hp server | rp8400 |

IT managers will welcome the flexibility and efficiency of the HP rp8400. Its best-in-class dynamic partitioning and workload management solutions allow managers to adjust computing resources to workload requirements, and its optimized form factor delivers industry leading performance density along with the lowest operational costs in the midrange market.

Features

• Leading midrange performance with industry leading PA-8700 or PA-8700+ processors and high-end cell-based technology


• Industry leading high availability features


• Enterprise proven HP-UX 11i operating environments


• Industry's most complete partitioning continuum with hardware and virtual partitions as well as goal-based workload management (WLM)


• Industry's highest performance density (with two servers per industry-standard two-meter rack)


• Innovative utility pricing (pay-per-use, instant capacity on demand, and pay-per-forecast)


• Unprecedented investment protection through in-box upgrades


• Innovative financing programs


• Industry leading services and support to build your always on infrastructure

Benefits

• Easily handles the most demanding business workloads


• Unprecedented reliability to protect your business from unforgiving interruptions


• Superior performance, rock-solid security, and unmatched functionality demanded in mission critical environments


• Maximum utilization of your computing resources and improved return on investment


• Reduced operational costs


• Enables infrastructure alignment cost with customer business cycles
  
• Keeps your investment on the leading edge of midrange computing technology


• Reduced time to solution deployment; proactive and reactive support services ensure availability and reliability of IT environments

Technical Specifications - Performance/Scalability/Flexibility

• 2-16 PA-RISC CPUs


• PA-8700 (750 MHz)


• PA-8700+ (875 MHz)


• 1-4 cell boards (each cell: 2 or 4 CPUs and 2 to 16GB memory)


• Up to 2 hardware partitions (nPars) and up to 16 virtual partitions(vPars)


• HP-UX workload management (WLM) software


• 2 to 128GB memory capacity*


• 16 PCI hot-plug I/O card slots


• Future upgrade to PCI-X


• 32GB/s crossbar bandwidth and 8.5GB/s aggregate PCI bus bandwidth


• Rack or standalone server solutions


• 4 internal hot-plug disk bays and 2 internal removable media bays(DVD or DAT)


• 6 hot-swap, redundant power supplies


• 2 or 4 power cords (2 minimum, 4 for use with 2 grids)


• Hot-swap, redundant cooling fans