On March 29th HP announced a number of new and enhanced products in its G6 ProLiant server and blade range. The new G6 servers and blades announced utilise Intels new Xeon 5600 Series of processors code named Westmere. Whilst the Westmere CPU’s are available with 4 cores its the six-core (12x hyperthread) Westmere’s that will provide a significant gain over 4-core Gainestwown 55xx in virtualization environment. The new G7 servers announced are alledged to offer upto 97% reduction in power and cooling costs, 27 time improvment in perfomace per watt whilst supporting higher consolidation ratios.
The new G6 servers include:
- 4 x New ProLiant blades
- 1 xNew workstation blade
- 6x New DL servers
- 2 x New Ml server
- 3 x Scale out server
The new G7 servers include:
- HP Proliant DL165 & SL 165z Server
- HP ProLiant DL385
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