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HP expands upon the industry’s first mission-critical Converged Infrastructure with enhancements to the Serviceguard Solutions portfolio for Integrity and HP-UX operating environment.

Enhanced HP Serviceguard Solutions 11.20 availability software, combined with the recent release of HP-UX 11i v3 Update 7, enables clients to:

—    Reduce manual configuration efforts by approximately 93 percent⁽¹⁾ with the new HP Serviceguard Extension for Oracle e-Business Suite. It provides automated configuration services for more than 200 tightly integrated applications, including financial services, customer relationship management applications and interrelated components such as storage and networking.

—    Achieve improved database manageability with the new HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Oracle Data Guard. This solution is intended to provide robust high availability for Data Guard with zero custom coding given the need of Oracle database administrators for uninterrupted access to this critical application-management tool.

—    Simplify clustering with new graphical wizards in Serviceguard Manager. These graphical wizards can enable the creation of a complete cluster, including storage and networking, in about a minute. Additionally, the new Cluster Verification for HP Serviceguard provides confirmation that clusters are configured properly.

—    Restart multi-instance applications such as Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and SAP up to 90 percent⁽²⁾ faster with enhanced Serviceguard performance. In particular, Serviceguard has been designed to load cluster packages simultaneously on all nodes instead of sequentially for rapid start up of the entire Oracle RAC stack, helping to ensuring critical applications are back up and running as quickly as possible.

HP continue to make progress in the concept of converged infrastructure, a topic that I know has many CIOs talking, more from a deployment and make it work principle than anything else. Anything the vendors can do to aid with the interactivity of the different layers of the infrastructure, to make reporting, management and application or infrastructure deployments easier and faster has to be a good thing for competition within the industry and IT as an enhancement tool rather than something which ‘needs fixed’.

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