HP ML150 HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview - Page 9

Virtual Connect interface, you can adjust the bandwidth available to each FlexNIC from 100Mb to 10Gb in 100Mb increments. The advantages of using Flex-10 technology are significant. The 10GbE infrastructure becomes more cost efficient and easier to manage because Flex-10 allows you to fully utilize the 10-Gb bandwidth. The fact that Flex-10 is hardware based means that multiple FlexNICs are added without the additional processor overhead or latency associated with server virtualization. Flex-10 also reduces infrastructure costs by eliminating the need for some server NIC mezzanine cards and interconnect modules. HP Insight Server Migration software for ProLiant HP Insight Server Migration software for ProLiant automates the process of migrating your existing physical or virtual server to the latest ProLiant G6 servers or to the latest virtualization platforms from VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix. Without Insight Server Migration software, you need to manually install the drivers, OS, and applications, and transfer the data to the new server. When administrators try to use an off-the-shelf image capture product, they often find that the migration process is filled with errors, requiring several man-hours to troubleshoot. Insight Server Migration software eases the migration process by allowing you to simply identify the source, identify the target, and click "GO." Insight Server Migration software transfers the OS, applications, and data without any errors; it even installs the correct drivers required for the destination server. This automated process can take one-fourth the time of a manual migration. Remarkably, Insight Server Migration software supports four types of server migrations: physical-tophysical, physical-to-virtual, virtual-to-physical, and virtual-to-virtual. For physical-to-physical server migrations, the source server can be any vendor's x86 server. For virtual-to-virtual migrations, Insight Server Migration software can migrate between the different virtualization platforms mentioned previously. Insight Server Migration software requires three components for any migration: the source server, destination server, and an application station. The application station is the central execution point for all migrations. Unless the application station is running HP System Insight Manager, it can be a workstation or notebook PC. 9