Paving the Way to the New Computing Utility
HP believes that systems consolidation goes well beyond the box. It is a process that involves the integration of platforms, applications, middleware and management, consulting, financing, and services into a unified solution that reduces total cost of ownership while simplifying management, support, and operation.

The Ultimate System Consolidation Solution:

Manageability, High Availability, Scalability and Flexibility

Internets, intranets, and extranets. Windows NT® integration. ERP and supply chains. Burgeoning data warehouses. Many enterprises are struggling to cope with the computing systems that are proliferating at an unwieldy and seemingly exponential pace. IT departments—already working with limited staff and insufficient budgets—are faced with multiplying numbers of disparate systems moving into the data center, mounting system administration tasks, low individual server utilization, and a lack of floor space to house them all.

To harness the power of these varied and distributed computing systems, many of these companies are looking to consolidation as the means to reduce management and maintenance costs, meet service level objectives, and increase availability and productivity.

HP is ready to meet this challenge, bringing a wealth of experience to the area of systems consolidation. We have successfully consolidated systems within our own worldwide organization—from 153 data centers in 1986 to just 7 today—and have worked successfully with many customers to improve service level objectives (SLOs) and help them achieve better asset management and greater return on investment via consolidation.

Coexistence, Not Collision: Client/Server Meets the Data Center

Where the data center once was the exclusive domain of mainframe systems, UNIX® and Windows NT servers now have a powerful presence. HP's vision of enterprise computing acknowledges that there is a place for all three of these computing environments in the data center. In fact, HP believes that it is the blend of these systems that will build the foundation for the new data center.

HP's vision of the new data center focuses on providing customers with a Compute Utility that allows for the flexible, cost-effective deployment of both UNIX and NT servers. This utility will assist customers in meeting their IT cost goals by providing a centrally-managed, standardized UNIX environment that allows for the rapid deployment of applications, guarantees service levels, and has all the capabilities needed to extend the enterprise via the Internet.

So companies with multiplying heterogeneous systems—mainframes plus UNIX and NT machines in any combination—need not dread a collision. Rather, HP will employ our unique consolidation strategy to achieve the optimal blend of these systems to meet our customers' specific business requirements and help them flourish well into the next millennium.

HP Systems Consolidation Solutions Span Systems, Software, and Services

Unlike other vendors that may be prepared to address only server consolidation—with limited or disjointed capabilities beyond the box—HP's consolidation strategy addresses virtually every aspect of your consolidation effort—from technology to processes to budget to people. We're able to assess, design, fund, deploy, and support your entire solution, and we bring an ensemble of strengths and capabilities across all areas of consolidation that our competitors simply cannot begin to match.

For improved asset management and maximum cost reduction our consolidation solutions span systems, software, and services and include:

• Total cost of ownership (TCO) evaluation
• Industry-leading servers and storage devices
• Powerful middleware for management and availability
• Tailored mission-critical services
• Global integration, installation, and deployment management services
• Physical, logical, and rationalized consolidations
• Comprehensive and flexible financing

Improved Service Levels and Lower Total Cost of Ownership

HP's systems consolidation solutions enable you to deliver improved service levels to your customers and reduce the asset and operational expenses of your IT infrastructure—at the same time. We can help you fund your entire solution, including the consulting and services costs, within your existing budget. Using an HP Systems Consolidation Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Study, HP can assess your return on investment (ROI) and prioritize projects so that the savings from the initial projects can fund the implementation of the remaining systems consolidation activities.

You can also take advantage of HP's flexible financing. Our financing solution offers structured payments that align costs to revenues, flexibility with buyouts, upgrades and add-ons, and funding of the entire systems consolidation project—from evaluation to acquisition to implementation.

The Benefits of Consolidation Studies show that consolidation can help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by as much as 30 percent1 and improve return on investment (ROI) by 15 to 75 percent2. Areas of savings include: Increased CPU utilization by combining applications onto underutilized servers—application stacking Reclaimed disk from consolidating duplicate data sets Reduced number of peripherals needed for backup and data storage Decreased communication costs and increased network performance Reduced administrative headcount by using tools to increase the number of servers per administrator Lower support prices by moving to consolidated contracts Lower environment charges due to small footprints on the data center floor Lower software license fees through either consolidated purchases or moving to usage-based license fees Consolidation costs aligned with realized savings and budgetary constraints The details of your organization's environment will determine which areas of consolidation will be most advantageous. Industry analysts predict that approximately 10 percent of your savings will come from the server consolidation—the other 90 percent will come from other consolidations such as storage, backup, networking, and systems management. HP's own experience also supports this ratio. 1 InfoWorld 2 GIGA Information Group

Building a Consolidation Solution

HP's approach to systems consolidation will maximize your return on assets. We tailor a complete solution that minimizes server redundancy, consolidates applications on fewer servers, simplifies and enhances support processes, and ensures that every asset in the system is fully utilized. Executed as a total solution, systems consolidation can improve service levels and lower costs. Working with HP, you can expect to see real savings through lower hardware costs, lower environment charges, and reduced installation times. You'll also benefit from reduced time-to-solution, minimized business downtime, fewer support contracts, and reduced staffing costs. At the same time, HP strives to help you improve IT service levels, enhance throughput, and provide greater data integrity and higher availability levels.

Consolidating Applications Using the Industry-Leading HP 9000 Enterprise Server Family

Fundamental to HP's system consolidation strategy is our ability to consolidate multiple applications onto large single systems, and our HP 9000 Enterprise Server family provides the industry's most powerful platform choices. Building from this foundation, we can combine these high-performance servers to build the HP HyperPlex solution. With HP 9000 Enterprise Server platforms, you can achieve superior functionality with a single system image or multisystem images that have no single points of failure—with hundreds of CPUs consolidated into a single solution.

Today's HP 9000 Enterprise Server family is the leading family of compatible, RISC-based UNIX servers in the industry. These servers support computing environments ranging from small workgroups to thousands of users in a mainframe-class data center and feature:

• 64-bit PA-RISC and Intel®/HP IA-64 processor technology
• Support for Scalable Computing Architecture (SCA) with up to 128-way symmetric multiprocessing systems
• HyperPlex solutions that support consolidation of up to 8,192 CPUs
• Large-scale memory
• Redundant components
• Mainframe-class I/O and storage capabilities

Reasons for Consolidation* Losing track of servers Facing scalability restrictions Low ratio of administrators to servers Running more than seven operating systems Difficulty controlling software licenses It is less expensive to buy new servers than to do capacity planning Purchasing is decentralized, but management is centralized Utilization rates for more than half of the servers are in single digits Physical space for every server is becoming impossible Server maintenance costs are skyrocketing If your organization is facing even one of these issues, it's time to consider consolidation. * As identified by InfoWorld

Virtually Infinite Capacity with HP HyperPlex Data Center Solutions

HP 9000 HyperPlex solutions help you create an open, high-capacity environment by combining the strengths of time-proven, high-performance symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and virtually infinite capacity into a centrally managed environment. The result is a robust architecture that enables data center consolidation with high availability and superb application performance.

The integrated HyperPlex solution links multiple SMP server nodes as one system, creating the optimal consolidation platform. HyperPlex is managed through HP's ServiceControl, a robust set of tools that include a central, Web-based console and powerful management software, allowing the IT manager to dynamically add, change, or delete server nodes, applications, and application resources while HyperPlex is running. The HyperPlex nodes can be interconnected with HP's high-bandwidth, low-latency HyperFabric interconnect technology, which is up to 100 times faster than conventional networking. You can choose from the entire family of HP 9000 Enterprise Servers and peripherals to build a HyperPlex solution. And your existing V-, T-, K-, D-, R-, and N-Class systems can be added to a HyperPlex, protecting your investment and applying the HyperPlex consolidation benefits to your existing systems. In addition, HP 9000 servers continue to enhance their manageability in the enterprise via the industry-leading OpenView systems management suite and by collaborating with other leading enterprise management vendors.

The HP HyperPlex solution can help you reduce the number of servers in your client/server environment and consolidate the administration of these systems and peripheral subsystems into a single point of control for IT personnel—reducing cost of ownership and increasing productivity.

Industry-Leading High Availability

In a world of consolidation with fewer systems, where each component is expected to handle a greater portion of the workload, high availability is no longer an option—it's a requirement. As part of HP's systems consolidation strategy we provide the UNIX industry's most comprehensive portfolio of high-availability (HA) products and services. Our proven HA solutions—such as MC/ServiceGuard, the industry's number-one UNIX high-availability solution—ensure that your key business applications stay up and running. MC/ServiceGuard protects mission-critical applications from a wide variety of hardware and software failures by monitoring the health of each node and quickly responding to failures in a way that reduces application downtime.

HP's Mission Critical Support Services combine proactive assistance with reactive support. HP's Critical System Support (CSS) delivers support for UNIX and Windows NT systems, providing hardware, software and network services that complement your technology investments. Personalized assistance from an assigned team of HA engineers helps to design high availability into the solution. Cutting-edge technology and processes, including HP's High Availability Observatory, prevent problems before they occur, enabling you to increase your end-user productivity by increasing system uptime and performance.

CSS also provides fast problem resolution including immediate response to hardware and software problems, a commitment to repair your system within six hours, access to HP's critical parts network and 24 x 365 phone-in software assistance. The immediate, personalized response of CSS translates directly into fewer system problems, shorter planned and unplanned downtime and a more effective use of your technology foundation.

CSS includes the HP High Availability Observatory (HAO), a suite of HP's most robust support technologies and tools that supplement HP's capabilities in supporting mission-critical environments. With the HAO, HP is setting new industry standards in the monitoring and measurement arena.

HP Cluster Technology for Disaster Tolerance

Most companies need to incorporate a plan for disaster tolerance into their high-availability strategy. This is particularly the case in a consolidated environment where more or larger applications are concentrated in fewer locations or servers, and a disaster could have an increased impact on the business.

HP has an unbeatable disaster tolerant strategy to ensure high availability, with several clustering options available to meet your requirements. Based on an MC/ServiceGuard cluster running Fibre Channel technology, HP CampusCluster provides continuous site-to-site data mirroring and allows servers to be located up to 10 kilometers apart.

HP MetroCluster combines MC/ServiceGuard and EMC's SRDF data storage and replication technology to enable data sites that provide automatic site-to-site failover at distances up to 50 kilometers.

And, for the highest levels of availability and most complete protection, HP ContinentalClusters provides automated failover for data centers may be located many thousands of kilometers apart. HP ContinentalClusters allows for data replication solutions from EMC, Oracle, and Quest. With ContinentalClusters, users are able to access applications and data with minimal disruption.

HP's High Availability Strategy—5nines:5minutes

Our HA solutions today primarily address availability for hardware, the operating system and the first layer of the network. In the near future HP will extend its high availability commitment to include the database, and even more of the network. HP's current high availability solutions are the foundation upon which HP and industry-leading partners—Oracle, Cisco and EMC—will build to deliver 99.999 percent end-to-end availability—just five minutes of downtime annually. This is HP's vision for HA, and we are already well on our way to achieving it.

Even today, HP has taken high availability far beyond a concept or promise. We offer uptime commitments for business-critical environments—an industry-leading 99.95 percent uptime commitment, fewer than 4.3 hours of downtime annually—with our Mission Critical Server Suites solutions.

Storage Consolidation for Improved Business Processes and Lower Data Management Costs

HP's systems consolidation strategy also offers powerful storage and backup consolidation solutions that consist of large-capacity, high-performance storage products teamed with HP's leading middleware products for data protection and availability. These consolidated data solutions reuse many existing systems and much of the existing storage, helping you achieve a significant reduction in management costs. Where today your administrators may each manage 100 gigabytes of storage, an HP consolidated storage solution can allow them to handle multiple terabytes. Separating storage management from systems management also provides centralized, consistent data across the enterprise, offers greater reliability and security, and delivers superior accessibility by making it simpler to move data between applications.

Our storage management solutions include HP Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure and management solutions for centralizing and simplifying storage management, combined with EMC's and HP's storage solutions, such as HP AutoRAID. HP's Intelligent Storage Server provides a turnkey solution for consolidated storage management, including HP's Advanced Tape Sharing for reducing the number of tape drives, and centralized data protection software such as HP OpenView OmniBack II or Veritas NetBackup. HP OmniBack II offers zero downtime backup for many applications, including Oracle and SAP. Together with its partners, HP continues to maintain its position as the industry-leading supplier of open systems storage solutions.

HP's Own Consolidation Experience: The Atlanta Data Center HP's Atlanta Data Center reduced the number of field data centers in the Americas region from 26 to 6, then ultimately to just one. The Atlanta Data Center supports hundreds of UNIX system, Windows NT, and MPE servers, hundreds of custom and off-the-shelf applications, and voice capabilities using a central telephone switch that handles 4.5 million calls per month. With more than half the servers located in field offices, the implementation of common processes, configurations, and environments was critical to the consolidation effort.

Robust, Resilient HP-UX Is Ready to Meet Your Mission-Critical Needs

HP-UX 11.00, HP's complete 64-bit operating environment, offers industry-leading features and functionality in the areas of performance and scalability, resilience and high availability, integration, security, and manageability—all critical components when considering systems consolidation. In fact, HP-UX has been designed for consolidation—its large memory space and 64-bit capability make it ideal for application stacking, enabling individual systems to handle increasing workloads.

With approximately 15,000 applications running on HP-UX, it is the industry's preferred platform for both application development and deployment of mission-critical solutions. And HP's long-standing tradition of providing the industry's best record for investment protection is maintained with HP-UX 11.00. Applications that run on previous versions of HP-UX will run on HP-UX 11.00 with no recompilation. When teamed with industry-leading HP 9000 Enterprise Server systems, HP-UX 11.00 provides the power of supercomputing at a fraction of the cost.

Architecture Network infrastructure built on the TCP/IP protocol Hierarchical storage management provided by 300- and 600-GB optical storage systems A variety of hardware and software solutions including DAT and DLT for backup HP OpenView tools for system and network management HP MeasureWare, PerfView, and GlancePlus to track capacity HP NetMetrix, HP AdvanceStack Assistant, and CiscoWorks for Cisco router configuration management

Cost-Effective Enterprise Management with Control and Confidence

With consolidation, managing multiple workloads with applications and business processes competing for system resources and meeting service levels becomes increasingly important. The HP-UX systems management portfolio includes a powerful set of unified tools today and a roadmap delineating clear milestones on our path to a completely unified and simplified single control point for managing multiple HP-UX and Windows NT system images.

HP ServiceControl for managing multiple HP-UX servers represents a major building block toward HP's vision of the future, where a single administrator can manage five times as many servers, and workload management and resource optimization across multiple system images is completely automated. In addition, fault management will be integrated with online replaceable hardware to achieve self-recovering or self-healing systems.

At the heart of HP ServiceControl is the ability to effortlessly adjust workloads by controlling resources for multiple applications within a single SMP system or multiple applications across the HP HyperPlex systems cluster. A component of ServiceControl, HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) allocates available HP 9000 system resources according to business priority, enabling each server to run multiple applications while managing end-user expectations and guaranteeing key system resources to an application or a group of users. By defining service level objectives (SLOs) for performance, response time, and availability, PRM ensures the optimal system resource utilization that leads to improved ROI. Equivalent functionality for Web-enabled applications is provided by HP's Web QoS.

HP also delivers centralized, comprehensive and proactive fault detection and real-time alert for the entire HP-UX operating environment. HP Event Monitoring Service (EMS), another component of ServiceControl, enables efficient and effective monitoring of systems within a single, comprehensive framework. HP EMS extends the capabilities of HP's industry-leading high availability solutions by interacting with HP MC/ServiceGuard. And, to enhance the manageability of HP-UX, HP EMS can be integrated with robust enterprise management platforms such as those from HP OpenView, BMC Software, Computer Associates, PLATINUM technology, and Tivoli.

HP's systems consolidation strategy also includes advances in multisystem administration with tools such as HP's Ignite/UX and Software Distributor/UX, which provide faster deployment of new systems and applications. Our comprehensive portfolio also includes best-of-breed products from our partners, such as BMC Software, Computer Associates, and PLATINUM technology.

Significant Cost Savings and Improved Service Levels with HP's World-Class Service Offerings

Global Integration and Implementation Services: Seamless, Fast, and Cost-Effective
HP's new Global Integration and Installation Services deliver data center relocation and end-to-end deployment that is consistent across geographies, reducing installation times, providing cost-effective solution implementations, reducing time-to-solution, and minimizing business downtime or disruption.

Fast, modular, global deployment services implement HP-UX, NT, and emerging HP and partner technologies and solutions in a professionally managed and cost-effective manner. HP delivers a complete, turnkey solution—from data center design and planning to asset tagging, project management, site preparation, and configuration testing.

Consolidated Contracts Ease Administration
Making it simpler for you to acquire products and services from HP is yet another part of our total consolidation solution offering. HP can help you drive down the cost of your assets by optimizing your support structure and consolidating support contracts. Providing you with a single, easy-to-read-and-reference environmental contract that describes your entire support relationship with HP—including who to call when you have questions or problems—makes it easier for you to work with HP and saves you time and money because you'll need fewer resources to manage the multiple contracts.

HP has a long history of delivering world-class service and support, and this commitment to excellence extends to all our consolidation engagements. In addition to the world-class capabilities offered by HP Consulting, we are continuing to develop partnerships with other leading service and support providers.

Why Choose HP?

A consolidation effort must take you well beyond the box to assure your ultimate success. HP has the unique ability to provide this comprehensive solution, which includes not only industry-leading servers and storage devices, but also powerful middleware for management and availability, tailored mission-critical services, comprehensive financing, and world-class consulting and support from HP and our partners.

HP has a long history of assisting customers who require the flexibility of a client/server architecture combined with the stability typically associated with a mainframe. We have worked with more than 5000 installations where customers have moved from mainframes to high-end HP servers, and we can claim a strong track record in multivendor support.

Our consolidation solutions provide the lowest TCO through best asset re-utilization and improved service levels. HP helps further reduce costs by working with the industry's leading enterprise management vendors to ensure that HP-UX servers are manageable out-of-the-box when plugged into their management environments. And with the UNIX industry's highest scalability in the thousands of CPUs and the best flexibility to mix and match different sized machines, you'll pay only for the compute capacity required—without having to settle for a one-size-fits-all approach.

Results Backs up more than 11 TB of storage at a rate of 10 percent per day Supports more than 18,000 users in 220 field offices Books $16 million of orders per hour Accomplishes this with just 5 system administrators (each managing approximately 120 servers, far superior to the common ratio of 7 per server) on a three-shift basis By systems consolidation, the Atlanta data center is now more efficient due to a common environment and standard processes, and has reduced operations and support costs through increased productivity. The data center achieved a 20 percent savings in the first year, 30 percent in the second, 40 percent in the third, and is still reaping cost savings today. Thus, HP can implement solutions faster, increase the hours of onsite coverage, and most importantly, keep pace with a constantly changing business environment.

The Three Types of Systems Consolidation
1 Logical The standardization of technology (database products, key applications, system components) and standardization and centralization of management related to systems (policies, processes, and services)	2 Physical Racking systems within a floor space or moving systems to a centralized location to facilitate management, increase security, and decrease floor space	3 Rationalized Housing applications from many different systems onto one system (application stacking)
Best when: Distributed environment with many systems IT processes and policies not normalized High systems management costs	Best when: System distributed beyond a single room Floor space restraints Insufficient security High communication costs due to distance between systems Network bandwidth compromised	Best when: Each application resides on a separate server Multiple instances of same application on many systems Servers underutilized Management complexity High software licensing costs
Logical, physical, and rationalized consolidations reflect a natural progression but are not necessarily built on each other. For example, it's possible not to standardize or centralize IT management yet implement application stacking.

Additional Information

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