HP offers the industry's broadest portfolio of blade servers and technologies optimized to address customers' needs. The ProLiant BL20p G2 is a performance dual-processor server blade engineered for the enterprise. The ProLiant BL20p G2 delivers high-performance Intel Xeon processors, SAN storage capability, up to 8 GB of PC 2100 DDR memory and gigabit NICs standard.

The ProLiant BL20p G2 delivers optional Fiber Channel support for SAN implementations and clustering capabilities. Through the implementation of a SAN with the ProLiant BL20p G2, customers can achieve improved data availability, easily scale capacity, and realize management cost savings from consolidating disk resources. In addition, with HP's fusion of SAN and NAS (Network Attached Storage), customers can design a storage architecture that incorporates application, database and file serving solution functionality. Fiber Channel capability is achieved using a Dual Port Fiber Channel Mezzanine Card, specifically designed for the ProLiant BL20p G2. The ProLiant BL20p G2 is optimized for HP StorageWorks and compatible with EMC and Hitachi SANs.