HP offers the industry's broadest portfolio of blade servers and technologies optimized to address customers' needs. The new ProLiant BL20p G3 is a performance dual-processor server blade engineered for the enterprise. The ProLiant BL20p G3 delivers high performance Intel 3.6GHz/800MHz Xeon processors available with 2M L2 cache , SAN storage capability, up to 8GB of PC 3200 DDR2 memory and four gigabit NICs standard. The new ProLiant BL20p G3 shares the same infrastructure components as the BL20pG2, BL30p, and BL40p (Note: Some models may require the BL p-class server blade enclosure with enhanced backplane components). The ProLiant BL20p G3 delivers optional Fibre Channel support for SAN implementations and clustering capabilities. Through the implementation of a SAN with the ProLiant BL20p G3, 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. Fibre Channel capability is achieved using a Dual Port Fibre Channel Mezzanine Card (2-Gb) specifically designed for the ProLiant BL20p G3. The ProLiant BL20p G3 is optimized for HP StorageWorks and compatible with third party storage vendors.

What's new

Performance Intel® XeonTM processors with EM64T, 800MHz FSB Up to 3.6 GHz processors w/2MB of L2 Cache 400MHz DDR-II Memory, 4 sockets, 8GB Max Ultra 320 Smart Array 6i with transportable BBWC (128MB) option Management iLO Advanced standard Options BL20p G3 fibre channel adapter for redundant SAN connectivity Design Four embedded 10/100/1000 data NIC's plus a dedicated iLO port

Ideal environment

Ideal for... Managing costs and increasing efficiency Reduce acquisition costs up to 19% when compared to traditional servers. HP blade systems are a better design for density, power distribution, availability, and cooling. Dynamically adapt to changing business requirements by being able to install, provision, and re-purpose blade servers quickly. Optimized for Environments of all types Consolidation - HP blade systems combine servers, storage, power, and interconnects into an advanced management framework, improving collaboration processes. SMP to Linux migration - Reduce the overall platform/system cost by up to 70% Multi-tiered environments - This includes web and E-commerce, streaming media, mail and messaging, enterprise applications including ERP and CRM Virtualized and Automated Data Centers Blade system environments provide virtual pools of capacity that can be dynamically reallocated and simply managed Self-aware, policy driven environment eliminates manual processes, blade automation leverages the integrated design and virtualized architecture to create a dynamic, scaleable utility of resources