NonStop
p virtualizes in the oppo
osite direction
n to improve
e
reliability
y in business
s and mission-critical envvironments. The NonSto
op environm
ment
virtualize
es the underllying hardwa
areup to 1 6 physical sservers or bladesinto o
one
single se
erver able to deliver conttinuous appl ication availlability and m
meet SLAs o
of
up to 100
0% uptime.
NonStop
p is designed
d around a tightly-integra
ated hardwa
are and softw
ware
architecture that com
mbines hardw
ware fault to
olerance and
d software prrocess-pair
y highest ava
ailability leve
el.
fault tolerance to deliver the very
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The tight integration between the NonStop SQL database management system
and the NonStop OS effectively handles all types of workloads executing
concurrently across a potentially very large cluster. The NonStop OS plays a
critical role in allocating processor, disk, and I/O resources in an environment in
which competing priorities have to be dynamically monitored and highest-priority
processes need to be given precedence. NonStop can virtualize an application
such as SQL across thousands of blades in a grid model. These virtualization
capabilities create an environment that pools and optimizes all resources at the
application level with processing capacity, storage, and network resources shared
transparently to the user.
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eeds
Miss
sion-critical Conve
erged IInfrasttructurre
s blades in a BladeSyste
em or as tra
aditional rackk servers, HP
P
Whether deployed as
and mission
nIntegrity platforms offfer the level of reliabilityy required for business- a
critical en
nvironments
s.
Todays mission-critic
m
cal needs arre typically a
addressed w
with UNIX or mainframe
solutions
s. An Integrity server with
h an Itanium
m chipset sup
pports IA64 ffor UNIX on the
same hardware on which
w
it supp
ports the x86
6 instruction set, giving yyou long-term
m
investme
ent protection
n. UNIX inve
estments tod
day can ada
apt to future w
workloads,
including
g those on Liinux and Win
ndows x86 p
platforms.
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ucture
Alw
ways-on
n resiliiency
y is built into
o Integrity pla
atforms from
m the Itanium
m chipset thrrough serverr
Reliability
fabrics, operating
o
sys
stems (OSs), solutions, and service
es.
The Itaniium processor is twice as
a reliable ass industry vo
olume CPUss. DDR3
double-c
chip sparing provides 17 times betterr reliability a
and uses datta correction
n
and selff-healing to identify and stop writing
g to failed DR
RAM chips.
The HP SD2
S Analysis Engine run
ns on the On
nboard Adm
ministrator (O
OA) and colle
ects
information from eve
ery sensor an
nd compone
ent, storing th
his informatiion centrallyy in
the OA. With
W all the data
d
in one place,
p
the bu
uilt-in SD2 A
Analysis Eng
gine can
automatically analyze the error situation,
s
ide
entify failed o
or suspected parts, inittiate
corrective actions, an
nd notify adm
ministrators
even befo
ore a reboot has begun.
SD2 allow
ws self-healing, often without notice
eable perform
mance degra
adation, and
d
when rep
pairs must be made, it helps ensure that the corrrect repair iss made.
HP-UX has
h consisten
ntly provided
d mission-crritical availab
bility to core business
functions
s and applica
ations for mo
ore than thre
ee decades. HP NonSto
op and
Serviceguard solutions, the Matrrix Operating
g Environme
ent (which alllows scaling
g to
thousand
ds of nodes)), and HP Mission Critica
al Services o
offerings can
n work together
to provide up to 100%
% solution availability.
a
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Data Center Ne
eeds
Blad
deSysttem ma
anagement
gement tools
s enable pow
werful, remo
ote managem
ment of
Three taiilored manag
BladeSys
stem specific componen
nts:
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The Insight Disp

play on the frront of the H
HP BladeSysstem enclosu
ure, which ca
an
also be viewed remotely
r
An OA
O GUI, whic
ch provides customized access to th
he OA modu
ule
Virtu
ual Connect Manager (V
VCM) and Virrtual Connecct Enterprise
e Manager
(VCE
EM), which offer
o
dynamic customiza
ation of the V
Virtual Connect moduless
deployed in one, several, orr hundreds o
of BladeSysttem enclosures
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ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Learning check
c
Match the technologies to their high-availabiility featuress.
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Data Center Ne
eeds
HP storag
s
ge solu
utions
enter, HP sto
orage solutio
ons are charracterized byy:
Within a business-critical data ce
The ability to allo

ow many servers to view
w data as a ssingle, logical unit
Hard
dware replac
cements (forr upgrades o
or maintenan
nce) that do not impact tthe
integ
grity or accessibility of th
he data
Scallability for op
ptimal perforrmance, ava
ailability, and
d value
HP 3PAR
R StoreServ is a family of
o products tthat offers th
he performan
nce, reliabilitty,
and value demanded
d by the business-critica
al environme
ent.
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Sma
art Tierrs optiimize utilizat
u
tion
In a tradiitional array deploymentt, an entire lo

ogical unit number (LUN
N) is allocate
ed
from the same type of
o media. An
n administrattor typically allocates hig
gh-speed,
expensiv
ve media, su
uch as a solid
d-state drive
e (SSD), to a performancce-critical LU
UN.
Often servers access
s the same data
d
most off the time, w
which means that the
majority of
o the I/Os to
o the perform
mance-criticcal LUN are m
made to onlyy a small are
ea
of the LU
UN. High-spe
eed, expensive media iss wasted beccause it conttains data th
hat
is rarely referenced.
Using Sm
mart Tiers, an HP 3PAR StoreServ ssystem autom
matically opttimizes to sa
ave
you money. The Sma
art Tiers are based on th
he same logic as processsors that sto
ore
information in an inte
ernal cache, in memory, or on a hard
d drive base
ed on how offten
they need to access that informa
ation. The HP
P 3PAR StoreServ syste
em keeps th
he
portion of
o the LUN th
hat is frequently referencced on the h
high-speed, e
expensive
media wh
hile it moves
s less freque
ently referen ced portionss to medium
m-speed med
dia
and neve
er referenced
d portions, to
o low-speed
d, less expen
nsive media.. Smart Tierss
can monitor and migrate pages, data, files o
or blocks automatically.
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eeds
Sma
art Tierrs optiimize perform
p
mance
e and c
cost
w the Smartt Tier techno

ology not onlly improves the utilizatio
on
The figurre shows how
for your storage
s
but also
a
optimizes the perfo
ormance.
Performa
ance comes at a cost. Yo
ou minimize
e those costss by purchassing a relativvely
small perrcentage of expensive high-speed
h
d
disks. Howevver, you do n
not see
negative effects on performance
p
because th e Smart Tier automatica
ally places th
he
most freq
quently acce
essed data on
o those diskks. Thus the
e majority of the I/Os stilll
benefit frrom the high
h performanc
ce of the mo
ore expensive disks.
In this wa
ay, you can achieve
a
the demanding performancce goals of a businesscritical da
ata center without
w
excee
eding your b
budget.
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HP 3PAR
3
StoreS
S
Serv
ness-critical storage utiliity. Storage providers arre

Expectattions are high for a busin
trusted to
o provide the
e performance and availlability to me
eet businesss-critical
demands
s at the large
est enterpris
ses and for g
global, online
e services.
HP innov
vations in the
e HP 3PAR product line optimize the
e system do
own to the
chipset le
evel to give you
y more fo
or less.
The HP 3PAR
3
Gen4 ASIC is des
signed to offlload specificc, repeatable
e tasks and tto
achieve exceptional
e
performance
e and densitty.
The HP 3PAR
3
Thin Built
B
In ASIC
Cs feature a u
uniquely efficient, silicon
n-based zero
odetection
n mechanism
m that empow
wers HP 3PA
AR storage systems to rremove
allocated
d but unused
d space without impactin
ng performan
nce. The AS
SIC also
performs
s zero detecttion to identify portions o
of a data volume that do
o not need to
o be
backed up.
u This auto
omatic filterin
ng enables rrapid fat-to--thin converrsions of legacy
data into modern sto
orage archite
ectures.
ustom ASICs
s also perforrm much of tthe error corrrecting calcculations to
These cu
ensure data integrity
y without sac
crificing perfo
ormance.
Note
Refer to Mo
odule 2 for an
n introduction to the HP 3PA
PAR StoreServv solutions.
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eeds
HP 3PAR
3
StoreS
S
Serv is auton
nomic a
and efffortles
ss
A few diffferentiators of StoreServ

v products in
nclude:
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The HP 3PAR architecture performs

p
ma
any tasks automatically w
with little to n
no
userr intervention
n.
Phys
sical drives are
a broken into small ch
hunklets tha
at are made visible to ho
osts
as LUNs. Using virtual volum
mes, the sysstem require
es only 15 se
econds to
prov
vision a LUN.
A fulll-mesh back
kplane provides access to these phyysical drive ssegments fro
om
any controller within the system. High pe
erformance persists eve
en when a
conttroller fails.
The entire Store
eServ design
n allows for rrapid reprovisioning and
d adaptation to
chan
nge with little
e IT interven
ntion.
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HP 3PAR
3
StoreS
S
Serv is efficie
ent
R Gen4 ASIC
Cs perform thin
t
provision
ning and tierring in hardw
ware, improvving
HP 3PAR
speed wh
hile reducing
g power, com
mpute, and ccooling costss. These inn
novations givve
you these benefits:
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Effic
cient thin pro
ovisioning red
duces requirrements for disk capacitty by at least
50%
%.
Polic
cy-based tiering maintains a more e
efficient balan
nce between
n high cost, fast
stora
age and low cost, slow storage.
s
Due to the HP commitment to green com
mputing, pow
wer consum
mption and
cooling costs are
e reduced by
y at least 50
0%.
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eeds
HP 3PAR
3
StoreS
S
Serv is multi--tenantt and b
bulletproo
of
R StoreServ has been de

esigned for ccloud compu
uting. It is de
esigned to b
be:
HP 3PAR
Sharred across multiple

m
tena
ants
Secu
ure without compromisin
c
ng performan
nce
Data
a can be seg
gregated, allowing the S toreServ sysstems to be shared while
rema
aining securre.
Resiilient across many major types of fa ilures

Redundant components and
d RAID imple
ementationss sustain acccess in failurre
situa
ations.
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HP 3PAR
3
StoreS
S
Serv is federa
ated an
nd futu
ureproo
of
ed and federrated resourrce pooling e

extends the 3
3PAR StoreS
Serv system
ms
Virtualize
ability to pool resourc
ces, allowing
g the solutio
on to serve w
workloads an
nd applicatio
ons
across many
m
system
ms, even one
es separated
d geographiccally. With 3P
PAR StoreSe
erv,
you can easily move data and workloads witthout disruptting access tto data. Thiss
mobility improves utilization beca
ause admini strators do n
not have to ccreate over-provision
ned capacity
y silos for particular data ; instead the
e solution usses all space
e
available
e.
HP 3PAR
R StoreServ helps you to
o save costss, improve th
he flexibility o
of your
services,, and even in
ncrease the security of yyour datan
now and ove
er the complete
lifecycle of upgrades
s and data migration.
m
In a
addition, as is so crucial in a busine
esscritical en
nvironment, HP 3PAR StoreServ
S
ke eps systemss and data o
online during
g
normal operations,
o
upgrades,
u
an
nd data migrrations.
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eeds
HP 3PAR
3
Persis
P
tent Po
orts
R Persistent Ports are an

nother assett to the busin
ness-critical data centerr.
HP 3PAR
This tech
hnology keep
ps all paths online even during node
e maintenan
nce or failure
e,
helping you
y to achiev
ve the alwa
ays-on infrasstructure tha
at you requirre.
Typical hosts
h
or serv
vers have du
ual, redundan
nt host bus a
adaptors (HBAs)
connecte
ed to the storage infrastrructure. If a p
problem occcurs anywhe
ere between an
HBA and
d the storage
e target, the servers mu ltipathing so
oftware switcches I/Os to the
HBA with
h a valid path
h.
This design provides
s redundancy
y, but does h
have some d
drawbacks. First, the
servers I/Os must un
ndergo a failover, and a small risk a
always existss that a serve
ers
multipath
hing software
e will fail in some
s
way. A
Also the failo
over takes ha
alf of the patths
between the server and
a a storag
ge target offliine. A Tier 1 storage devvice must he
elp
servers avoid
ng the serve
a
such re
econvergenc
ce by allowin
ers to believe
e that all nod
des
remain accessible
a
all the time.
HP 3PAR
R Persistent Ports provid
de this secon
nd layer of rresiliency. Th
he 3PAR dua
al
controllers virtualize or mask the
e physical ha
ardware such
h that one P
Persistent Po
ort
can host the port ID and wide no
ode name (W
WWN) for an
nother Persisstent Port. E
Each
Persisten
nt Port prese
ents these guest IDs to tthe fabric ass required to maintain a
stable sy
ystemfor example,
e
if th
he other nod
de fails. Now
w a Persisten
nt Port can
move or change stattus without servers
s
acce
essing the storage array noticing the
e
change.
vers no longe
er rely on the
eir multipath
hing software
e to avoid disruption durring
The serv
planned downtime orr physical ha
ardware outa
ages. Instea
ad administra
ators can
complete
e scheduled system maintenance, o
or a controlle
er can even ffail, without tthe
need for any reconfig
guration and
d without the
e server even
n realizing a change
occurred. As far as th
he server is concerned, the array re
emained perssistent or
always available,
a
and
d the serverr can continu
ue to use patths on both of its HBAs.
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HP 3PAR
3
for
f Fox
x River Gaming
dular HP 3PA
AR architectu
ure can be sscaled from 4.8TB to 1600TB, makin
ng
The mod
the syste
em deployab
ble as a sma
all, remote, o
or large and centralized ssystem. Until
now, ente
erprise custo
omers were often requirred to purcha
ase and man
nage at leasst
two distin
nct architectures to span
n their range
e of cost and
d scalability rrequirements.
But HP le
ets you conttinue to capittalize on you
ur initial inve
estments. Fo
or example, Fox
River Ga
aming has th
he opportunitty to purchasse a StoreServ solution at a mid-ran
nge
cost but retains the ability
a
to scale performan
nce and cap
pacity as the business
rapidly grows in the coming
c
yearr.
R StoreServ platform Adaptive Optim
mization (AO
O) provides S
Smart Tiers ffor
HP 3PAR
high perfformance at only gradua
ated costs. P
Peer Motion enables sea
amless
ne physical array to ano
migration
n of virtualize
ed data volu
umes from on
other. Both
technologies deliver the required
d scalability w
while Persisstent Ports m
meet the high
h
availability needs of the business
s-critical datta center.
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Learning check
Fill in the blanks.
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_________________ ensure all paths to the server stay active during

controller node maintenance or failure, thereby eliminating the need for
path failover.
Zero detection performed by the ________________ moves processing

from software into an optimized, silicon solution.
A(n) _______________ accommodates a mix of physical drive types and

sizes within a single drive chassis to optimize performance while
minimizing costs.
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Ente
erprise
e security priorities
s
oration, ente
erprises cann
not trust theiir
In a world of information sharing and collabo
t point solu
utions and iso
olated functiions. Because threats change
security to
quickly
and the market change
es even faste
erthis reacctive securityy posture ca
an
lead to crippled operrations and even
e
disrupttion of the bu
usiness as a whole.
Instead, enterprises need a complete and prroactive view
w, managed security tha
at is
flexible enough
e
for high volumes
s of interactio
ons but still a
able to mitig
gate risk and
d
assure compliance. They
T
need business-ena
b
abling securrity tools thatt cover
exchanges both insid
de and outside the enterrprise, allow
wing the rightt people at th
he
right time
e to access critical
c
applic
cations and resources.
You want to know tha
at your busin
nesss data is secure, w
whether the d
data is on an
n
internal server,
s
in the
e cloud, or so
omewhere in
n between. S
Security now
w overlaps w
with
a need to
o quickly ana
alyze and sh
hare the seccured informa
ation. Integrrated security
must be everywhere the enterpriise moves. Y
You need so
olutions that help you to
strike the
e correct balancemana
aging risk byy closely gua
arding assetts, resourcess,
and inforrmation but still
s leaving the
t enterprisse open to in
nteraction, co
onnectivity, a
and
collabora
ation.
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Data Center Ne
eeds
HP Enterp
E
prise Security
S
y Solu
ution Frramew
work
eatures seve
eral levels or security are
eas.
An enterprise securitty solution frramework fe
esigning a bu
usiness-critic
cal data cen
nter for a com
mpany like F
Fox River
When de
Gaming, first look at the capabilities for secu
uring a virtua
alized data ccenter and th
he
core netw
work. HP offfers the visio
on, plan, prod
ducts, and ssolutions for unified secu
urity
operation
ns and mana
agement. HP
P solutions ssecure appliccation accesss and
endpointts in addition
n to the netw
work and data
a center corre.
The nextt few pages provide an overview
o
of tthese products and capa
abilities.
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HP Enterp
E
prise Security
S
y Netw
work Defense
e
System
evention systtems (IPSs) have been tested and

HP next generation intrusion pre
n some of the most demanding IT en
nvironmentss. Componen
nts at the co
ore
proven in
of the HP
P Enterprise Security Ne
etwork Defen
nse System (NDS) offer the securityy
features that you nee
ed:
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DVL
Labs, an HP research org
ganization fo
or vulnerabillity discoveryy and analyssis,
prov
vides the sec
curity intelligence layer o
of the NDS.
HP TippingPoint
T
t IPS applian
nces offer th e inline, real-time enforccement
capa
abilities.
HP TippingPoint
T
t Security Ma
anagement System (SM
MS) gives security
adm
ministrators a continual viiew of securrity event log
gs to assist in immediate
e
cybe
erattack conttainment, pe
erpetrator loccation and id
dentification, and damag
ge
mitig
gation.
HP ArcSight
A
Sec
curity and Ev
vent Manage
ement (SIEM
M) appliance
es suppleme
ent
the managemen
m
nt features, adding
a
extre mely sophissticated capa
abilities for
corre
elating and analyzing
a
ma
any types off security evvents.
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Data Center Ne
eeds
HP Tippin
T
gPointt Secure Virttualization
Fram
meworrk
xperts believ
ve that the majority
m
of virrtual deploym
ments are less secure th
han
Some ex
physical deploymentts. They cite reasons succh as these::
Often companies fail to invo

olve informattion security teams durin
ng the initial
stages of virtualization proje
ects.
A co
ompromise of
o the virtualization layer could resultt in the comp
promise of a
all
hostted workload
ds.
Workloads of diffferent trust levels
l
are so
ometimes co
onsolidated o
onto a single
e
phys
sical server without
w
suffic
cient separa
ation.
Virtu
ualized hosts
s often lack adequate
a
co
ontrols for ad
dministrative
e access to
hype
ervisors (som
metimes called Virtual M
Machine Mon
nitors) and to
o administrative
tools
s.
Virtu
ualization exttends the ne
etwork inside
e the server,, introducing
g a potential
loss of separatio
on of duties (SOD)
(
for ne
etwork and ssecurity controls.
T
t SVF allows
s organizatio
ons to contro
ol the virtual environmen
nt
The HP TippingPoint
by introducing in-line
e security po
olicy enforcem
ment. The H
HP TippingPo
oint Virtual
Controlle
er (vControlle
er) and Virtu
ual Intrusion Prevention System (vIP
PS) solutionss
are purpo
ose-built to secure
s
the virtual
v
infrasttructure, and
d they enable
e organizatio
ons
to gain visibility into and
a control over
o
virtual n
network trafffic flows. They allow for the
enforcem
ment of trust zones and network
n
seg mentation w
with a virtual IPS and a
virtual firewall, perforrming in-line
e inspection and automa
ated threat blocking within
al servers an
nd between trust
t
zones. HP TippingP
ons provide tthe
the virtua
Point solutio
same policies and filters across both physica
al and virtua
al servers to simplify ove
erall
security managemen
m
nt for the datta center.
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HP TippingPoint solutions can be deployed on IPS modules installed in core

switches, as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) appliances, or as IPS appliances.
Regardless of the physical form factor, the solution provides the same capabilities
for securing both physical and virtual servers.
The HP TippingPoint NX series of Next Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems
(NGIPS)which includes the new 7500NX, 7100NX, 6200NX, 5200NX, and
2600NXdeliver an adaptive-security IPS to protect against cyber threats that
target applications, networks, and critical data. An NGIPS can give you new levels
of in-line, real-time intrusion protection and proactive network security as your
networks and data centers evolve and grow. Key features of the NGIPS include:
High performance in a footprint that reduces expenses related to power,

cooling, and space
Hot-swappable interface modules for easy deployment
A network security software architecture that can adapt to new and emerging
threats
Flexible in-line network deployment for optimal traffic inspection
Enterprise-class zonal, stateful firewall
Flexible stateful, application, user, and IPS policy choices
Full IPS, Digital Vaccination (DV), Reputation DV (RepDV), Web Application

DV (WebAppDV), and Zero Day Initiative (ZDI)
IPS inspection profiles based on application
Rate limit, quarantine, trap, packet capture, and email actions
Encrypted logs
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Up to 20 Gbps inspected throughput
ArcSight, HP Network Node Manager i (NNMi), and HP Network Automation

(NA) integration
Role-based management
Network Address Translation (NAT), routed, transparent, segment, and onearmed deployment options
IPv6-readiness everywhere
IP Security (IPsec) site-to-site Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and client-tosite VPNs using Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) or IPsec
Static routing, Router Information Protocol (RIP)/RIP next generation (RIPng),
Open Shortest Path First version 2 and 3 (OSPFv2/v3), multicast, and Border
Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGPv4)
Active-passive two-node stateful high availability
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Active Directory, and RADIUS
authentication
Link aggregation and VLAN translation
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eeds
HP ArcSig
A
ght Sec
curity Intellig
gence
A
Sec
curity Intellig
gence platforrm helps saffeguard your business b
by
The HP ArcSight
giving yo
ou complete visibility into
o activity acrross the IT in
nfrastructure
e:
Exte
ernal threats such as ma
alware and h
hackers
Interrnal threats such

s
as data
a breaches a
and fraud
Risk
ks from application flaws
s and configu
uration chan
nges
Com
mpliance pres
ssures from failed auditss
HP ArcSight is the in
ndustrys lead
ding SIEM ssolution for ccollecting, an
nalyzing, and
d
assessin
ng security ev
vents. HP ArcSight give s you rapid identification
n of and
response
e to cybersecurity attack
ks and inside
er threats witth prioritization for crucia
al
nd
actions. Only
O
HP Arc
cSight correlates users, logs, and Ne
etFlow data to understan
the who, what, and where
w
of info
ormation seccurity.
v
w.hpenterpriisesecurity.c
com/products
s/hp-arcsigh
ht-securityhttp://www
intelligenc
ce/
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HP Fortify
F
y Softw
ware Se
ecurity
y Cente
er
S
Cen
nter is a suitte of tightly integrated so
olutions for
HP Fortiffy Software Security
fixing and
d preventing
g security vulnerabilities in applicatio
ons. It elimin
nates software
security risk
r by ensuring that all business so
oftwarewhe
ether built fo
or the deskto
op,
mobile devices, or th
he cloudis trustworthy and in comp
pliance with internal and
d
external security man
ndates. HP Fortify Softw
ware Securityy Center seccures all
software in the enterrprise, regard
dless of whe
ether it is devveloped in-h
house,
procured
d from third-p
party vendorrs, or running
g in production.
S
Cen
nter proactivvely identifies and elimin
nates
immediatte risks in legacy applica
ations. It als o eliminatess systemic rissks introducced
during ap
pplication de
evelopment. It achieves these beneffits through tthese feature
es:
Secu
urity testing
gIdentify vulnerabilitie
v
es throughou
ut the applica
ation lifecyclle
with static, dyna
amic, or integ
grated appliccation testing
g.
Secu
ure develop
pmentAuttomate the m
managementt, tracking, rremediation,
and governance
e of enterpris
se software rrisk.
S
Cen
nter is availa
able on-prem
mise or on-demand; you
can also purchase it with managed services .
v
http://www
w.hpenterprisesecurity.c
com/products
s/hp-fortify-s
softwaresecurity-c
center/
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Data Center Ne
eeds
HP Sentin
S
nel Sec
curity Applica
A
ation
y Application stops threa

ats before the
ey can causse damage.
HP Sentiinel Security
Sentinel can be used
d in any netw
work environ
nment where
e security is a concern,
including
g the data ce
enter and clo
oud computin
ng environm
ments. HP en
nvisions a
network where
w
Sentinel Security
y can be imp
plemented on
n any network device
anywhere
e in the netw
work for unprecedented network visiibility, event correlation
accuracy
y, and securiity control.
y features inc
clude:
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Runs on HP Virttual Application Networkks SDN Conttroller

Consumes real-time reputattion security intelligence
e from HP Tip
ppingPoint
DVL
Labs cloud se
ervice
Protects from ov
ver 700,000+
+ botnets (co
ollections off Internet-con
nnected
prog
grams comm
municating with other sim
milar program
ms to perform
m a task),
malw
ware, and sp
pyware malic
cious sites
Prov
vides native integration for
f improved
d visibility an
nd accuracy with ArcSigh
ht
solutions
Has OpenFlow-e
enabled swittches to dete
ect applicatiions, malwarre, and botn
nets
Has the ability to
o create a whitelist
w
(a lisst of email orr IP addresses that are
cons
sidered spam
m-free) and a blacklist (a
a list of email or IP addre
esses known to
originate from sp
pammers)
Has dynamic sw
witch learning
g with HP O penFlow-enabled switch
hes, which
distrributes detec
ction into the
e switch infra
astructure
Get security enfo
orcement de
ecisions feed
d back into H
HP Intelligen
nt Management
Center
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IMC
C conne
ecting managemen
nt and securrity
n this course, you learne

ed about HP IMC, the sin
ngle-pane-off-glass soluttion
Earlier in
that manages the complete netw
work infrastru
ucture, including users, applicationss,
services,, and networrk infrastructture resourc es both physsical and virrtual. As you
learned, HP IMC has
s a modular architecture
e, making it tthe interconn
nection
between many hardw
ware and software produ
ucts in the data center.
ur attention now
n
to the sp
pecific beneffits that IMC
C brings for a businessTurn you
critical da
ata center. When
W
used with
w productss such as VC
CEM and HP
P TippingPo
oint,
IMC help
ps to deliver and manage
e a secure in
nterconnect between the
e server edg
ge
and the backbone
b
off a data centter network. BladeSystem servers and attached
storage are
a visible within
w
IMC an
nd controlled
d at the interrconnect bettween the da
ata
center an
nd the camp
pus network.
HP continues to unify
y and integra
ate hardwarre and softwa
are productss into
interoperrable solutions that addrress data ce nter challenges.
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eeds
Prop
posed data center
c
design
n for F
Fox Riv
ver
Gam
ming
ort its mission-critical gaming system

m, Fox Riverr Gaming can deploy an
To suppo
online, business-critical data cen
nter built on scalable, se
ecure, and re
eliable HP
compone
ents. The company could
d deploy the
ese solution componentss, which offe
er
just one example of the
t possibilitties:
Integ
grity server blades
b
or Inttegrity NonS
Stop BladeSyystem
HP 3PAR
3
StoreS
Serv 7000
HP TippingPoint
T
t IPS N Serie
es
HP modular
m
core
e switches such
s
as switcches in the 1
11900, 1250
00, and 1290
00
Serie
es, which arre best suited for the bussiness-critica
al data cente
er environme
ent
This solu
ution and rela
ated components fit the needs of a company that places a
premium on performance. Each component has built-in redundancyy and reliability
features that minimiz
ze downtime
e and speed recovery. Th
he storage, compute, an
nd
networkin
ng compone
ents will all scale
s
to large
er or multi-siite environm
ments. Each
compone
ent is design
ned to minim
mize initial ca
apital costs a
as well as on
ngoing
operation
nal costs (sp
pace, power,, cooling, an
nd maintenan
nce).
Other pro
oducts in each family co
ould be used
d to achieve similar goalss or to provid
de
solutions
s for future expansions. Refer
R
to the HP referencce architectu
ure and sale
es
guides to
o learn more
e about HP product
p
famillies and to e
explore altern
natives that
might be an even better fit for yo
our environm
ment.
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Integration within the HP Co

onverged
astructure
Infra
verged Infras
structure offe
ers:
HP Conv
Com
mponent-leve
el performan
nce and relia
ability with itss Itanium and StoreServv
platfforms enhan
nced by NonStop and Se
erviceguard solutions
Robust, simplifie
ed connectio
ons (server tto server, server to SAN, and serverr to
LAN) with Virtua
al Connect and Intelligen
nt Resilient F
Framework ((IRF)
Integ
grated mana
agement and
d security wiith HP Insigh
ht Managem
ment, HP IMC
C,
HP TippingPoint
T
t, HP ArcSerrv, HP Fortifyy, and HP Se
entinel Secu
urity solution
ns
Sum
mmary
HP Conv
verged Infras
structure pro
oducts and in
nnovations d
deliver the p
performance,
reliability
y, scalability, recoverabiliity, and ROI that you exp
pect in your businesscritical en
nvironment.
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Module 5
Objectives
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Identify challenges faced at expanding data centers
Discuss how innovative HP technologies can meet the needs of an expanding

data center and overcome the capacity challenges
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Challenges for a data center reaching its

capacity
Regardless of its size, every data center has capacity limitations.
Limitations include the physical space as well as the site or rooms power capacity.
Cooling capacity also limits the number or type of devices which can be deployed
in a given space. Deploying newer, more power-efficient devices might help you to
deploy more devices without exceeding the power or cooling capacity.
Existing server and storage devices may also limit capacity. Can additional
compute or storage capacity be added to existing devices or storage volumes?
Can additional server capacity be brought online as clustered or virtual servers?
Perhaps the network capacity limits the addition of more devices. If the network
infrastructure cannot add more ports or support more traffic without performance
degradation, then the network limits scalability.
Some companies might lack enough IT technicians or staff to support a growing
infrastructure. Can the company hire and train more staff members? Or must the
company manage additional hardware with limited or existing staff and time?
Too often companies find that, as their data center expands, they sacrifice
performance and the agility to make changes and provision new services. Can
high performance and flexibility be maintained as the data center grows? Pressure
to maintain business-critical service levels at an increased scale can pose a
particular challenge as the existing data center reaches its limits.
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Exp
panding
g data centers
hree in Fox River Gamin

ngs upgrade
e involves pllanning for th
he launch off
Phase Th
the public gaming ce
enter. After th
he launch, th
he companyy might need
d to expand tthe
capacity of both the main
m
office data
d
center a
and the public gaming d
data center a
at
an unantticipated rate
e. It is econo
omically infe asible to ove
erbuild for growth that
might never occur; in
nstead the co
ompany musst have a pla
an for scalin
ng up as quicckly
as possib
bly if the gro
owth does oc
ccur. The pla
an must allow
w for increassing the size
e
and capa
ability of one
e or both data centers to
o a large ente
erprise scale
e with as little
as one to
o six months
s notice.
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Effic
cient server
s
blades
s
enter founde
ed on an HP BladeSyste
em offers effiiciencies in iinitial costs,
A data ce
managem
ment costs, and power consumption
c
n. An HP Bla
adeSystem h
helps you to
achieve the
t efficienc
cy that your growing
g
data
a center dem
mands:
Reduce energy + Re
eclaim capa
acity = Exten
nd the life off your data ccenter
A study by
b International Data Co
orporation (ID
DC), as repo
orted in the Business
Value of Blade Infras
structures paper, found that the BladeSystem ccut data costts
by 68%. Customers participating
g in this stud y were able to pay backk their initial
investme
ent in a little more than seven
s
month
hs, a significa
ant result givven the
financial constraints facing most IT organiza tions.
deSystem cu
uts data centter costs by increasing h
hardware utiilization,
The Blad
simplifyin
ng managem
ment, and im
mproving servvers energyy efficiency. A BladeSysttem
uses less
s rack space
e and powerr than traditio
onal 1U and larger rack servers.
Because
e server and storage blad
des share po
ower, cooling, network, and storage
e
infrastruc
cture at the enclosure
e
le
evel, the Blad
deSystem drrastically red
duces
requirem
ments for pow
wer distribution units (PD
DUs), powerr cables, LAN
N and SAN
switches, connectors
s, adapters, and cables. Therefore, yyou significa
antly reduce
both capital and operating expen
nditures. And
d you can incorporate th
he newestgeneratio
on technolog
gies by chan
nging compo
onents in nee
ed of a refre
esh.
In additio
on to pooling
g power and cooling com
mponents to increase effficiency, an H
HP
BladeSys
stem feature
es a wide va
ariety of intel ligent featurres, discusse
ed on the ne
ext
page.
n planning a B
BladeSystem deployment, visit:
http://h201
195.www2.hp
p.com/v2/Ge
etPDF.aspx/4
4AA1-4286EN
NW.pdf
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Man
naging power
Every wa
att of power consumed in a data cen
nter produce
es heat. Plan
nning and
limiting power
p
consumption is dirrectly related
d to managin
ng thermal o
or cooling
capacity.
Module 2 explained how the HP Intelligent S
Series Rack Intelligent P
Power
Distributiion Units (iPDUs) help you
y to gain vvisibility into individual se
ervers powe
er
consump
ption and to reclaim unus
sed capacityy. HP offers additional to
ools for
managing power and
d cooling.
Companies can take
e control of limited powerr resources with HP Inte
elligent
Infrastruc
cture and Th
hermal Logic
c technologyy inside Blad
deSystems. T
Thermal Log
gic
enables administrato
ors to dynam
mically track and control power limitss based on
workload
d demand wiithin the enc
closure, so y ou can recla
aim over-pro
ovisioned power
and cooling capacity
y without imp
pacting perfo
ormance. Yo
ou can increa
ase the
capacity of the data center
c
witho
out adding po
ower infrastrructure and reduce power
costs by 36% from a traditional environment
e
t.
mal Logic is available th
hroughout HP
P server, sto
orage, and n
networking
HP Therm
product lines. As a fo
oundational technology o
of the HP BlladeSystem,, it helps to:
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Deliv
ver the mos
st efficient power
p
supp
pliesHP o
offers power supply unitss
with an 80Plus Platinum
P
ratiing, 94% effiicient, the hiighest efficie
ency in the
mark
ket.
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omatically optimize
o
po
ower supply
y efficiency
HP Dynam
mic Power
Save
er automatic
cally puts some power su
upplies into a hot-standb
by mode to
mak
ke sure the re
emaining po
ower supplie s are operatting at optim
mal efficiencyy
while
e still mainta
aining redundant operatiion.
Optiimize power delivery

Power supp
plies exactlyy match redu
undant threephas
se data centter power, en
nsuring matcched power use across all three
phas
ses. Each po
ower supply precisely m
matches the d
data center ccircuit size,
thus avoiding wa
aste of circuits that can ccost more th
han $25,000
0 USD/kW.
Optiimize coolin
ngThe enttire enclosurre shares up
p to 10 HP A
Active Cool fa
ans
in zo
ones. These fans (with 20
2 patents pe
ending) delivver best-in-cclass acousttics,
power consumption, and airr movement capacity. Th
he zoned coo
oling precise
ely
route
es airflow ov
ver the hotte
est compone
ents and min
nimizes airflo
ow waste.
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Measure and adjust temperature in real timeSea of Sensors technology

in the HP BladeSystem constantly monitors temperature and adjusts the fans
to optimize cooling and provide energy savings.
Cap power at breaker speedHP Dynamic Power Capping enables you to

set one power cap for an entire BladeSystem Enclosure. The enclosure then
dynamically re-allocates power capacity between blades to stay below the
power cap but provide each server the power it needs based on changing
workloads.
Tune power to application workload requirementsHP Power Regulator

constantly monitors processor use and automatically throttles the processor
input power and frequency to match the application load.
Manage every wattIntegrated Insight Control power management provides

centralized control of server power consumption and thermal output. Insight
Control delivers deep insight, precise control, and ongoing optimization to
unlock the potential of your infrastructure. Using Insight Control, which
integrates with HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM), you can monitor the
power consumption of a server over long periods and maintain years of peak
and average power consumption data. You can then use this data to help
determine power optimization strategies.
You can also plan power use before purchase with the HP Power Advisor. This HP
tool assists in the estimation of power consumption and the proper selection of
components, including power supplies, at a system, rack, and multi-rack level.
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/thermal-logic/index.html
HP Power Advisor:
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/solutions/power/index.html
HP UPS Management Module

Even infrastructure components such as Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS)
can be planned and managed.
The HP UPS Management Module enables you to monitor and manage power
environments through comprehensive remote control of HP UPSs. The UPSs
connect directly to the network, so administrators can configure and manage them
from anywhere and at any time using a standard Web browser. The UPS
Management Module provides detailed system logs and facilitates maintenance
tasks. It can act as a standalone management system or be configured to send
alert traps to HP SIM and other SNMP management programs.
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Hyp
perscalle serv
vers fro
om HP
P
ale servers from

f
HP fall into two cate
egories:
Hypersca
HP ProLiant
P
Sca
alable Systems
HP ProLiant
P
Moonshot System
HP ProLiant
P
Scalablle Syste
ems
The HP ProLiant
P
Sca
alable Systems server fa
amily is desiigned to ena
able massive
e
compute environmen
nts. With its modular arcchitecture ba
ased on an u
ultra-efficientt
design philosophy, th
he SL family reduces co mponents a
and cuts energy use
compare
ed to tradition
nal server de
esigns while
e offering verrsatility in co
onfigurationss.
By using ProLiant SL
L systems, you
y can save
e data cente
er space, pow
wer costs,
cooling costs,
c
and otther mainten
nance costs.
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P
SL
L6500 Scala
able System
mThis mod
dular series cconsists of
dens
se servers in
n a multi-nod
de, high-efficciency 4U ch
hassis. It is ideal for high
h
perfo
ormance com
mputing (HP
PC) environm
ments and environmentss that require
e
extre
eme density.
HP ProLiant
P
SL
L4500This
s series provvides serverss purpose-bu
uilt for big da
ata
work
kloads such as object storage, exch ange, and p
parallel data processing.
HP ProLiant
P
Moonsh
hot Systtem
HP ProLiant Moonsh
hot System represents
r
th
he worlds firrst software--defined web
b
e
and 80% less sp
pace, as com
mpared
server that consumes 89% less energy
traditiona
al servers. You
Y benefit frrom 77% lesss cost and 9
97% less complexity. HP
P
ProLiant Moonshot web
w servers are designe
ed and tailore
ed for speciffic workloads to
deliver optimum perfformance.
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The HP ProLiant
P
Moonshot Systtem consistss of:
HP Moonshot
M
1500
1
ChassisSpecificcally designe
ed to supporrt servers using
mob
bile device ch
hips, the 4.3
3U chassis s hares mana
agement, nettworking,
stora
age, power cords,
c
coolin
ng compone nts, direct attached diskk drives, and
d
two network switches. It sup
pports up to 45 hot-plugg
gable, efficie
ent, extreme
ely
ecific worklo
oad.
low-energy servers, each tuned to a spe
HP ProLiant
P
Mo
oonshot ServersThe first HP Pro
oLiant Moonsshot Server is
available with the Intel Atom
m Processor S1260. Thiss purpose-bu
uilt web servver
prov
vides optimal results in a dedicated h
hosting environment and
d lets you
gene
erate greater revenue fro
om a smalle
er footprint
all while drivving down yyour
operrational costs using low--energy servver processo
ors and direcct attached d
disk
drive
es.
These pu
urpose-built servers are best suited for service p
provider, HP
PC, and big
data env
vironments. They
T
deliver rapid deplo
oyment, grea
ater agility, and lower
operation
nal costs.
Shoo
ot the moon
As the nu
umbers in th
he figure sug
ggest, HP is setting new benchmarkks for reduce
ed
size and power cons
sumption with Moonshot servers. Mo
oonshot servvers offer hig
gh
p watt and per U of racck space.
value and compute per
nshot is the first
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software
e-defined se
erver to run IInternet scalle applications.
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anced archittecture of the
e HP Moonsshot System enables cusstomers to
deliver more
m
services
s with less space,
s
less e
energy, less cost, and le
ess complexiity.
Mobile devices have always bee
en optimized to minimize
e power conssumption
because of limited ba
attery capac
city. HP Moo nshot applie
es the ever-increasing
performa
ance of mobiile chipsets and
a compon
nents to a se
erver archite
ecture to asssign
targeted compute ca
apacity while
e dramaticallyy reducing b
both power a
and space
consump
ption.
As with the high perfformance Bla
adeSystem a
architecture
e, the integra
ated design in
the Moon
nshot platforrm uses fewe
er compone
ents per servver with sharred power,
cooling, and
a network
k interfaces. The implem
mentation beccomes less complex. Th
he
solution becomes
b
mo
ore simple, elegant,
e
and
d efficient.
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Just a few of the advantages of HP Moonshot solution are:
With all common components required by servers shared in the chassis, the
system becomes a highly efficient, highly dense infrastructure of thousands of
cores.
The future-proof chassis has multiple fabrics through which the community of
servers communicate with each other, with storage, and with other resources.
The Moonshot 1500 Chassis simplifies management with 4 iLO processors

that share management responsibility for 45 servers, power systems, cooling
systems, and two switches.
The 45 software-defined servers are tailored and tuned for a specific

workload, helping them maximize useful work per watt.
They provide maximum density with unparalleled power efficiencyrequiring

up to 89% less energy, taking 96% less space, and introducing 99% less
complexity.
The world benefits from drastically reduced CO2 emissionsthe equivalent of

having 18,000 fewer cars on the road per year for every 100,000 servers
replaced with HP Moonshot servers.
For every 100,000 servers replaced with HP ProLiant Moonshot servers, you
rack up $195M USD in annual infrastructure savings.
Statistics cited above and in the figure rely on data from HP internal research:
1.
97% less complexityWhen HP DL360p servers deployed for Dedicated

Hosting are replaced by HP ProLiant Moonshot servers
Cost estimates include acquisition costs for server and networking, power
costs, power distribution and cooling costs, and infrastructure costs for the
data center floor space over three years.
2.
$195M infrastructure savings per yearWhen 100,000 HP DL360p servers

deployed for Dedicated Hosting are replaced by 100,000 HP ProLiant
Moonshot servers
3.
18,000 fewer cars per year (CO2 equivalent)When 100,000 standard

servers are replaced with ProLiant Moonshot servers
Eliminating 1 metric ton of CO2 equivalent per year has the same effect as
removing .208 passenger cars from the road that year
(http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-resources/calculator.html). Thus the
reduction in CO2 emissions from replacing 100,000 servers with Moonshot
systems is equivalent to 18,797 passenger cars not driven per year.
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ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Con
nverged infra
astructture in the da
ata cen
nter
(Tra
aditiona
al phys
sical to
opolog
gy)
The abov
ve figure sho
ows an exam
mple of the p
physical topo
ology for a th
hree-tier logical
topology in a traditional data cen
nter. Note tha
at just a few
w rows are de
epicted for
simplicity
y. The data center
c
would
d often have many more
e rows of equ
uipment. To
understa
and the topollogies, you should
s
know
w a little bit about data ce
enter facilitie
es.
The core
e devices res
side at the hub of the da
ata center with the main cross-conne
ect
that prov
vides the bac
ckbone cabliing for the e ntire facility;; this area is sometimes
called the
e main distriibution area (MDA). The
e backbone ccabling usua
ally consists of
10GbE capable
c
fiberr in modern data
d
centerss. For new in
nstallations, you should
look at th
he capability
y to run 40Gb
bE and even
n 100GbE ca
abling.
The core
e SAN device
es and any centralized
c
sstorage devices typicallyy reside here
e.
Note thatt the core is designed fo
or redundanccy in this exa
ample. The ccore devicess
have bee
en installed on
o different ends
e
of the d
data center.
The back
kbone cables extend outt to horizonttal cross-con
nnects, which support the
horizonta
al fiber cable
es that exten
nd out into th
he rest of the
e data cente
er. If the data
a
center co
onsists of a three-tier
t
top
pology (com mon in tradiitional data ccenters), as in
this exam
mple, the dis
stribution layer switches and the firew
wall and load balancing
devices reside
r
here. Sometimes the core SA
AN directory devices are
e deployed
here.
ple rows dep
picted in the figure indica
ate the serve
er rows, whe
ere local
The purp
storage might
m
reside as well. Acc
cess layer sw
witches, botth Ethernet a
and Fibre
Channel (FC), also reside in thes
se rows and
d help the se
ervers conne
ect to the corre.
gure, each se
et of two row
ws shows diffferent physiical designs so that you
In this fig
can see different opttions. In the real world, t he data center would follow a more
consisten
nt pattern throughout. Alll the design s have the ssame logicall topology, b
but
the unde
erlying physic
cal topology has implica
ations.
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Top of rack (ToR)

On the left, you see examples of ToR switches at the access layer. All servers in
the rack connect to one or two ToR switches. The design at the bottom left shows
ToR switches that then connect to end-of-row (EoR) distribution layer switches,
usually through a patch panel. They could use CAT-6 10GbE copper cables, shortrun fiber cables, or Direct Attach Cable (DAC). The distribution layer switches then
connect on horizontal fiber cables to the core, usually through a patch panel.
Despite the EoR name, the EoR switches can also reside in the middle of the row
(MoR), as shown in the figure.
Optionally, the distribution layer switches could reside in the core areathis
design provides greater flexibility in terms of the distribution layer switches to
which particular access layer switches can connect, so it is a more common
design in traditional data centers.
EoR or MoR for the access layer

On the right of the figure, you see EoR or MoR switches at the access layer. In
these topologies, racks are devoted to servers or switches. All servers in a row
connect to the dedicated racks of switches, which might be in the end or middle of
the row, depending on accessibility requirements.
Whatever the physical topology, it imposes constraints. As the data center grows,
administrators must find sufficient ports for connecting new ToR or EoR/MoR
switches to the core. Adding more topology layers can reduce the number of ports
required but add latency unacceptable for todays applications. Also because
distribution switches often define logical topology zones, a servers physical
location can affect its place in those zones, which can pose design issues for
server, network, and facility administrators alike.
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ay's IT Infrastru
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HP FlexFa
F
abric can dou
uble yo
our fab
bric ca
apacity
y
al Connect provides
p
a new, innovati ve way of m
managing nettworking with
HP Virtua
servers. Now you can also conne
ect up to 92 HP BladeSyystem c-Cla
ass server
blades to
o just one HP
P FlexFabric
c 11900 EoR
R switch, and
d do so with much highe
er
port dens
sity and muc
ch lower cos
st than comp
petition.
For HP ProLiant
P
Gen
n8 servers, FlexFabric
F
5
5900 represe
ents the ToR
R switch. It
provides up to 60% better
b
perforrmance in virrtual machin
ne mobility te
ests. These
products and technologies show
w how HP co mbines servvers, network, and storage
into a solution that is
s easier to manage,
m
provvides more a
agility, and ccomes at low
wer
cost.
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HP IRF
I
(Fllatter data
d
ce
enter d
design)
opology with out a distribution layer (a collapsed

On the other hand, a flattened to
new
core) helps to increase flexibility and scalabiility, eliminatting difficult cchoices as n
physical or virtual servers are de
eployed. The
e flat topolog
gy continuess to grow
without in
ntroducing more
m
layers, which ensu res latency rremains low
w and
applicatio
ons function seamlessly
y.
Intelligen
nt Resilient Framework
F
(IRF)
(
plays a key role in flattening th
he network
topology,, so you sho
ould take a moment
m
to re
eview this inn
novative HP
P technologyy.
IRF review
r
More tha
an a simple stacking
s
tech
hnology, IRF
F truly transfforms multiple physical
chassis into a single logical routing switch, o
or IRF virtuall device. IRF
F manages tthe
physical links betwee
en switches in the IRF vvirtual device
e much as a switch hand
dles
the altern
nate paths within
w
its chip
psets or acro
oss its intern
nal fabric.
Recall fro
om Module 2 that an IRF
F-based netw
work infrastrructure delivvers many
advantag
ges over a network of tra
aditional swi tches conne
ected in traditional ways:
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Design and ope

erational sim
mplification
nA single llogical devicce to manage
throu
ugh the CLI,, Web interfa
ace, or IMC
Flattter, simplified topology

y:
A simpler, more
m
stable STP
S
topolog
gy or even co
omplete elim
mination of th
he
STP topolog
gy
Fewer route
ers in Open Shortest
S
Patth First (OSP
PF)
High
her efficienc
cyLoop-fre
ee, non-bloccking archite
ecture
Scalable perforrmanceDiistributed lin k aggregatio

on between another devvice
and members off the IRF virttual device
Fastter failover
Typically le
ess than 10 ms
Disttributed high availabilitty and resil iencySup

pports N+1 re
edundancy
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Leveraging IRF in data center designs

By leveraging the capabilities of IRF and large core data center switches like the
HP Comware 12900, 12500, or 11900 Series switches, you gain these
advantages:
A large port density allows you to consolidate the EoR/MoR switches and core
switches into a single core solution:
You reduce the number of switches you need to purchase and free up
rack space in each data center row.
You reduce the sprawl of networking cables in the data center.
The Comware 12916 switch model supports 768 10GbE ports, 256
40GbE ports, or 64 100GbE ports with no oversubscriptionor even
3072 10GbE ports, still with no oversubscription.
IRF can simplify the management of the new core. IMC sees the core as one
logical device, reducing management and configuration tasks.
By leveraging IRF in the ToR switches, you can gain these advantages:
You can choose ToR switch uplinks that support your servers bandwidth
requirements.
In a traditional data center design, the ToR switch typically uses 1GbE or
10GbE connections to the EoR/MoR switches. However, the switch might
need more uplink bandwidth to support servers adequately, particularly as
virtualization drives more traffic to each physical server.
The HP Comware 5900 Series ToR switches support 1GbE or 10GbE server
links and 10GbE or 40GbE uplinks. With 40GbE uplinks, you might even
reduce the number of connections required to the core switches.
You simplify the configuration and management of these switches. IMC sees
each group of IRF ToR switches as a single logical device.
All of these advantages are delivered by the topology shown on the right side of
the figure on the previous page. Notice that, in addition to featuring IRF, this
topology has a collapsed core.
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HP Virtual
V
l Conn
nect
al Connect, introduced in Module 2, is one of the cornerston

nes of the HP
HP Virtua
FlexFabrric architectu
ure, blending
g the networrk into the BlladeSystem Enclosure. It
provides a wire-once
e interconnec
ct solution fo
or virtualized
d and cloud--ready
environm
ments.
HP developed Virtua
al Connect te
echnology to
o simplify networking con
nfiguration fo
or
the serve
m environment. The basseline Virtua
er administra
ator using a BladeSystem
al
Connect technology virtualizes th
he connectio
ons between
n the server and the LAN
N
and SAN
N network inffrastructure. It adds a ha
ardware absstraction laye
er that removves
the direc
ct coupling be
etween them
m.
Server ad
dministrators can physic
cally wire the
e uplinks fro
om the enclosure to uplin
nk
switches once. They
y then manag
ge the netwo
ork addresse
es and uplin
nk paths
through Virtual
V
Conn
nect Manage
er (VCM) or V
Virtual Conn
nect Enterpriise Managerr
(VCEM).
de the follow
wing benefits:
Virtual Connect interrconnect modules provid
Reducing the nu
umber of cab
bles required
d for an encllosure comp
pared to usin
ng
pass
s-through mo
odules
Reducing the nu
umber of edg
ge switches that LAN an
nd SAN adm
ministrators
must manage
Allow
wing pre-pro
ovisioning of the networkk, shielding tthe LAN and
d SAN
infra
astructure fro
om changes within the B
BladeSystem
m, and permitting server
main
ntenance witthout involve
ement from tthe LAN or S
SAN adminisstrators
With
hout Virtual Connect
C
abs
straction, cha
anges to serrver hardwarre (for
exam
mple, replacing the syste
em board affter a failure)) often resultt in changess to
the universally
u
unique
u
identiifiers (UUIDss), Ethernet media acce
ess control
(MAC) addresse
es, and FC World
W
Wide N
Names (WW
WNs). The se
erver
adm
ministrator mu
ust then con
ntact the LAN
N or SAN ad
dministratorss, give them
upda
ated address
ses, and wait for the adm
ministrators to update th
heir
infra
astructure. With
W Virtual Connect,
C
a se
erver profile
e holds the U
UUIDs, MAC
addrresses, and WWNs cons
stant, so the
e server adm
ministrator ca
an apply the
same networking
g profile to new
n
hardwarre. Having V
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
assig
gnments and
d SAN fabric
c assignmen
nts migrate w
with virtualizzed hardware
e
addrresses can significantly
s
reduce the ttime for a se
ervice event.
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Enabling a flatter, less hierarchical network, reducing equipment and

administration costs, reducing latency, and improving performance
Delivering direct server-to-server connectivity within the BladeSystem

Enclosure
These direct connections optimize for east-west (E-W) traffic flow, which is
becoming more prevalent at the server edge with the growth of server
virtualization, cloud computing, and distributed applications.
Additional flexibility and efficiency with Virtual Connect Flex-10

Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology further simplifies network interconnects. Flex10 technology can split a 10 GbE port into four physical function NICs called
FlexNICs. Then a single 10GbE adapter can fulfill the same functions as multiple,
lower-bandwidth NICs.
Before Flex-10, a typical blade enclosure required up to 40 pieces of hardware (32
mezzanine adapters and eight interconnect modules) to provide connectivity for 16
virtualized servers. Use of FlexNICs with Virtual Connect Flex-10/10D modules
reduces the required hardware by 50% by consolidating all Ethernet connections
onto two 10 GbE ports.
In the example in the figure, each blade server still has a mezzanine adapter for
FC connectivity, and the enclosure retains two Virtual Connect Fibre Channel
modules. If you use iSCSI storage, Flex-10 modules and adapters do allow one of
the FlexNICs to act as an iSCSI FlexHBA, further reducing equipment.
Additional flexibility, efficiency, and convergence with Virtual

Connect FlexFabric
Virtual Connect FlexFabric adapters broaden the Flex-10 capabilities by providing
a way to converge networking and storage protocols on a 10 GbE port.
Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules and FlexFabric adapters can:
Converge Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), or accelerated

iSCSI traffic into a single 10GbE data stream
Partition a 10GbE adapter port into four FlexNICs, or three FlexNICs and a
FlexHBA, each with bandwidth adjustable through VCM, VCEM, or scripts
Forward each data type on the correct uplink, VLAN, or FC fabric
FlexFabric technology and adapters reduce management complexity; the number

of NICs, HBAs, and interconnect modules needed; and associated power and
operational costs. You can reduce the hardware requirements by 95% for a full
enclosure of 16 virtualized serversfrom 40 components to two FlexFabric
modules (and Gen8 server blades built-in LOM ports).
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Fabric con
nverge
ence with
w Fle
exFabrric ada
apters
both Etherne
et and FC
In a virtual server environment, a hypervisorr manages b
t
from th
he virtual ma
achines (VM
Ms). Tradition
nally, the hyp
pervisor might
storage traffic
send the Ethernet tra
affic on an Ethernet
E
NIC and the sto
orage traffic o
on an HBA. It
might als
so converge Ethernet an
nd FCoE trafffic on a converged netw
work adapterr
(CNA).
abric adapte
er provides m
more function
nality than a
an
Howeverr, a BladeSystem FlexFa
off-the-sh
helf CNA. It provides sta
andard NIC ffunctions, FllexNIC capa
abilities, and FC
or iSCSI FlexHBA ca
apabilities. The
T FlexNIC operates much like anyy Ethernet NIC
except th
hat you can tune
t
its band
dwidth and tthat, at a fun
ndamental le
evel, the NIC
C
shares a 10GbE data
a stream witth other FlexxNICs. A FlexxHBA handles FC or iSC
CSI
storage traffic
t
and ap
ppears as an
n HBA to the
e server ROM
M, OS, and hypervisor. T
The
FlexHBA
A supports bo
oot from SAN
N (BFS) with
h either FC o
or iSCSI, wh
hich is
acceleratted with at TCP
T
offload engine
e
(TOE
E).
Note
As shown in
n the figure, the second ph
hysical functio
on always takkes the FlexHBA
role to corre
elate with trad
ditional CNA a
architectures.. The HP FlexxFabric
adapters giv
ve you the fle
exibility to use
e that physica
al function as a FlexNIC
instead, if you
y so choose
e.
Both Ethernet traffic and storage

e trafficwhe
ether FCoE or acceleratted iSCSI
flow in a single stream across intternal, 10 G bps links to the Virtual C
Connect
module. The Virtual Connect
C
Fle
exFabric mod
dule separattes the trafficc, transmittin
ng
each type of traffic on the approp
priate uplinkk based on th
he network o
or SAN fabric to
which ad
dministrators
s assigned each FlexNIC
C or FlexHBA
A. The trafficc now enterss
the LAN or SAN infra
astructure.
deSystem ha
as converged
d resources and reduce
ed cost and ccomplexity
The Blad
while ma
aintaining secure, individ
dualized netw
work and sto
orage traffic flows.
Note
HP Virtual Connect
C
also supports trad
ditional netwo
ork and storag
ge connectivitty
(non-converged) for serv
vers with sepa
arate Etherne
et and FC ada
apters.
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Flatt SAN
Direc
ct-Attac
ch Fibre Cha
annel ffor HP
3PA
AR
st recent Virtual Connectt innovation is the abilityy to connect directly to H

HP
The mos
3PAR Sto
orage Syste
ems.
In an entterprise data
a center, trad
ditional FC d
disk storage has many shortcomingss. A
total solu
ution has a high
h
capital acquisition
a
ccost, includin
ng the SAN ffabric switch
hes,
the mana
agement sofftware, and the
t licenses required forr the switch and disk
storage managemen
m
nt. The FC SAN also intrroduces high
h operationa
al costs with
multiple managemen
m
nt points (HB
BAs, enclosu
ure edge switches, SAN core switch
hes,
al and comp
and targe
et systems) that often re
equire manua
plex coordina
ation.
HP solve
es these prob
blems by collapsing the storage nettwork and re
emoving the
edge-corre architectu
ure. The Dire
ect-Attach Fi bre Channe
el solution prrovides an
enterpris
se storage so
olution witho
out requiring an expensivve external S
SAN fabric. It
combines
s the scalab
bility of HP 3PAR storage
e systems w
with the simplicity of Virtu
ual
Connect.
R storage sy
ystems are a highly scala
able; single P10000 V-8
800 storage
HP 3PAR
system can
c provide connectivity
c
to up to 192
2 FC host po
orts and 1.6P
PB of storag
ge.
Combine
ed with HP 3PAR
3
advanc
ced featuress such as ad
daptive and d
dynamic
optimizattion, thin pro
ovisioning, Peer
P
Motion, and space rreclamation,, this Direct-Attach te
echnology prrovides another way for Virtual Conn
nect to simplify the
environm
ment.
As shown above, a network
n
can have both D
Direct-Attach
h and Fabricc-attached
storage simultaneou
sly. The Virtual Connectt FlexFabric modules co
s
ontinue to
to the traditiional fabric b
support connectivity
c
but are enha
anced to sup
pport DirectAttach FC
C storage with
w only miniimal change
es to their firm
mware.
Administtrators will fin
nd it very easy to set up the solution
n in VCM: the
ey simply
assign up
plinks conne
ected to 3PA
AR ports to a fabric in Direct-Attach m
mode. They
can now manage data center-wid
de connectivvity through VCM or higher-level
CloudSys
stem Matrix management and orche
estration too
ols. Separate
e licensing fo
or
the SAN//storage fabric or training on differen
nt managem
ment tools is not required
d.
In these ways, HP Virtual Conne
ect Direct-Atttach Fibre C
Channel sign
nificantly cutss
your SAN
N acquisition
n costs, operrational costts, and proviisioning time
e.
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e in the data
a cente
er
(Sim
mplified
d desig
gn)
k at a physic
cal and logical topology w
with a flatten
ned architeccture leverag
ging
Now look
HP IRF and
a Virtual Connect
C
tech
hnologies.
The phys
sical topolog
gy shows two
o access layyer options fo
or this desig
gn. On the le
eft,
ToR switches provide
e connectivitty for each sserver rack. The ToR design deliverss
10GbE connections
c
to the rack-m
mounted serrvers. These
e switches usse 10GbE or
40GbE fiber cables for
f their uplin
nks, and the
ey now conne
ect directly tto the core,
which co
onsists of two
o or more po
owerful core switches in different loccations for
redundan
ncy. Note tha
at to simplify
y manageme
ent, the core
e layer and a
access layerr
switches are grouped
d into one co
ore and multtiple accesss layer IRF virtual device
es,
reducing the numberr of logical sw
witches to b
be managed..
er switches connect
c
redu
undantly to the same log
gical device no
Now the access laye
a center faciility, and VLA
ANs can exttend anywhe
ere
matter where they arre in the data
necessarry, making itt very easy fo
or VMs to m
move from on
ne server to another
without administrator
a
rs having to worry aboutt VLANs and
d Layer 3 ad
ddressing.
Note
Notice that the distributio
on layer has b
been removed
dHP Comw
ware 12900,
12500, or 11900 Series switches
s
now
w serve as a ccollapsed core
e.
The rightt of the figure

e shows blade enclosurres being utillized in the d
data center.
These blade enclosu
ures use Virttual Connectt modules, w
which, althou
ugh not
switches, provide some of the sa
ame function
ns as switches. Using 10
0GbE
FlexFabrric adapters,, the Gen8 server
s
bladess connect th
hrough the enclosure
midplane
e to the Virtu
ual Connect modules, wh
hich connecct the blade e
enclosures
directly to
o the networrk core. Thus the Virtuall Connect module uplinkks can carry
any VLAN, and serve
er administra
ation can ma
ap these VL
LANs to downlinks, as
required for particula
ar VMs on en
nclosed servver blades.
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In summary, when IRF and Virtual Connect collapse a traditional data center
network topology into an HP Converged Infrastructure topology, you gain these
advantages:
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Access layer switches and blade enclosures connect directly to the core
switches, enhancing flexibility and scalability.
Distribution layer switches are removed, reducing power and cooling costs
and freeing up rack space.
Large Layer 2 networks can be more easily supported.
The network more easily supports VMware vMotion or similar VM live

migration solutions because the design helps to eliminate issues in extending
VLANs.
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HP Insight Control server provisioning

As the size of a data center grows, the time that IT staff requires to deploy and
maintain the servers could exceed IT staff capacity. HP Insight management suite
offers tools to manage server deployment and migration for large environments or
new deployments such as a room of servers delivered in an HP EcoPOD.
For previous server generations, HP Intelligent Provisioning assisted with the
deployment of a single server. Now HP Insight Control server provisioning allows
you to provision OS and firmware for hundreds of ProLiant servers at the same
time using a new, streamlined, and consistent provisioning tool.
Three key features in HP Insight Control server provisioning are:
Full deploymentThe tool deploys an OS to bare metal servers (choose

from many common OSs, including Windows 2012, Windows 2008R2, SuSE
Linux [SLES] 11 SP2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux [RHEL] 6.3). The tool also
applies firmware updates, BIOS, Smart Array, and iLO configuration on
ProLiant and BladeSystem servers (G6, G7, or Gen8).
PXE-free deployment In a ProLiant Gen8 environment, the tool even

supports PXE-free deployments.
Quicker deploymentThe tool reduces set up time because Insight Control

server provisioning is deployed as a virtual appliance.
HP Insight Control server migration provides an automated, accurate, and

affordable way to migrate existing servers and their content. With HP Insight
Control, you can migrate an OS, applications, settings, and data from one server
to another instead of manually redeploying these elements on your new server.
HP Insight Control is the one server migration tool for all your ProLiant physical
and virtual migration needs:
It supports migrations:
From any physical or virtual x86 server (regardless of vendor)
To a supported HP ProLiant DL or ML server, BladeSystem server with a

supported OS, or supported VM
It offers heterogeneous virtualization platform support, allowing migration

between virtualization environments (VMware ESX, VMWare ESXi, and
Microsoft Hyper-V).
All data, OS, applications, and settings are transferred automatically, reducing
the risk for errors.
You can migrate old servers to new "boot-from-SAN" HP BladeSystem servers

or migrate SAN connections from old servers to the new replacement servers.
For more information, visit: http://www.hp.com/go/icserverprovisioning
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Learning check
c
Match the HP innova
ations to the ways they h elp the data
a center to sscale.
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Takiing sto
orage to
t scalle
An expan
nding data center
c
introduces anothe
er question: is storage re
eady to scale
e
up?
m
in th
his course inttroduced the
e 3PAR StorreServ produ
ucts. The
Earlier modules
StoreSerrv platform is
s designed to grow with capacity and features fo
or the largesst
enterpris
se deployments.
The mod
dular system delivers a single
s
HP Co
onverged Sto
orage platfo
orm that scales
continuously from the
e small to th
he large. It offfers comple
ete fault tolerrance of both
hardware
e and softwa
are as part of
o an HP Con
nverged Infra
astructure.
This mod
dule examine
es more clos
sely some o
of the techno
ologies that a
allow the
StoreSerrv products to
t scale up so
s effectivelyy, helping the
em to meet the needs o
of
the mostt demanding virtual and IT as a Servvice (ITaaS) environmen
nts.
Full mesh
m
ba
ackplane
e
neration, fulll-mesh interc

connects firsst appeared in the late 1
1990s in
Third-gen
enterpris
se servers. However,
H
HP
P 3PAR utilityy storage syystem arrayss represent the
first stora
age platform
ms to apply th
his interconn
nect. This de
esign has be
een
incorpora
ated into HP
P 3PAR stora
age systemss to reduce la
atencies and
d address
scalabilitty requireme
ents.
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The HP 3PAR
3
storag
ge system ba
ackplane is a passive circuit board tthat containss
slots for controller no
odes. Each controller
c
no
ode slot conn
nects to every other
controller node slot through a hig
gh-speed lin k (2 GBps in
n each direcction or 4 GB
Bps
totalroughly eight times
t
the sp
peed of 4 Gb
bps FC). In th
his way, the controller
nodes in the cluster form
f
a full-m
mesh interco nnect. In an HP 3PAR V
V800, 28 succh
links form
m the arrays
s full-mesh backplane.
b
The high
h bandwidth mesh provid
des the throu
ughput need
ded for Tier 1 performancce
even whe
en reaching maximum capacities.
c
B
Because the redundant ccontrollers ea
ach
have acc
cess to the entire
e
storage
e system, th
he system prrovides high redundancyy in
addition to
t parallel prrocessing fo
or speeding d
data retrieva
al and retenttion.
Fine--grained
d virtualization
nce and to maximize

m
the
e utilization o
of physical re
esources, the
To ensurre performan
HP 3PAR
R StoreServ OS employs
s a tri-level m
mapping me
ethodology.
The first level of map
pping virtualiizes physica
al drives of a
any size into a pool of
uniform-s
sized, fine-grained chun
nklets that a
are 1GB eacch (256MB o
on T-Class a
and
F-Class). The fine-grrained nature
e of these ch
hunklets:
Elim
minates unde
erutilization of
o storage asssets
Imprroves performance for all application

ns
The seco
ond level of mapping
m
ass
sociates chu
unklets with logical diskss (LDs). Thiss
associatiion allows th
he system to
o create logiccal devices w
with template
e propertiess
based on
n Redundant Array of Ind
dependent D
Disks (RAID) characterisstics and the
e
location of
o chunklets across the system. LDss can be tailored to mee
et a variety o
of
cost, cap
pacity, perforrmance, and
d availability characteristtics depending on the
Quality of
o Service (Q
QoS) level re
equired. In ad
ddition, the ffirst- and seccond-level
mappings together serve to para
allelize work massively a
across physical drives an
nd
their FC connections
s.
d level of mapping assoc
ciates virtual volumes (V
VVs) with all of an
The third
underlyin
ng LD, portio
ons of an LD
D, or all of or portions of multiple LDss. VVs are th
he
virtual ca
apacity repre
esentations that
t
are ultim
mately exporrted to hostss and
applicatio
ons as virtua
al LUNs (VLUNs) over F
FC or iSCSI ttarget ports..
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Despite the
t sophistic
cation of this
s mapping, sstorage administrators perform only
minimal planning.
p
Th
hey simply specify VV na
ame, RAID level, and sizze. The
StoreSerrv OS autono
omically pro
ovisions LDs at the mom
ment that an a
application
requires capacity. Th
his feature is
s also known
n as just-in-tiime provisio
oning.
e users or ap
pplications ge
enerally onlyy fill a VV grradually overr a relativelyy
Because
long period of time, an
a organizattion can dram
matically inccrease assett utilization a
and
defer cap
pital expense
e, in some cases
c
indefin
nitely. For exxample, adm
ministrators
might cre
eate 3TB wo
orth of VVs, but
b the syste
em might cu
urrently use o
only 1TB of
LDs. Add
ditional physical drives can
c be added
d or allocate
ed later witho
out disruptio
on
or reconffiguration as
s the VV is already defin ed with a 3T
TB capacity.
HP 3PAR sofftware
LD and VV cconstruction capabilities

Delivering the just-in-time provisioning and L
about wh
hich you justt read is the HP 3PAR S toreServ OS
S software. T
This core
software, which runs
s on the system, provide
es a variety o
of other bene
efits such ass
unique sttorage virtua
alization, VV
V manageme
ent, RAID ca
apabilities, and Full Copyy.
Additiona
al HP 3PAR software pro
oducts that rrun on the sttorage syste
em offer
improved
d capabilities
s. These include thin sto
orage techno
ologies, secu
ure partitioning
for virtua
al private arra
ays, storage
e federation, and virtual a
and remote copy
capabilitiies. Example
es of such so
oftware are Peer Motion
n federation software and
Virtual Copy snapsho
ot software.
R host softwa
aresoftwa
are installed on servers ((hosts)acccess the
HP 3PAR
storage to
t enable the
e system pla
atform to add
dress the ne
eeds of speccific applicatiion
environm
ments or to provide
p
multipathing, histtorical performance, and
d capacity
managem
ment.
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HP EcoPO
E
OD
nshot serverrs,
Even when space utilization is optimized wit h BladeSysttem or Moon
s limit data
a center grow
wth. If you have no more
e space in th
he
physical space can still
d
center or
o in the building, you ca
an expand b
by adding the
e HP
existing data
Performa
ance Optimiz
zed Data Ce
enter (POD) 240a, also ccalled the HP EcoPOD.
This turn
nkey data center solution
n offers such
h high efficie
ency that it ca
an scale to
almost any capacity in a small sp
pace. Goverrnmental ma
andates to lim
mit data center
power co
onsumption might
m
also le
ead you to cchoose EcoP
PODs as you
ur primary da
ata
center de
eployment.
Each Eco
oPOD is a pre-configure
p
ed package o
or drop-in ha
ardware solu
ution a selfcontained, modular, ultra-efficien
nt data cente
er that uses a fraction off the energy of
traditiona
al brick-and--mortar data centers, butt with 10 tim
mes the IT ca
apacity.
Built to satisfy the co
omplex dema
ands of data
a center infra
astructure, th
he EcoPOD
does more with less.. A typical brrick-and-morrtar data cen
nter is often
overprov
visioned and underused, powering 1 00% of its re
esources, bu
ut using far
less. The
e modular de
esign of the EcoPOD, byy contrast, h
helps enterprrises quicklyy
and efficiently expand data cente
er capacity. T
The EcoPOD
D has the ca
apacity for 4
44
industry-standard rac
cks, up to 44
400 servers,, and 44 KW
W per 50U rackthe
equivalen
nt of just less than 9000
0 square feett of traditiona
al data cente
er IT in a 900square-fo
oot package
e.
The EcoP
POD also re
educes powe
er usage and
d costs compared with traditional da
ata
centers. The self-com
mpensating HP Adaptive
e Cooling tecchnology he
elps the
EcoPOD
D use 95% le
ess facilities energy com pared to leg
gacy data ce
enter designss;
at the same time, services mainttain peak pe
erformance.
e HP EcoPOD offers an optimal
o
Pow
wer Usage Effectivenesss (PUE). PUE
E, a
Thus the
standard measureme
ent for data center energ
gy efficiencyy, compares the total pow
wer
going into a data cen
nter with the power for IT
T equipmentt (servers, sttorage, and
ue of one represents the
e optimal datta center effficiency, in
network). A PUE valu
which all incoming po
ower is used
d to power IT
T equipmentt. Values abo
ove one
indicate how
h
much data
d
center overhead
o
is rrequired to ssupport the IIT load.
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A PUE value of 2.0 is fairly typical for a data center. The HP EcoPOD has a PUE
as low as 1.05. With efficiencies this high, the HP EcoPOD can become the new
reference standard for optimal data center design.
Companies can also reduce up to 75% of the cost of building a new data
center because of the modular architecture of EcoPOD, which saves in real estate,
construction, installation, maintenance, and operations costs. Also, the EcoPOD
can be deployed in as few as 12 weeks, up to 88% faster than traditional data
centers.
HP POD 20c and 40c

In addition to the HP EcoPOD, HP offers two smaller PODs:
HP POD 20c
HP POD 40c
Their basic specifications are highlighted in this table:
Length with clearance

Max weight
Max non-redundant power
capacity
Power busways
Rack capacity
Total U-space
Flow rate of required chilled
water
HP POD 20c
HP POD 40c standard

density
24ft
50,000lbs
41.5ft
100,000lbs
290kW
450kW
2x225A
10 50U racks
500U
4x225A
22 50U racks
1100U
10 gpm
240 gpm
VideoIntroducing the HP EcoPOD
Watch this optional 5:20 minute video (M05a-Introducing the HP EcoPOD.avi).

This video is available:
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At http://h17007.www1.hp.com/inc/whatsnew/june/videos/video15.html
In the supplement to this course, which contains all videos used within this
course
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Flex
xNetwo
ork arc
chitectture
A data ce
enter with so
olid redundancy does litttle good if it cannot be a
accessed. Offten
the users
s who acces
ss services re
eside in a ca
ampus.
A campus is defined as one or more
m
building
gs within a limited geogrraphical area
a. A
campus network is defined
d
as a network of L
LANs conne
ected by a ca
abling
infrastruc
cture that is owned or is leased by th
he enterprise and is bassed on Etherrnet
technologies. The diffference betw
ween a build
ding in a cam
mpus LAN a
and a branch
h
office is that
t
a branch
h office uses
s WAN techn
nology to co
onnect to the
e rest of the
infrastruc
cture.
The Flex
xCampus arc
chitecture is the HP netw
working desiign for a cam
mpus LAN. T
The
FlexCam
mpus compon
nent of the FlexNetwork
F
k is discusse
ed in detail in
n later modules.
FlexCam
mpus is introd
duced here to
t highlight tthe connection between the FlexFab
bric
and Flex
xCampus and
d its role in delivering
d
a flexible netw
working infra
astructure.
Conn
necting FlexFab
bric and FlexCam
mpus
ows the integ

gration of th e FlexFabricc (left side) a
and the
The figurre above sho
FlexCam
mpus (right siide).
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In the FlexFabric, networking is integrated into the BladeSystem Enclosure, and

Virtual Connect converges normal Ethernet, iSCSI, and FC traffic into common
data flows. Because IRF and Virtual Connect collapse the data center network
design into only two layers or even one layer, the FlexFabric becomes a simplified
network infrastructure that is easy to deploy and manage. The flattened FlexFabric
also supports high-speed, low-latency E-W (server-to-server) traffic across the
data center.
Note
HP modular core switches (11900, 12500, and 12900 Series) would be the
best choice for business-critical data center environments.
IRF performs the same functions, reducing logical components and layers, in the
FlexCampus.
Campus networks must evolve to support user requirements for interactive and
video-rich, on-demand applications and services. Management of identity and
security must be at the forefront and backed by industry-leading vulnerability
research. Campus networks must transform to easily support the delivery of
applications and services to wired and mobile workers alike. Flexible capacity
supports E-W collaboration traffic at the edge of the FlexCampus network.
The HP FlexCampus solution delivers a superior user experience, simplifies
network architecture and management, and ensures performance and agility at the
network edge to meet todays business realities. Enterprises deploying a
FlexCampus solution gain a secure, flexible, and agile campus LAN infrastructure
that can deliver video and other demanding applications, whether hosted in
corporate data center or the cloud, to wired or wireless users anywhere on the
corporate campus.
FlexCampus is based on an advanced two-tier switching architecture that
improves the performance of media-rich collaboration applications. Just as at the
data center, IRF eliminates or reduces the distribution layer, which improves
network performance and reduces cost. For greater simplicity and savings, IT staff
can manage the entire network from a single pane-of-glass network management
platform using HP IMC.
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Exten
nding to
o the cam
mpus
discussed in
n Module 2 a
and earlier in
n this module) adds the
HP IRF technology (d
e and simplic
city that ensures a netwo
ork design rremains rockk-solid. The
elegance
same tec
chnology tha
at flattens the
e data cente
er topology in
n the FlexFa
abric meets the
challenge
es in the Fle
exCampus and FlexBran
nch compone
ents of the F
FlexNetworkk.
The figurre shows an example of an HP Cam
mpus Referen
nce Architeccture. Consid
der
reference
e architecturres as baselines for build
ding modula
ar networks o
or segmentss of
data center fabric, ca
ampus, and branch netw
works.
n your attentiion to the co
onnection be
etween the ccampus core
e and the datta
First turn
center, which
w
is repre
esented by the
t circle on the left. IRF
F optimizes p
performance
e
and flexib
bility here just as it does
s within each
h network se
egment.
At the ca
ampus, IRF continues
c
to optimize the
e topology d
down to the a
access layer,
which ca
an be provide
ed by:
IRF--capable swiitches such as the HP C

Comware 550
00EI, replica
ating the pow
wer
and capabilities IRF all the way
w to the ed
dge
Meshed stacking
g HP ProVis
sion 3800 Se
eries or ProV
Vision 2920S
Series
switc
ches, which can deliver HP switch vvirtualization when IRF iss not require
ed
Som
mewhat like IRF, meshed
d stacking alllows a group
p of switches to function
n as
a sin
ngle logical switch.
s
You can
c manage
e the meshed
d stack using a single IP
P
addrress. The me
eshed stack shares routting resource
es. Memberss of the
present
meshed stack co
onnect to ea
ach other ove
er high-spee
ed links but p
them
mselves to otther network
k devices ass a single log
gical switch, so the
meshed-stack provides costt-effective an
nd resilient d
distribution o
of high-capacity
band
dwidth. Thes
se switches also deliver intelligent e
edge featuress to the acce
ess
layer of the netw
work.
A mo
odular switch such as an
n HP ProVission 5400 zl Series switcch, ideal for
Bran
nch-in-a-Box
x or some ca
ampus segm
ments
Man
ny of the stac
cking, meshiing, and IRF
F features arre designed to give the
redu
undancy, den
nsity, and sim
mplicity of a modular sw
witch. Remem
mber that
deploying a sing
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simp
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ks
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nd frameworrk for deliverring
SDN solu
utions. Virtua
al Applicatio
on Networks will enable b
businesses to create a
scalable,, agile, and secure
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network that emp
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ne for dynam
mic and rapid deployment
of applica
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SDN is the future of the network core
HP Virtual Application Networks deliver on the promises of SDN and OpenFlow;

you will understand the benefits better after a closer examination of those
technologies.
Providing the foundation for communications between HP Virtual Application
Networks SDN Controller and the network infrastructure is the emerging OpenFlow
standard, defined by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) in 2011.
OpenFlow hides the complexity of individual network devices functionality. It
centralizes the control of those devices in a virtualized manner, which:
Simplifies network management and programming of network devices
Allows for dynamic change in the traffic flow
Makes the network more responsive to business needs
SDN uses OpenFlow-enabled hardware to dynamically reprovision and reprioritize

the network for individual data flows or applications. With SDN solutions such as
Virtual Application Networks and support for OpenFlow across many HP switches,
HP provides the flexible foundation for future networks.
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acy netw
workHu
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will unlock, cconsider how
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c
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S
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ontrol based on APIs tha
at liberate IT
T staff to conttrol
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han be contro
olled by it.
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must supporrt 10,000
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provision
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ssume that e
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of
an avera
age of 20 com
mmands (forr example, V
VLAN creatio
on, tagging, and virtual
routing). Those requests quickly add up to 2 00,000 com
mmands per d
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the commands,
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command took only
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g requests
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emand 3333 human hours of effort e
every day, orr 420 networrk
administrrators workin
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hifts. Fox Rivver Gaming does not exxpect to make
10,000 changes
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t companyy does not h
have the extra two to 20
network administrato
ors required for making 1
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hanges per d
day either. The
y needs a so
olution to red
duce the effo
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company
staff keep up with do
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nistrators see
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y using SDN , the compa
any might even begin to
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s optimizing cutting-edge
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effective to cconstantly re
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work to match
h the traffic fflows and ap
pplications in
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with
w SDN
N
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plication laye
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layers of APIs po
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ss of vendorr. Now netwo
ork managerrs can specify different p
policy rules ffor
different groups of de
evices and users
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and ap
pply those ru
ules to a tran
nsparent
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m
virtu
ualized netw
works regardlless of the
physical network con
nnections. Network man agers can e
easily custom
mize and
manage these virtualized networrks to ensure
e proper policies such a
as forwarding
g
path, QoS, and secu
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ammable, ne
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as or create new protoco
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problems sp
pecific to theiir organizatio
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network needs. By creating a virrtual networkk isolated fro
om the produ
uction netwo
ork,
network architects ca
an safely experiment witth new services and pro
otocols on a
real-world network th
hat cannot be simulated in a test lab
bor is too rrisky to
undertak
ke in a produ
uction network today.
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Lead
ding the industry
y with SDN
S
inno
ovations
s
a active contributor to the

t OpenFlo
ow standard and a found
ding member of
HP was an
the ONF.
ovate and ap
pply its leade
ership in devveloping indu
ustry standa
ards
HP continues to inno
ng on those open standa
ards to creatte powerful, interoperab
ble network
by buildin
solutions
s. HP OpenF
Flow-enabled
d solutions h
have been a top choice ffor academic
and commercial rese
earchers. HP
P presented the first com
mmercial, ha
ardware-base
ed
switch im
mplementatio
on of OpenF
Flow at ACM SIGCOMM in 2008. HP
P also
participatted in a public demonstrration of Ope
enFlow at In
nteropNet La
ab in May 20
011.
The Ope
enFlow proto
ocol is emerg
ging from its roots in the
e research an
nd education
n
community and expa
anding to the
e enterprise.
k closely witth partners ssuch as India
ana Center ffor Network
HP continues to work
arch and Edu
ucation (InC NTRE) to drrive research
h in SDN and
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enable multivendor
m
in
nteroperability for Open Flow-enable
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u case
DN solutions such as HP
P Virtual App
plication Netw
works help yyou
OpenFlow-based SD
a unpreced
dented level of network ccontrol and ccustomizatio
on. With the HP
achieve an
Virtual Ap
pplication Ne
etworks SDN
N controller, HP can deliver end-to-e
end SDN
solutions
s and also an
n open ecos
system for cu
ustom appliccations. An e
end user
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identifies a need for particular type of network optimization, and SDN and the
OpenFlow switches deliver the flexibility to support a solution tailored specifically
to that need.
Consider the following hypothetical situation. A European research institution, a
long-time valued HP customer, is developing its own distributed load balancing
application. It will use the HP SDN solution in developing this network- and
application-aware load balancing application. The load balancing application will
turn HP OpenFlow-enabled switches into traffic distributors, load sharing traffic
across firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDSs), serversor any network
resource the company chooses.
The load balancing application will also have the ability to characterize different
types of traffic and load share it across different types of resources. By building
this application on the HP Virtual Application Networks SDN controller, developers
can scale beyond traditional limits and bottlenecks associated with dedicated
appliances. In addition, with the added programmability that SDN offers, the
application can synchronize with the load-balancing OpenFlow-enabled switches
and implement adaptive algorithms based on feedback from network devices.
Ultimately, with the HP VAN SDN controller and its open ecosystem, you can
develop applications to solve real issues in your network to improve performance,
efficiency, and reduce costs.
Ballarat Grammar School and SDN

HP announced that Ballarat Grammar, an Anglican school located in Victoria,
Australia, has selected the HP Sentinel Security SDN application to block network
security threats and enhance learning opportunities for students.
Ballarat Grammars network supports 1400 students and 200 faculty members,
each with school-issued laptops or unmanaged devices such as smartphones and
tabletsa typical bring your own devices (BYOD) scenario. Critical security issues
such as the introduction of botnets, spyware, and malware in the network have
created significant vulnerabilities for the school and impacted student productivity.
Our students have full access to their school-provisioned laptops that they also
take home, and boarding students bring their own devices onto campus too, which
seriously hinders comprehensive management and effective implementation of
security protocols, said Gregory Bell, head, Technical Services, Ballarat Grammar.
With HPs Sentinel Security application, our networking team has greater visibility
into malware and infections, which is much more effective than antivirus software
alone.
Deployed with HP ProVision 3800 Series switches throughout its five boarding
houses and 95 classrooms, HP Sentinel Security enables Ballarat Grammar to
automatically locate and flag infected devices connected to the campus wireless or
wired networks. Prior to using HP Sentinel Security, after students returned from
summer break, Ballarat Grammar would spend days manually identifying network
infections and their origination points, which created additional work during an
already hectic time.
Access to social media and user-generated content was also distracting students
during classfrustrating teachers while also limiting learning opportunities. The
HP Sentinel Security application enabled Ballarat Grammar to improve student
productivity by controlling access to social media networks in specific classrooms
during class hours only.
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In addition to HP Sentinel Security, Ballarat Grammar deployed HP IMC, a singlepane-of-glass tool to simplify management of its multivendor campus environment.
Microsoft Lync and SDN

For most organizations today, remote users in branch locations are accustomed to
reliable communications via distributed PBX or IP-PBX technology. However, when
it comes to expansive communications and collaboration, they are dependent on
the servers in the headquarters data center for their communication and
collaboration needs. This dependency makes them vulnerable to losing their
communication and collaboration capabilities when the wide area network (WAN)
is unavailable.
These remote users need the ability to make external phone calls and sustain
internal peer-to-peer communications such as instant messaging (IM), voice,
video, and desktop sharing even when the data center cannot be reached. They
need a communications solution architected for branch survivability and one that
contains the telephony features they have come to expect: the ability to call any
phone number, and voice, video, IM, and desktop collaboration with local
colleagues. HP Survivable Branch Communication zl Module provides these
solution features and more.
HP Survivable Branch Communication zl Module powered by Microsoft Lync is
a new component for the HP and Microsoft Unified Communications and
Collaboration solution. Survivable Branch Communication (SBM) combines Lync
Server 2010 and software from HPincluding a public switched telephone
network (PSTN) to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway, a graphical user
interface (GUI), management interfaces, and an application programming interface
(API) to the switch itself, all integrated on a module that fits in the chassis of HP
E8200 and E5400 switch series products. Features of this product include:
Survivable Branch Communication provides users within the branch with the
ability to communicate and collaborate in the event the data center
Communications Servers cannot be reached. All services that are peer-topeer within the branch
remain operationalinstant messaging, video, desktop sharing, and voice.
Interoffice voice calls are automatically routed through the Survivable Branch
Communication's local PSTN interfaces when peer-to-peer communications
are not available.
Survivable Branch Communication is a component of a complete Microsoft

Lync infrastructure and can be domain-joined to the Microsoft environment.
During normal operation, Survivable Branch Communication supports toll

bypass and least-cost call routing. Every PSTN gateway in the enterprise is
available for placing outbound calls along the least expensive path.
For more information on Microsoft Lync and SDN, watch this video:
http://h20621.www2.hp.com/videogallery/us/en/products/2308408447001/hp-ucc-sdn-application-for-lyncdemo/video/
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IMC makes
m
SDN
S
and
d securitty easie
er
Another example of SDN

S
in actio
on is the HP Sentinel Se
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h
uses the HP Virtual Application
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ws to detectt
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ction of alerting, blocking
g, or alerting
g and blockin
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d network sw
witches, routers, and wireless accesss
points (A
APs), enablin
ng automated, real-time security with
h little netwo
ork
managem
ment effort.
y integrates with
w IMC, wh
hich provide
es feedback on
enforcem
ment decisions, allowing administrato
ors to monitor the securrity of the
network from
f
this sin
ngle-pane-off-glass solutiion. And with
h the Virtual Application
Networks
s SDN modu
ule for IMC, announced at Interop 20
013, IMC will become th
he
single, siimple tool fro
om which ad
dministratorss manage, m
monitor, and secure the
network.
ates alerts in the HP ArcS
Sight Comm
mon Event Fo
ormat (CEF)) to
Sentinel also genera
ght, the ente rprise mana
agement plattform for
assist inttegration with HP ArcSig
enterpris
se-wide secu
urity correlation analysis .
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IMC VAN
V
Ma
anager
A typical data center with 500 ph

hysical serve
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g approxima
ately 20 VMss
per serve
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m
prov
visioning of m
more than 50
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orking attribu
utes
on a portt-by-port bas
sis. Those 50
0,000 netwo
ork attributess may requirre over 250,0
000
command-line entries on dozens
s of network switches.
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ove to the clo
oud, the netw
offer tools an
nd processess
To accele
work must o
that pred
dictably automate previously manuall processes,, streamlining orchestrattion
of both physical
p
and virtual resou
urces to give
e businessess speed and
d reliability.
With HP VAN Manag
ger, you can separate ne
etwork provissioning from
m device
managem
ment and lev
verage prove
en network vvirtualization
n technologie
es to simpliffy
managem
ment and red
duce the tim
me to deploy cloud appliccations.
HP IMC allows
a
IT to shift to centralized contrrol and orchestration of the networkk.
Using VA
AN Managerr eliminates CLI
C configurration and in
nstead provissions the
network using autom
mation. The in-depth IMC
C network inttelligence integrates into
o
hyperviso
or managem
ment with a VAN
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plug-in. It then can automate th
he creation o
of
VLANs and
a simplify both
b
physica
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al switch man
nagement an
nd
configura
ation.
The VAN
N Designer provides
p
a fle
exible, intuiti ve, graphica
al interface ffor network
administrrators to quickly and efficiently desig
gn network cconnectivity for cloud
applicatio
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strators can design conn
nection profiles which arre stored in tthe
VAN Poliicy Engine.
When a new
n
cloud application workload
w
nee
eds to be dep
ployed, the sserver
administrrator can sim
mply select the appropria
ate connectiion profile an
nd click the
power on
o button. The Policy En
ngine in the VAN Conne
ection Manag
ger will
automatically configu
ure the data center acce
ess switch, e
eliminating th
he manual
configura
ation previou
usly required
d. Within five
e minutes, th
he new cloud
d application
n
workload
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nnected to th
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and available
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ation (SD
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system a
and swittches fo
or
the la
argest and
a dens
sest datta centerrs)
Recen
nt FlexFa
abric inno
ovations
The data
a center that is reaching its capacity limits needss powerful so
olutions thatt
are agile enough to respond
r
dyn
namically to cchanging ap
pplication an
nd performan
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requirem
ments. The HP commitme
ent to delive
ering the mosst flexible, in
nnovative
products for business and enterp
prise networrks continuess with annou
uncements
made at Interop 2013
3. HP annou
unced the firrst data centter core switcches with
OpenFlow capabilitie
es, SDN app
plications forr HP IMC ma
anagement ssoftware, an
nd
solutions
s that will con
ntinue to inte
egrate tightlyy with server virtualizatio
on capabilitie
es:
Reso
ource Autom
mation and Virtual
V
Appliccation Netwo
orks SDN are
e added to the
IMC family of ad
dd-on modules.
The FlexFabric 12900

1
Switc
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d
core
e switches in the industry
y.
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ch delivers a n OpenFlow
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switc
ch.
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Switc
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nel-based so
solution in the fo
orm of a logical switch.
ch 5900v so
oftware, used
d with a FlexxFabric 5900
0 Switch Serries
The Virtual Switc
sical device, delivers adv
vanced netw
working featu
ures, such a
as QoS and
phys
othe
er policies, to
o a VMware environmen
nt. The HP V
Virtual Switch
h replaces a
VMw
ware virtual switch
s
(vSwiitch) with a ffully featured
d, FlexFabricc-aware HP
implementation directly integ
grated into V
VMware.
The HSR6800 Router

R
Series
s supports I RF, making it the first ag
ggregation
route
er to supporrt network virrtualization. IRF is now a
available on HP router
platfforms as well as switche
es and routin
ng switches.
The HP Virtual Services

S
Rou
uter (VSR), e
he need for unnecessary
ry
eliminates th
hard
dware by using Network Function Virrtualization ((NFV) to delliver servicess
direc
ctly to the VM
M. This virtualized softw
ware router ru
uns on eithe
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or
KVM
M hypervisorrs on industry
y-standard xx86 servers.
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HP crreates an open SD
DN ecosystem
On Septe
ember 30, 2013, HP unv
veiled the ind
dustrys firstt open enterprise-class
Software
e-defined Ne
etworking (SD
DN) ecosysttem, support
rted by nearly 30
AllianceO
One partners
s including Microsoft,
M
VM
Mware, SAP
P, and Intel.
HP has delivered
d
on its SDN visiion to provid
de ability for businesses by bringing to
market th
he HP SDN Developer Kit
K (SDK) an d the HP SD
DN App Storre:
HP SDN
S
Develo
oper Kit com
mes complette with all the
e tools need
ded for
deve
elopers to de
evelop, simu
ulate, and va
alidate appliccations that simplify and
d
auto
omate netwo
orks, bringing
g agility. The
e HP SDN Developer Kitt availability is
Nove
ember 2013
3.
To visit the
e SDN developer page, go to: http://sdndevcenter.hp
p.com
HP SDN
S
App Sttore allows customers
c
to
o browse, se
earch, purch
hase, and
direc
ctly downloa
ad SDN applications onto
o their Virtua
al Application Networks
SDN
N controller. The
T SDN Ap
pp Store ava
ailability is in
n 2014.
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e App Store demo,
d
go to: h
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For a datta center at its capacity, power mana
power sa
avings in the
e network inffrastructure b
by lowering infrastructurre devices
power co
onsumption and
a by incre
easing the sw
witch port de
ensity.
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Lower power consumption

Networking equipment has traditionally been designed with the primary focus on
maximum line rate performance, maximum packet processing, and minimum
switch latency. Minimizing peak power consumption, size, and cost were
secondary concerns.
In typical networking equipment today, approximately 60% of power consumption
is associated with the switch ASIC (packet-processing silicon), the supporting
chips such as memories (DRAM and TCAM), and the Gigabit Ethernet physical
layer (PHY).
HP networking products, built around the HP Provision architecture, achieve
substantial power savings for all customers and in all deployment situations. The
design principles driving the Adaptive-Power Architecture include:
Power consumption should scale with utilization.
Power consumption should be reduced during idle periods.
Networking performance should never be compromised by power saving

features.
The Adaptive-Power Architecture from HP was inspired by the realization that,

most of time, network equipment does not experience maximum processing load
or throughput. With the HP Adaptive-Power Architecture, network equipment
power consumption can scale automatically with the number of active ports, traffic
intensity, type of traffic, Layer 2 active table depth, Layer 3 active table depth,
classification complexity, and application environment.
HP Adaptive-Power Architecture goes beyond network software manageability
tools and focuses on reducing power consumption deep inside the switching
platform. It relies on new ASICs and hardware platforms designed from the ground
up to reduce power consumption as a function of utilization.
The table in the figure above lists the power saving features of this architecture
and provides examples and descriptions.
Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)

HP has helped develop a new energy-efficient Ethernet standard, IEEE 802.3az or
EEE, which enables you to reduce the energy consumption and operational costs
of your IT equipment.
Energy-saving HP ProVision switches automatically enter sleep mode, as do
connected EEE-devices, when no traffic is being transmitted. Thus, you benefit
from lower power consumption, both at the switch and the end-point device,
reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).
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Highe
er switch port den
nsity
For many
y networking
g deploymen
nts, some off the most im
mpressive en
nvironmentall
savings can
c come fro
om using mo
odular switch
hes with a h
higher port density for a
given rac
ck space. Th
he higher the
e port densitty, per-power-supply and
d per-fan, off the
modular switch chassis, the grea
ater the incre
eases in ove
erall system efficiency.
Using a modular
m
cha
assis-based infrastructurre can also rreduce the o
overall floor
space required as yo
ou build out a larger netw
worksavin
ng not only floor space b
but
also coolling costs as
s compared to a networkk built on sta
ackable switcches with low
wer
port dens
sities. HP ca
an also integ
grate multiple
e application
ns into its mo
odular
products, thus elimin
nating the ne
eed for addit ional power supplies an
nd fans used in
these sta
andalone appliances.
Moreove
er, modular switch-based
s
d topologies are easier a
and more co
ost-effective tto
upgrade or deploy. With
W a distrib
buted compu
uting architeccture, based
d on the HP
Adaptive
e-Power Arch
hitecture, the
e power con sumption off the chassiss is optimized
d
based on
n the utilizatiion. When fe
ewer module
e slots are populated, the power
consump
ption is also proportionattely lower. S
Some HP mo
odular switch
hes can supp
port
up to 55C
C operating temperature
e, thus reduccing the cooling costs. F
For enterprise
deployme
ents, which require high
her port denssity, HP mod
dular switche
es offer the
ideal, energy efficien
nt solutions.
Learn
ning che
eck
Match the HP innova
ations to the ways they h
help the data
a center to sscale.
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T goals
s at Fo
ox Rive
er Gam
ming
verged Infras
structure solutions have helped Foxx River Gamiing meet its
HP Conv
goals witth data cente
er solutions that can cha
ange and gro
ow as rapidly as require
ed:
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HP server
s
blade
es use less space
s
and po
ower than eq
quivalent racck servers.
An HP
H Moonsho
ot system pro
ovides an evven smaller form factor w
with drastica
ally
redu
uced power consumption
c
n.
An HP
H POD, parrticularly an HP EcoPOD
D, provides tthe most effiicient data
centter without re
equiring morre physical sspace in the existing facility.
Insig
ght Control to
ools allow IT
T to deploy a
and manage
e large numb
bers of
virtualized serve
ers.
HP 3PAR
3
StoreS
Serv has the
e internal ha rdware and software arcchitecture to
o
scale
e performan
nce and capa
acity within o
or across da
ata centers.
IRF establishes simplified an

nd extensiblle FlexFabricc and FlexCampus
netw
works.
The geographic redundancy

y of IRF liberrates your viirtualized se
ervers and
stora
age to grow within and beyond
b
a sin
ngle data cen
nter location
n. (Equipmen
nt
does
s not all have
e to be in the same room
minfrastructure can syynchronize w
with
a PO
OD in a park
king lot or ac
cross town w
without a perfformance re
eduction or
incre
ease in netw
work complex
xity.)
SDN
N solutions dynamically
d
re-provision
r
and prioritizze the netwo
ork for individ
dual
data
a flows, tailorring the netw
work to meett business n
needs.
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Summary
Data center capacity is typically limited by space, power, and cooling. Individual
device capacities are often limited and cannot expand indefinitely. Innovative HP
technologies, products, and solutions scale to virtually unlimited capacities,
enabling you to create data centers of any capacity or geographic scope. With
your highly available, scalable, manageable, and flexible solution, you have the
foundation for cloud computing, mobility, and big datasubjects covered in the
next modules.
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Module 6
Objectives
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Explain the needs of an enterprise moving to the cloud
Automated infrastructure, platform, and application provisioning
Lifecycle management
Explain various cloud service models and cloud deployment models
Describe HP technologies, products, and solutions specifically targeted for

cloud computing environments
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Fox
x River Gamin
ng: Ac
chievin
ng opportunities an
nd
goals with
h cloud
d comp
puting
ata centers, Fox River G

Gaming has o
obtained a m
more
In moderrnizing its da
standardized, consollidated, auto
omated, and virtualized IIT infrastructture. The IT
organization has also
o adopted modern
m
techn
nologies to rreduce the ccomplexity off
delivering
g an applica
ation infrastru
ucture. Thesse changes h
have decrea
ased
applicatio
on deployme
ent time from
m weeks or e
even monthss to a few da
ays.
Fox Rive
er Gaming is now carefully evaluatin g cloud tech
hnologies an
nd looking att
the bene
efits of cloud computing. The compa ny wants a fflexible deve
elopment
platform that can be provisioned on demand
d. Not only in
nternal development teams
will have access to th
his developm
ment platform
m but also o
outside developers and tthe
gaming open-source
o
e community. For this rea
ason, the so
olution must support multitenancy and data security for tha
at multi-tena
ant environm
ment. The com
mpany wantts
to add as
s little overhe
ead as poss
sible, so dev elopers musst be able to deploy the
applicatio
on easily and automatica
ally, preferab
bly through a user-friend
dly portal.
When a project
p
is completed, all resources m
must be retu
urned to a ce
entral pool,
ready forr reallocation
n to the nextt project. Bill ing must occur on a usa
age basis
(developers pay only
y for what the
ey use).
er Gaming allso wants to provide an elastic hosting environm
ment for its
Fox Rive
hen
online ga
aming custom
mers. This environment
e
must dynam
mically add rresources wh
usage ex
xceeds a cerrtain thresho
old (during p
peak hours) b
but reduce a
and recycle
resource
es when usag
ge falls (during off-peak hours).
Furtherm
more, the Chief Technolo
ogy Officer (C
CTO) of Foxx River Gaming has set
cost redu
uction goals,, which inclu
ude reducing
g capital exp
pense (CAPE
EX) and
operation
nal expense (OPEX) while increasin
ng IT capabillities. To reconcile these
e
seemingly opposed goals,
g
IT adm
ministrators need tools tthat help the
em create
services that are alig
gned to busin
ness needs more quicklyy, efficiently,, and
effectivelly.
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Fox River Gaming realizes that moving its IT infrastructure to the cloud has many
benefits but also potential risks if the move is not implemented properly. Company
decision makers continue to wonder:
Which cloud deployment model is best for the company?
Which service model best fits the companys needs?
Can a cloud solution keep sensitive data secure?
Will the solution provide a favorable return on investment (ROI)?
How will the company regulate the use of cloud resources? Will the solution
support showback (which shows which IT resources each department or user
consumes) and chargeback (which charges each department or user for the
use of the resources)?
Will the environment become too complex?
How can the infrastructure achieve the required elasticity? Where do the IT
resources used in the provisioned services come from? What happens if
resources are not sufficient to meet the demands?
HP has proven itself a trusted advisor for Fox River Gaming in addressing the
companys prior challenges, so the company turns again to HP to explore the
technologies and solutions available for its cloud solution.
Activity
What does cloud computing mean to you? Take a few minutes to write down or
suggest two short definitions. If applicable, discuss your answers with your
instructor and classmates.
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Why
y comp
panies
s are moving
m
to the
e cloud
d
Traditional IT infrastrructures are built on siloss of server, sstorage, nettwork, and

software components. Every serrvice uses itss own server, is connectted to a
al network (w
with primarily
y Gbps or 10
00 Mbps linkks), uses direct-attached
d
traditiona
storage, and is mana
aged through
h a dedicate
ed tool or ma
anagement w
website. In a
traditiona
al environme
ent, new cus
stomer servicces demand
d new applications and
servers, which create
e sprawl and
d interfere w
with the mana
ageability off the
infrastruc
cture.
Old architectures do not support new techno
ologies such as virtualiza
ation, cloud, or
big data (information
n optimization). New servver, networkk, storage, an
nd
managem
ment solutions are needed to provid
de a flexible infrastructurre that suppo
orts
customer business needs
n
and elliminates se rver sprawl.
f
as theirr needs and services change, but th
heir
The challenges that companies face
cture remain
ns traditional, can be sum
mmarized ass:
infrastruc
Com
mpanies cann
not afford to hire additio nal IT staff tto design, pla
an, and
optim
mize their se
erver, networrk, and stora
age infrastru
ucture.
Com
mpanies need
d a solution they can relly on even iff business re
equirements
chan
nge rapidly.
All or
o almost all of the servers are virtua
alized, so companies nee
ed an
infra
astructure tha
at can delive
er the same simplicity an
nd flexibility as the
virtualized serve
ers.
IT sttaff need to manage

m
the application stack as a w
whole ratherr than have o
one
team
m focus on each
e
part. Th
herefore, the
e company n
needs integra
ated solution
ns.
The cloud promises many beneffits to todayss organizatio

ons:
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It he
elps IT staff to
t decrease response tim
mes to busin
ness requestts dramatica
ally.
The IT departme
ent gains cre
edibility with the businesss and becom
mes seen ass a
true business pa
artner.
It inc
creases the speed of inn
novation, ena
abling the co
ompany to p
plan and
implement innov
vative new customer
c
serrvices more quickly.
It en
nables the de
evelopment of systems p
people wantt to use rathe
er than have
e to
use.
It he
elps IT meet budgetary obligations
o
b
by optimizing
g the use of IT resourcess,
lowe
ering costs, or
o both. Sho
owback and cchargeback can help de
epartments ttake
more
e responsibility in their use
u of IT res ources, improving overa
all efficiency..
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Cloud
Wha
at are the
t clo
oud and clou
ud com
mputing
g?
efinitions of cloud
c
compu
uting. Gartne
ers definition provides a
There are several de
good place to start.
Gartn
ner
Cloud co
omputing is a style of co
omputing wh
here scalable
e and elasticc IT-enabled
d
capabilitiies are deliv
vered as a se
ervice to exte
ernal custom
mers using In
nternet
technolog
gies.1
To conne
ect this defin
nition to a rea
al-life examp
ple, considerr the Gmail sservice from
m
Google. The
T key attrributes of clo
oud computin
ng, accordin
ng to Gartner, are:
Serv
vice-based
When users want to se
end or receive email, they do not ha
ave
to th
hink about the infrastructture that und
derlies the G
Gmail system
m. They do not
need
d to install an email clien
nt on their co
omputer or cconcern them
mselves with
h
setting up the se
ervice. They simply log i n to their Gm
mail accountt, click
Com
mpose mess
sage, write the
t message
e, and click S
Send.
Scalable and ellasticThe service can

n grow to acccommodate new users a
and
s
spac
ce per user can
c be expa
anded virtually endlesslyy.
the storage
SharedThe Gmail
G
servers
s and storag
ge systems a
are shared b
between
multtiple different users. This
s characterisstic is referre
ed to as multi-tenancy.
Mete
ered by use
eThe Gma
ail service is free (paid fo
or by advertiising), but if
userrs were to ru
un out of storrage space, they could b
buy an addittional 20GB of
stora
age for $5 USD
U
a year.
Deliv
vered by Internet technologiesT
The Gmail sservice is hosted on servvers
that are owned by
b Google, and
a the servvice is delive
ered over the
e Internet.
NIST
T
In many respects, the National In
nstitute of Sttandards and Technolog
gy (NIST)
defines cloud
c
compu
uting much as
a Gartner de
efines it. Ho
owever, NIST
T uses slighttly
different terminology
y:
Gartner,, IT Glossary
y > Cloud Com
mputing, acc essible at http
p://www.gartn
ner.com/itglossary/c
cloud-computting/
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Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand

network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (for
example, networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be
rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service
provider interaction.2
Notice that the NIST definition specifically includes applications and services.
The essential characteristics of cloud, according to NIST, are:
On-demand self-serviceA consumer can unilaterally provision computing
capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically
without requiring human interaction with each service provider.
Broad network accessCapabilities are available over the network and
accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin
or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, laptops, and workstations).
Resource poolingThe providers computing resources are pooled to serve
multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual
resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand.
There is a sense of location independent in that the customer generally has no
control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources but may be
able to specify location at a higher level of abstraction (e.g., country, state, or data
center). Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, and network
bandwidth.
Rapid elasticityResources can be elastically provisioned and released, in some
cases automatically, to scale rapidly outward and inward commensurate with
demand. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear
to be unlimited and can be appropriated in any quantity at any time.
Measured serviceCloud systems automatically control and optimize resource
use by leveraging a metering capability at some level of abstraction appropriate to
the type of service (e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user
accounts). Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported, providing
transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilized service.3
Forrester Research
Forrester defines cloud computing as:
A standardized IT capability (services, software, or infrastructure) delivered over
the Internet in a pay-per-use and self-service way.4
The Forrester definition identifies some important characteristics:
Self-serviceA fundamental characteristic of cloud computing, self-service

allows users (service consumers) to choose the services that best suit their
requirements.
Peter Mell and Timothy Grance, The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing, page 2,
accessible at http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf
3
Ibid
Forrester Research, Cloud Computing, accessible at http://www.forrester.com/CloudComputing

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StandardizedStandardization brings many advantages, including

operational cost savings and lower costs for provisioning services.
Pay-per-useService consumers pay depending on how they use the

service. Various payment models exist, and cloud service providers can even
offer various payment models to match the differing needs of their customers.
Ability to deliver services, software, infrastructureServices, software,

and infrastructure are all important IT components that service providers can
deliver. Typically, the term service includes any type of service (including
software and infrastructure), and this training will use service in that way.
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Clou
ud serv
vice an
nd dep
ployme
ent mo
odels
mplementatio
ons provide various
v
serv ices and are
e managed in various
Cloud im
ways. When characterizing a clo
oud impleme
entation, you
u should consider two
dimensio
ons: service models and deploymentt models.
Service mod
dels
The serv
vice model determines th
he type of re
esources tha
at are provide
ed to the
consume
er. For exam
mple, do cons
sumers rece
eive an application (Softw
ware as a
Service [SaaS])
[
or a platform on which to de
evelop and ru
un their own
n applications
(Platform
m as a Servic
ce [PaaS])? Or do consu
umers purch
hase access to a platform
m
with an operating
o
sys
stem (OS) but
b no installe
ed applicatio
ons (Infrastructure as a
Service [Iaas])?
[
You can read a more
e detailed de
escription of these comm
mon service models belo
ow:
IaaS
SThe cloud
d infrastructu
ure service m
model is pro
obably the ea
asiest to
unde
erstand. IaaS
S delivers a computer in
nfrastructure
e, typically a virtualized
environment, as
s a service. Rather
R
than purchasing servers, sofftware, data
centter space, ne
etworking eq
quipment, an
nd power an
nd cooling syystems, userrs
inste
ead buy thos
se resources
s as a servicce. The serviice is typicallly billed on a
utility
y computing
g basis, and the cost is ccalculated ba
ased on the level of activvity.
Usua
ally users ca
an buy servic
ces by the h
hour, day, we
eek, or montth.
Ama
azon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) iis one exam
mple of an Iaa
aS provider. It
deliv
vers a computing environ
nment with a
an OS, on w
which users install and ru
un
theirr own applica
ations. EC2 is a central part of the A
Amazon.com
m cloud
computing platfo
orm, Amazon
n Web Serviices (AWS). The HP Clo
oud
(www
w.hpcloud.co
om) is anoth
her example of IaaS.
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PaaS
SCloud platform serviices deliver a computing
g platform, solution stackk,
or bo
oth. PaaS en
nables comp
panies to de
eploy user-crreated or acq
quired
applications, cre
eated using provided
p
pro
ogramming languages a
and tools,
witho
out the cost and comple
exity of buyin
ng and mana
aging the un
nderlying
hard
dware and so
oftware layers. The conssumer does not have co
ontrol over th
he
unde
erlying infras
structure (ne
etworking, se
ervers, OSs,, or storage)) but does ha
ave
conttrol over the deployed ap
pplications. A virtual macchine (VM) tthat supportss
Linux, Apache, MySQL,
M
and
d PHP/Perl/P
Python (com
mmonly know
wn as the LA
AMP
stack) is one exa
ample of PaaS.
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Google App Engine is another example of PaaS. It offers a full development

stack for people who want to develop and host applications on Googles
infrastructure. Google App Engine supports applications written in several
programming languages.
SaaSCloud application services provide access to software applications

over the Internet. Users no longer need to develop an application or even to
install and run a purchased application on their own computers. A company
that uses SaaS does not need to be concerned with the management of
applications underlying infrastructureor the cost of providing the
infrastructure in the first place.
There are two variants of SaaS:
Applications as a Service (AaaS)One example of AaaS is the

Microsoft Office 365 service. Rather than locally installing and running
applications, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, users
access the features of these applications using any web browser.
Through the Office 365 web portal, users gain access to Outlook email,
contacts, calendar, instant messaging, and shared documents (through
the SharePoint Online service).
Cloud services as a ServiceIn an example of these services, service

providers, such as Salesforce.com, provide access to enterprise
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications over the
Internet. Their services include the Sales Cloud and the Service Cloud.
The Sales Cloud application allows sales managers to monitor their
teams activities in real-time. It also helps users manage customer
information easily. The Service Cloud allows companies to meet
customers wherever they areincluding on social networks such as
Facebook and Twitterand enables service agents to provide fast,
responsive service to customers.
The main difference between SaaS and PaaS is that with SaaS, service
consumers do not develop the applications; instead, they simply access
applications that have been developed by someone else. With PaaS, however,
consumers develop and deploy their own applications using software development
kits (SDKs) and programming languages.
Deployment models
Deployment models characterize the cloud implementation based on who
manages the resources that deliver the service.
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Private cloudIn a private cloud, services are provided to specific users

such as members of departments within a company. Services are delivered
over the network, but data remains private in that it stays behind the company
firewall rather than being transmitted over the Internet. The solution might still
feature multi-tenancy and shared underlying resources, but the multiple
tenants are departments within the company. Although a private cloud
requires an investment in infrastructure and incurs ongoing maintenance
costs, it can be made to be highly available and flexible. Retaining data behind
corporate firewalls can help to address common enterprise concerns
regarding security, governance, availability, and control.
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Public cloudIn a public cloud (also known as an external cloud), all cloud
assets that underlie the services are owned and operated by a provider, and
users access the services over the Internet. (Of course, the Internet through
which consumers reach the public cloud resources are not owned by the cloud
provider.)
Public clouds feature multi-tenancy, in which resources are shared by all
users. Users pay for the services on a utility computing (pay-per-use) basis.
Users do not have to invest in the acquisition and maintenance of the
computer infrastructure. The users could be employees of different
companies, located in different countries, legal jurisdictions, or time zones.
Unlike a private cloud scenario, in which the data resides securely behind the
company firewall, the public cloud requires users data to travel over the public
Internet and reside in an unknown location. This model clearly raises concerns
for many enterprises regarding security, governance, availability, and control.
Sensitive business data could be stored in a different country with a different
legal system and potentially with barriers to remediation in the event of an
outage or loss of data.
The examples of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS in the previous section were all public
cloud solutions. The entire infrastructure is owned by the providerAmazon
(in the IaaS example), Google (in the PaaS example), or
Microsoft/Salesforce.com (in the SaaS example). The services are delivered
over the Internet, and users are charged for the services on a pay-per-use
basis.
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Virtual private cloudHP recently introduced the HP Enterprise Cloud

ServicesCompute service, which is hosted on HP infrastructure. This offpremise, HP-owned, remotely hosted service is a virtual private cloud. A virtual
private cloud is managed by a service provider like a public cloud but offers
many of the benefits of a private cloud. It provides server, storage, network,
and security bundles that are provisioned and configured through a selfservice web portal, that are consumed as a service, and that are paid for on a
pay-as-you-go basis. However, a public cloud offers minimal service-level
agreement (SLA) guarantees and public Internet levels of security. In contrast,
a virtual private cloud offers high levels of performance and availability as well
as strict security and privacy.
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Hybrid cloudCloud users sometimes believe that they have unlimited

resources at their disposal, and, with the public cloud, this belief might be
almost true. Providers such as HP, Amazon, and Google make a massive
amount of resources available. In a private cloud, however, resources are
limited. For example, a company with an HP private cloud solution might be
limited to a single CloudSystem Matrix system. Although the CloudSystem
Matrix, when correctly sized and configured, can provide a large amount of
resources, no private cloud can match the resources of the HP, Amazon, or
Google data centers. To overcome this potential resource limitation, a hybrid
cloud environment makes use of services sourced from internal and external
providers. It seamlessly manages the delivery of services from public, private,
and traditional IT sources using bursting.
Note
Bursting temporarily increases resources to handle peak loads or an
unanticipated spike in activity. For example, the HP CloudSystem solutions
use internal resources under normal conditions. However, if demands exceed
these resources capabilities, the systems will automatically begin to use
resources sourced from either external providers, such as Amazon EC2 or
Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC), or from other internal
infrastructure resources.
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Hyb
brid wo
orld
m
towa
ard the cloud
d should ado
opt a hybrid ssolution,
Most organizations moving
leveragin
ng the best of
o private clo
oud, manage
ed cloud, and public clou
ud solutions, as
well as a traditional IT infrastructture.
A recent HP study re
evealed that::
The vast majoritty of IT executives, 75% , plan to purrsue a hybrid

d delivery
mod
del.
For 72%
7
of exec
cutives, it is important th
hat the cloud implementa
ation permitss
porta
ability of worrkloads betw
ween cloud m
models.
Abou
ut two-thirds
s, 65%, of ex
xecutives are
e concerned
d with vendo
or lock-in.
By embra
acing a hybrrid cloud, you can addre
ess the service delivery cchallenges
facing yo
our IT organiization in the
e most efficie
ent and costt effective wa
ay. You can
continue to leverage your traditio
onal IT resou
urces while a
also taking a
advantage o
of
ed across prrivate cloud, managed ccloud, and pu
ublic cloud
the capabilities offere
implementations. For example, with
w tradition
nal IT, you m
might spend indefinitely
without achieving
a
your goals. With cloud imp
plementation
ns, SLAs gua
arantee thatt,
for a neg
gotiated costt, you receive
e a solution that meets yyour regulattory compliance
requirem
ments and pro
ovides set le
evels of avaiilability, secu
urity, and performance.
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ybrid cloud, you
y must loo
ok at the porrtfolio of app
plications in
your orga
anization, se
egmenting th
hem accordi ng to their re
espective SL
LA
requirem
ments. You must
m
then alig
gn each type
e of application to the ap
ppropriate
deployme
ent models, thus optimiz
zing the use
e of internal a
and externall resources.
In this ne
ew hybrid wo
orld, the Chie
ef Informatio
on Officer (C
CIO) and IT d
department
expand their
t
tradition
nal role as th
he builders o
of services. T
They now be
ecome both
builders and brokers, creating a seamless exxperience fo
or end users, independe
ent
of service
e sources.
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HP Conve
C
erged Cloud
C
verged Cloud
d is the industrys first hyybrid cloud m
model and p
portfolio that is
HP Conv
based on
n a common architecture
e that enable
es customerrs to build, m
manage,
secure, and
a consume cloud serv
vices that sp
pan private, m
managed, an
nd public
clouds as
s well as traditional IT.
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n open stand
dards, HP Converged
C
C
Cloud supporrts multi-vendor,
heteroge
eneous softw
ware and harrdware. It is built on indu
ustry-leading
g HP
Converge
ed Infrastruc
cture, HP Co
onverged Ma
anagement a
and Securityy, HP
Converge
ed Information, and Ope
enStack tech
hnologies.
The HP Converged
C
Cloud
C
solutio
on portfolio h
has two core
e pillars:
Mark
ket-leading products and
a solution
ns, including
g hardware, software, an
nd
serv
vices, so you
u can build and operate ccloud servicces yourself, whether you
u
are an
a enterprise
e or service provider
Man
naged and public
p
cloud
d services p
provided by HP and HP CloudAgile
partn
ners for you to consume
e
HP delive
ers this hybrrid cloud stra
ategy and so
olution portfo
olio with:
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Choice
Choice of delivery
d
mo
odelThe H
HP Converge
ed Cloud sup
pports open-standards-b
based integra
ation acrosss a traditiona
al infrastructu
ure, a
customers private cloud
d, managed clouds, and
d public clou
uds.
p
The HP Convverged Cloud supports m
multiple
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hypervisors, multiple OS
Ss, diverse d
developmen
nt environme
ents, and a
heterogeneous infrastru
ucture.
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p
he HP Conve
erged Cloud is extensiblle for a partn
ner
ecosystem.
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Confidence
Security and ManagementThe HP Converged Cloud gives you

confidence in the safety of your data by offering management and
security solutions that span information, applications, and infrastructure.
ScalabilityThe HP Converged Cloud features policy-based, modeldriven service delivery.
Consistency
Consistency of architectureThe HP Converged Cloud uses a

common architecture across all delivery models.
PortabilityThe HP Converged Cloud supports the movement of

workloads across environments.
ConsumptionThe HP Converged Cloud delivers one simple

consumption experience across all models.
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Vide
eoCo
oncepttual inttroduc
ction to
o HP
Clou
udSystem
42 minute vid
deo
For a quiick introducttion to HP ClloudSystem , watch this optional 2:4
e in
(M06a-C
Conceptual in
ntroduction to HP CloudS
System.wmvv). The video
o is available
the supplement to this course, which
w
contain
ns all videoss used within
n this course
e.
As you watch,
w
take notes
n
on the characteristtics and advvantages of tthis solution.
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HP CloudS
C
System
m
C
m solution co
ombines serrvers, storag
ge, networkin
ng, and
The HP CloudSystem
security with
w automa
ated system managemen
nt and hybrid
d service de
elivery
managem
ment. At its base
b
is the HP
H Converge
ed Infrastruccture, a sharred
infrastruc
cture that en
nables you to
o move towa
ard a service
e-oriented ap
pproach to IT
T.
Through automation and orchesttration, adm inistrators can allocate sservers,
network, and storage
e resources into one com
mmon pool, which they ccan manage
e
non-disru
uptively. From this resou
urce pool, ussers can provision what they need w
with
a few sim
mple mouse clicks.
Administtrators can create
c
new application
a
te
emplates tha
at specify the
e infrastructu
ure
needed. They can also go to a service catalo
og with pred
defined serviices that are
e
ready to provision. The predefine
ed services in the HP ClloudSystem catalog eve
en
include applications,
a
so administtrators can q
quickly provission serverss, their remo
ote
storage, and even th
he applications running o
on them.
chestration and
a automation of the en
ntire environment drama
atically reducces
Such orc
manual IT tasks and provides the
e organizatio
on with the a
ability to cha
arge back
server, sttorage, and networking resource ussage to individuals or departments.
Furtherm
more, this automation and orchestrattion works w
with cloud-en
nabled
applicatio
ons and also
o in the curre
ent IT enviro
onment.
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Vide
eosH
HP CloudSys
stem offfering
gs
hese optiona
al videos (M0
06b-HP Clou
udSystem Matrix.avi, M0
06c-HP
Watch th
CloudSys
stem Enterp
prise.avi, and
d M06d-HP C
CloudSystem
m Service P
Provider.avi).
They are
e available in
n the supplem
ment to this course.
As you watch,
w
take notes
n
on eac
ch offerings provisioning
g model. Also record
important distinguish
hing factors for
f each offe
ering.
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HP CloudS
C
System
m offerrings
f the requiirements of enterprises

e
a
and service providers att various
Tailored for
stages off cloud matu
urity, HP CloudSystem fe
eatures three offerings:
HP CloudSyste
C
em Matrix T
This entry-le
evel IaaS con
enables IT to
o
nfiguration e
prov
vision infrastructure and applicationss in minutes..
HP CloudSyste
C
em Enterpris
seThis ful l-scale priva
ate or hybrid cloud
deployment uniffies management acrosss the private, public, and
d hybrid clou
ud
reso
ources. It also adds adva
anced appliccation-to-infrrastructure liffecycle
man
nagement.
HP CloudSyste
C
em Service ProviderT
P
This solution
n adds advan
nced
capa
abilities for service
s
providers. It assissts in the de
eployment off public and
hostted private clouds that deliver compllete service aggregation
n and
man
nagement.
HP Cloud
dSystem is optimized
o
for HP Conve rged Infrastrructure technology,
including
g HP 3PAR StoreServ
S
Sttorage, the h
high-perform
mance FlexN
Network
architecture from HP
P Networking
g, mission-crritical HP-UX
X systems, a
and
comprehensive secu
urity offerings
s. Clients wh
ho have alre
eady invested in HP
Converge
ed Infrastruc
cture and HP
P Software ttechnology ccan easily exxpand their
current architectures
a
s to achieve a private, pu
ublic, or com
mplete hybrid
d cloud
environm
ment.
HP Cloud
dSystem als
so supports third-party
t
se
ervers, stora
age, and nettworking to
protect customers
c
in
nvestments.
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HP CloudS
C
System
m Matrrix
dSystem Ma
atrix establishes IaaS forr private and
d hybrid clou
ud
HP Cloud
environm
ments, enabling users to provision ph
hysical and vvirtual serve
ers in minute
es.
This offering includes
s a self-serv
vice infrastru
ucture portal for quick au
uto-provision
ning
along witth built-in life
ecycle mana
agement to o
optimize the infrastructurre, manage the
resource
e pools, and help to ensu
ure uptime. U
Using includ
ded cloud ap
pplication
programm
ming interfac
ces (APIs), administrato
a
ors can easily customize
e the operating
environm
ment to meett specific req
quirements ssuch as integ
gration with chargebackk
and billin
ng solutions, integration into approva
al processess, and process automatio
on.
Matrix is designed fo
or broad support of heterrogeneous e
environmentts, and it offe
ers
cloud bursting to a va
ariety of pub
blic cloud pro
oviders inclu
uding HP Clo
oud Servicess.
e elements of
o a CloudSy
ystem Matrixx solution are
e:
The core
HP BladeSystem
B
m c7000 Enc
closures (on e or more)
HP Virtual
V
Conn
nect modules
s
HP Matrix
M
Opera
ating Environ
nment (OE)
HP Implementattion Service
ease 7.2 of CloudSystem

C
m Matrix, you
u can manag
ge and conssume Red Ha
at
With rele
Linux KV
VM VMs. You
u can also no
ow impleme
ent out-of-the
e-box burstin
ng to broker
service delivery
d
acro
oss multiple clouds
c
from a single, inttegrated poin
nt of control..
CloudSys
stem Matrix also include
es a compre
ehensive Imp
plementation
n Service
performe
ed by HP trained experts
s. The Cloud
dSystem Mattrix Impleme
entation Servvice
provides a project manager to manage
m
the te
echnical pre
eplanning, in
nstallation,
configura
ation, testing
g, demonstra
ation, and orrientation of the integrate
ed Matrix
package solution (inc
cluding all enclosures an
nd blades th
hat are part o
of the Matrixx
order). As
A an integral part of the Matrix soluttion, this serv
rvice is includ
ded in each
order.
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HP Insight Capacity Advisor consolidation software allows you to monitor and

evaluate system and workload usage of hardware resources, including CPU cores,
memory, network and disk I/O, and power. With this information, you can load your
systems to make best use of the available resources. Capacity Advisor helps you
evaluate system consolidations, letting you see the effect of changing various
system attributes or of varying workloads. You can then decide how to move
workloads to improve use. The quantitative results from Capacity Advisor can aid
you in estimating future system workloads and in planning for changes to system
configurations.
Matrix recovery management provides simplified disaster recovery. With a mouse
click, you can transfer application environments running on HP BladeSystems or
on VMs to a remote recovery site. You will learn more about this capability a bit
later.
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HP Matrix
M
Opera
ating Environ
E
nment
ommand cen
nter that runs on a centrral
HP Matrix OE is an integrated co
ment server (CMS) and enables you
u to continuo
ously analyze and optimize
managem
your clou
ud and conve
erged infrastructure. Ma
atrix OE build
ds on the HP
P infrastructu
ure
managem
ment portfoliio, including HP System s Insight Ma
anager (SIM) and HP
Insight Management
M
t.
In the inttegrated grap
phical enviro
onment, you
u can manag
ge physical sservers, servver
blades, and
a VMs. Ma
atrix OE allo
ows you to crreate logicall serversessentially
templates for server configuratio
onsso you can manage
e a server in
n the same w
way
whether the server is
s physical orr virtual. You
u can even m
manage nPartitions, virtu
ual
partitions
s, application
ns, and work
kloads in the
e Matrix OE interface. Yo
ou can
dynamica
ally resize viirtual servers
s and migratte resourcess where theyy are needed
d
based on
n service-lev
vel objectives
s and busine
ess requirem
ments.
Matriix OE infrastruc
cture orc
chestrattion
extends Matrrix OE with a self-service

e
Matrix OE infrastructture orchestrration (IO) e
es rapid prov
visioning and
d repurposin
ng of infrastructure servicces
portal, which provide
from sha
ared resource
e pools. IO delivers
d
advanced, temp
plate-driven design and
provision
ning. It simplifies ongoing
g operationss for multi-no
ode, multi-tie
er infrastructture
services.. (IO is only supported on
o a Matrix O
OE CMS running Microsoft Windowss.)
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Matrix OE IO supports four main activities for automating the deployment of

infrastructure services:
DesignAn architect uses the graphical designer to create infrastructure

templates that are as simple or as complex as required. After the template has
been tested, the architect can publish it for users to select when creating
infrastructure services.
ProvisionA self-service user selects an existing template and then requests

an infrastructure with the resources defined in that template. The infrastructure
is provisioned from resources within assigned resource pools. The
administrator can approve or deny this request and monitor its progress.
OperateThe administrator manages server, network, and storage pools;

defines VM images and software deployment jobs; performs manual
provisioning tasks as part of the fulfillment of self-service requests; and uses
Insight Management software to monitor the health and use of the managed
environment.
IntegrateIO ships with a limited version of HP Operations Orchestration.

This limited version is launched from within the IO user interface and is used
to trigger workflows that can be performed before or after IO operations.
For example, architects and administrators can:
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Create a service or add a server:
Add new servers to a cluster or add servers for load balancing
Add a server to a backup service
Send approval notices for the service creation
Remove a server or service:
Gracefully shut down applications and the OS
Remove a server from a cluster or load balancing
Suspend server monitoring
Resume a server or service:
Add a server to a cluster or implement load balancing
Resume server monitoring
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VideoDemo of HP CloudSystem Matrix provisioning
Watch this optional 4:03 minute video (M06e-Demo of HP CloudSystem Matrix

provisioning.wmv), available in the supplement to this course. The video highlights
the HP CloudSystem Matrixs ability to provision infrastructure and applications in
minutes. Write your notes in the space provided.
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Integ
gration between
b
n HP storage and
d Matrix
x OE
ng with the 7.0 release, HP

H Matrix O E delivers se
erver and sttorage
Beginnin
automation improvem
ments that fu
urther increa
ase the productivity of IT
T staff. The
improvem
ning Manager (SPM) intterface
ments build on
o the Stora
age Provision
introduce
ed in version
n 6.3.
With the new tools, storage
s
administrators c an set one-ttime storage
e policies or
templates for a partic
cular storage
e type (such
h as HP 3PA
AR Gold Wind
dows disk and
HP 3PAR
R Silver Linu
ux disk).
After storrage adminis
strators have
e defined po
olicies, they no longer ne
eed to respo
ond
to serverr administrattors requestts for new sto
orage LUNss. The servicce architect
simply sp
pecifies a sto
orage templa
ate in the se
ervice design
n. When the service is
E automaticcally creates the
ordered through
t
the user portal and
a approve
ed, Matrix OE
policy-driven storage
e on demand
d. This just-in
n-time storage provision
ning technolo
ogy
allows IT
T to turn arou
und service requests
r
mo
ore quickly a
and efficiently using
consisten
nt methods.
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HP Storag
S
ge Prov
visioniing Ma
anagerr
age administrators use HP

H SPM to ccreate the po
olicies.
The stora
HP SPM provides a service-cent
s
tric managem
ment interface to storage systems,
allowing Matrix OE to
o fulfill storage requestss with availab
ble storage sservices from
ma
storage catalog.
c
The
e storage adm
ministrator p
provides SPM
M with crede
entials to
storage resources
r
an
nd SAN reso
ources, allow
wing SPM to
o discover those resourcces.
Then the
e administrattor defines a catalog of d
differentiated
d services based on
resource
es and their capabilities.
c
For exam
mple, to mee
et a Bronze class
c
SLA, th
he administrrator might d
define a servvice
based on
n thin provisiioned SATA using RAID 5. A Gold S
SLA might incclude a
multiple-controller pla
atform with autonomic
a
tiiering and R
RAID 10. Afte
er the catalog is
establish
hed, Matrix users
u
have storage
s
self-sservice.
Now serv
ver administtrators can assign
a
storag
ge templatess to Matrix O
OE logical
servers, and users can receive the correct sttorage resou
urces with th
heir service
requests. SPM, as th
he bridge tha
at automatess the deliverry of storage
e services,
automatically sets up
p the storage
e to meet the
e server nee
eds and finds the right
resource
es to deliver the right serrvices.
Both serv
ver and storage adminis
strators have
e control and
d visibility wiith this single
e
solution. SPM secure
ely automate
es storage m
managementt tasks togetther with the
e
Matrix OE visualization software.
apabilities ap
pply to both HP EVA and
d HP 3PAR F
Fibre Chann
nel storage
These ca
arrays. In
n version 7.0
0, HP EVA and HP 3PAR
R arrays are supported o
out of the bo
ox
with on-d
demand prov
visioning. Th
his support m
matches the previous SP
PM support
model, in
n which HP EVA
E and HP
P 3PAR were
e the only tw
wo systems in
n the Matrix OE
storage pool
p
catalog. However, you
y can now
w also integra
ate the soluttion with HP
P XP
storage. The XP arra
ays are not out-of-the-bo
o
ox solutions like the EVA
A and 3PAR
arrays, but
b administrrators can ad
dd them to th
he storage p
pool catalog using a
provided object-orien
nted script.
e SPM is deliivered as pa
art of Matrix OE, you obttain these be
enefits with n
no
Because
additiona
al fee.
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ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Video
oOn-d
demand storage
e provisiioning u
using SP
PM
his optional 10:17

1
minute
e video (M06
6f-On-deman
nd storage p
provisioning
Watch th
using SP
PM.avi), avaiilable in the supplement to this courrse. The vide
eo
demonsttrates using SPM for on--demand sto
orage provisiioning. Write
e your notes in
the space provided.
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Netw
workin
ng in a cloud
onal IT envirronments, en
nhancing a d
data centerss reliability a
and agility, so
o
In traditio
that it can support disaster recov
very and bussiness contin
nuity, involve
es months o
of
manual configuration
c
n tasks and a complex n
network rede
esign. The ne
ew HP
Ethernet Virtual Interrconnect (EV
VI) and Multiitenant Device Context ((MDC) help
you interrconnect geo
ographically dispersed d
data centers.. Now you ca
an implemen
nt
multi-tenancy environ
nments and private clou
uds easily, qu
uickly, securrely, and
reliably.
HP EVI
E
The HP EVI
E solution establishes
s active/activve links betw
ween data ce
enters. EVI
provides an innovativ
ve IP transport solution tthat can be deployed wiithout requirring
changes in existing networking
n
in
nfrastructure
e. It extendss Layer 2 con
nnectivity
across networks, elim
minating the need to dea
al with Layerr 3 interconn
nect
depende
encies. EVI also
a
makes it possible to
o implement loop isolatio
on and preve
ent
undesirable failures.
k resiliency by
b combining
g HP EVI wiith the capab
bilities of HP
P
You imprrove network
Intelligen
nt Resilient Framework
F
(IRF).
(
As a S
Spanning Tre
ee Protocol (STP)-free
implementation, EVI frees netwo
ork bandwidtth for applica
ations and im
mproves
ance with fas
ster reconve
ergence time
e. HP tests show that EV
VI and IRF
performa
together improve lon
ng distance vMotion
v
perfformance byy up to 80% as compared to
STP-bas
sed solutions
s.
HP EVI supports
s
up to eight data
a centers an
nd can be de
eployed using five simple
e
commands, helping you
y connectt new data ccenters in minutes ratherr than in
months.
ain a simple but powerful manageme
ent platform in HP Intelligent
You obta
Managem
ment Centerr (IMC), a sin
ngle-pane-off-glass mana
agement pla
atform for
virtual an
nd physical networking
n
environment
e
s.
By virtua
alizing and au
utomating La
ayer 2 conn ectivity acro
oss data centers, HP EV
VI
delivers the
t elements
s necessary
y to enable a software-de
efined netwo
orking (SDN)
data center infrastruc
cture.
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HP MDC
M
HP MDC
C is an innova
ative data ce
enter virtualiization softw
ware solution
n that is part of
the HP Virtual
V
Applic
cation Netwo
orks architeccture. HP MD
DC provides complete and
secure separation off logical switc
ches betwee
en the multip
ple tenants rresiding on tthe
same physical switch
hing platform
m. MDC com
mpletely sepa
arates contro
ol planes, da
ata
planes, and
a forwarding capabilities of logicall tenants. In addition, ea
ach tenant ca
an
take advantage of its
s own VLANs (up to 400
00 VLANs), IRF configurrations, and EVI
networks
s.
MDC gives customerrs the ability
y to virtualize
e one physiccal switch intto up to four
logical de
evices. With four tenants
s sharing on
ne switch, yo
ou can reducce physical
devices by
b up to 75%
% while retaining comple
ete and secu
ure isolation of tenants.
More efficient use of physical networking pla
atforms delivvers higher ccapacity for
vMotion traffic,
t
and the logical de
evices can sscale to 128 EVI networkks for differe
ent
sites and
d applications.
HP MDC
M
and
d EVI
An HP MDC
M
and EVI solution offfers custome
ers a 56% lo
ower cost of ownership a
and
simplified
d manageme
ent using IM
MC. The solu tion enabless several datta centers to
o
work as a single data
a center thatt is more ressponsive, mo
ore efficient,, and more
highly av
vailable. HP MDC and EV
VI help com
mpanies achieve both the
eir budgetaryy
and business resilien
ncy requirem
ments.
Optim
mizing data
d
cen
nter netw
works fo
or cloud
ses are turning to the clo

oud to accele
erate busine
ess innovatio
on, improve
Enterpris
business
s agility, and contain cos
sts. Cloud co
omputing resshapes the w
way
applicatio
ons are deplloyed and co
onsumed, an
nd so it influences data center network
designs. Virtualizatio
on, that funda
amental elem
ment of clou
ud solutions, is having
profound
d effects on existing
e
ente
erprise netwo
orks, primarrily due to the
e order of
magnitud
de increases
s in raw band
dwidth requiired at the se
erver edge. Each serverr
supports more workloads and so
o requires m ore bandwid
dth. In addition, server-to
oserver (e
east-west or E-W) traffic is increasing
g, and VM a
and workload
d migrationss, in
particular, consume multiple
m
Gbp
ps of bandw idth.
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HP FlexNetwork solutions address these challenges by delivering:
Flatter and more efficient 10GbE/40GbE data center networks with fewer
layers, less equipment, fewer cables, and greater port densities
High-performance, low-latency intra-data-center connectivity and a resilient,

non-blocking design, meeting the needs of VM migrations and bandwidthintensive server-to-server traffic
The FlexFabric:
Reduces VM workload mobility transit time
Doubles VM application performance
Improves VM disaster recovery times
Fabric and I/O convergence (convergence of the traditional Ethernet and

storage (SAN) traffic onto single adapters)
Virtualization-aware security to partition multi-tenant environments and isolate

virtual resources
WAN performance optimized to deliver the highest quality end user and
application experience
Orchestration of thousands of physical and virtual resources from single-paneof-glass-solution IMC
The best HP networking products to meet these challenges are the HP

12900/12500 Series and the HP FlexFabric 11900 Series switches.
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HP CloudS
C
System
m Matrrix reco
overy manag
gemen
nt
dSystem Ma
atrix recovery
y managem ent providess simplified d
disaster
HP Cloud
recovery of logical se
ervers. With a mouse cliick, you can transfer app
plication
environm
ments running on HP Bla
adeSystem sserver blades or on VMss to a remote
e
recovery site.
A Matrix recovery ma
anagement configuration
c
n includes a Local Site a
and a Remo
ote
Site. Sym
mmetrically configured
c
lo
ogical serverrs are selectted as DR P
Protected log
gical
servers and
a paired across
a
the tw
wo sites. One
e logical serv
rver in the pa
air is activate
ed
at one sitte, and the peer
p
logical server
s
is dea
activated at the other sitte. The boott
images of
o these DR Protected lo
ogical serverrs, including application code and da
ata,
reside on
n disk array volumes.
v
Supporte
ed storage environments
s provide da
ata replication capabilitie
es, which
ensure re
eplication off source volu
umes at the a
active serve
ers site to the other site. If,
for example, a disastter occurs att the Local S
Site, the adm
ministrator att the Remote
e
Site can trigger a site
e failover by using the M
Matrix recove
ery managem
ment interfacce
to activatte the logica
al servers at the Remote
e Site.
Other Ma
atrix recoverry managem
ment featuress include:
Disa
aster recoverry protection
n for Matrix O
OE IO servicces
Supp
port of cross
s-technology
y logical servvers that can
n run on phyysical serverrs or
on VMs
V
Reso
ource provis
sioning that allows
a
logica
al servers to
o be active on the Local Site
or th
he Remote Site
S
Matrix re
ecovery management is only support
rted on a CM
MS running W
Windows.
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Cloud
HP CloudS
C
System
m Ente
erprise
e Starte
er Suitte
C
m Enterprise
e Starter Sui te combiness all the com
mponents of tthe
The HP CloudSystem
HP autom
mation softw
ware portfolio
o and enable
es the complete automa
ation of the IT
T
services lifecyclefrrom routine, repetitive ta
asks such ass deploying a
and configurring
infrastruc
cture and ap
pplications to
o the deliveryy of on-demand platform
m and
applicatio
on services. If you are re
eady to take
e the first ste
eps in becom
ming a cloud
applicatio
ons service broker, this solution
s
will help you do
o so at low cost and
minimal risk.
r
It enablles you to:
Offer PaaS/SaaS
S services alongside
a
Iaa
aS services
Man
nage cloud services with an enterprisse grade, co
omprehensivve, unified
cloud management toolset
Acce
ess all cloud
d applications from a sing
gle end-user portal
The HP CloudSystem
C
m Enterprise
e Starter Sui te includes llicenses for:
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HP Cloud
C
Serviice Automation (CSA) Foundation
n Server, wh
hich includess
Serv
ver Automation (SA) and
d Operationss Orchestration:
HP Server Automation
A
n provides se
erver lifecyccle managem
ment with
automated application
a
deployment.
d
It scales accross platform
ms in the da
ata
center and automates
a
ta
asks in provvisioning, pattching, confiiguration, an
nd
compliance management.
HP Operations Orches
stration provvides an intu
uitive autom
mation of taskks,
processes, and workflow
ws. It helps administrato
ors to execute changes
with greaterr speed, qua
ality, and con
nsistency.
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HP Database and Middleware (DMA) Data Solution Pack automates

manual, repetitive administrative tasks with databases and application
servers.
Note
HP CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Suite replaces HP Cloud Service
Automation for Matrix (CSA for Matrix), which was previously available as an
add-on software component to HP CloudSystem Matrix. The former solution
consisted of two main products: Server Automation and SiteScope.
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Cloud
HP CloudS
C
System
m burs
sting
c
meet
m
peak an
nd unexpecte
ed demandss, HP CloudS
System
To help customers
includes dual burstin
ng. This capa
ability dynam
mically scale
es and provissions IT
resource
es either thro
ough a public
c cloud provvider (externa
al bursting) or through a
an
onsite pa
ay-as-you-go
o cloud model (local burrsting).
You select expanded
d resources from
f
a catal og of HP au
uthorized cloud bursting
providers
s. These res
sources are very
v
easy to
o useyou ju
ust select an
n application
n,
click crea
ate service,, and then se
elect a servi ce provider as the resou
urce pool
instead of
o the local CloudSystem
C
m resource p
pool.
This capability is ava
ailable with all
a three Clou
udSystem offferingsMa
atrix,
Enterpris
se, and Serv
vice Providerr.
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HP Cloud
C
Maps
d Maps prov
vide an easy
y-to-use naviigation syste
em that can save you da
ays
HP Cloud
or weeks
s of time in architecting
a
infrastructure
e for applica
ations and se
ervices. HP
Cloud Ma
aps accelera
ate automatiion of cloud service dep
ployments for an HP
CloudSys
stem. They help you reliably and co
onsistently im
mplement se
ervice catalogs.
HP Cloud
d Maps cons
sist of tested
d engineerin g componen
nts such as:
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Templates for ha
ardware and
d software co
onfiguration that can be imported intto
yourr CloudSyste
em, saving days
d
or weekks of solution design tim
me
Size
ers to help gu
uide capacity
y and perforrmance plan
nning
Workflows and scripts

s
desig
gned to autom
mate installa
ation so thatt it proceedss
more
e quickly and
d in a repeatable fashio n
Refe
erence white
epapers to help customizze the Cloud
d Map for yo
our specific
implementation
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VideoHP Cloud Maps
Watch this optional 4:48 minute video (M06g-HP Cloud Maps.wmv), available in
the supplement to this course. The video demonstrates how IT staff can design,
provision, and manage the lifecycle of applications in minutes rather than months.
Write your notes in the space provided.
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Maturing your
y
capabilities
ers such as Fox

F River Ga
aming evolvve to cloud ssolutions at d
different
Custome
speeds. Customers who
w are justt starting to vvirtualize the
eir environments are
probably
y not ready fo
or private clo
ouds. They n
need to focu
us first on sta
andardizatio
on,
consolida
ation, virtualization, and automation . Gains in th
hese areas la
ay the
groundw
work for cloud
d-based app
proaches.
Generally
y, those customers who have alread
dy virtualized
d significant parts of the
eir
infrastruc
cture are the
e most ready
y for a privatte cloudthe
e next logica
al step in IT
evolution
n. The most advanced cu
ustomers arre those who
o have a stra
ategy for using
the cloud
d to make their services more respo nsive; they u
understand tthe power th
hat
comes frrom brokerin
ng services across
a
manyy different de
elivery mode
els.
Although
h many comp
panies are not
n ready forr the full hybrrid cloud tod
day, they sho
ould
understa
and what they stand to gain from ach
hieving that ultimate vision.
Regardle
ess of where
e you are on your journe
ey, HP offers solutions th
hat meet you
ur
needs today while laying the gro
oundwork forr future expa
ansion. HP C
Cloud Maps
enable you to move along the maturity curve
e by accelera
ating cloud sservice desig
gn
as well as
a by enhanc
cing IaaS, Pa
aaS, and life
ecycle mana
agement cap
pabilities.
If you are
e just starting to standarrdize and virt
rtualize (the gray zone of the maturity
graphic), VirtualSyste
em gives you a good pla
ace to start. HP VirtualS
System delive
ers
alue for virtua
alizationit saves you m
months of in
ntegration wo
ork
the fastest time to va
by delive
ering a turnke
ey solution from
f
HP with
h hardware, software, m
management,
and serv
vices pre-inte
egrated. The
e solutions a
are designed
d to support w
workloads fo
or
medium to large ente
erprise organizations. Th
hey can be ccustomized to your
ments and ex
xtended with modular co
omponents to
o add perforrmance and
requirem
capacity.
dSystem is for
f clients wh
ho are readyy for self-serrvice IT and the other
HP Cloud
benefits of the cloud. You can mo
ove from VirrtualSystem to CloudSysstem through
an upgra
ade. CloudSy
ystem suppo
orts all cloud
d service mo
odels and de
eployment
models, so
s you can get
g started with
w self-servvice infrastru
ucture provissioning and
later add applications
s and servic
ce brokering across hybrrid environm
ments.
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CloudSys
stem Matrix is ideal for clients
c
who a
are looking ffor a self-serrvice
infrastruc
cture that the
e IT staff can
n use to resp
pond to servvice and app
plication
requests more quickly.
For clients who wantt to deploy a more robusst cloud enviironment witth self-servicce
applicatio
ons delivered directly to business ussers, HP offe
ers CloudSyystem
Enterpris
se. This solu
ution is a critiical differenttiator for HP.. Most other cloud solutions
on the market
m
stop after
a
self-serv
vice infrastru
ucture.
ddresses the
Finally, HP
H CloudSys
stem Service
e Provider s pecifically ad
e requireme
ents
of service
e providers to
t generate new revenu e, decrease
e time-to-market, and
simplify adoption
a
of new
n
value-added service
es.
All Cloud
dSystem offe
erings are bu
uilt on the sa
ame underlyying architectture, also ussed
in HP VirrtualSystem,, so you can easily transsition to open
n, hybrid clo
oud computin
ng.
All solutio
ons are all built
b
on a fou
undation of H
HP Converge
ed Infrastruccture solution
ns
and the robust
r
HP Software auto
omation, ma nagement, a
and securityy portfolio. Yo
ou
can choo
ose from a fu
ull range of consulting
c
se
ervicesfro
om discoveryy workshopss
and strattegy develop
pment consu
ultations to ssolution design and implementation
services..
Learn
ning che
eck
Define cloud bursting
g.
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Summary
Cloud computing has attracted a great deal of attention in the past several years.
Its agility, cost efficiency (reducing both CAPEX and OPEX), flexibility, scalability,
and elasticity appeal to many companies. The companies also enjoy the ability to
consume services anywhere, to self-provision services, and to pay for only those
services they consume. However, like any new IT trend, cloud computing comes
with challenges which raise valid concerns for many companies, causing them to
hesitate before moving to the cloud.
After the upgrades you explored in earlier modules, Fox River Gaming has an IT
infrastructure that is mature enough for cloud-readiness. Many forces drive Fox
River Gaming toward the cloud, including a need for an on-demand development
platform for internal and external developer communities, a need for an elastic
gaming environment for its online customers, and a need for rapid service creation
to better meet business requirementsall coupled with a need for lowering the
time and expense of responding to such business requests.
HP is a leader in cloud computing with its HP Converged Cloud strategy and
technologies. The Converged Cloud includes HP CloudSystem offerings: Matrix,
Enterprise, and Service Provider. HP is uniquely positioned for helping an
organization to build a cloud, consume cloud services, and manage a cloud
environment. HP even delivers a public cloud infrastructure that is business grade,
open-source-based, and developer-focusedHP Cloud Services
(http://www.hpcloud.com).
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Objectives
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Fox
x River Gamin
ng sce
enario
As you le
earned in the
e introductorry module, F
Fox River Ga
aming is plan
nning to laun
nch
a new ga
ame. Projectted sales fro
om this game
e will significcantly increa
ase the
company
ys revenue and
a custome
er base. The
e IT staff is a
analyzing the
e challengess of
providing
g the service
es needed to
o support the
e companyss rapid growtth.
The com
mpany curren
ntly has:
A ma
ain data centter
A sep
parate business-critical data
d
center ffor online ga
aming
One remote office in San Fra

ancisco Bay
he data centers need to scale to sup

pport additional servicess
The IT sttaff knows th
and customers. Beca
ause the com
mpany is alsso planning tto expand itss remote site
e,
the IT sta
aff must dete
ermine how to provide th
he IT infrastrructure to su
upport this site.
In additio
on, the IT sta
aff needs to distribute th e workload a
across multiiple facilitiess in
different geographic locations. The IT staff a
also needs to
o improve the companyss
disaster recover capabilities. If one
o facility be
ecomes una
available or is damaged by
a natural disaster, the remaining facilities sh ould provide
e failover cap
pabilities,
supplying
g the needed
d services.
The IT sttaff must also meet emp
ployees chan
nging needss. Employeess are not tied to
a physica
al workspace
e and need to access th
heir resource
es from a gro
owing numb
ber
of locatio
ons. Employe
ees also want consisten
nt access fro
om both wire
ed and wirele
ess
networks
s, and they want
w
to acce
ess network rresources using PCs, pe
ersonal and
company
y-issued sma
artphones, ta
ablets, and llaptops. The
e IT staff must determine
e
how to su
upport this wide
w
range of
o devices wh
hile provisio
oning differen
nt levels of
access fo
or various ty
ypes of users
s, including e
employees, contractors,, and guestss.
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obility
Cha
allenge
es of mobility
m
y
F River Ga
amings challenges are ffar from uniq
que. Many ccompanies fa
ace
Most of Fox
challenge
es presented
d by geographically disp
persed data centers and
d a mobile
workforce.
ndle data an
nd compute rresources sp
pread across several
The IT sttaff must han
geograph
hically dispe
ersed data ce
enters that a
are accessed
d by a highlyy mobile
workforce. Workloads fluctuate and
a storage utilization iss unbalanced
d across
resource
es. Rapid gro
owth can res
sult in rapid ccost increasses if the cha
anges are
incorrecttly planned and
a managed.
The IT sttaff wants to improve effficiency for cclient accesss. Balanced sstorage load
ds
can lead to optimized
d resource utilization
u
an d better disa
aster recove
ery options. T
The
goal is to
o eliminate storage silos and manag e storage ass a unified e
entity across the
enterpris
se. Today, IT is asked to make these
e resources a
available to a mobile
workforce across a unified
u
wired and wirelesss infrastructture.
w examine these challe
enges and e
explore HP ssolutions to
In this module, you will
t
goals..
achieve these
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Group discussionWhat is workload mobility?

Take a few moments to assess what you already know about workload mobility.
How would you define workload mobility?
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Workload mobility at a distance

Data centers are under pressure from the ever-increasing demand for more
compute and storage capacity. At the same time, global economic challenges
result in lower budgets for staff and equipment. These pressures have led to
widespread adoption of virtualization as a technique for maximizing the efficiency
of physical resources for both compute and storage. This trend has supported the
recent explosive growth and adoption of cloud computing and has changed the
approach that data center administrators are taking to address their growth
demands. The new model requires new methods for moving data and applications
non-disruptively within and between geographically dispersed virtual environments
without violating service level agreements (SLAs).
Challenges implementing workload mobility

Traditionally, migrating data and applications within or between data centers
involved a series of manual tasks and activities. IT would either make physical
backups or use data replication services to transfer applications and data to an
alternate location. Applications had to be stopped and could not be restarted until
testing and verification were completed. Because data centers are increasingly
geographically dispersed and the concept of the virtualized data is becoming
realized, IT organizations must find new methods to meet challenges such as:
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Dynamic deployment of new applications
Data center maintenance without downtime
Disaster avoidance
Data center migration, consolidation, or expansion
Workload balancing across multiple locations
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ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
HP worklo
w
oad mo
obility tools
m
(VM) mobility, orr server virtu
ualization, elliminates application
Virtual machine
downtime
e during plan
nned serverr maintenancce because yyou can eassily migrate
VMs betw
ween hosts. This allows you to move
e a running VM from one physical h
host
to anothe
er without ha
aving to turn off the VM. This migrattion does not incur
downtime
e.
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Virtual Network Manager

Virtual Netw
work Manage
er (VNM) en
nables the
mana
agement of virtual
v
netwo
ork devices ssuch as servvers, VMs, a
and virtual
switc
ches. VNM in
ntegrates witth the vSwitcch on virtuall servers and
d works with
h
vMotion or Live Migration
M
to reprovision network servvices and lin
nks.
age federation and HP Peer Motio

onMuch likke vMotion in
n VMware
Stora
environments, sto
orage federa
ation goes b
beyond the ccapabilities o
of storage
virtua
alization. HP
P storage fed
deration ena bles the onliine non-disruptive
move
ement of storage volume
es between a
arrays in a m
metro area. Unlike exterrnal
storage virtualiza
ation applian
nces that add
d cost, comp
plexity, and d
downtime, H
HP
storage federatio
on creates a persistent p
pool of capaccity using na
ative
comm
munication between
b
systtem controlle
ers.
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obility
Serv
ver virrtualiza
ation
V
vMottion or Micro
osoft Live Migration to
You can use productts such as VMware
Ms across ph
hysical platfo
orms. The prrocess is the
e same rega
ardless of the
e
move VM
hyperviso
or, operating
g system, or virtualizatio
on platform. Y
You can dyn
namically mo
ove
entire run
nning operatting systems
s with active
e application services be
etween physical
servers without
w
disru
uption or dow
wntime.
When the
e VMs are migrated,
m
nettwork acces s for the asssociated servvices must b
be
maintained.
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Virtu
ual Network Manag
ger
al Network Manager
M
(VN
NM) is a plug
g-in module that is included with HP
P
HP Virtua
Intelligen
nt Management Center (IMC)
(
Standa
ard and Ente
erprise Editions. It enab
bles
managem
ment of virtu
ual network devices
d
such
h as serverss, VMs, and vvirtual
switches.
Note
HP also offe
ers IMC Virtual Application
n Network Ma
anager, an IMC
C plug-in
module thatt can be purc
chased separa
ately. VAN Ma
anager provid
des more
advanced capabilities
c
for managing vvirtual devicess.
With the physical top

p of rack (TO
OR) or end o
of row (EOR)) switches be
eing managed
by IMC, the
t VNM top
pology can display
d
the p
physical conn
nection betw
ween the swiitch
port and server netw
work interface
e cards (NIC
Cs) and the vvirtual switch
h configuration
inside the
e virtual hos
st server. In addition,
a
nettwork and se
erver manag
gement team
ms
can create a vSwitch
h or port grou
up in HP IMC
C to coordin
nate function
ns of physica
al
resource
es and virtual resources. Customized
d views give
e each team the freedom
m to
use the teams
t
preferred interfac
ce.
VNM ma
anages network interface
es to mainta in connectivvity and acce
ess to
er with limite
resource
es during VM
M migrations.. You can miigrate a VM from a serve
ed
resource
es to a server with enoug
gh resourcess to ensure tthe efficienccy of the VM..
VNM auttomatically collects
c
data on vManage
era server that manag
ges VMs. In the
Migratio
on Recommendation Liist, you can select manu
ual or autom
matic migratio
on.
VNM also
o ensures th
hat the physical switch cconfiguration
n matches th
he network
connectiv
vity requirem
ments of the VM. After th
he migration is complete
ed, you can
view the migration re
eport.
Ms are conne
ected through multiple lin
nks. High avvailability req
quires these
Most VM
IMC can pu
links be aggregated.
a
ush Link Agg
gregation Co
ontrol Protoccol (LACP)
configura
ations to the appropriate
e physical sw
witch to supp
port the aggrregation.
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obility
HP 3PAR
3
storag
s
ge systtems
age virtualiza
ation (StoreV
Virtual), fede
eration, and d
deduplicatio
on (StoreOncce)
HP stora
technologies were in
ntroduced in previous mo
odules. Thiss module give
es you more
e
information about sto
orage federa
ation technollogies.
efined storag
ge implemen
ntation that e
evolved from
m
HP Peer Motion is a software-de
L
ope
erating syste
em. Peer Mo
otion enabless a virtual sttorage
the HP LeftHand
environm
ment across diverse phys
sical hardwa
are devices. The Peer M
Motion
capabilitiies shared across
a
HP Le
eftHand and 3PAR stora
age systemss allow for
movement or migratiion of data across
a
both p
physical and
d virtual storage volumess.
f
eliminates array silos. Insstead of data
a fragmented in separatte,
Storage federation
physical storage arra
ays, federatio
on creates vvirtual volum
mes shared a
and spread
across multiple
m
physical arrays. Storage
S
fede
eration provvides some o
of the same
benefits that
t
RAID prrovides. Phy
ysical volume
es can go offfline becausse of system
m
failures or
o scheduled
d maintenanc
ce, and the entire virtua
al array rema
ains online.
Storage federation
f
enables you to
t move dat a between a
any HP 3PAR
R storage
systems to simplify in
nfrastructure
e refreshes, thin existing
g volumes, a
and optimize
e
the cost of new capa
acity purchas
ses. Federatted thin provvisioning ena
ables higherr
utilization
n of individua
al arrays by moving thin
nly provisione
ed volumes to the optim
mal
system.
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11
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79
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vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Stora
age fede
eration with
w HP Peer Mo
otion
ware allows you to balan

nce workloa
ads across m
multiple arrayys
HP Peer Motion softw
eographies. You can shift workloadss between
in the same location or across ge
systems dynamically
y without affe
ecting appliccation perforrmance or avvailability.
f
across HP 3P
PAR StoreSe
erv units allo
ows thin provvisioning to fit
Storage federation
as much as 4PB of planned
p
capa
acity into on ly 1.6PB of physical storage. Most
systems only use 25% of capacity; the rema
ainder is wassted by pre-p
provisioning,
empty blo
ocks, and la
arge buffers.
Peer-based storage
s
federation
e
its
s Converged
d Storage po
ortfolio with ffederated sto
orage, which
h
HP has expanded
eliminate
es the bound
daries betwe
een systems . HP Peer M
Motion is the first federated
storage to
t span from
m entry-level to high-end systems. Avvailable for b
both HP
LeftHand
d and 3PAR storage, Peer Motion al lows you to::
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Shift workloads to
o the right re
esources witthin a metro area
st utilization by
b logically pooling
p
capa
acity
Boos
Refre
esh and maintain storage with zero a
application d
downtime
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With an HP 3PAR StoreServ P10000, you can:
Deploy thousands of servers on a single array
Reclaim capacity costs with thin improvements
Learning check
Fill in the blanks.
______________ allows you to balance workloads across multiple storage arrays
in the same location or across geographies.
______________ enables the management of virtual network devices such as
servers, virtual machines, and virtual switches.
______________ storage systems support peer-based federation.
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What is workforce mobility?

The workplace is changing rapidly to accommodate mobile devices and flexible
work styles. Employees expect the same computing experience working remotely
as they get in the office. In addition, companies are becoming increasingly global
and want to harness offshore talent and secure access to corporate data and
applications anytime from anywhere on any device.
Five years ago, the average employee toolkit mainly involved a single operating
system on standard desktop or laptop hardware and email-based collaboration.
The IT staff controlled the devices, operating systems, and applications that
employees used and could implement infrastructure-wide security at the network
layer. However, today circumstances have changed:
Employees use an array of operating systems. This means that the skill sets
and tools needed to maintain service levels and security policies continue to
increase in proportion with platform diversity.
Business and collaboration applications run on mobile devices. Employees

want to run all major applications on their smartphones, tablets, laptops, and
ultrabooks. Although email is the universal application, frequently used mobile
applications include browsers, content sharing, collaboration, unified
communications, and access to systems of record, such as the company
intranet, sales force automation tools, and line-of-business applications.
Because of the proliferation of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs, many

devices and applications are not in direct IT control.
Mobile work styles give workers the freedom to choose the devices,
applications, and locations that allow them to work most effectively. The
workplace is no longer a single physical place you go to get your work done.
Although mobility offers a host of opportunities for transformative investments
that fundamentally redefine the workplace, it creates a number of support and
provisioning challenges and security concerns that IT must manage.
With the increase in cloud computing and mobile devices, IT must address security
threats, data protection, and compliance. This includes keeping data secure
behind the corporate firewall while maintaining centralized control through client
virtualization investments. With unpredictable market conditions, changing
competitive pressures, and new technology innovations, IT managers want to
improve their business agility with simplified and highly scalable solutions. IT is
increasingly turning to end-to-end solutions and managed services to deliver
transformative computing experiences.
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obility
Thre
ee worrkforce
e mobiility too
ols
he user deskktop in the d

data center.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) places th
Authorize
ed users sim
mply need a thin client or hardware
e system tha
at can accesss
the data center. VDI also allows users to mo
ove to a diffe
erent physica
al workstatio
on
and conttinue with the
e same virtu
ual session rrunning in the data cente
er.
To suppo
ort users who
o want to mo
ove their phyysical device
es, IT needss wired and
wireless infrastructurre and policies that perm
mit that freed
dom. And be
ecause userss
want to move
m
their ow
wn personal devices brrought from home, IT ne
eeds methods
to secure
ely grant that freedom. In
n short, IT n eeds a BYO
OD solution.
Unified communicati
c
ons and colllaboration (U
UC&C) enco
ompasses th
he merging o
of
wired and wireless networks. The shift from wired to wire
eless at the network edg
ge,
together with the incrrease of BYO
OD, requiress IT adminisstrators to ad
ddress netwo
ork
scalabilitty, performan
nce, and clie
ent density isssues that im
mpact the usser experience
and work
kforce produ
uctivity. In ad
ddition, IT de
epartments a
are challenge
ed by limited
d
resource
es and rising security con
ncerns.
HP Unifie
ed Wired-WL
LAN Solution for enterprrises makess it easier forr your
customers to transitio
on to a wirelless edge. B
By delivering
g a single, un
nified networrk,
the HP Unified
U
Wired
d-WLAN Solution offers unmatched scalability a
and
performa
ance, simpliffied wired/WLAN networrk configurattion and man
nagement, a
and
consisten
nt security.
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11
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HP Innov
vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Virtu
ual Desktop Infrasttructure
c be repla
aced by HP T
Thin Clients, reducing th
he need for
With VDII, user PCs can
desktop support reso
ources. High
h-reliability s ervers, eithe
er HP ProLia
ant rack-mou
unt
servers or
o server bla
ades, provide
e the backbo
one of the so
olution, whicch might also
o
include an
a HP SAN or
o local stora
age compon
nent. Optiona
ally, the thin
n client can be
any syste
em that can launch the remote
r
sesssion, eliminatting the need for users tto
have clie
ents with stan
ndardized ha
ardware. Be
ecause the ccompany hass a
standardized set of servers
s
with common ha
ardware com
mponents in tthe data cen
nter,
however,, IT staff can
n more easily
y install and maintain the
e infrastructure.
Each use
er connects to a VM to retrieve
r
the d
desktop, whiich can be ccontrolled byy
policies. The user ca
an then move
e from one p
physical client to anothe
er while
accessin
ng the same desktop ses
ssion hosted
d on a serverr in the data center. With
ha
VDI, you can:
adeSystem deployments
d
s and connecctivity
Leverage HP Bla
uce physical footprint and power and

d cooling by 50%
Redu
Maximize efficien
ncy and perfformance
Independen
nt scale-out of
o controllerss and drive d
density witho
out added
networking complexity
iSCSI boot assistant

a
to reduce conffiguration ste
eps by 90%
Ensu
ure constant data access
s
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oint of failure
e and non-d isruptive datta mobility p
plus multi-site
e
No single po
SAN
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VideoHP BYOD
Watch this optional 3:00 minute video (M07a-HP BYOD.avi), available in the
supplement to this course or at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaIKa5vT9pQ. It
introduces the HP BYOD solution covered in more depth on the following pages.
Highlights from the video are listed below.
Rev. 14.11
HP provides simple, scalable, and secure solutions using unified wired and
wireless management with HP IMC User Access Manager (UAM) and Smart
Connect virtual clients.
The following products are referenced and introduced:
HP 830 Unified LAN switch
HP 2920 Switch Series
WiFi Clear Connect
Unified Wired-WLAN module for HP 10500/7500 series switches
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) based Sentinel Security application
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vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
BYO
OD cha
allenge
es
ork on person
nal devices brought from
m home intro
oduces many
Allowing users to wo
es:
challenge
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Onbo
oarding use
ersYou ne
eed tools to b
bring new de
evices and u
users onto th
he
netwo
ork for the first time. The
ese solutionss must enab
ble users to g
get online
quick
kly and easily
y, with minim
mal IT interve
ention.
Ensu
uring high-q
quality serv
vice and hig
gh availabilityYou nee
ed to ensure
e
that the
t wireless LAN (WLAN
N) infrastructture can sup
pport more m
mobile devices
and bandwidth-h
b
ungry, delay
y-sensitive a
applications. You must allso be able tto
delive
er predictable connectiv
vity and serv ice levels an
nd high quality of
experience (QoE
E).
ntaining sec
curity and mitigating
m
ris
skPerson
nal devices a
and guest ussers
Main
prese
ent unique security challlenges. You must enforcce stringent a
authenticatio
on
and authorization
a
n controls an
nd security ssolutions to p
protect your IT systems,
preve
ent data leak
kage, safegu
uard privacyy, and ensure
e compliance
e. You also
need systems tha
at allow you to revoke a ccess privile
eges when e
employees
leave
e the company or when devices
d
are lost or stole
en.
Supp
porting dive
erse users and
a devices
sYou need
d to maintain
n visibility an
nd
contrrol over an ever-changin
e
ng collection of companyy-issued and
d personal
devic
cessuch as
s desktops, laptops, sm artphones, ttablets, or e--readers
running many op
perating systems and revvision levels. And you m
must manage
e
various users, su
uch as emplo
oyees, contrract workers, and visitorss, who have
e
differrent privilege
es.
Enab
bling a cons
sistent userr experience
eYou musst ensure a sseamless usser
experience acros
ss the entire wired and w
wireless infra
astructure. W
Whether usin
ng a
onal smartph
hone on the corporate W
WLAN or a co
ompany-issu
ued desktop
p
perso
PC, employees
e
need
n
predictable accesss to all their b
business applications an
nd
collab
boration tools.
Acce
elerating de
eployment cycles
c
with securityY
You need to support new
w
mobile device typ
pes and mob
bile operatin
ng system re
eleases in a ttimely fashio
on
witho
out comprom
mising the inttegrity of you
ur IT infrastrructure. With
h the
consumerization of IT, you la
ack the luxury
ry of protractted device qualification a
and
certiffication cycle
es.
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obility
Man
naging the HP BYO
OD solu
ution
B
solutiion includes intelligent n
network man
nagement so
oftware to un
nify
The HP BYOD
user and device auth
hentication.
HP IMC provides a consistent,
c
single-pane-o
of-glass inte
erface for ma
anaging a
BYOD so
olution. IMC provides co
omprehensivve fault, conffiguration, acccounting,
performa
ance, and se
ecurity mana
agement funcctions for he
eterogeneou
us enterprise
e
networks
s.
A compre
ehensive BY
YOD solution
n relies on th
he following IMC module
es:
Userr Access Ma
anager (UAM
M)Enabless you to imp
plement unifo
orm user
security policies and
a assign access
a
privilleges. You ccan use IEEE
E 802.1X
authe
entication, de
evice fingerp
printing, and
d portal self-registration methods forr
identifying users,, depending on the capa
abilities of the device the
ey use to
acces
ss the netwo
ork.
Endp
point Admis
ssion Defen
nse (EAD)
Enables you
u to impleme
ent policies to
evalu
uate client de
evices for vu
ulnerabilitiess (anti-virus, patch levelss, or presencce
of specific files or application
ns) before grranting netw
work access. EAD can grrant
ed access to non-compliant devices.. It also workks with:
limite
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Point Intrusio
on Preventio
on Systems (IPS) for Livve Quarantin
ne
HP TippingP
Patch mana
agement sofftware such a
as Microsoftt Systems M
Management
Server (SMS) or Windows Server U
Update Services (WSUS
S) to provide
auto-remediation
Popular anttivirus progra

ams from Syymantec, MccAfee, and T
Trend Micro
Userr Behavior Auditor

A
(UBA)Provide
es detailed vvisibility into user activityy.
Using
g UBA, you can
c audit us
ser behavior
such as trracking web sites visited
d by
URL, database and
a application access, o
or file transfe
ersto asse
ess productivvity,
audit compliance
e, or identify and isolate security thre
eats.
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vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Netw
work Traffic Analyzer (N
NTA)Proviides real-tim
me visibility in
nto how userrs
and applications
a
are consum
ming bandwid
dth. This gra
aphical netwo
ork monitoring
tool allows
a
you to
o analyze the
e bandwidth
h usage of sp
pecific appliccations and
monitor the impa
act of non-bu
usiness activvities (such a
as Facebookk, YouTube,
netwo
ork games) on user prod
ductivity.
Note
UBA and NT
TA are option
nal for BYOD.
Wireless Services ManagerrProvides full visibilityy and controll over the en

ntire
wirele
ess
Services
ess infrastru
ucture. Wirel
s Manager p
provides extensive WLA
AN
config
guration, mo
onitoring, and reporting ttools that he
elp you plan capacity,
optim
mize performance and co
overage, and
d streamline
e operations..
iNode clientIs
s a dissolvab
ble or perma nent PC clie
ent. This softtware agent
runs on client dev
vices to deliv
ver secure a
and reliable access at th
he network
edge. The iNode client can be
b installed a
as a perman
nent client de
evice or as a
disso
olvable clientt that is serv
ved up to devvices to perfform securityy checks beffore
the devices can access
a
the network.
n
Wh
hen a device is powered off, the
disso
olvable iNode
e client is au
utomatically removed fro
om it.
IMC controls
c
s the enttire BYO
OD admiission p
process
H BYOD so
olution, a us
ser can reque
est access tto the netwo
ork from any
With an HP
device th
hrough the fo
ollowing adm
mission proc ess:
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1.
UAM
M checks the
e user credentials.
2.
Afterr UAM authe

enticates the
e device, EA
AD can use tthe devices iNode clientt
(perm
manent or dissolvable) to
t run a com
mpliance sca
an. It quaranttines a noncompliant device
e and grants
s access to a compliant one.
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3.
4.
UAM assigns the appropriate resources for the devices connection based on
configured policies, which answer questions such as the following:
Is the device limited to the Internet only?
Is the device assigned to specific VLANs?
Does Virtual Application Networks apply advanced policies that limit the
usage of specific applications on this device?
Administrators can monitor the users behavior over time with UBA and NTA.
IMC provides end-to-end management of user and device authentication with

Wireless Services Manager or Wireless Traffic Manager (WTM), which manages
the HP wireless access points (APs) and controllers that underlie the wireless
access solution.
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HP Innov
vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Deliivering
g a com
mplete unifie
ed solu
ution fo
or
BYO
OD
d
a so
olid BYOD solution for o
onboarding d
devices in a secure but
HP IMC delivers
simple manner.
m
It ide
entifies the new
n
device a
and its particcular needs, authenticate
es
the user, quarantines
s an insecurre device, an
nd helps thatt device beccome secure
e
and get connected.
c
You
Y now hav
ve an identityy-aware solu
ution for regulating acce
ess
to your networkand
d a solution that complie
es with regulations that rrequire AAA
A
support.
ution provide
es the founda
ation for an even more ssophisticated
d and flexible
This solu
infrastruc
cture. In the next pages,, you will lea
arn how the H
HP Unified W
Wired-WLAN
N
Solution helps you to
o provision, manage,
m
an d optimize th
he wired and
d wireless
compone
ents of a uniffied infrastru
ucture.
Finally, you
y can implement SDN for ongoing monitoring of the netwo
ork with toolss
that dyna
amically adju
ust resource
e allocation b
based on policies and cu
urrent
condition
ns.
You will now
n
look at how the Flex
xCampus prrovides a quality user exxperience no
o
matter ho
ow or where
e the user co
onnects.
FlexCam
mpus is based on an adv
vanced two-ttier switching
g architecturre that
improves
s the perform
mance of me
edia-rich coll aboration ap
pplications. W
With
FlexCam
mpus, enterprises can eliminate or re
educe the ag
ggregation la
ayer, which
improves
s network pe
erformance and
a reducess cost. HP FllexCampus sswitches
deliver high-performa
ance connec
ctivity acrosss the campu
us, and they support the
escalatin
ng need for in
nteractive video, virtual desktop serrvices, and u
user mobilityy.
With HP, workers can
n connect qu
uickly and co
ollaborate se
eamlessly, w
whether on a
wired or wireless con
nnection. Fro
om an IT po int of view, w
wired and wiireless
networks
s are seamle
essly managed in a convverged mann
ner from a single-pane-o
ofglass too
ol. Users ach
hieve higher performancce and flexib
bility while de
eployment,
managem
ment, and maintenance
m
are simplifie
ed for IT.
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The HP Unified Wired-WLAN Solution delivers industry-leading scalability,

reliability, and throughput for large enterprise campus and branch networks. It
includes a highly scalable Unified Wired-WLAN module that you can install in HP
10500 Switch Series or HP 7500 Switch Series switches. It also includes HP 830
Unified Wired-WLAN Switches, which offer a one-box solution for branch offices.
This solution delivers core-to-edge unified access, security, and Quality of Service
(QoS) with single-pane-of-glass management for wired and wireless networks.
Some key benefits of this solution include:
Flexible forwarding options for optimizing traffic flows and increasing WLAN
scalability
An always-on wireless experience in dense client environments with Wi-Fi

Clear Connect RF optimization
Unified hardware for enhanced redundancy and a single interface to manage

the solution and simplify deployment
Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and investment protection with support
for HP MSM430, MSM46X, and WX26XX APs
The section below expands on these benefits.
HP value proposition and differentiation

The HP Unified Wired-WLAN Solution for enterprise customers adds value with:
Rev. 14.11
Industry-leading scalability and resiliency for demanding enterprise

environmentsIt supports up to 220,000 wireless users and offers subsecond failover redundancy in the campus.
Unified access, security, and end-to-end QoSIt enables a seamless

mobile user experience and delivers consistent access privileges across the
entire enterprise network.
Reduced TCO and simplified deploymentIt delivers twice the client

scalability when compared to competing solutions.
Single-pane-of-glass management with integrated BYOD supportIt

simplifies configuration and management of the unified network and reduces
the need for multiple management tools, further decreasing TCO.
Optimized WLAN performance and user experience for dense client

environmentsIt optimizes traffic flows for time-sensitive voice and video
applications with centralized and distributed forwarding options.
Wi-Fi Clear ConnectIt optimizes WLAN reliability and performance and

automatically mitigates RF interference, simplifying WLAN management while
enhancing the mobile user experience.
Investment protectionIt supports existing HP MSM430 APs, MSM46X APs,

and WX26XXAPs. It also offers lifetime firmware upgrades for as long as the
customer owns the product and a lifetime hardware warranty for the HP 830
Unified Wired-WLAN Switch.
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Solution positioning in the Enterprise Business portfolio

The HP Unified Wired-WLAN Solution for large enterprises is part of the HP
FlexCampus and FlexBranch architecture. This solution expands HPs existing
MSM portfolio, intended for mid-market customers with 20 to 400 APs, to large
enterprise accounts with a fully integrated wired and wireless solution for the
campus and the branch:
Large enterpriseThe HP 10500/7500 Unified Wired-WLAN Module is

targeted at large enterprise deployments with more demanding WLAN capacity
and high-availability requirements, as well as centralized and distributed
deployment models. The HP 10512 switch supports 1024 APs per module and
up to 11 modules per switch for a total of over 11,000 APs.
Branch officesThe HP Unified Wired-WLAN Solution extends unified

access with the HP 830 Unified Wired-WLAN Switch, offering consistent
security, QoS, and local client survivability for medium and large branch
offices. Additionally, HP MSM430 and MSM46X APs, which are supported by
the new Unified Wired-WLAN Solution, can continue to operate at branch
offices.
HP IMC continues to provide single-pane-of-glass management for both midmarket and large enterprise accounts.
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obility
SDN
N exten
nds ca
apabilitties
nages onboa
arding, provisioning, and
d monitoring users and ttheir devicess
IMC man
whether those users connect on wired or wirreless conne
ections. Whe
en deployed in
a networrk with Open
nFlow-enable
ed hardware
e, the HP BY
YOD solution
n uses SDN to
extend th
he administrators capab
bilities to cre ate a scalab
ble, agile, an
nd secure
network that
t
empowe
ers IT staff and
a streamlin
nes businesss operationss.
Applications integrated with the HP
H Virtual A
Application N
Networks SDN Controllerr
can dyna
amically resp
pond to real--time threatss. Or they ca
an reprovisio
on the netwo
ork
edge to increase ban
ndwidth or change trafficcs priority to
o support hig
gh-quality vo
oice,
video, orr other collab
boration trafffic.
Learning check
c
Match the technology/solution with its correcct description
n.
Rev. 14.1
11
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vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Mee
eting IT
T goals
s at Fo
ox Rive
er Gam
ming
Fox Rive
er Gamings HP Converg
ged Infrastru
ucture solutio
on adapts to
o the compan
nys
changing
g needs and mobile work
kforce:
It pro
ovides tools that
t
overcom
me the challe
enges of mo
oving VMs and storage
where the curren
nt business needs
n
dictate
e:
HP offers VNM in the IM

MC platform to manage tthe migration of VMs an
nd
virtual switc
ches across a physical n
network infra
astructure.
HP Storage
e Federation with Peer M
Motion softwa
are enables the online,
non-disruptiive moveme
ent of storage
e volumes b
between arra
ays in a metrro
area. Storag
ge Federatio
on creates a persistent p
pool of capacity using
native comm
munication between
b
sys tem controllers.
It helps the enterrprise avoid the

t risks asssociated with
h unmanage
ed devices
while
e enjoying the flexibility, employee
e
sa
atisfaction, a
and lower co
osts of BYOD
D.
VDI places the user des

sktop in the data center,, where IT ca
an manage iit.
HP BYOD solutions
s
pro
ovide users w
with the free
edom to conn
nect their ow
wn
devices to company
c
res
sources with
hout comprom
mising the ccompanys
security.
Sum
mmary
An HP Converged
C
In
nfrastructure solution givves you the ffreedom and
d agility that
you need
d. You can:
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Move
e the work:
Compute re
esources (su
uch as serve
ers)
Data (storag
ge)
Move
e the user:
ess to centra
alized resourrces
Mobile acce
Mobile reso
ources with centralized
c
ccontrol
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Information Optimization and Business

Intelligence (Big Data)
Module 8
Objectives
Rev. 14.11
Explain the information optimization and business intelligence needs of a

typical enterprise

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HP Innov
vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Fox
x River Gamin
ng goa
als
cting and ana

alyzing real--time data se
ets on custo
omer registra
ation, licensing,
By collec
and supp
port calls, Fo
ox River Gam
ming can disscover marke
eting opporttunities and
increase customer sa
atisfaction and
a loyalty. C
Customer rellationship management
(CRM) co
overs all inte
eractions witth existing a nd future cu
ustomers:
Existing registra
ation and lice
ensing data ccan provide direct conta
acts for ongo
oing
mark
keting.
Proffessional trac
cking and management
m
n even
of support ccalls can turn
frusttrated users into loyal cu
ustomers.
Deve
elopers can mine suppo
ort data to re
esolve issuess rapidly and
d even recod
de
live, in-game fixe
es for identiffied bugs.
er Gaming allso has the opportunity

o
tto use big da
ata analyticss to provide a
an
Fox Rive
enhanced gaming ex
xperience. Many
M
sports broadcasterrs and news channels offfer
live statis
stics, graphic
cs, and anallyses to add interest to ttheir coverag
ge. Fox Rive
er
Gaming similarly
s
plans to enhance gamers e
experience w
with informa
ational displa
ays
such as:
Shott locations in
n first-person
n shooter an
nd sports games
Live economic data

d
for in-ga
ame virtual w
worlds
Anallyses of play
yer and oppo
onent statisttics and gam
me play tende
encies (similar
to an
nalyses of re
eal-world spo
orts players))
Fox Rive
er Gaming re
ecognizes the opportunitty to differen
ntiate its gam
ming
experience by leverin
ng the capab
bilities of HP
P big data se
ervices.
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Rev. 14.11
Information Op
ptimization and
d Business Inte
elligence (Big D
Data)
Rea
al-time analyttics de
emands
s
e analytics affects
a
almos
st every partt of a busine
ess because
e so many
Real-time
employee
esfrom da
ata managerrs and enterp
prise archite
ects to marke
eting and sa
ales
managerrsneed to collect, use,, and analyzze data to me
eet their responsibilities.
Today, more
m
than in the
t past, businesses ne
eed to apply this data immediately to
o
stay com
mpetitive and
d respond to their custom
mers dynam
mic needs.
Real-time
e analytics can
c be define
ed as the ab
bility to use a
available entterprise data
a
and reso
ources effecttively. It cons
sists of dyna
amic analysiss of and reporting on
information recently entered and
d collected. T
This information comes ffrom variouss
sources and differs greatly
g
in its formatit ccan be structtured (data, such as a
database
e record, tha
at is organize
ed into spec ific fields) orr unstructure
ed (data, succh
as an em
mail or an audio file, that has no form
mal structure
e). And the volume of thiss
information is growin
ng exponentiially from so
ources such as social me
edia and mo
obile
devices.
ocessing this data and g
generating
Big data represents new technologies for pro
nformation frrom it in way
ys that previo
ous technolo
ogies and tools could no
ot.
usable in
Additional re
eference
es
A short article
a
by Dan
niel Burrus on
o LinkedIn, Big Data Iss Already Pro
oducing Big
Results, discusses how
h
real-time
e analytics ccan help com
mpanies gain
n a competittive
advantag
ge and increase profitab
bility. You can
n access thiss article at:
http://ww
ww.linkedin.c
com/today/po
ost/article/20
0130509135
5928-483425
529-big-data
a-isalready-p
producing-biig-results
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ucture
Welcome to the big da

ata world
on of data se
ets that are ttoo large and complex to process
Big data is a collectio
base manag
gement toolss, desktop sttatistics, and
d visualizatio
on
using relational datab
b data requ
uires massivvely parallel software run
nning on a high
packages. Instead, big
volume of
o servers.
Howeverr, big data is not only deffined by the size or volu
ume of the da
ata itself. It iis
also defin
ned by the in
nability of tra
aditional metthods to pro
ocess this da
ataparticularly
when datta from tradiitional sources is supple
emented with
h data flowin
ng in from ne
ew
sources, such as soc
cial media and mobile de
evices, at exxponential ra
ates. Big datta
represen
nts the new technology
t
challenges
c
a
associated w
with processing data thatt
quickly changes
c
and with genera
ating usable information from that da
ata
challenge
es that are not
n easily ad
ddressed usi ng current te
echnologiess or tools.
Big data is substantia
ally changing the busine
ess intelligen
nce environm
ment, fueling
g
demands
s for greater access to untapped
u
datta to derive vvalue and in
nsight from itt.
The four main charac
cteristics tha
at the indust ry generally uses to desscribe big da
ata
are:
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Volu
umeThe amount of da
ata that need
ds to be proccessed
VarietyThe ra
ange of data types and ssources, including structured and
unsttructured datta
Velo
ocityThe speed
s
of datta coming in and going o
out
Valu
ueThe valu
ue to the bus
siness of the
e insight derrived from th
his informatio
on
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Information Op
ptimization and
d Business Inte
elligence (Big D
Data)
HP AppSy
A
ystems
s
Systems are complete, pre-integrate

p
ed solutions tthat are optiimized to
HP AppS
deliver maximum
m
perrformance fo
or a specific application or suite of a
applications.
This optimization hellps IT organizations mee
et demandin
ng service-le
evel
agreeme
ents (SLAs) and
a keep pa
ace with bus iness needss.
HP AppS
Systems are built on a co
ommon arch
hitecture thatt integrates seamlessly
with custtomers existting environm
ments. Thesse systems b
bring togethe
er applicatio
ons
with high
h-performanc
ce server, storage, netw
working, soluttion supportt, and
hyperviso
or resources
s. The system
ms also incl ude common managem
ment and
security approaches
a
.
The HP AppSystems
A
s family incorporates top
p-tier applica
ations from M
Microsoft, SA
AP,
Vertica, and
a other ve
endors. They
y are all ope n, configurable systemss designed to
o fit
customers current business arch
hitecture and
d application
ns. As turnke
ey business
applicatio
on solutions, HP AppSys
stems delive
er the infrasttructure requ
uired to makke
the solutions a succe
ess.
ovide these benefits
b
for customers
c
s eeking big d
data applicattions:
They pro
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11
Prov
ven turnkey deployment
d
he applicatio
on deliver grreater value
that helps th
more
e quickly
Sing
gle-workload optimization
n that delive
ers exception
nal quality off service (Qo
oS)
and high produc
ctivity at a low
wer total cosst of ownersship (TCO)
The agility to lev

verage existiing investme
ents and rap
pidly scale to
o meet
nging busine
ess needs
chan
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HP AppSystems target these markets:
Online transaction processing and database consolidationHP

Database Consolidation Solution optimized for Microsoft SQL Server enables
the consolidation of thousands of transactional databases into a single, virtual
environment. This consolidation simplifies SQL database management and
reduces the cost of operations.
Data managementHP AppSystems for data management help you improve

data access, simplify and accelerate data capture, and deliver consistent
information for accurate business decisions. Solutions include:
Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance
Business Data Warehouse Appliance
SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse
AppSystem for Apache Hadoop
AnalyticsHP AppSystems for business reporting and analytics help you

quickly extract more value from more data types at scale. They also reduce
analysis and decision-making time from months to minutes. Solutions include:
HP AppSystem for SAP HANA (an in-memory appliance)
HP Business Decision Appliance optimized for Microsoft SQL Server
HP Vertica Analytics System
HP Autonomy
HP AppSystems for Apache Hadoop, HP AppSystem for SAP HANA, HP Vertica

Analytics System, and HP Autonomy are discussed in more detail on the next
pages.
For additional information about HP AppSystems, visit:
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/convergedinfrastructure/appsystems.aspx
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ptimization and
d Business Inte
elligence (Big D
Data)
HP AppSy
A
ystem for
f Apa
ache H
Hadoop
p
Apac
che Hadoop
Apache Hadoop
H
is a distributed open-source
o
e, Linux-bassed platform for data
storage and
a processing. It is mas
ssively scala
able and hig
ghly fault tole
erant. Hadoo
op
enables enterprises to make better businesss decisions b
by processin
ng vast
amounts of semi-stru
uctured and unstructured
d data and b
by running m
multiple
analyses
s on Hadoop
p-based clusters.
You can fin
nd addition information abo
out Apache H
Hadoop:
http://hado
oop.apache.org
g
HP AppSyste
A
em for Apache
A
Hadoop
H
p
HP AppS
System for Apache
A
Hado
oop is a turn key Hadoop
p solution de
esigned to
address customer co
oncerns about the comp
plexity and m
maturity of Ap
pache Hadoo
op
ystem contaiins all the ha
ardware and
d software co
omponents
software. The AppSy
required for an enterrprise-grade Hadoop pla
atform. The A
AppSystem iis a factoryassemble
ed and confiigured Hado
oop cluster th
hat is ready to use on th
he day of
delivery.
e model of th
he AppSyste
em for Apach
he Hadoop ccomes in two
o
The base
configura
ations:
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A ha
alf-rack configuration (with 9 worker nodes) is su
uitable for a pilot project or
for customers
c
who need to contain
c
costss.
A fulll-rack config
guration (with 18 workerr nodes) is su
uitable for a production
environment.
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HP AppSystem for Apache Hadoop includes these components:
HP ProLiant DL380e Gen8 serversThese servers provide maximum data

density and the optimal disk-to-core ratio.
HP 5830AF Series switchesThese switches provide the deep packet

buffers (1GB) required for good networking performance. The switches are
configured as an HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) virtual device,
which allows the servers to implement network interface card (NIC) bonding
over their connections to both switches. This configuration increases both
bandwidth and resiliency.
HP Insight Cluster Management Utility (Insight CMU)This is an efficient,

robust tool for deploying and managing Linux-based nodes in large clusters.
HP Insight CMU enables push-button scale-out deployment, remote cluster
management, and real-time and time-series monitoring.
Cloudera EnterpriseThis leading enterprise package for Hadoop includes:
A completely open-source, enterprise-ready distribution of Hadoop and

related projects
A subscription to Cloudera Manager
Cloudera 24x7 production support
Red Hat Enterprise LinuxProven, open-source Red Hat Enterprise Linux

runs on the servers.
HP Vertica Community EditionBroadening this solution into real-time

analysis of structured data, Vertica Community Edition can load data directly
from the Hadoop Data File System (HDFS) using built-in WebHDFS
connectors.
For additional information about HP solutions for Apache Hadoop, visit:
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/us/en/partners/hadoop.html
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ptimization and
d Business Inte
elligence (Big D
Data)
HP AppSy
A
ystem for
f SA
AP HAN
NA
NA is SAP AGs
A
impleme
entation of in
n-memory database tecchnology. Takking
SAP HAN
advantag
ge of the low
w cost of maiin memory, tthe vast data
a processing
g abilities of
multi-corre processorrs, and the fa
aster data acccess provid
ded by solid--state drivess
(as comp
pared to trad
ditional drive
es), SAP HAN
NA DB database techno
ology deliverrs
better pe
erformance for
f analyticall and transacctional applications. The
e in-memoryy
computin
ng technolog
gy allows you
u to processs massive qu
uantities of d
data in the m
main
memory of the serve
er for immediate results ffrom analysiis and transa
actions.
s two AppSy
ystems solutions for SAP
P HANA:
HP offers
HP AppSystem
A
H
single
e-node configurationsThis soluttion
s for SAP HANA
cons
sists of five single-node
s
configuratio ns based on
n HP ProLian
nt DL580 an
nd
DL980 servers. In Q2 2013, HP will delivver Virtualizzed HP AppS
Systems for
SAP
P HANA to prrovide a dep
ployment pla
atform for up
p to 16 test a
and
deve
elopment HA
ANA instance
es on a sing
gle physical sserver.
HP AppSystem
A
s for SAP HANA
H
scale
e-out configurationTh
his scale-out
conffiguration supports very large data vvolumes on S
SAP HANA. It offers an
auto
omated failov
ver mechanism for high availability a
and a disaster-tolerant
optio
on featuring semi-autom
mated failove
er to a secon
ndary site.
For other HP
H solutions for
f SAP HANA
A, go to:
http://h170
007.www1.hp.com/us/en/co
onverged-infrrastructure/co
onvergedsystems/ap
ppsystems/sa
ap-hana.aspxx
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Verttica
a HP comp
pany since March
M
2011, p
provides big
g data analyttics software
e.
Vertica, an
The Vertica Analytics
s Platform is
s designed to
o manage la
arge, fast-gro
owing volum
mes
of data and
a provide fast
f
query pe
erformance w
when used ffor data warrehouses and
other que
ery-intensive
e application
ns.
The Vertica Analytics
s Platform ru
uns on scale
e-out clusterss of Linux-ba
ased x86
servers. It is offered as an applia
ance called H
HP Vertica A
Analytics Sysstem.
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Information Op
ptimization and
d Business Inte
elligence (Big D
Data)
HP Vertica
V
a Analy
ytics System
S
m
V
Analy
ytics System
m is pre-conffigured, teste
ed, and optim
mized to
The HP Vertica
provide easy
e
deploym
ment, allowing for fast im
mplementation and minimizing relian
nce
on IT res
sources. Bec
cause no sin
ngle solution is right for a
all businesse
es, the syste
em
is offered
d in quarter-,, half-, and full-rack
f
conffigurations.
The HP Vertica
V
Analy
ytics System
m is built on w
well-establisshed HP tech
hnologies an
nd
functiona
ality:
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HP BladeSystem
B
m c7000 Enc
closure provvides a comp
plete infrastrructure for
c-Cla
ass server blades
b
powe
er and coolin
ng systems a
and also han
ndles their
deployment and manageme
ent.
HP ProLiant
P
BL4
460c G7 Serrver Blades provide ente
erprise-classs features fo
or
high performanc
ce and reliab
bility without compromisiing energy e
efficiency or
cons
suming exce
essive floor space.
s
HP MDS600
M
is a high-density, low-cost storage solu
ution for HP BladeSystem
serv
vers, providin
ng the simpliicity and cosst-effectivene
ess of directt attached
stora
age without sacrificing flexibility or p
performance.
Red Hat Enterprrise Linux is an operatin g system (O

OS) that delivvers high
perfo
ormance, reliability, and security.
HP Vertica
V
Analy
ytics Platform
m is designe
ed and built ffor today's m
most
dem
manding analytic workloa
ads.
Facttory Integration assembles and testss the solution, and HPs onsite
insta
allation reduc
ces deploym
ment time byy over 50%.
HP support
s
prov
vides a single
e point of co
ontact acrosss all compon
nents: the
serv
vers, storage
e, OS, and Vertica
V
softwa
are. Addition
nal Vertica configuration
serv
vices and oth
her Vertica professional
p
services are
e also availa
able.
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HP Innov
vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Auto
onomy
y
Autonom
my, an HP co
ompany, is a market-lead
ding software
e company tthat helps
organizations all ove
er the world understand
u
tthe meaning
g buried in th
heir
information. A pionee
er in its indus
stry, Autono my has deve
eloped a unique meanin
ngbased technology to make sense
e of and pro cess unstrucctured hum
man informatiion
and to drraw real business value from that m eaning.
Human in
nformation makes
m
up the
e vast majorrity of conten
nt in the worrld today and
d
exists alm
most everyw
where: in doc
cuments, em
mails, picture
es, audio and
d video files,
and mob
bile and socia
al media com
mmunication
ns. Unlike ta
agging or keyyword
solutions
s, Autonomy interprets th
his data with
h groundbrea
aking, patterrn-matching
technology. This tech
hnology is based on ressearch at the
e University o
of Cambridg
ge
and combines Bayes
sian inferenc
ce-based pa
attern recogn
nition with tra
aditional
methods. Autonomys main technology, Intellligent Data Operating L
Layer (IDOL)),
allows se
n from datab
earches and processing of text taken
base, audio, video, or te
ext
files or frrom data stre
eams.
Such pro
ocessing ena
ables meaning-based co
omputing. No
ow compute
ers can captu
ure
the mean
ning held witthin all data, whether strructure or un
nstructured. The Autonomy
technologies even he
elp you hand
dle extreme
e structured
d big data am
massed from
m
call detaiil records, ge
ene sequenc
cing, sensorrs, algorithm
mic trading, cclick streamss,
and othe
er sources. Autonomy
A
so
oftware helpss businessess and organizations reduce
complexiity and unloc
ck the real value in data .
Autonom
mys meaning
g-based solu
utions underrstand the fu
ull spectrum of enterprise
e
information as well as
a the relatio
onships that exist within tthe data. Wiith computerrs
that comprehend mo
ore complex human inforrmation, rath
her than onlyy clear-cut
structure
ed data, businesses can automate p rocesses, co
omply with rregulations, a
act
in real tim
me, and improve busines
ss outcomess.
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d Business Inte
elligence (Big D
Data)
HP StoreA
S
All and HP Au
utonom
my
StoreAll and HP Autonom

my, HP helpss
By bringing together the capabilities of HP S
customers keep up with
w their gro
owing volum e of data.
S
storrage platform
m includes H
HP StoreAll E
Express Que
ery. This
The HP StoreAll
breakthro
ough embed
dded metada
ata database
e technologyy, created byy HP Labs, tthe
company
ys central re
esearch arm, allows orga
anizations to
o locate filess and perform
m
file syste
em analytics up to 100,00
00 times fasster than pre
evious metho
ods.
HP Store
eAll Express Query can be used alo ne or in conjjunction with
h big data
retention
n and analytics applicatio
ons, enabling
g clients to rreact to busiiness-critical
data in re
eal time.
In particu
ular, the HP StoreAll Exp
press Queryy IDOL conne
ector integra
ates with HP
P
Autonom
my IDOL to sttreamline the processing
g of dynamicc content accross large d
data
sets. HP StoreAll Express Query
ys acceleratted file name
espace scan
n delivers inline
updates to IDOL-bas
sed applications. This inttegration he
elps the soluttion rapidly
process new data ch
hanges and deliver
d
up-to
o-date analyttics. As a result, decisions
are base
ed on real-tim
me informatio
on rather tha
an outdated information. At the same
time, the solution use
es considera
ably fewer co
ompute reso
ources than conventiona
al
storage technologies
t
s.
In short, HP StoreAll Express Qu
uery and HP
P Autonomy IDOL togeth
her deliver
extremely efficient se
earching of the
t newest a
and most rellevant data ffor solving a
particular problem. The
T integratio
on of HP Sto
oreAll and A
Autonomy Co
onsolidated
Archive (ACA)
(
platform enables data immuta
ability and autonomic ma
aintenance o
of
massive data sets.
Note
HP ACA is a modular, se
ecure, and inte
egrated soluttion that enab
bles customerrs
to leverage the same arc
chiving techno
ology via an o
on-premise, ccloud-based,
hybrid, or appliance-base
ed approach.. HP Autonom
my ACA provid
des the
intelligent governance la
ayer from whicch businessess can drive th
heir compliancce,
eDiscovery,, and records managemen
nt initiatives diirectly from archived data.
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HP Innov
vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Ente
erprise
e stora
age forr conte
ent and
d big d
data
e seen some
e of the big data
d
solution
ns that suppo
ort Fox Rive
er Gamings
You have
goals forr information optimization
n and busine
ess intelligen
nce. What a
are the
correspo
onding storag
ge requireme
ents?
To underrstand the re
equirements,, you must u
understand h
how informattion analyticcs is
mixing with
w information archival.
You have
e learned tha
at big data helps
h
busine sses to obta
ain businesss value from
data, butt information
n is the heartt of the busin
ness, and bu
usinesses ha
ave long trie
ed
to get mo
ore value fro
om their data
a. In fact, com
mpanies havve engaged in data mining
and othe
er analytical activities
a
forr years. Big d
data specificcally confron
nts the newe
er
challenge
es posed by
y data growin
ng at a high velocity and
d data that comes in
various ty
ypes. But the big data solutions fit w
within a large
er environme
ent of solutio
ons.
In particu
ular, information analytic
cs is blending
g with inform
mation archivval, which
affects sttorage solutiions. Organiizations musst keep data for longer p
periods and
manage the data lifecycle accord
dingly. At the
e same time, organizatio
ons must be
able to use the stored data to pe
erform analyttic queries a
and generate
e meaningbased co
omputing mo
odels that he
elp employee
es make bettter-informed
d decisions.
IT must take
t
these consideration
ns into accou
unt as they p
provision sto
orage that
meets the needs of the
t business
s application s. In a much
h more seam
mless way th
han
ever befo
ore, IT must provision prrimary storag
gethe core
e storage for application
ns,
independ
dent of data type (objectt, file, or blocck) or delivery mechanissm (physical,
virtual, or cloud).
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HP StoreAll provides the ideal platform for both information retention and analytics.
It provides hyperscale storage to tame and mine the content explosion. It has
these characteristics:
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HyperscaledIt scales to over 1000 nodes, 16PB, and billions of objects and
files in a single namespace, providing massive object and file scalability for
polymorphic simplicity.
Efficient and economicIt offers automated, policy-based tiering and costefficient capacity with a scale-out, pay-as-you-grow architecture. As you
already learned, its Express Query integrates with Autonomy IDOL to enable
more effective discovery, compliance, and analytics processes.
Content depot and archiving capableIt provides custom metadata

tagging, snapshots, data immutability enforced by retention policies and write
once read many (WORM), constant data validation, and independent software
vendor (ISV) support.
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Netw
workin
ng for big
b datta environme
ents
s implementting real-time
e analytics a
and informattion
With morre customers
optimizattion solutions, you must understand the solution
ns impact on
n data cente
er
network design. Indu
ustry researc
ch shows tha
at inter-data center traffic is growing
g at
a 34% Compound An
nnual Growtth Rate (CAG
GR), and da
ata center intterconnect
(DCI) traffic is growin
ng even faster than intra
a-data center traffic. Ente
erprises are
responding to this inc
creased netw
work deman
nd by buildin
ng multi-10 G
Gbps inter-da
ata
center ne
etworks, and
d some are already
a
build
ding 100 Gbps networkss. Collection,,
transmiss
sion, and sto
orage of big data drama
atically increa
ase the DCI traffic. In other
words, big data results in big tra
affic across data center networks.
mple, more data
d
moves back
b
and forrth between storage solu
utions, and tthis
For exam
data mus
st be replicated often. So
ome of this d
data is gene
erated in an unstructured
d
fashion by
b various machine
m
sens
sors and oth
her collection
n devices tha
at are
distribute
ed across larrge geograp
phies. Simplyy collecting tthis disperse
ed data for
processin
ng in a centrral location increases wiide area netw
work (WAN)) traffic.
Netw
work trafffic charracteristtics
WAN des
sign strategies have histtorically focu
used on bran
nch-to-data center trafficc,
optimizin
ng for a north
h-south traffiic flow betwe
een applicattions in a data center an
nd
end userrs at branche
es. To suppo
ort big data n
network trafffic, network architects m
must
take new
w approaches to WAN de
esign and op
ptimization.
These arre the most important
i
ch
haracteristicss of big data
a as it affectss the network:
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Most real-time analytics

a
and
d information
n optimizatio
on solutions run as cluste
ers
of no
odes and op
perate on dis
stributed data
a. Data scalles out in a m
more horizon
ntal
fashion and is distributed am
mong networrk nodes.
Muc
ch more traffiic flows betw
ween serverss and storag
ge devices th
han between
n
serv
vers and end
d users. This
s machine-to
o-machine, d
data sharing network trafffic
is referred to as east-west network
n
traffi c.
Big data
d
perform
mance depen
nds largely o
on network la
ay times musst
atency; dela
be lo
ow for the big data applications to fu
unction optim
mally.
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Network requirements
The traffic characteristics of a big data environment drive the following
requirements for a scalable, high-performance network design:
Availability and resiliencyA network failure can affect multiple compute

nodes within the cluster and degrade or stall the cluster performance.
Therefore, network availability and resiliency are critical factors in big data
network design and implementation.
Burst handling and queuingA network that cannot handle bursts of traffic
will drop packets. Therefore, network architectures and devices must employ
adequate buffering and queuing technologies.
Ability to handle congestionOversubscription in a WAN allows a ports

total committed information rate (CIR) to exceed its speed. The company
saves money by purchasing less bandwidth, but congestion can occur. The
network architecture must gracefully handle traffic congestion at critical points
of the network at critical times. The big data traffic must be prioritized so that
excessive latency does not compromise solution performance.
High bandwidth and low latencyData shuffle and sort operations between
the nodes cause east-west network traffic. To support this traffic, the network
infrastructure must deliver high bandwidth, low latency, and any-to-any node
connectivity. Inter-data center connections should provide multi-Gbps speeds
and support individual flows of 1Gbps or more. The architecture also needs
dedicated hardware to process packets at rates over 10 Gbps, and port-toport latencies must not exceed microseconds. To meet these requirements,
companies will begin to use 10GbE connections to link data centers.
ScalabilityMany implementations start small and grow over time as

customers realize returns on their investments and want to expand their
capabilities. Thus, the underlying network architecture must be scalable.
Solutions
What kind of a network best meets the requirements of big data environments?
Many in the industry believe that a switched fabric best meets the bandwidth, low
latency, and resiliency requirements of a big data environment.
A switched fabric creates point-to-point connections between nodes with a single
hop in the switching infrastructure. This design increases bandwidth and reduces
the latencies between the nodes. To provide redundancy and scalability while
preventing ill effects from loops, the switched fabric should typically feature
virtualization, in which multiple networking components behave as a single
component. A flat network architecture also eases the expansion of the
infrastructure and allows for rapid enhancements within the environment.
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HP FlexNetwork Architecture delivers these five primary benefits for big data
environments:
An open-standards-based solution
Scalability on three dimensionsfunctionality, connectivity, and capacity
Security
Agility
A consistent and simplified operating experience
HP DCI is an innovative transport-agnostic solution that extends Layer 2 network

connectivity across globally located data center locations. It enables several data
centers to work as one, becoming more responsive while delivering higher
efficiency, availability, and business resiliency. With HP DCI, you can migrate live
server workloads, increase application performance with load balancing, and
optimize high availability and disaster avoidance to enable business continuity.
The HP FlexFabric 12900 Switch Series provides an ideal, highly scalable data
center core switching platform. The switches support IRF, a virtualization
technology that helps the switches to enhance performance and availability for big
data traffic. The switches have energy efficiency features and offer unprecedented
levels of performance, buffering, scale, and availability. They deliver high-density
10GbE and 40GbE today and will provide 100GbE in the near future.
The HP FlexFabric 11900 Switch Series is a high-performance data center
aggregation switch which provides line-rate, high-density 10GbE and 40GbE
connectivity. This switch series was designed for cost-effective end-of-row (EoR)
and small core deployments.
The IMC Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA) module is a graphical network-monitoring
tool that provides network administrators with real-time information about users
and applications consuming network bandwidth. The IMC NTA software modules
network bandwidth statistics help you plan, monitor, enhance, and troubleshoot
networks. You can also identify bottlenecks and apply corrective measures to
enhance throughput. The software also monitors Internet egress traffic, helping
you analyze the bandwidth usage of specific applications and monitor the impact
of non-business applications (such as network games) on user productivity.
Granular, network-wide surveillance of complex, multilayer switched and routed
environments helps you rapidly identify and resolve network threats.
NTA delivers these features:
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Real-time monitoring of database space
Automatic generation of four types of reports
The use of capabilities embedded in switches and routers
Support for sFlow, NetFlow, and NetStream
Granular insight into applications, users, and ports
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ptimization and
d Business Inte
elligence (Big D
Data)
Learning check
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me examples
s of markets
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Summary
As Fox River Gaming introduced a new gaming experience, the company needed
to improve its information optimization and business intelligence. It needed to
collect and analyze vast amounts of information and then and apply the
intelligence it gained to strategic and tactical decisions.
As Fox River Gaming began exploring the opportunities presented by real-time
analytics and big data, it learned that HP already offered solutions specifically
targeting this computing space:
AppSystems
Vertica
Autonomy
Hyperscale servers
StoreAll storage
With its HP Converged Infrastructure, Fox River Gaming already had the platform
it needed for the big data application of its choice. The company could select an
HP AppSystem and immediately gain a proven, turnkey solution that helps the
company extract true business value from its data.
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Branch Office
Module 9
Objectives
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Explain the typical challenges associated with consolidating branch offices
Identify HP innovations that enable branch office consolidation and ease the
associated burden on IT staff
Describe how IT staff can leverage HP solutions in branch office deployments
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IT challenges at a typical branch

This module presents HP Converged Infrastructure solutions that help companies meet
the challenges of establishing new branch locations or consolidating and centralizing
services for existing branches.
Of course, network designers and system administrators want to provide users at
branches with the same high-quality network experience that users at the main office
enjoy. Network designers and system administrators want to protect local data, provide
users with access to vital information stored at the main site, and deliver quick and
efficient support. However, establishing and maintaining services for remote or branch
offices can present special challenges for both the IT staff and the infrastructure.
These challenges include:
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Limited IT personnelThe IT staff at the main office is primarily responsible for

managing data, network access, and services at branch offices. Some branch
offices might have just one or two IT staff members onsite, but many will have no
local IT staff members at all. The lack of onsite IT assistance can prevent branch
offices from profiting from centralized services. The length of time it takes the IT
staff to respond to issuesparticularly issues that require immediate resolution
directly affects branch office productivity and customer experience. This module
describes solutions that can reduce response time by:
Giving IT staff at a central location more power to manage branch IT services
Simplifying and standardizing IT services
Restricted performance because of limited WAN speedsBranch office

productivity depends on the quality of the infrastructure that connects branch office
users to the resources at the main office or data center. The WAN connections,
which often provide less bandwidth than LAN links, might introduce congestion
that disrupts employee access to key resources. Even when bandwidth is
adequate, higher latency on WAN connections can cause issues for services such
as file-sharing applications. When employees experience delays in accessing files
or cannot log in to the network at all, productivity suffers. The HP Converged
Infrastructure solutions presented in this module help accelerate WAN
communications.
Uncontrolled data growthData is expanding so quickly that IT staff members

rarely have time to deploy resources in the most efficient way. Because branch
offices often have lower-speed, higher-latency connections to resources,
inefficiencies associated with data, file, and application access are magnified.
Companies need solutions that help them address these inefficiencies and
improve availability, increase utilization, and simplify management for a large
amount of data.
Insufficient data protection and backupBecause lost data leads to lost

resources and lost revenue, companies need a solid backup and recovery
solution. However, data growth is straining manual backup and recovery
processes to their limits. Branch offices add to the management burden because
maintaining each onsite backup increases time and expense. In addition, lowerbandwidth WAN connections can create bottlenecks for data backups to central
storage, increasing the risk of lost data. Adding bandwidth to address this issue is
costly.
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Branch Office
Without consistent policies and processes, users and IT staff can forget or simply
fail to back up mission-critical data at branches. The performance issues
mentioned earlier can compound this problem. For example, employees frustrated
with non-responsive file servers might store their files locally. These files are easily
overlooked during backups.
In short, manual processes inevitably create gaps and errors, putting businesses
at risk. Companies need a solution that automates consistent backup policies
across the WAN, taking into account the particular limitations of WAN links.
Insufficient data securityRegulations and company policies might require

certain data to be encrypted. The more sites to which such data extends, the more
difficult it is to ensure data security and the higher the risk that some data will not
be encrypted. Branch sites might also lack strict physical security, introducing the
risk of unauthorized users gaining access to PCs and printerswhich could
provide a backdoor to the centralized resources. As a final concern, WAN
connections might be established through untrusted networks, introducing the
need for encryption across WAN links.
Networks that do not meet enterprise standardsBranch offices often have

networks that have grown in an ad-hoc manner and do not meet enterprise
standards. The network infrastructure might consist of low-end switches or even
hubs. Untrained employees might have deployed the devices, simply connecting
one device to another as more ports were required, in an inefficient cascading
design.
Physical designIf infrastructure devices are located in unsecured rooms and

vulnerable cables run under desks, problems are more likely to occur. Cables
might break. Someone might unplug a switch, or an unauthorized user might try to
access a switch.
Such an infrastructure is not ready to handle the network services that employees
require. In addition, IT staff will struggle to support the infrastructure when they
encounter a different setup and set of devices at every location.
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Unmanaged employee and guest wireless accessAt many branch offices,

non-technical employees, rather than IT staff members, install the wireless
network. As a result, the wireless network might include non-enterprise access
points (APs), which enforce Wi-Fi Protected Access Pre-Shared Key (WPA-PSK).
Because all employees use the same preshared key, it is more likely that someone
will give the key to an unauthorized user. In addition, customers or partners are
typically placed on the same network as employees. As the company consolidates
resources, making a wide array of private resources available to the branch
offices, such a wireless guest network can open a huge security gap in the
corporate network.
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Fox
x River Gamin
ng
Considerr these challenges in the

e example sccenario.
With its new
n
data cen
nter powered by HP Con
nverged Infrrastructure, F
Fox River Gaming
has established its presence in the video ga me industry.. In fact, the company ha
as
grown to the point that it needs more
m
develo
opers. The co
ompany initially contractted
some wo
ork to a team
m of three de
evelopers in California. T
The team ha
as grown to 1
14
develope
ers who are working
w
in a rented officce in San Fra
ancisco. Witth the venturre
capital fu
unding securred, the com
mpany has de
ecided to hirre these con
ntractors as ffull-time
employee
es and set up
u a remote site for them
m in San Fra
ancisco. Fox River Gaming also
plans to double the number
n
of prrogrammerss and other sstaff at this ssite. Howeve
er, the
company
y hopes to avoid hiring a large IT sta
aff in Californ
nia. Instead the compan
ny plans
to have the
t current IT
T staff mana
age the bran
nch site.
Currently
y, the rented office space
e features a rudimentaryy network:
Seve
eral servers with direct-a
attached sto
orage
Time
e-consuming
g, manual ba
ackup proce
esses that prrovide nightlyy backups to
o the
direc
ct-attached storage
s
An unmanaged
u
switch
Cable modem fo
or Internet ac
ccess
Wire
eless networrk with a hom
me office AP
P
When the
e developers
s become fu
ull-time emplloyees, Fox River Gamin
ng will make
e the
services and resourc
ces in its new
w data cente
ers available
e to them. Th
he network
designerrs need to crreate a new branch office
e infrastructture that allo
ows efficient, secure
access to
o these data
a centers in Illinois.
I
The com
mpany wants to reduce co
osts by impl ementing th
he branch offfice solution in as
simple an
nd efficient a manner as
s possible. O
On an ongoin
ng basis, the
e company h
hopes
that the existing
e
IT sttaff can conttinue to main
ntain the bra
anch office sservers and o
other
infrastruc
cture devices remotely, eliminating
e
tthe need for hiring IT sta
aff for the bra
anch
site.
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The company faces several challenges, however. The developers will use bandwidthintensive applications that require high-speed, highly reliable connections. The
developers work is critical to Fox River Gamings revenue stream, and the backup
processes must become more rigorous and trustworthy. The large video game files are
beginning to exceed the local storage capacity. For both of these reasons, the
company hopes to back up files over the WAN connections, but these backups could
consume precious bandwidth required for other applications.
The network designers also need to consider the security implications of making the
companys mission-critical resources available at the new branch. Will unsecured
Ethernet connections at the branch office become backdoors for unauthorized access?
How can the branch office continue to offer wireless access, both for employees who
enjoy its convenience and their guests, without putting the company at risk?
This module will discuss solutions to all of Fox River Gamings challenges. As you
examine these solutions, consider not only how they solve Fox River Gamings
problems but also how you could use them to deliver similar benefits in other
environments.
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ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Bran
nch offfice se
erver is
ssues
uld first determine which

h services arre deployed locally at ea
ach branch. A
As
You shou
mentione
ed earlier in this module, branch officce services often grow in an organicc,
inconsisttent manner.. Every site might
m
use diifferent serve
ers with diffe
erent hardwa
are and
different tools. Witho
out consisten
nt tools, IT sttaff cannot m
monitor or m
manage the sservers
efficiently
y from a cen
ntral location.
Rememb
ber that the productivity
p
of
o a branch office can be
e limited by how quicklyy the IT
staff can respond to problems. Id
deally, IT sta
aff should be
e able to add
dress any isssue
remotely, without a le
engthy and expensive
e
trrip. One solu
ution is to hirre dedicated
d, onsite staff for each bra
anch, but this solution iss too costly fo
or most businesses.
ols for provis
sioning and m
managing se
ervices remo
otely can ma
ake the
Therefore, useful too
s
productive
p
b ranch officess and unsucccessful ones.
difference between successful,
ever a compa
any needs to
o roll out new
w services.
Similar concerns emerge whene
Inconsisttent hardwarre and manu
ual provision
ning processses can intro
oduce long delays
as IT staff struggle to
o deploy the services at each site.
A commo
on solution is
s to move th
he servers th
hat provide sservices from
m the FlexBrranch to
the FlexF
Fabric; howe
ever, not all servers
s
can be removed
d from the brranch: serve
ers that
provide voice
v
gatewa
ays, directorry services, sspecialized a
applications, and otherss might
need to be
b located at the branch
h office.
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Bran
nch Office
Serv
ver solutions
s
For Fox River
R
Gamin
ng, the first step
s
in settin
ng up the offfice in San F
Francisco is tto
consolida
ate the local services on
n some of the
e same, stan
ndardized se
erver platforrms
used in the main site
e data centerr. The IT sta ff has selectted HP ProL
Liant Genera
ation 8
(Gen8) servers
s
for th
his purpose.
Traditionally, such an
n upgrade re
equires dayss and even w
weeks. An IT
T staff memb
ber
must visit the remote
e site and pro
ovision the sservers loca
ally. Fortunattely for Fox R
River
Gaming, technologie
es built into the ProLiant Gen8 serve
er portfolio sttreamline the
provision
ning process
s. Module 2 introduced th
hese techno
ologies. Now
w consider ho
ow they
meet the
e particular needs
n
of the branch officce solution.
HP iLO provides
p
acc
cess to ProLiiant server d
diagnostic to
ools and rem
mote console
e
through a dedicated 1 Gbps portt. With HP iL
LO embedde
ed in the bra
anch office se
ervers,
IT staff members
m
hav
ve a homoge
enous mana
agement exp
perience whe
ether they are
maintaining the data center or th
he branch offfice resource
es. IT staff ccan also man
nage
servers remotely
r
reg
gardless of th
he servers sstate. In othe
er words, se
erver issues, which
typically require an im
mmediate re
esponse, willl not preventt the IT stafff from handliing the
problem remotely. In fact, the IT staff can ev en use the n
new iLO Mob
bile App to rreach
the serve
er when they
y are travelin
ng or away ffrom the officce.
The nextt section provides detaile
ed informatio
on about two
o other HP technologiess that
ease pro
ovisioning, de
eployment, and
a manage
ement of bra
anch office se
ervers:
Intelligent Provis
sioning
Sma
art Update
HP In
ntelligen
nt Provis
sioning
art CDs and Smart Upda

ate Firmware
e include sta
andard sets of drivers an
nd
SmartSta
utilities, simplifying
s
provisioning
p
for
f previous generationss of ProLiantt servers. HP
P
Intelligen
nt Provisionin
ng, embedde
ed in ProLia
ant Gen8 serrvers, replacces and imprroves
these too
ols. Intelligen
nt Provisioning is the sin
ngle server d
deployment ttool adminisstrators
need when installing ProLiant se
ervers.
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Intelligen
nt Provisionin
ng helps to manage
m
the installation of the serve
ers operating
g
system
both off-the-shelf operating syste ms or HP brranded versiions of leading
operating
g systems. As
A with HP SmartStart,
S
I ntelligent Prrovisioning a
automaticallyy
installs th
he necessarry componen
ntsincludin
ng any drivers and utilitie
es that the sserver
uired. Intellig
requires
and ignore
es ones that are not requ
gent Provisio
oning can allso
install the
e optimized ProLiant serrver supportt software fro
om the HP S
Service Packk for
ProLiant (SPP). The drivers and utilities are embedded iin the system
m board 4GB
B
NAND fla
ash memory
y, so adminis
strators do n ot need to a
assemble an
ny other physsical
media su
uch as CDs or
o USB drive
es.
Intelligen
nt Provisionin
ng also inclu
udes optionss for handling
g automatic updates from the
HP Web site. Administrators can
n update the drivers and software at the same tim
me they
install the
e operating system.
s
Whe
en they sele
ect the updatte before the
e operating ssystem
install op
ption, Intelligent Provisioning obtainss the update
es and storess them on th
he
NAND with other driv
vers.
Because
e Intelligent Provisioning
P
handles so much of the
e provisionin
ng automaticcally, a
relatively
y inexperienc
ced staff member can de
eploy the se
erver at the b
branch office
e.
Provision
ning new loc
cal services for
f branch o
offices becom
mes cheap, ssimple, and
standardized.
HP Intelligent Provision
ning: Two
o main fe
eatures
d
HP In
ntelligent Pro
ovisioning he
elps to simpllify and standardize two main
In more detail,
types of tasks:
t
Con
nfigure and installInte
elligent Provvisioning doe
es more than
n help
adm
ministrators handle the installation of system firm
mware and so
oftware.
Adm
ministrators can
c also use Quick Conffig, which gu
uides them th
hrough the n
next
conffiguration ste
eps to custom
mize the serrver to meet the compan
nys needs.
Perfform mainte
enanceInttelligent Provvisioning continues to sttreamline se
erver
main
ntenance aftter the initial deploymentt. If administtrators encounter an issue, they
can use Intellige
ent Provision
ning to down
nload the Acttive Health S
System (AHS
S) log,
whic
ch they can then
t
submit to HP Supp ort.
The Intelligent Provisioning
P
Array
A
Config
guration Utility (ACU) en
nables
adm
ministrators to
o configure, manage, dia
agnose, and
d support the
e Smart Arra
ay,
whic
ch provides storage
s
for the ProLiant server.
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nch Office
At an
ny point, adm
ministrators can also adj
djust the Quicck Config op
ptions and
Intelligent Provis
sioning prefe
erences, cusstomizing the
e tool as req
quired.
sioning also integrates w
with other too
ols embedde
ed in ProLiant
Intelligent Provis
vers. It enables administrrators to run
n Insight Diag
gnostics to m
monitor servver
serv
health and troub
bleshoot pote
ential proble
ems. Intellige
ent Provision
ning can also
o
P iLO Manag
gement Eng ine and Insig
ght Remote Support too
ol, which
conffigure the HP
in turn help adm
ministrators manage
m
the sserver remo
otely regardle
ess of its sta
ate.
ally, the Intellligent Provis
sioning Erase
e utility help
ps to streamline the proccess of
Fina
clearing server hard
h
drives and
a logs.
Video
oHP Intelligent Provision
P
ning
his optional 1:37

1
minute video
v
(M09a
a-HP Intelligent_Provisio
oning.avi), w
which
Watch th
provides an overview
w of HP Intellligent Provissioning. The
e video is ava
ailable in the
e
supplement to this co
ourse or at http://www.yo
h
outube.com//watch?v=pvvYuPr9WYX
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vations for Toda
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ucture
Mana
aging se
erver up
pdates and deplo
oyments
s
pdate consis
sts of HP SP
PP and HP S
Smart Update Manager ((HP SUM).
Smart Up
Togetherr these comp
ponents stre
eamline the p
process of deploying sofftware updattes.
They con
nsolidate all required pac
ckages and software at a single site
e and help in
nstall
the packages across
s locally or re
emotely dep
ployed ProLia
ant rack servvers or blade
es.
ement processs involves m
many manua
al steps.
The tradiitional firmware manage
Administtrators must collect information abou
ut servers an
nd the versio
on of softwarre
installed on them. Th
hey must loc
cate the corre
ect package
es and inform
mation for ea
ach
server an
nd update, re
eading differrent docume
ents for each
h item and downloading
multiple packages.
p
The
T administtrators must prepare for the updatess on their ow
wn with
all opporrtunities for human
h
error entailed in tthat processs. Finally, administrators must
complete
e a complex,, time-consu
uming processs that requiires multiple
e server rebo
oots.
HP SUM radically sim
mplifies this process by reducing the
e total numb
ber of steps a
and by
automating as many steps as po
ossible. HP S
SUM also sim
mplifies the few manual steps
that adm
ministrators must
m
still perfform: instead
d of hunting down multip
ple package
es and
related documents, administrato
a
rs can find t he SPP ISO
O on the HP w
web site, do
ownload
all the up
pdates in one
e package, and
a read the
e single related document. At this po
oint,
administrrators simply
y choose an update metthod, and the automated
d processes of HP
SUM take over. HP SUM
S
fully su
upports sche
eduling and sstaging of up
pdates and a
allows
administrrators to upd
date multiple
e systems si multaneously. HP SUM::
Perfforms dependency check

king to make
e sure that the server en
nvironment is ready
for th
he update
Updates drivers, software, and

a firmware
e (in that ord
der)
Mak
kes sure thatt only require
ed updates a
are deployed
d to each de
evice
Allow
ws administrrators to scriipt command
ds through a CLI, promo
oting simplifiied
customization fo
or the compa
anys environ
nment
e tools shortten the upda

ate process tto one-third tthe
In these ways, the Smart Update
length off a typical ma
anual proces
ss. As a resu
ult, Smart Update reducces maintena
ance
costs and
d the total co
ost of ownerrship (TCO) of servers. T
The intellige
ent deployme
ent and
automatic staging fea
atures of HP
P SUM can a
also reduce downtime byy as much 9
93%.
er lose reven
nue or produ
uctivity, which
h occur with even planned
Companies no longe
downtime
e. Finally, co
ompanies av
void many off the risks asssociated with software
updates because Sm
mart Update makes sure
e that softwa
are is stable and that the
e
environm
ment is ready
y for the upd
date.
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nch Office
Bran
nch offfice sttorage issues
s
er Gaming fin
nds itself in the
t same sittuation as m
many compan
nies that havve
Fox Rive
branch offices.
o
Branc
ch office employees pro duce valuab
ble data that must be pro
otected,
but the branch
b
office does not ha
ave a backu p solution th
hat adequate
ely supports this
mission-c
critical data.
The bran
nch office ha
as only manu
ual backup p
processes. B
Because of the cost, time
e, and
complexiity of these processes,
p
the branch o
office does not have consistent backkups.
Even when the staff backs up da
ata, they enccounter prob
blems. They experience
frequent issues with the tape to which
w
data i s backed up
p. Storage sp
pace at the llocal
office is also
a
failing to
o keep pace
e with the de
emands of brranch office employees, further
decreasing the amou
unt of data th
hat can be p
protected. Finally, the va
alue of backu
ups is
diluted by
y the amoun
nt of time and effort invo
olved in resto
oring the datta. The proce
ess is
time cons
suming beca
ause it mustt be completted manuallyy and because the tape media
reads mo
ore slowly th
han hard disk
ks.
The com
mpany wants to centralize
e data prote ction. The co
n implement an
ompany can
automate
ed backup, backup
b
management, an
nd restoratio
on process fo
or edge devices
and serv
vers. Such au
utomation will
w reduce th e managem
ment burden and also enssure no
vital data
a is lost. In addition, the company wiill ensure tha
at storage iss synchronize
ed and
accessib
ble across the main office
e and all bra
anch offices.
Howeverr, some challenges stand
d in the wayy. The backups between the branch office
and the main
m
data ce
enter will con
nsume limite
ed WAN ban
ndwidth. The
e backup pro
ocess
could affe
ect branch employees
e
access
a
to oth
her mission--critical netw
work resourcces. In
addition, as the comp
pany backs up more datta across the
e complete n
network, it n
needs to
minimize
e the size of files to avoid
d as many ccostly storage upgrades as possible..
Deduplic
cation techno
ology will help the comp any addresss these challlenges, allow
wing
them to implement a centralized backup solu
ution withoutt inundating storage disks and
burying critical
c
WAN traffic under a deluge o
of data.
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vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Whatt is dedu
uplicatio
on?
e audio and video comp

pression tech
hnologies, de
eduplication
n compresse
es data
Much like
files so th
hat a smaller storage vo
olume can ho
old the data.. With dedup
plication, the
e
backup solution
s
exam
mines all bac
ckup stream
ms after the ffirst. It identiffies data tha
at
matches the first stre
eam, indicate
ed in blue in
n the figure, a
and unique data, indicatted in
green in the figure. The
T backup solution
s
then
n adds only the unique d
data to the ta
arget
storage volume.
v
If deduplication occu
urs only at the backup ta
argets locatio
on, it maxim
mizes storage
e media
resource
es. If deduplication also occurs
o
at the
e backup so
ources locatiion, the tech
hnology
also ensu
ures that backups consu
ume far lesss WAN bandw
width, freein
ng up bandw
width for
other trafffic between the branch office and th
he WAN.
HP StoreOnc
S
ce Back
kup Dedu
uplicatio
on
Now consider a few more benefits of dedupl ication soluttions, such a
as HP StoreO
Once
Backup Deduplicatio
D
on.
Traditionally, compan
nies have us
sed tape for backups ratther than dissks. Disks acctually
provide a better solution because
e systems ccan read data
a from them
m much more
e
quickly. However,
H
economic cons
siderations d
drove the ch
hoice; tape iss about ten ttimes
cheaper than hard diisks.
cation, howev
ver, enables
s disks to sto
ore up to 20 times more data, makin
ng
Deduplic
backups to disk econ
nomically fea
asible. Admi nistrators who must restore lost or
corrupted
d data have a better exp
perience. Th ey can resto
ore data in m
minutes rathe
er than
hours. Deduplication
n also helps to
t promote b
better disastter recovery solutions, b
bringing
panys servic
ces back onlline more qu
uickly.
the comp
Because
e each backu
up adds less
s data to the total, compa
anies can allso retain ba
ackup
data on disk
d for longer periods of
o time.
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Clearly, deduplication underlies the backup processes that companies need. However,
companies have traditionally been limited to implementing deduplication on systems on
which specific vendor technologies allowed it. The HP StoreOnce Catalyst software
accelerator enables deduplication anywhere. StoreOnce Catalyst leverages a common
deduplication algorithm across the enterprise and allows deduplication on any system:
Production source for the data to be backed up or client
Backup or media server
Target storage appliance
Because the source also deduplicates data, the StoreOnce solution minimizes data
that must be transmitted to the backup storage media. In this way, the solution
preserves precious WAN bandwidth for other purposes and further improves backup
and recovery speeds. With the right architecture, a company achieves disaster
recovery with much less network traffic, further speeding the recovery process.
For more information about StoreOnce solutions, read the Dedupe 2.0:
What HP Has In Store(Once) white paper (4AA4-1782ENW.pdf), included
in the supplement to this course.
VideoHP StoreOnce Backup
First-generation deduplication technologies do have some drawbacks. Each

fragmented storage volume must handle deduplication on its own. Data must be
rehydrated, or have the non-unique data added back, before being transferred to
another target. These inefficiencies add to management costs and increase the risk of
gaps in data protection.
Federated storage solutions resolve these issues. HP federated storage provides a
common management system across multiple disk arrays with Peer Motion enabling
painless expansion of storage volumes and seamless movement of data between
volumes. As the only federated deduplication solution available today, HP StoreOnce
Backup manages deduplication for backups across many storage volumes,
overcoming the gaps, inefficiencies, and costs of first-generation technologies.
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The HP StoreOnce Backup solutions are:
Accelerated to meet shrinking backup windowsHP StoreOnce Backup

solutions provide backups that are up to three times faster and recoveries that are
up five times faster than competing systems. Companies can choose from
deployments that can start small and scale out to protect up to 768TB.
Simple to centralize control and eliminate complexityBy integrating with HP

and independent software vendor (ISV) backup applications, HP StoreOnce
Catalyst supports a single point of control for deduplication, backup, and recovery.
Flexible to dedupe and replicate backup anywhereStoreOnce backup

solutions support multi-site replication plus deduplication at the source, server, or
target at remote or branch offices or at data centers. StoreOnce backup solutions
also support:
Large-scale fan-in replication, which enables multiple source computers to

back up data to a single destination
Large-scale any-to-any replication, which permits multiple sources to back

up to multiple targets as required
Highly available to eliminate single points of failureThe multinode

StoreOnce B6200 backup system consists of two servers/nodes connected in a
failover couplet. In addition to promoting high availability, the multinode
configuration improves both native performance and software-assisted
performance. Built on scale-out converged storage technology, StoreOnce B6200
with Autonomic Restart always completes backups.
Watch this optional 1:07 minute video (M09b-HP StoreOnce Backup.avi), available in
the supplement to this course or at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qd5IqHkfdo. As
you watch the video, you can take notes on the benefits of the solutions.
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To read more about HP StoreOnce Backup solutions, see the HP
StoreOnce Extends its Industry Leadership in Deduplication 2.0 white
paper (4AA4-1783ENW.pdf), included in the supplement to this course.
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Bran
nch Office
Bran
nch offfice ne
etwork
k issue
es
amine the ne
etwork comp
ponents of th
he branch offfice solution
n, beginning with
Now, exa
the challe
enges that companies
c
ty
ypically face
e in this area
a.
Companies have a compelling
c
re
eason to cen
ntralize reso
ources, allow
wing branch
employee
es to access
s central nettwork resourrces rather th
han deployin
ng the same
e
resource
es and servic
ces at every branch site.. Centralizattion increase
es standardizzation
and efficiency and re
educes overa
all costs.
w
ensu
uring that it ccan handle a branch offiices
Howeverr, implementting a WAN without
requirem
ments can inttroduce prob
blems. A slow
w or high-lattency WAN link can frusttrate
branch office
o
employ
yees, making
g it difficult fo
or them to lo
og in or to usse the resou
urces
that they
y need to do their jobs. Worse,
W
an un
nreliable WA
AN link can d
disrupt the branch
office enttirely.
In additio
on, the branc
ch office can
n pose a seccurity risk forr the compan
ny. Companies
often find
d it difficult to
o manage an
nd oversee d
devices at b
branch office
es. With less IT
support, branch offic
ce employees often intro duce their o
own insecure
e wireless ne
etworks.
They mig
ght bring the
eir own devic
ces and conn
nect them to
o the corpora
ate network. Often,
branch office
o
employ
yees and cus
stomers nee
ed such form
ms of accesss, but the com
mpany
must han
ndle these fo
orms of acce
ess carefullyy to make sure that they do not creatte a
backdoor for unautho
orized acces
ss to private resources. The compan
ny needs wirreless
access control
c
solutions and Brin
ng Your Own
n Device (BY
YOD) policie
es that integrate
convenie
ent wireless access and BYOD devicces safely in
nto the overa
all corporate
e
solution.
he maintena
ance of netw
work devices can pose alll the same iissues as se
erver
Finally, th
maintena
ance. IT stafff need help to resolve a s many issu
ues as possib
ble remotelyy. In
addition, branch offic
ce solutions that grow in an ad-hoc m
manner tend
d to introducce many
naged by mu
ultiple, disjoiinted networrk managem
ment tools. IT
T staff
types of devices man
find it diffficult to supp
port the netw
work when th
hey confrontt a different m
managemen
nt tool
for each device. They need one unified tool tthat supportts all networking devicess across
the LAN.
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11
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vations for Toda
ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
HP FlexBran
F
nch
n
examine
e the HP solution for me
eeting these challenges:: the HP
You will now
FlexBran
nch compone
ent of the HP
P FlexNetwo
ork Architectture.
The Flex
xBranch solu
ution converg
ges networkk functionalityy with servicces, enabling
g
branch office
o
employ
yees to enjoy
y the same ffast and relia
able access to data and
applicatio
ons as workers experien
nce at the m ain office. This superiorr user experience
includes data, voice, video, and other unified
d communications and ccollaboration
n
(UC&C) tools.
t
For Fo
ox River Gam
ming, develo
opers at the branch officce can use a
all of the
applicatio
ons that the company ha
as deployed at its main site data cen
nter. As a re
esult, the
company
y can continu
ue to profit from those in
nvestments w
while increasing the
productiv
vity and job satisfaction
s
of
o new emplloyees.
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nch Office
FlexB
Branch solution
s
n compo
onents
omponents th
hat power a FlexBranch solution are
e listed below
w:
Some co
HP Multi-Servic
M
ce Routers (MSRs)Th
(
hese routerss deliver servvices to bran
nch
offices over a my
yriad WAN connectivity
c
options, including T1/E1
1, ADSL2, and 3G.
The WAN link its
self might ex
xtend throug
gh an untrustted network.. Fortunatelyy, MSRs
supp
port distributted virtual prrivate networrks (DVPNs), which sim
mplify the
establishment off secure link
ks between b
branch office
es and the m
main office. M
MSRs
also include built-in firewall, URL filtering
g, anti-spam
m, and anti-virus featuress, which
prov
vide an integrated threat manageme
ent solution ffor the brancch. Develope
ers at
the Fox
F River Ga
aming branc
ch office nee
ed the data ccenter resou
urces to do th
heir
jobs. The MSRs deliver the needed high
h availabilityy using redun
ndant WAN links.
The MSRs also support Ope
en Shortest Path First (O
OSPF) and M
Multiple Prottocol
Labe
el Switching (MPLS), wh
hich allow th e MSRs to d
detect chang
ges in the
environment and
d dynamically adjust rou
utes. Finally, the MSRs p
provide solid
d quality
of se
ervice (QoS)) features, which
w
ensure
e that Fox River Gaming can extend its
UC&
&C solution to
t the branch
h.
HP modular
m
sw
witchesFox River Gam
ming could deploy an HP
P 5400 zl or 8200 zl
Serie
es switch. These modula
ar switches are designe
ed for branch
h offices of m
many
sizes
s (and for otther environm
ments not co
onsidered in
n this module
e). HP buildss
enerrgy-use intelligence into these switc hes. Compa
anies can red
duce power costs
and consumption by using network
n
portss that turn o
on and off at administrato
ors
command or eve
en automatic
cally.
se switches also host ap
pplications o
on modules tthat are insta
alled, like an
ny other
Thes
switc
ch module, into the switc
ch chassis. Because the
ese applicatiions are inte
egrated
on modules
m
with
h direct back
kplane accesss, they rece
eive scalable
e, high throu
ughput.
Deploying local applications
s on moduless increases performance
e, reduces
dem
mands on limited branch office space
e, increases standardiza
ation, and sp
peeds
of branch services.
the provisioning
p
HP also
a
provides fixed-port switches witth stacking a
and HP Intelligent Resilient
Fram
mework (IRF
F) for companies that pre
efer this form
mat.
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HP wireless solutionFox River Gaming could replace the non-enterprise

wireless APs with HP MultiService Mobility (MSM) APs, which can be managed by
controllers in the main office or data center. This HP wireless solution can also
secure wireless access for both employees and guests, isolating the two types of
users and applying the appropriate security measures for each.
HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC)Network administrators can use this

single management platform for the entire networking infrastructure. They can
manage branch offices remotely to minimize the need for local IT support for dayto-day operational tasks.
The networking components integrate with the server and storage components
introduced in this course. The HP branch office solution is comprehensive, offering
organizations not only HP hardware and software but also an ecosystem of HP partner
technology and a broad range of support and service offerings.
Key FlexBranch product family features

General features common within each of the routing, switching, or wireless product
segments include:
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FlexBranch routingMSR product options for the branch include:
Modular WAN/LAN interface options (such as T3/E3,T1/E1, xDSL, 802.11n,

3G, GbE, PoE, and OC-3)
Fixed, compact WAN router options
Branch in a box with broad range of integrated services
Router, switch, voice gateway, 3G, WLAN, firewall, and VPN in one box
Real-time failover and system resiliency
FlexBranch switchingSwitching options for the branch include:
Modular chassis with integrated applications or stackable models
OpenFlow support
IRF stacking
Advanced QoS
Client ports/optional 10 GbE uplinks
PoE and PoE+ for investment protection
FlexBranch wirelessWireless options at the branch include:
Direct 802.11 access provided by the MSR900 Series which provides unified
802.11b/g wireless LAN and 3G wireless WAN capabilities
Unified Wired-WLAN switch, such as the 830 Unified Wired-WLAN Switch

Series, for branch or remote offices, controlling as many as 40 to 60 APs
Consistent wired/WLAN user security, policy, and QoS
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nch Office
Support for hundreds off simultaneo

ous guest acccess users
Dual radio 450

4 Mb/s 802.11n APs p
powered by 8
802.3af PoE
E and manag
ged
centrally by a Mobility Controller
C
HP provides a 90-da
ay warranty on
o its softwa
are managem
ment produccts and a one
e-year
to lifetime
e warranty on
o its hardwa
are networkiing productss. For more iinformation, visit
http://h17
7007.www1.hp.com/us/e
en/networkin
ng/support/w
warranty/inde
ex.aspx.
Bran
nch cons
solidatio
on
ering converged solution

ns, HP Netwo
orking shrinks the brancch IT footprin
nt while
By delive
reducing complexity. Deploying service
s
mod ules in HP M
MSR30 Serie
es routers or
5400/820
00 zl Series switches ca
an provide b
branch-in-a-b
box solution
ns.
The HP MSR
M
Open Application
A
Platform
P
(OA
AP) MIM Mo
odule with VM
Mware vSph
here is
an industtry-standard
d open archittecture platfo
orm that pro
ovides the ca
apability to h
host one
or multiple applicatio
ons within the
e networking
g infrastructu
ure.
dules host applications
a
such
s
as WA
AN optimizatiion, firewallss, HP AlliancceOne
OAP mod
applicatio
ons, or otherr VMware-re
eady applica
ations directlyy within an M
MSR. This
integratio
on with the MSR
M
allows companies tto easily dep
ploy branch
h-in-a-box
solutions
s.
The HP MSR
M
OAP MIM
M VMware
e vSphere M
Module is insttalled into an
n HP MSR30
0
Series ro
outer. You ca
an use virtua
alization man
nagement to
ools to quickkly install
applicatio
ons and serv
vices from a remote loca
ation. With th
his high deg
gree of flexib
bility, IT
organizations can qu
uickly deploy
y extended a
application m
monitoring to
o virtually any small
ns:
or medium branch offfice location
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Indu
ustry-leading VMware vS
Sphere virtua
alization plattform
Supp
ports virtualiized Alliance
eOne applica
ations
High
h-performanc
ce, highly sc
calable serviices architeccture
Com
mpact form fa
actor for the MSR30 Serries routers
One Gigabit Ethernet and tw

wo USB portts
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The HP 5400 and 8200 zl Switch Series offer intelligent edge ports (for voice, video,
prioritization, and access control/security) with optional modules that deliver wireless
controller, WAN accelerator, or HP AllianceOne services. The 5400 and 8200 zl Switch
Series both support the same connectivity options. However, the 8200 zl Switch Series
includes redundant management and switching fabric modules, making it a highavailability option.
For a full list of zl Services Modules and AllianceOne solutions, visit:
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/networking/products/applicationdelivery/index.aspx#.Ukw-soZwp14
The HP 5400 zl Switch Series includes a 6-slot chassis and a 12-slot chassis with
associated zl modules. HP also offers some bundles, which include the chassis,
power supply, and several commonly used modules.
The foundation for the switch series is a purpose-built, programmable ProVision ASIC
that supports the most demanding networking features, such as QoS and security.
With 10/100, Gigabit Ethernet, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces; choice of PoE+ and
non-PoE; integrated Layer 3 features; and HP AllianceOne solutions, the 5400 zl
Switch Series offers excellent investment protection, flexibility, and scalability, as well
as ease of deployment, operation, and maintenance.
The HP 8200 zl Switch Series dramatically reduces complexity and reduces ownership
cost. The 8200zl has dual management modules, dual fabric modules, and a passive
backplaneall providing high availability. As part of a unified wired and wireless
network infrastructure solution, the 8200 zl Switch Series provides platform technology,
system software, system management, application integration, wired and wireless
integration, network security, and support that are common across HP modular and
fixed-port switches.
With key technologies to provide solution longevity, the 8200 zl Switch Series delivers
long-term investment protection without added complexity for network core,
aggregation, and high-availability access layer deployments. It also includes a lifetime
warranty for as long as you own the product. (You may be required to provide proof of
purchase or lease as a condition of receiving warranty service.)
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nch Office
Wireless con
ntrollers
s
nefit from a controller-ba

c
ased WLAN architecture
e. This solution
Most entterprises ben
centralize
es device co
onfiguration and manage
ement, and a
automates d
deployment a
and
software distribution.. Controlling APs centrallly makes a network sca
alable, reduccing the
complexiity of manag
me needed to manage a wireless ne
gement, as well
w as the tim
etwork.
In many cases, comp
panies can deploy
d
a wire
eless contro
oller, or team
m of controlle
ers, at
the network core and
d use those controllers tto manage A
APs deployed
d across the
e branch
sites. Ge
enerally, the more centra
alized the so lution, the simpler the so
olution is to
manage. HP wireless
s controllers
s enable com
mpanies to e
enjoy these b
benefits while still
promoting efficient trraffic flow an
nd fewer poin
nts of failure
e. For examp
ple, branch A
APs can
forward employee
e
wiireless traffic
c locally. The
e local APs a
also provide
e survivabilityy for
employee
e wireless access, minim
mizing the rissks of less rreliable WAN
N links.
Some co
ompanies might still prefe
er to deploy a wireless ccontroller, su
uch as the 830
Unified Wired-WLAN
W
N Switch Serries, at the b
branch itself, particularly if the branch is
larger or needs to provide improv
ved, more h ighly availab
ble guest wirreless servicces.
FlexB
Branch security
s
y
Companies need to ensure
e
that their branch
h office netwo
orks do not open backdoors for
unauthorrized access
s to network resources, p
particularly o
ones that falll under data
a
protection regulations. Securing network acccess at remo
ote sites, witth their limite
ed staff,
can pose
e a particularr challenge. The site mig
ght have lesss physical ssecurity, intro
oducing
the risk of
o unauthoriz
zed users co
onnecting to unguarded wall jacks. In addition, a
remote IT
T staff would
d probably sttruggle to re
egulate the ccorrect VLAN
N and netwo
ork
resource
es for each employee.
e
Finally, as alre
eady mentio
oned, users m
might conne
ect
insecure devices suc
ch as their personal sma
art phones, o
opening an u
unmanaged door to
malware and unauthorized acces
ss.
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Companies need a centralized

c
solution
s
not o
only to securre access to
o the networkk but
also to cu
ustomize tha
at access ac
ccording to ccentralized, a
automated p
policies. The
ey also
need to reconfigure
r
insecure
i
dev
vices so thatt they conforrm to network security p
policies.
802.1X user
u
authentication proviides one of tthe most pow
werful ways to control access
and veriffy that only authorized
a
us
sers can use
e network re
esources.
As explained in more
e detail on th
he next page
e, HP wired and wirelesss networking
g
products fully supporrt the 802.1X
X standard fo
or network a
access contrrol (NAC). In
n
addition, HP provides
s an authentication servver for 802.1X in HP Use
er Access Manager
(UAM), a plug-in mod
dule for IMC
C.
802.1
1X
802.1X is
s designed to
t allow both
h wired switcches and wirreless APs to
o act as
authentic
cators, providing per-use
er secure acccess at the edge of a ne
etwork. 802..1X
provides a mechanis
sm for authenticators to vverify credentials (wheth
her
usernam
me/password combination
ns or certificcates) againsst a centralizzed databasse.
802.1X authenticatio
a
on is applied at the users point of acccesseithe
er an Ethernet
switch po
ort or association with a wireless AP
P. As authentticators, swittches and APs act
as gate keepers, re
equiring each
h user to sub
bmit credenttials before permitting any
access. The
T users device
d
does not even recceive a DHC
CP address u
until after the
e users
credentia
als are verifie
ed.
Credentials can be verified
v
again
nst a databa
ase on a RAD
DIUS serverr, or the RAD
DIUS
server ca
an relay the request to an
a Active Dirrectory (AD) or Lightweig
ght Directoryy
Access Protocol
P
(LDAP) server. Supporting A
AD and LDA
AP allows co
ompanies to use the
existing enterprise
e
do
omain or use
er authentic ation databa
ase.
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When the
e RADIUS server
s
verifie
es the accesss requests a
against a cen
ntralized dattabase,
additiona
al centralized
d policies ca
an be applied
d to the userrs session. A
Although HP
P
switches, routers, an
nd APs support many RA
ADIUS serve
ers, two com
mmonly used
d
RADIUS servers are worth noting:
Windows Network Policy Server

S
(NPS
S)The Win
ndows RADIIUS server u
uses AD
he database
e, permitting tight integra
ation with the
e Windows d
domain.
as th
HP UAMAs
U
mentioned
m
ea
arlier, HP pro
ovides its ow
wn authentica
ation server: A
plug-in module for
f HP IMC, UAM provid
des RADIUS server funcctions. Althou
ugh it
can authenticate
e users against its own d
database, it can also authenticate W
Windows
dom
main users to
o AD, using LDAP
L
querie
es.
Either so
olution provid
des a secure
e but highly fflexible solution across tthe main site
e and
all branches:
Swittches and AP
Ps can send authenticattion requestss to the sam
me RADIUS sservers
for a consistent wireless and
d wired soluttion.
Com
mpanies can deploy multtiple NPS se
ervers and im
mplement loa
ad-balancing
g
mec
chanisms. Altternatively, companies
c
ccan deploy a distributed IMC solution in
whic
ch multiple servers support UAM.
RAD
DIUS and ne
etwork admin
nistrators ca n work togetther to creatte policies th
hat
customize users
s connection
ns based on their identityy and a varie
ety of other criteria
such
h as location
n and time. Although
A
NPS
S supports ssuch policiess, non-experrts often
find it difficult to define the correct
c
polici es. UAM pro
ovides clear,, graphical u
utilities
to he
elp network administrato
ors configure
e user accesss policies m
more easily.
FlexM
Management
ws companie
es to manag
ge the comp lete FlexNettwork archite
ecture and sscales
IMC allow
as companies expan
nd to include
e more brancch offices.
und up to su
upport Fault, Configuratio
on, Accounting,
IMC has been built frrom the grou
el for addresssing
Performa
ance, and Se
ecurity (FCA
APS) manag ement, a sta
andard mode
the mana
agement nee
eds of enterprise networrks. IMC con
nsists of a ba
ase platform
m for
delivering
g network re
esource man
nagement ca
apabilities an
nd optional sservice modules for
extending
g IMC functiionality. The figure show
ws where the
e base platfo
orm compone
ents fit
in the FC
CAPS model. You also se
ee the role o
optional servvice moduless, or plug-inss, play.
For exam
mple, as you just learned
d, UAM provvides RADIU
US authentication as parrt of a
powerful 802.1X-bas
sed security solution.
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Learn
ning che
eck
Match the technologies and solu
utions to the benefits tha
at they provid
de for the brranch.
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nch Office
Solu
ution overvie
o
ew
e examined the HP soluttion for bran

nch offices co
omponent by componen
nt. Fox
You have
River Ga
aming now benefits from this particu lar solution:
ProL
Liant ML Gen
n8 servers, which
w
provid
de the same
e set of intelligent manag
gement
featu
ures at the branch
b
that are
a available
e at the main
n office data center
StoreOnce back
kup for imple
ementing effiicient backups across th
he infrastructture
HP network
n
infra
astructure de
evices:
HP 8200 zl switch with optional

o
mod
dules for loccal services
HP MSR with an integra

ated firewall and VPN ca
apabilities fo
or establishin
ng a
secure tunn
nel across the Internet to
o the main offfice
HP MSM AP
Ps that supp
port high-qua
ality, secure wireless serrvices for gu
uests
and employ
yees
A team of MSM
M
Controllers at the m
main office th
hat provide h
high-availability for
wireless serrvices at the branch and
d main office
e
Updated HP clie
ents that worrk within the 802.1X netw
work accesss solution (allthough
the solution
s
could also work
k well with otther clients a company m
might choose
e)
HP printers
p
Note thatt a company

y that does not
n require h
high availabillity at the bra
anch office ccould
use a 5400 zl switch, rather than
n an 8200 zl switch. Also
o, rather than
n using MSM
M
Controlle
ers at the ma
ain office to manage
m
the branch APss, a companyy could insta
all an
MSM 765
5 zl Mobility Controller Module
M
in the
e 8200 zl sw
witch at the b
branch office
e to
manage the APs.
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HP Conve
C
e innov
vation
ns for
bran
nch offfices
mpus or branch.
Most HP Converged Infrastructure innovatio ns benefit any size cam
ures are parrticularly valu
uable for add
dressing the
e challenges of a
Howeverr, some featu
branch office.
o
This module
m
has shown
s
you h
how:
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HP StoreOnce
S
and
a StoreOn
nce Catalyst deduplicatio
on improves performancce and
lowe
ers utilization
n of limited WAN
W
bandw idth.
Intelligent Provis
sioning with the Insight M
Managemen
nt suite enab
bles remote
deployment and manageme
ent of Gen8 sservers.
Flex
xBranch WAN
N acceleratio
on, wireless capabilitiess, and more ccan be delivvered
throu
ugh branch-in-a-box mo
odular and ch
hassis route
ers and switcches. The routers
and switches are
e managed centrally witth IMC and ssecured usin
ng 802.1X an
nd IMC
M.
UAM
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Summary
Together these components address the particular challenges at the branch office,
delivering a variety of benefits. HP Converged Infrastructure innovations:
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Reduce support costs for the new server hardware by providing built-in features
such as Intelligent Provisioning, iLO, and SUM that:
Simplify the initial deployment
Provide remote provisioning, management, and maintenance so that branch

offices receive the IT support they need without requiring on-site staff
Improve the performance and responsiveness of network applications with

applications such as WAN accelerators
Integrate these applications into modules for HP MSRs or HP 8200 or 5400 zl

switches, simplifying the provisioning of branch services and promoting one- or
two-box branch solutions
Improve performance so that employees:
Benefit from the companys investments in network services, enhancing their

productivity
Can keep data on the server, rather than on their individual drives, which, in
turn, better protects that data
Provide both employees and guests with the convenience of wireless access
without compromising network security
Deliver unified management tools such as IMC and its UAM, which enable IT staff
to:
Configure and manage the branch infrastructure from the head office
Secure the network at the edge, configuring customized policies that are
automatically applied to wired and wireless user connections as required
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Module 10
Objectives
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HP at
a Fox River Gamin
ng: Inn
novativ
ve HP
Serv
vices for
f reliable solution
ns
A succes
ssful game platform
p
laun
nch might req
quire Fox Riiver Gaming
g to expand iits
IT infrasttructure and services fas
ster than the
e company ccan scale its IT staff.
This mod
dule provides a brief ove
erview of the
e HP Service
es that delive
er solutions to
individua
al challenges
s and provide
e on-deman
nd support du
uring outage
es, installatio
ons,
or transittions. HP has a global IT
T services in
nfrastructure with a prove
en track reco
ord
ming obtain more business value fro
of helping companies
s such as Fo
ox River Gam
om
their converged infra
astructure.
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P Services, Too
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urces
HP Servic
S
ces
HP Serviices allow co
ompanies to focus on exxpanding and improving their busine
ess
while HP
P handles the
eir IT infrastrructure. As yyou examine
e these serviices over the
e
next pages, considerr how you co
ould apply th
hem to vario
ous environm
ments.
HP Services
S
Applic
cation Services
S
s
nsform legaccy applicatio

ons into the a
agile computting
HP Application Services can tran
ments of the future. HP Application
A
S
Services provvide application consultiing
environm
and application trans
sformation co
onsulting an
nd help comp
panies ration
nalize,
moderniz
ze, develop, integrate an
nd outsource
e their appliccations.
HP has the experience enterpris
ses can rely o
on and a pro
oven track re
ecord
supportin
ng more than
n one million
n application
ns worldwide
e and meetin
ng or exceed
ding
service le
evels 98% of
o the time.
For information on each
h service, visitt: http://www88.hp.com/us/en/businessservices/it--services.htmll?compURI=10
079039
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HP Services
S
Outso
ourcing Service
es
O
Services po
ortfolio includ
des two cate
egories:
The HP Outsourcing
Business Proce
ess Outsou
urcingHP Business Prrocess Outsourcing
serv
vices provide
e the world-c
class proces ses, technollogy, and be
est practices
that are needed to propel an
n organizatio
on forward. H
HP offers fulll-service,
industry-specific
c outsourcing
g solutions fo
for corporatio
ons and the public secto
or.
HP applies
a
proven technolog
gy and usess its econom
mies of scale,, buying pow
wer,
and Best Shore delivery model to reducce costs.
IT In
nfrastructurre Outsourc
cingComp
panies expan
nd their business by
relen
ntlessly focu
using on custtomers and business inn
novation. HP
P Infrastructure
Outs
sourcing helps IT do its part.
p
HP brin
ngs expertise
e, automatio
on, and a Be
est
Shorre delivery model
m
to reduce costs. H
HP provides flexible, ada
aptive
technology and multiple sou
urcing option
ns to help co
ompanies resspond to
chan
nging busine
ess demands
s. HP also h
helps companies reduce risk by
ntinuity of th
ensu
uring the com
mpliance, se
ecurity, and b
business con
heir IT
infra
astructure.
For information on the HP
H Outsourci ng Services o
offerings, visitt:
Business Process Outsourcing: htttp://www8.hp.ccom/us/en/businesss/it-services.httml?compURI =1079461

services
IT Infrasttructure Outso
ourcing Servi ces: http://ww
ww8.hp.com/us
s/en/business
sservices
s/it-services.httml?compURI =1079635
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urces
HP Services
S
Techn
nology Consulti
C
ing
ses are dealing with man

ny IT challen
nges: a rigid infrastructure, old
Business
applicatio
ons, security
y threats, an explosion o
of information and data, custom-built
stacks th
hat are difficu
ult to manag
ge, and shrin
nking budgetts. To respon
nd to these
challenge
es, they are considering
g the new IT opportunitie
es presented
d by cloud,
mobile co
omputing, an
nd big data solutions.
s
HP techn
nology consu
ultants can offer
o
technollogy initiatess that help bu
usinesses
address these challe
enges by:
Build
ding data ce
enters of the future with tthe HP Convverged Infrastructure
Esta
ablishing true
e converged
d cloud solut ions
Implementing da
ata center virtualization a
ation
and automa
Harn
nessing big data
d
for bettter intelligencce
Focu
using on mo
obility to gain
n a competitiive advantag
ge and boosst productivitty
HP consulting servic
ce experts lev
verage a po
ortfolio of serrvices that iss tightly align
ned
with, and
d optimized for,
f the HP enterprise
e
prroduct portfo
olio. These e
experts help to
plan, des
sign, implem
ment, and ope
erate solutio
ons that are built on an H
HP Converged
Infrastruc
cture platform
m and are enabled
e
by c loud-based or shared in
nfrastructures.
The HP consulting
c
se
ervices portffolio includess consulting
g services for obtaining a
converge
ed cloud, enhancing worrkload mobil ity, or implem
menting a big data
solution, as well as consulting
c
se
ervices and cconsulting a
and professio
onal servicess
cts. These sservices inclu
ude data cen
nter, networkk,
focused on HP enterrprise produc
and stora
age consultingall supp
ported by Ed
ducation Serrvices, provid
ding techniccal
training, education co
onsulting, an
nd collabora
ation tools.
n HP Technol ogy Consultin
ng offerings, vvisit:
http://www
w8.hp.com/us/en/busines
ss-services/iitservices.h
html?compURI=1079292
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HP Services
S
Suppo
ort Serv
vices
plified and sttandardized HP Supportt Services offfers supporrt services

The simp
across all technologies uniformly
y in all geogrraphies. In a
addition, HP Automation
provides 24x7 covera
age, proactiv
ve problem prevention, accurate pro
oblem
diagnosis
s, faster problem resoluttion, and inte
eractive sup
pport portals and tools.
These se
ervices form an integral and cost-fre
ee part of the
e HP supporrt relationship.
HP netwo
orking produ
ucts set the highest stan
ndards for qu
uality and reliability. The
ey
ship with
h the industry
y-leading pro
oduct warran
nties for which HP has b
become know
wn.
From com
mpetitive one-year warra
anties to ind
dustry-leadin
ng lifetime wa
arranties (fo
or
as long as
a you own the
t product), HP networ king productt warranties complemen
nt a
broad po
ortfolio of HP
P services to meet your n
needs more effectively.
For moree information onn HP networkinng product warrranties, visit:
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/n
networking/su
upport/warrantty/index.aspx
For moree information onn HP Support S

Services, visit:
http://ww
ww8.hp.com/u
us/en/business
s-services/itservices
s.html?compU
URI=1079286
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ols, and Resou
urces
Conffidently evolve to
t HP Co
onverge
ed Cloud
d
m
enterpris
se organizattions are mo
oving beyond
d investigating the cloud
d to
Today, most
adopting cloud techn
nologies so that
t
they can
n increase re
evenue and gain
competitive advantag
ge. Most org
ganizations w
will need to iimplement a hybrid
delivery strategy
s
thatt leverages cloud
c
servic es as part o
of a larger IT delivery and
d
consump
ption strategy
y. HP can he
elp organiza
ations achievve this strate
egy in the wa
ays
that mak
ke most sens
se for them.
HP experts can help organizations understa nd all aspeccts of cloud m
models,
analyze the
t current state
s
of theirr IT infrastruccture and prrocesses, an
nd plan for th
he
future. When
W
a comp
pany is ready
y, the expertts help to de
esign and bu
uild a cloud
solution based
b
on sp
pecific busine
ess needs
and they ca
an continue tto help operrate
the solution and adapt the solutio
on to meet n
new businesss needs. HP
P can help a
an
organization understtand the tech
hnologies be
ehind various cloud mod
dels and the
implicatio
ons of a specific strategy
y for a busin
ness. HP exp
perts can alsso aid in
identifyin
ng the people
e and proces
sses needed
d to make a solution work.
To help an
a organization quickly design
d
and b
build a securre cloud envvironment, H
HP
offers pre
edefined, pre
e-scoped, tim
me-bounded
d sets of sho
ort-term Clou
udSystem
consultin
ng and imple
ementation services
s
such
h as CloudS
Start. Specific cloud
protection services help
h
organiza
ations imple ment integra
ated securityy for their clo
oud
ments while application
a
transformatio
on services h
help compan
nies take
environm
advantag
ge of their cloud solution
ns with worklload analysis and appliccation
moderniz
zation.
After the cloud enviro
onment is bu
uilt, full supp
port for the h
hybrid enviro
onment,
g both hardw
ware and softtware servicces, become
es critical. HP
P Datacente
er
including
Care, a comprehens
c
ive, relations
ship-based sservice, offe
ers end-to-en
nd, customizzed
support for
f an existin
ng IT environ
nment and, a
at the same time, aids ccompanies on
e offers inno
the journ
ney to the clo
oud. HP Data
acenter Care
ovative capa
abilities such
h as
custom call
c handling and relation
nship manag
gement, an o
optional ope
erational
expense (OPEX) mo
odel that prov
vides on-pre
emise burstin
ng, and options for
multivend
dor and multi-sourcing managemen
m
t.
In additio
on, HP Educ
cation Servic
ces offer train
ning and sim
mulations on cloud
solutions
s to help orga
anizations manage
m
theirr cloud soluttions, change their
processe
es, and train their staff to
o better adap
pt to businesss needs.
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HP Services
S
website
e
For additio
onal informatio
on on HP con
nsulting, outso
ourcing, and ssupport
services, visit:
v
http://ww
ww.hp.com/g
go/services
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HP tools
t
and
a res
source
es
In the ne
ext pages, yo
ou explore th
he many too
ols and resou
urces that HP places at
your disp
posal.
HP Networki
N
ing Swittch Selector
working Switc
ch Selector is
i a web-bassed tool thatt helps you sselect the
HP Netw
correct HP
H networkin
ng product based on spe
ecific require
ements, such
h as:
Swittch typefixed-port or modular

m
Portt count
Man
nagement ca
apabilities
fully manag
ged, smart m
managed, orr unmanaged
Rou
uting and sw
witching cap
pabilities
Layer 3 Advvanced (supp
port for
featu
ures such as
s OSPF and BGP), Laye
er 3 RIP, Layyer 3 Lite, orr Layer 2 only
Pred
dominant po
ort type10
0GbE, Giga bit copper, G
Gigabit fiber,, or Fast
Ethe
ernet
Uplink speed and media

10/100/100 0 copper, 10
00MB fiber, 1000MB fibe
er,
1
fiberr, and 40GbE
E fiber
10GbE copper, 10GbE
FeatturesPoE support, Po
oE+ support,, Fanless op
peration, bassic support fo
or
IPv6
6 (such as an
n IPv6 mana
agement add
dress), IPv6 routing capabilities, and
d
OpenFlow suppo
ort (permittin
ng integratio
on with a Sofftware-Defin
ned Networking
[SDN
N] solution)
High
h availabilityRedunda
ant power, re
edundant fabric, replace
eable fans, a
and
stacking supportt (including support
s
for I ntelligent Re
esilient Fram
mework [IRF])
You can ac
ccess the HP Networking S
Switch Selecttor tool at:
http://h170
007.www1.hp
p.com/us/en /networking//products/sw
witches/selec
ct
or/index.a
aspx
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HP Simple
S
Configur
C
rator
ple Configura
ator is a guid
ded self-servvice tool to h
help sales an
nd nonHP Simp
technicall people prov
vide customers with initiial configura
ations in thre
ee to five
minutes. You may then send the configuratio
on to HP for special pricing or
configura
ation help, or you may use the config
guration in yyour existing
g ordering
processe
es.
You can ac
ccess the HP Simple Conffigurator tool a
at:
http://h221
174.www2.hp
p.com/SimpllifiedConfig/Index
HP Unified
U
Sizer
S
for Server Virtualizzation
U
Sizer for Server Virtualizatio n is an automated, downloadable to
ool
The HP Unified
that guides users tow
ward the HP server and storage con
nfigurations tthat best fit tthe
needs off specific virttualized enviironments.
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ols, and Resou
urces
The HP Unified
U
Sizer for Server Virtualizatio n allows use
ers to enter iinformation
about an
n environmen
nts current servers
s
in a new solution
n, which the
ey can save a
and
open aga
ain later. The
e tool also le
ets users imp
port information from pe
erformance d
data
collecting
g tools, such
h as the Micrrosoft Assesssment and P
Planning too
ol (MAP), so
they can better repre
esent the req
quirements ffor the serve
ers. Based on this
chly detailed
d recommendations for vvirtual server
information, the tool produces ric
configura
ations built on
o HP serverr and storag e solutions. The tool allo
ows rapid
comparis
son of virtualized solutions using varrious HP serrver and storage choicess,
and it offfers a choice
e of VMware vSphere orr Microsoft H
Hyper-V virtu
ualization
technologies.
he tool produ
uces a custo
omizable serrver and storage solution complete
Finally, th
with a de
etailed bill off materials (B
BOM) that in
ncludes part numbers an
nd prices.
You can ac
ccess the HP Unified Sizerr for Server V
Virtualization a
at:
http://h710
019.www7.hp
p.com/Active
eAnswers/us
s/en/sizers/u
unified-sizerserver-virttualization.h
html
HP Power
P
Ad
dvisor
P
Advis
sor tool helps
s users estim
mate power consumption and selectt
The HP Power
the prope
er power com
mponents att a system, rrack, and mu
ulti-rack leve
el. A variety o
of
additiona
al features are also provided, includiing a conden
nsed BOM, a cost of
ownership calculatorr, and a power report.
er Advisor is a download
dable, Windo
ows-based a
application th
hat operatess on
HP Powe
your desktop.
You can ac
ccess HP Pow
wer Advisor a
at:
http://www
w.hp.com/go
o/HPPowerAd
dvisor
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HP Networki
N
ing Online Conffiguratorr
working Onlin
ne Configura
ator enables you to quickkly and easily create price
HP Netw
quotation
ns for HP ne
etworking pro
oducts using
g your web b
browser. You
u can save
quotation
n files to you
ur hard drive or export th
hem in severral formats in
ncluding
Microsoftt Excel.
You can ac
ccess the HP Networking O
Online Config
gurator at:
http://h170
007.www1.hp
p.com/th/en//products/co
onfigurator/in
ndex.aspx
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HP
P Services, Too
ols, and Resou
urces
HP Storage
S
Sizer
S
S
Size
er is a downloadable sizzing tool thatt helps you d
design a
The HP Storage
storage infrastructure
e to meet sp
pecific needss. It:
Simp
plifies the prrocess of des
signing a sto
orage solutio
on
Appllies storage design, licen

nsing, and sservice ruless
Prod
duces a valid
d, supported
d configuratio
on
Prov
vides localize
ed parts and
d pricing for A
Americas, A
APJ, and EM
MEA
Enco
ompasses th
he HP Storage family
Updates at everry new produ

uct launch
You can ac
ccess the HP Storage Size
er at:
http://h301
144.www3.hp
p.com/SWDS
SizerWeb/
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Othe
er sizers
eAnswers is
s an online portal
p
that pro
rovides vario
ous tools to h
help you
HP Active
configure
e, size, use, and analyze
e the perform
mance of HP
P products a
and solutionss.
ActiveAn
nswers solution sizers arre automated
d tools that h
help you ma
anage the sizze
and scop
pe of a solution environm
ment. The sizzing informa
ation and alg
gorithms are
based on
n testing and
d performanc
ce data from
m a wide range of HP servers runnin
ng
solutions
s from HP pa
artners such as Citrix, Lo
otus, Microsoft, and VMw
ware. These
e
tools provide a consiistent metho
odology for d
determining tthe best servver for an
environm
ment.
You download the siz
zers, freely accessible
a
o
on the HP we
ebsite, and rrun them on
your PC.
You can ac
ccess ActiveA
Answers sizerrs at:
http://www
w.hp.com/solutions/activ
veanswers
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P Services, Too
ols, and Resou
urces
SPOC
CK
S
Point of Connectiivity Knowled
dge (SPOCK
K) portal pro
ovides detailed
The HP Single
information about supported HP storage pro
oduct configu
urations.
d an HP Pas
ssport accou
unt to enter tthe SPOCK website.
You need
You can ac
ccess SPOCK
K at: http://h2
20272.www2
2.hp.com/
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Soluttion Dem
mo Portal
S
Dem
mo Portal prrovides a cen
ntral location
n for all dem
monstrations,,
The HP Solution
webinars
s, and suppo
orting collate
eral that show
wcase how H
HP technolo
ogies lead,
innovate, and transfo
orm enterpris
se businesss. Live and p
prerecorded demonstrations
feature HP
H hardware
e, software, services,
s
an d partnershiips in an excciting
multimed
dia format, illlustrating ho
ow HP can h
help solve bu
usiness and IT problemss.
You can ac
ccess the Solution Demo P
Portal at:
http://www
w.hp.com/go
o/solutiondem
moportal
HP Converge
C
ed Infras
structurre Capab
bility Mo
odel
As data centers
c
beco
ome more co
omplex, the time, risk, a
and cost to d
deliver IT
projects increase. It can
c take sev
veral monthss to bring ne
ew applicatio
ons online.
These long delays re
estrict busine
ess agility. B
Business app
plication own
ners need to
o
achieve faster
f
time to
o value, quic
cker returns on technolo
ogy investme
ents, and be
etter
service le
evels. But to
oo often, IT cannot
c
meett these need
ds in a timelyy, cost-effecttive
manner. To achieve their
t
goals, customers
c
n
need to simp
plify their exissting
environm
ment and mo
ove the freed
d resources tto more stra
ategic or inno
ovative
projects.
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To overcome IT sprawl and improve business outcomes, data centers need to

make fundamental changes. An HP Converged Infrastructure provides an
architecture founded on shared-service management; a highly flexible system and
network fabric; adaptive, modular resource pools; and intelligent energy
management. The converged infrastructure does not only transform data center
systems and technologies. It can also transform facilities in terms of design,
construction, operations, staffing, and processes. The organization should work
toward developing metrics that effectively capture how the data center adds true
value to both top-line contributions and expenses that affect the bottom line.
Many leading analysts agree that the next-generation data center must improve IT
in three waysenhancing operational efficiency, delivering quality of service
(QoS), and accelerating IT projects. A successful plan for a next-generation data
center requires both a tactical and a strategic dimension. Tactically, organizations
need to break down the IT silos by standardizing, modularizing, and virtualizing the
IT environment. At the same time they need to automate error-prone manual
processes and simplify and tighten management control. Strategically,
organizations need to change how IT interacts with their businessbringing
together people, processes, and technology.
HP understands how these tactical and strategic dimensions relate to and depend
on each other. HP also knows that customers have specific needs and objectives.
HP has brought these considerations together in the HP Converged Infrastructure
Capability Model (CI-CM).
HP CI-CM helps organizations develop their own road map for transitioning to a
converged infrastructure.
HP CI-CM uses a realistic and structured approach, which is based on business
and IT objectives and on quantitative metrics. It assesses the current state of a
data center, and it helps define a high-level, customized roadmap of suggested
next steps and recommended projects to meet overall business and IT priorities.
HP CI-CM bases recommendations on HP research and industry best practices for
optimizing the generally accepted metrics: operational efficiency, QoS, and IT
agility. The roadmap that it delivers helps customers move toward a nextgeneration data center that meets their business needs.
Note
HP CI-CM is a restricted tool. It is available only to HP employees to conduct a
capability assessment for a customer jointly with a qualified HP channel
partner. It is important, however, that partner and customer communities are
aware of and understand this tool and its capabilities.
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HP Enterpris
E
se ROI
s the HP Bus
siness Value
e Selling Suiite develope
ed
HP Enterrprise ROI is
independ
dently by the
e leading IT research
r
firm
m Internation
nal Data Corporation (ID
DC)
and the leading ROI tool develop
per Alinean, Inc. This an
nalysis tool h
helps
customers examine opportunities
o
s and quant ify potential benefits from
m
implementing severa
al HP busine
ess and IT so
olutions. Ana
alysis tools include:
HP Networking
N
Campus
C
LAN
N Calculatorr
HP Networking
N
Data
D
Centerr Calculator
HP BladeSystem
B
m TCO Analy
ysis
HP Moonshot
M
TC
CO Calculattor
HP Client
C
Virtualization ROI Calculator
HP ProLiant
P
Sca
alable Systems ROI Ana
alysis
HP Integrity Sys
stems TCO-R
ROI Calculattor
ProL
Liant ROI Ca
alculator
HP CloudSystem
C
m Matrix RO
OI Analysis a nd TCO Callculator
HP Software
S
Arc
cSight ROI Analyst
A
HP Software
S
Tip
ppingPoint ROI
R Analyst
HP 3PAR
3
StoreS
Serv TCO As
ssessment T
Tool
You can ac
ccess the Rac
ck to Blades S
System TCO Calculator att:
https://alin
nean.austin.hp.com/rack
k2bladesyste
em/tco/launc
ch.html
You can ac
ccess the Entterprise ROI ttool at:
http://roianalyst.hp.co
om/roianalystt/Authentica
ateLogin.do
Note
Some analy
yses might be
e restricted to
o HP employe
ees and selectt partners. It iis
important, however,
h
that partner and ccustomer com
mmunities are
e aware of and
understand these tools and
a their capa
abilities. To sa
ave and access analyses
and to printt reports, you must have orr create an acccount.
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P Services, Too
ols, and Resou
urces
HP CloudSys
C
stem TC
CO Calcu
ulator
dSystem is Infrastructur
I
e-as-a-Servvice (IaaS) fo
or private and hybrid cloud
HP Cloud
environm
ments. The CloudSystem
C
m TCO Calcu
ulator has be
een tailored to show the
business
s value of mo
oving beyond a tradition al IT environ
nment and in
nto delivering a
true IaaS
S model.
Using sta
andard assu
umptions abo
out your envvironment, it enables you
u to see the
impact off the transitio
on. Unlike other modelss, it helps you
u understand the cost
associate
ed with Doin
ng Nothing vs. moving forward with
h CloudSyste
em. The
difference in cost of ownership
o
between
b
the two is the lo
ost opportun
nity, moneyy
that could be reinves
sted into you
ur organizatio
on.
nd should be
e used as a ffirst step tow
wards
This is a high level calculator, an
understa
anding the ROI (Return on
o Investme nt) and TCO
O (Total Costt of Ownersh
hip)
possible from investing in HP Clo
oudSystem.
You can ac
ccess the HP CloudSystem
m TCO Calculator at:
http://www
w8.hp.com/us/en/cloudsy
ystem-matrix
x/tco-calcula
ator.html
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ucture
Personalized
d Cloud Assess
sment
sonalized Cloud Assessm

ment evalua
ates a compa
anys readin
ness for a clo
oud
The Pers
solution based
b
on responses to questions
q
ab
bout the currrent infrastru
ucture and IT
T
processe
es. The asse
essment con
ntains 15 que
estions. Whe
en it is comp
pleted, a
customiz
zed cloud rec
commendatiion email is generated (iif the compa
anys
information and an email
e
addres
ss are provid
ded).
You can ac
ccess the Perrsonalized Clo
oud Assessm
ment at:
http://h410
085.www4.hp
p.com/hp-clo
oud-assessm
menttool2/Form
mGenerator.p
php
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ols, and Resou
urces
Activ
veAnswe
ers
ActiveAn
nswers is the
e online solutions portal where HP shares its experience and
best prac
ctices for pla
anning, deplo
oyment, and
d operation o
of enterprise
e solutions. It
includes up-to-date technical
t
info
ormation, the
e system co
onfigurator, sserver sizerss,
and stora
age and perfformance tools.
You can ac
ccess HP ActiveAnswers a
at:
http://www
w.hp.com/solutions/activ
veanswers
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ucture
Prod
duct Bullletin, Qu
uickSpecs, and Product Data S
Sheets
duct Bulletin website, ac

ccessible from
m your deskktop or mobile device, iss a
The Prod
convenie
ent central re
esource prov
viding techniical overview
ws and speccifications for
HP hardw
ware and so
oftware.
It contain
ns:
Quic
ckSpecs
Prod
duct data she
eets
Prod
duct photo lib
brary
From this
s website, yo
ou can also download th
he Product B
Bulletin appliication and
install it on
o your desk
ktop.
You can ac
ccess the HP Product Bulle
etin website, QuickSpecs, and product
data sheetts at: http://w
www.hp.com//go/quickspe
ecs
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P Services, Too
ols, and Resou
urces
HP FlexNetw
F
work Dro
opbox
F
k Dropbox giives you up--to-date acce
ess to multip
ple resources
The HP FlexNetwork
for HP FllexNetwork solutions.
s
Ev
very time yo
ou access the
e tool, you w
will
automatically be able
e to downloa
ad the latestt information.
pbox contain
ns the latest sales and m
marketing too
ols as well a
as other usefful
The Drop
information. It can be
e accessed through
t
a PC
C, laptop, ta
ablet, or sma
artphone. Three
views intto the system
m provide va
arying levels of detail spe
ecific for eacch of these
types of user:
HP partnersR
p
Register usin
ng code hpn
npartner and your comp
pany email
addrress.
HP EG
E Accountt General Manager
M
(AG
GM)/Enterprrise Accoun
nt Manager
(EAM
M)Registe
er using yourr HP email a
address.
HPN
N Sales Spe
ecialistsRe
egister using
g your HP email addresss.
You can ac
ccess the HP FlexNetworkk Dropbox at:
http://www
w.hp.com/networking/cha
annel-dropb
box
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ay's IT Infrastru
ucture
Sum
mmary
This course has intro
oduced many innovative
e HP technollogies, produ
ucts, platform
ms,
and soluttions by illus
strating how they integra
ate to deliverr a highly avvailable,
responsiv
ve, and agile
e converged
d infrastructu
ure. By pursu
uing certifica
ations on HP
P
server, sttorage, netw
working, or converged in frastructure platforms, yyou can expa
and
your knowledge of in
ndividual HP products an
nd solutions that fit within the industryleading HP
H Converge
ed Infrastruc
cture. There is much mo
ore to learn.
Learner su
urvey
After com
mpleting this training, you should recceive a learn
ning evaluatiion survey frrom
Hewlett Packard
P
via Knowledge Advisors/Me
etrics That M
Matter. Pleasse take a few
w
minutes to
t share with
h us your ev
valuation of tthis training. In particular, we would like
to know whether
w
this
s training app
pealed to yo
ou, met its ob
bjectives, an
nd provided
value to you.
y
Your feedback will be instrume
ental in makin
ng future improvementss.
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Module 1 Introduction .............................................................. M1 1

Explain why traditional IT no longer meets the requirements of todays

List and describe traditional IT challenges

Articulate where companies are investing in IT to grow their business

Describe three major IT trends:

Explain why IT is converging previously siloed technologies and what the

Describe how an HP Converged Infrastructure provides a foundation to cloud

Module 2 Meeting Fundamental Data Center Needs ............. M2 1

Define the characteristics and goals of a data center

Identify typical challenges IT staff must overcome

Recognize several HP technologies and product families designed to provide

Module 3 Business-Critical Data Center................................. M3 1

Define the characteristics and goals of a business-critical data center

Identify challenges emphasized by a mission-critical or business-critical

Recognize HP technologies designed to address the specific needs of a

Module 4 Branch Office............................................................ M4 1

Identify HP innovations that ease the burden on IT infrastructure and staff

Describe a branch office deployment leveraging HP solutions

HP Innovations for Today's IT Infrastructure

Module 5 Data Center at Capacity ........................................... M5 1

Identify the challenges facing expanding data centers

Module 6 Workload and Workforce Mobility .......................... M6 1

Define workload mobility

Define workforce mobility

Identify HP innovations that overcome challenges to implementing mobility

Module 7 Information Optimization and Business Intelligence

Explain the information optimization and business intelligence needs of Fox

Define real-time analytics and big data

Describe HP technologies, products, and solutions specifically targeted at

Module 8 Cloud ......................................................................... M8 1

Explain the automated infrastructure, platform, and application provisioning

Define cloud computing and related terms

Explain different cloud service and deployment models

Describe HP technologies, products, and solutions specifically targeted at

Module 9 HP Services, Tools, and Resources ....................... M9 1

List and describe HP consulting, outsourcing, and support services

List, position, and describe HP tools and resources

Explain why traditional IT no longer meets the requirements of todays

List and describe traditional IT challenges

Articulate where companies are investing in IT to grow their business

Describe three major IT trends:

Explain why IT is converging previously siloed technologies and what the

Describe how an HP Converged Infrastructure provides a foundation to cloud

HP Innovations for Today's IT Infrastructure

About the course

Traditional IT infrastructure challenges

Typical siloed IT Infrastructure is:

Too complexIT sprawl remains a common phenomenon created by years

Too slow to keep up with the speed of businessYou need an

HP Innovations for Today's IT Infrastructure

Standardization and consolidationMany companies have multiple

VirtualizationServer virtualization provides another way for companies to

AutomationBusinesses increasingly rely on their network resources, and

Cloud computingCloud computing lets customers request services on

IT convergenceNew types of traffic are converging on the IT infrastructure.

IT infrastructure-wide managementCompanies cannot obtain the

SecurityEnterprises must secure the IT resources in which they have

Mission-critical computingA data center that supports mission-critical

Big data and information optimizationInformation is at the core of the