Compaq 112726-001 - ProLiant - 6500 White Paper
Compaq servers: enterprise class performance leading the way to deschutes and merced
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April 1998
Compaq Computer
Corporation
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O N T E N T S
Executive Summary ........ 1
Introduction.................... 3
Compaq Servers Equal
Integration Excellence .... 3
Scalability ............................ 3
High Availability.................... 4
Integrated Mgmt. Solutions .... 5
Total Cost of Ownership ........ 6
The Compaq
Connection to Next-
Generation
Processing ..................... 7
Compaq & Corollary .............. 7
Compaq & Deschutes ............ 7
Compaq & Merced ................ 9
Summary ...................... 10
Doc.No. ECG078/0498
WHITE PAPER
Compaq Servers: Enterprise Class
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Systems Leading the Way to Deschutes
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Executive Summary
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Today's computing environments call for balanced systems that are built for high performance,
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high availability, and high scalability. They call for the flexibility and cost advantages of
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industry-standard platforms. And they call for advanced tools and services and integrated
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management solutions to help customers control their growing environment and lead the way to
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future technology. Today's computing environments call for a leader - and that leader is Compaq.
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Compaq has a proven track record as a leader in server platforms. The company provides the
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highest levels of scalability in the industry on Intel platforms. Compaq also offers five levels of
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availability solutions in order to meet its customers' requirements. In addition, Compaq provides
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integrated management solutions and strong partnerships to ensure that its systems are the most
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manageable and cost-effective in customers' environments.
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With leadership that delivers integrated, powerful, highly available and scalable platforms,
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Compaq is able to provide the newest technology to improve the performance and control of its
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systems. This new technology includes 8-way processing. Combining Compaq's own systems
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engineering expertise with Corollary's innovative Profusion architecture and Intel's next-
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generation Deschutes processors, Compaq is taking 8-way standards-based servers into the
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forefront of enterprise technology.
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Compaq also plans a seamless transition to Intel's Merced 64-bit processor. Compaq will be the
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leading supplier of Merced-based products and expects to ships systems with Intel's first Merced
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production processor.
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By effectively meeting customers' needs in the past with its industry-standard server platforms
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and committing to future customer needs with the next-generation technology, Compaq's track
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record as an enterprise class performer will continue to be unbeatable.
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- Page 1 Today's computing environments call for a leader - and that leader is Compaq. Integrated Mgmt. Solutions ..5 Compaq has a proven track record as a leader in server platforms. The company provides the Total Cost of Ownership ..6 highest levels of scalability in the industry on Intel platforms.
- Page 2 PageMate, SoftPaq, FirstPaq, SolutionPaq, EasyPoint, EZ Help, MaxLight, MultiLock, QuickBlank, QuickLock, UltraView, Innovate logo, Wonder Tools logo in black/white and color, and Compaq PC Card Solution logo are trademarks and/or service marks of Compaq Computer Corporation. Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, Windows NT Advanced Server, SQL Server for Windows NT are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
- Page 3 Nearly 2 million servers shipped. More than 1 billion transactions processed in one day. Providing more than twice as many servers in the worldwide market than the nearest competitor in the first three quarters of 1997. This is the Compaq story as a leader in providing server integration excellence.
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Page 4: High Availability
High availability is also required for database servers to support applications that are required to be available around the clock to support critical business needs. Compaq uses five levels of availability spanning a wide spectrum of availability requirements to design solutions tailored to each customer's environment. -
Page 5: Software Reliability
Recovery, therefore, is very rapid. Performance Scalability clusters are available now from Compaq for Unix, including Tandem Unix, and will be available in 1999 for NT. Level 5 HA solutions, also known as Geographically Dispersed Clusters (GDC), are single clusters, a collection of servers connected by a very high speed interconnect and sharing a single heartbeat. -
Page 6: Total Cost Of Ownership
Internet, by modem, or from CD, so they have continual access to the latest versions but manage upgrades to meet their needs. And soon, Compaq will use the Internet to offer proactive, automatic notification of the latest revisions of Compaq software, firmware, drivers, and technical support information relevant to customers’... - Page 7 Hot Plug technology to enhance this 8-way architecture. Intel was so impressed with this jointly developed architecture, they recently purchased Corollary. By entering this technology agreement, Compaq and Corollary are ready to take full advantage of the Deschutes/Slot-2 processor in SMP servers. The combination of Compaq's I/O design with Corollary's Profusion system controller and the next-generation Deschutes/Slot-2 processor by Intel will yield a balanced, high-performance 8-way system architecture for the first time.
- Page 8 To take advantage of this next-generation technology and to allow a growth path for the future, Compaq engineers specifically designed the subsystems of the ProLiant 3000 with the flexibility to accommodate future needs for the Deschutes/Slot-1 processor and the ProLiant 7000 for the Deschutes/Slot-2 processor and for up to 8-way Deschutes/Slot-2 configurations.
- Page 9 Merced, Intel drove the definition of the external interfaces, working with Compaq, Sequent, and other key customers as well as with HP. Once the interface definition was complete, these vendors had the same early access to Merced documentation that HP did.”...
- Page 10 Summary Compaq's industry-standard server platforms with high scalability, high availability, integrated management solutions, and total cost of ownership illustrate that Compaq is the leading supplier and number one customer choice in enterprise class servers. This leadership will enable Compaq to provide a seamless transition to next-generation technology that includes Deschutes and Merced.