HP Launches New Server Tool
On Tuesday, HP announced that has begun shipping a new product. This product is programmed to begin delivering Virtual Connect, a management tool for its BladeSystem c-Class servers to more easily add blade servers to a network.
This Virtual Connect, allows to an enterprise to set up its data center network infrastructure ahead of time and then more easily add, subtract, change or move around servers as needed.Virtual Connect is built in to the data center infrastructure when it is first created. Then new servers can be simply plugged in and turned on.
"We can wire up the infrastructure one time, physically, and basically walk away," said Mark Potter, vice president of HP's BladeSystem business. "Then the server admin can add, replace and change servers on the fly without ever impacting the networking admin or the storage admin."
Virtual Connect for a network using Ethernet switches carries a starting list price of US$5,699. For Fibre Channel networks, it starts at $9,499.
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