Compaq ProLiant 1000 Compaq Leadership in Server Innovations - Page 9

Doc. No. ECG072/0298 WHITE PAPER COMPAQ LEADERSHIP IN SERVER INNOVATIONS RAID. The SMART-2DH Array Controller's online capacity expansion and configuration ... means scalability without server downtime. The SMART-2SL Array Controller is industry leading in price:performance. q Redundant NIC Technology - is a network interface controller (NIC) technology that eliminates downtime without any loss of service due to failures of the network card or adapter. Compaq servers support a second network controller that is installed as a standby NIC.8 Key Benefits - The redundant NIC technology provides automatic fail-over to a standby NIC. The standby controller assumes operation without any loss of service. Compaq Advantage- Compaq was the first in the industry to offer redundant NIC technology on industry-standard architecture. Few competitors offer redundant NIC technology, which may result in costly downtime and loss of service for their users. Used in combination with Compaq servers, which support PCI Hot Plug, redundant controller technology can provide automatic and unattended fail-over and controllers can be replaced online without taking the server down. q ECC Memory - ECC (Error Checking and Correcting) Memory ensures the highest degree of system protection from memory errors. Compaq includes ECC Memory in its line of mainstream servers and Advanced ECC Memory standard in its high-availability servers to provide protection from memory errors. Key Benefits - An ECC Memory scheme improves error detection and adds the capability to correct some errors. ECC Memory can detect and correct single-bit memory errors. Advanced ECC Memory adds all the protection of ECC Memory plus the ability to correct adjacent double-bit errors. Compaq Advantage - Compaq's ECC Memory provides a greater level of data integrity for all network environments while maintaining competitive prices. Compaq engineers have designed and integrated this ECC logic into the processor boards. This design provides higher system availability for the most mission-critical environments. q Next-generation microprocessor and 8-way processor support - Compaq is prepared to deliver the performance and power of standards-based 8-way technology based on Intel's Deschutes/Slot-2 processor, the Corollary Profusion architecture, and its own innovative engineering. Compaq's ProLiant 7000 is designed with specific power supplies, cooling and mountings to provide 8-way upgrade paths. Key Benefits - Customers can invest in a 4-way Pentium Pro system today and upgrade to the headroom and performance provided by the Deschutes processors. By planning in advance for the Deschutes/Slot-2 and 8-way requirements, Compaq engineered the ProLiant 7000 power supplies, thermal capacity, and chassis with extra headroom to accommodate the additional load. These systems will support a faster 100 MHz system bus, larger secondary cache size (>512K), and a faster, full-speed internal cache bus. Compaq Advantage - Because Compaq develops and designs its own systems and systemboards, it can control the upgradability of its servers, unlike OEMs. Compaq has designed upgrades for the ProLiant 6500 and 6000 to support the Deschutes requirements. In addition, Compaq's ProLiant 7000 offers upgrade paths for 8-way processors. Compaq is leading the charge in developing standards-based 8-way processor scalability. This will provide customers with true value of their current servers with the emergence of the Deschutes/Slot-2 processor while protecting their existing investment in server hardware. The 8-way servers that are based on the current Pentium Pro architecture provide inadequate 8 Currently, ProLiants 3000, 5500, 6500, and 7000 offer standard Redundant NIC support. 9