HP ML530 ProLiant ML530 High-Performance Technologies - Page 13

ProLiant ML530 High-Performance Technologies segment. For example, if one of the bus segments with two slots is populated with a 66MHz adapter and a 100-MHz adapter, the maximum frequency of that bus segment will be 66 MHz. This means that the slowest adapter card, such as a 33-MHz, 32-bit RILOE card, should be put in slot 7 where it cannot slow down any other adapter cards. To make it easier to determine the speed of each bus segment, a slot speed indicator is located on the backplane over each slot (Figure 12). If no adapter is installed in a slot, the indicator will be off. figure 12. PCI-X slot speed indicator located on the backplane over each slot of the ProLiant ML530 G2 server optimum uses for the ProLiant ML530 G2 server database and dedicated applications server remote site server The ProLiant ML530 G2 server is optimized to function as a dedicated application or database server, as a volume departmental server, and as an ultra-dense Web server. Application servers are typically used to run complex multi-threaded software applications. The ProLiant ML530 server has the built-in redundancy, high-availability, and high-performance needed for distributed application services and support for complex database access. Also, its 512K L2 Advanced Transfer Cache equips the ProLiant ML530 G2 for use in CPU-intensive environments such as database applications. Large remote sites, such as branch offices, require not only high performance, but also internal expansion capabilities to satisfy increasing user workloads. For example, the ever-increasing volume of e-mail traffic makes the scalability of an e-mail server a major concern, even for a relatively small organization. The high performance of the Intel Xeon Processor (with Hyper-Threading and NetBurst technologies) allows remote sites to handle a significantly greater end-user workload per processor. This means customers can add more users per server, or more applications per server, and the system will still run significantly faster than Pentium III systems. The ProLiant ML530 G2 server ships standard with 12 hot plug drive bays. Total internal storage can be expanded to 14 drives with an optional two-bay drive cage. With its large internal drive capacity, seven PCI-X slots, embedded 10/100 NIC, and up to 16 GB of memory, the ProLiant ML530 G2 server can handle a large end-user load (500 to 1000 users). 13