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HP today introduced the new HP ProLiant G6 server line, which delivers double the performance of previous generations, enabling customers to get more value out of every IT dollar.

The HP ProLiant G6 line’s advances in energy efficiency, virtualization and automation, make it ideal for all customers. These innovations are combined with comprehensive financing programs and service offerings to redefine server economics. The new HP ProLiant G6 servers are available in 11 standards-based tower, rack and blade platforms. This represents the largest HP ProLiant rollout in company history.

“Now more than ever, customers want the best possible return on their server investments,” said Christine Reischl, senior vice president and general manager, Industry Standard Servers, HP. “Building on HP’s long history of hardware and software development, G6 brings together the best HP innovations in energy efficiency, virtualization and services to enable our customers to do more with less.”

I’m genuinely excited about these announcements for a number of reasons, I remain a fan of the rack server, it’s always nice to see how we can continue to evolve it (recognizing blades might not be for every situation and every customer). I started off with Compaq Proliants and learned on the HP Proliants, it’s nice to see how they’ve changed over the years (I can remember the revelation that was the ILO when we first encountered it).  It was nice therefore to have a chat with the HP guys about their G6 series servers.

The new G6 servers are based on the new Intel Xeon processor, and have a number of cool improvements, in which they have brought innovations from their blade servers to their rack mount servers. As part of this, they key things are:

• Common power slot design bringing common power supplies options to the server range, so a change from the DL360/380 power supply, to a power supply that fits both servers allowing you to choose the appropriate on, which is meant to bring real energy efficiency savings.
• Sea of sensors – this is the concept in which 32 smart sensors manage the amount of power used in the server to regulate the fans and power consumed, reducing unnecessary power utilization.
• Onboard Administrator – brings new functionality to ease setup and provide system health status independently of the operating system. This is something I need to play with, I have heard good things about it from colleagues using it on the HP blades, I wonder what it will be like on the Proliant rack servers.

It will be interesting to see how these servers perform in comparison to their counterparts, and the previous generation systems, I wonder how much more efficient they are in comparison. I’m off to read up more.

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