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Updated: 2008-03-27 Reviewed: 2008-03-27
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This white paper details the performance characterization of the HP ProLiant BL685c G5 server blade in an HP Server Based Computing (SBC) 64-bit environment using a Microsoft Office 2003 workload. The results are in the form of Heavy, Medium and Light and the specifications for these workloads are provided within the white paper.

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Updated: 2008-03-25 Reviewed: 2008-03-25
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This white paper details the performance characterization of the HP ProLiant BL465c G5 in an HP Server Based Computing 64 bit environment using a Microsoft Office 2003 workload. The paper provides specifications for the workload and results in the form of Heavy, Medium and Light users.

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Updated: 2008-03-25 Reviewed: 2008-03-25
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This white paper details the performance characterization of the HP ProLiant DL385 G5 in an HP Server Based Computing 64 bit environment using a Microsoft Office 2003 workload. The paper provides specifications for the workload and results in the form of Heavy, Medium and Light users.

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Updated: 2008-01-08 Reviewed: 2008-01-08
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The new HP ProLiant DL185 G5 is a 2U, dual processor server designed for quality, performance, and flexible deployments to meet the needs of the emerging markets, SMB market, and Corporate scale ou

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Updated: 2007-11-01 Reviewed: 2007-11-01
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This white paper details the performance characterization of the HP ProLiant DL360 G5 server in an HP Server Based Computing (SBC) 32-bit environment using a Microsoft Office 2003 workload. The results are in the form of Heavy, Medium and Light and the specifications for these workloads are provided within the white paper.

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Updated: 2007-11-12 Reviewed: 2007-11-12
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This white paper details the performance characterization of the HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server in an HP Server Based Computing (SBC) 32-bit environment using a Microsoft Office 2003 workload. The results are in the form of Heavy, Medium and Light and the specifications for these workloads are provided within the white paper.

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Updated: 2007-11-12 Reviewed: 2007-11-12
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This whitepaper details the performance characterization of the HP ProLiant BL460c in an HP Server Based Computing 64 bit environment using a Microsoft Office 2003 workload. The results are in the form of Heavy, Medium and Light users and the specifications for these workloads are provided within the whitepaper.

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Updated: 2007-11-12 Reviewed: 2007-11-12
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The HP ProLiant BL480c server blade features two quad-core or dual-core Intel Xeon processors, up to 48GB of ECC 667 MHz DDR2 memory, four network adapters, and your choice of four hot-plug SAS or SATA drives. The HP ProLiant BL480c has more than you've come to expect from a 2P server blade, and can handle your most challenging applications.

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Updated: 2007-10-10 Reviewed: 2007-10-10
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The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server is an enterprise class, 4-socket server designed for maximum scalability and high availability. Based upon the latest industry standard processing, memory, I/O and networking technologies, the ProLiant DL580 G5 provides the highest levels of performance demanded by today's compute intensive applications.

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Updated: 2007-11-20 Reviewed: 2007-11-20
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The new HP ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade delivers superior performance and expansion in the first 4P/4C blade for HP BladeSystem. With up to four Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors, 64 GB of fully-buffered memory, two hot plug hard drives, four embedded Gigabit NICs and three I/O expansion slots, this server blade delivers for the most demanding enterprise-class applications.

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Updated: 2007-10-01 Reviewed: 2007-10-01
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The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server is an enterprise class, 4-socket server designed for maximum scalability and high availability. Its innovative chassis offers unsurpassed flexibility and serviceability in a versatile form factor. Based upon the latest industry standard processing, memory, I/O and networking technologies, the ProLiant DL580 G5 provides the highest levels of performance demanded by today's compute intensive applications.

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Updated: 2007-08-28 Reviewed: 2007-08-28
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The new four-socket HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server delivers outstanding performance for today’s demanding scale-up and scale-out applications, along with exceptional flexibility and serviceability. Based on the latest industry-standard processing, memory, I/O and networking technologies, this server provides enterprise-class high-availability features to help guarantee maximum uptime, while HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) technology supports remote administration.

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Updated: 2007-01-19 Reviewed: 2007-01-19
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This white paper details the performance characterization of the HP ProLiant BL460c server blade in an HP Server Based Computing (SBC) 32-bit environment using a Microsoft Office XP workload. The results are in the form of Heavy, Medium and Light and the specifications for these workloads are provided within the white paper.

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Updated: 2007-01-19 Reviewed: 2007-01-19
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This white paper details the performance characterization of the HP ProLiant BL480c server blade in an HP Server Based Computing (SBC) 32-bit environment using a Microsoft Office XP workload. The results are in the form of Heavy, Medium and Light and the specifications for these workloads are provided within the white paper.

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Updated: 2008-03-31 Reviewed: 2008-03-31
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This white paper is a summary of HP ProLiant server performance in an HP Server Based Computing (SBC) environment.

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Updated: 2007-11-20 Reviewed: 2007-11-20
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The BL685c is a no-compromise performance and expansion in the densest 4P server blade available to handle your most demanding enterprise class applications. The HP SBC solutions team has characterized this 4P blade server for Server Based Computing in an x64 environment.

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Updated: 2007-11-20 Reviewed: 2007-11-20
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Combining concentrated 1U compute power, integrated Lights-Out management, and essential fault tolerance, the HP ProLiant DL365 is optimized for space constrained installations. AMD Opteron dual-core processors, DDR2 memory, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and PCI Express technology provide a high performance system ideal for the full range of scale out applications. What's more, the HP ProLiant DL365 provides fault tolerant in an ultra dense platform with redundant power, redundant fans, embedded RAID capability, and full-featured remote Lights-Out management.

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Updated: 2007-11-11 Reviewed: 2007-11-11
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This white paper details the performance of the HP ProLiant BL465c server with AMD Opteron Processor Model 2218 (2.6 GHz/2x1 MB) Dual-Core processors in an HP SBC environment. This paper provides information on the testing environment, the applications utilized and how many heavy, medium and light users the server will support.

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Updated: 2007-11-11 Reviewed: 2007-11-11
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This white paper details the performance of the HP ProLiant DL585 G2 server with AMD Opteron Processor Model 8220 (2.8 GHz/2x1 MB) Dual-Core processors in an HP SBC environment. This paper provides information on the testing environment, the applications utilized and how many heavy, medium and light users the server will support.
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Updated: 2007-11-11 Reviewed: 2007-11-11
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The new HP ProLiantBL460c server blade provides enterprise-class features for high performance and reliability without compromising energy efficiency or density.

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Updated: 2007-11-11 Reviewed: 2007-11-11
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Introducing a new category of server blade that delivers an unmatched combination of 2 processor, dual-core performance and expansion. Experience the difference with the all-new HP ProLiant BL480c server blade, the industry’s only 2P server blade that offers 12 DIMMs, four hot-plug drives and three I/O expansion slots. The HP ProLiant BL480c server blade features two dual-core Intel processors, up to 48GB of ECC 667 MHz DDR2 memory, four NICs, and your choice of four hot-plug SAS or SATA drives. This new platform has now been characterized for an HP SBC environment and this whitepaper details the results.

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Updated: 2007-11-08 Reviewed: 2007-11-08
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The HP ProLiant DL380 G5, the world's largest selling server, delivers on its history of design excellence with enterprise-class uptime and manageability, proven 2-way Intel Xeon performance, and 2U density for a variety of rack deployments and applications.

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Updated: 2007-11-08 Reviewed: 2007-11-08
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The HP ProLiant DL360 G5, the world's largest selling server, delivers on its history of design excellence with enterprise-class uptime and manageability, proven 2-way Intel Xeon performance, and 2U density for a variety of rack deployments and applications.

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Updated: 2007-11-08 Reviewed: 2007-11-08
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This white paper details the performance of the HP ProLiant BL20p server with Intel Xeon (3.0 GHz/2 MB) Dual-Core processors in an n HP Server Based Computing (SBC) environment.

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Updated: 2007-11-08 Reviewed: 2007-11-08
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This white paper details the performance of the HP ProLiant DL385 server with AMD Opteron (2.6 GHz/1 MB) Dual-Core processors in an HP SBC environment. This paper provides information on the testing environment, the applications utilized and how many heavy, medium and light users the server will support.
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Updated: 2007-11-08 Reviewed: 2007-11-08
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This white paper explores the impact of the new x64-based versions of Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 in an HP SBC environment. Most notably, a 64-bit architecture removes kernel virtual address space limitations that limit the number of users supported in a 32-bit architecture: a 32-bit Windows system is effectively limited to 300 users; on a 64-bit Windows system, the theoretical limit is much higher.
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Updated: 2007-11-08 Reviewed: 2007-11-08
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This white paper details the performance of the HP ProLiant DL360G4p server with Dual-Core Intel Xeon (2.8 GHz/2 MB) processors in an HP SBC environment. This paper provides information on the testing environment, the application utilized and how many heavy, medium and light users the server blade will support.
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Updated: 2007-11-08 Reviewed: 2007-11-08
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The new HP ProLiant DL385 server delivers on the DL380's history of design excellence with enterprise-class uptime and manageability, and now with proven 2-processor AMD Opteron performance, and 2U density for a variety of rack deployments and applications.

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Updated: 2007-11-08 Reviewed: 2007-11-08
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The HP ProLiant DL380, the world's largest selling server, delivers on its history of design excellence with enterprise-class uptime and manageability, proven 2-way Intel Xeon performance, and 2U density for a variety of rack deployments and applications.

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Updated: 2007-11-08 Reviewed: 2007-11-08
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With its concentrated 1U compute power, integrated Lights-Out management, and essential fault tolerance, the HP ProLiant DL360 server is ideal for space constrained environments.

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Updated: 2007-11-08 Reviewed: 2007-11-08
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The new HP ProLiant BL25p dual-processor server blade, engineered for enterprise performance and scalability now features AMD Opteron 200 series processors with both single-core and dual-core technology, SAN storage capability, and four gigabit NICs standard. The ProLiant BL25p server blade also shares the same infrastructure components as all other p-Class server blades.

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Updated: 2007-11-08 Reviewed: 2007-11-08
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This whitepaper is a detailed description of the performance of the HP ProLiant BL25p server blade in an HP SBC environment
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Updated: 2007-11-08 Reviewed: 2007-11-08
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This whitepaper is a detailed description of the performance of the HP ProLiant DL385 server in an HP SBC environment
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Updated: 2007-11-09 Reviewed: 2007-11-09
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This white paper details the performance of the HP ProLiant DL385 server with AMD Opteron Model 250 (2.4 GHz/1 MB) processors in an HP SBC environment.
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Updated: 2007-11-08 Reviewed: 2007-11-08
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This white paper details the performance of the HP ProLiant BL25p server blade with AMD Opteron Model 252 (2.6 GHz/1 MB) processors in an HP SBC environment.
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Updated: 2005-03-31 Reviewed: 2005-03-31
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This presentation details a joint effort between HP and Citrix in HP Labs to characterize the performance of Microsoft Office 2003 in an HP Server Based Computing environment.
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Updated: 2007-11-10 Reviewed: 2007-11-10
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HP and Citrix have jointly developed a new set of test scripts to characterize the performance of an HP ProLiant server running Microsoft Office 2003 applications.
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Updated: 2004-08-02 Reviewed: 2004-08-02
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The HP ProLiant DL360 G4 3.40 GHz server leads the scale-out environment, combining concentrated 1U computing power to handle transactional workloads for Web hosting, infrastructure applications and Server based Computing (SBC).
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Updated: 2004-08-02 Reviewed: 2004-08-02
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The HP ProLiant DL380 G4 3.60 GHz server builds on a history of design excellence with enterprise-class uptime and manageability, proven Intel Xeon performance, and 2U density.
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Updated: 2004-02-27 Reviewed: 2004-03-01
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The HP ProLiant DL360 G3 3.20 GHz server leads the scale-out environment, combining concentrated 1U computing power with unmatched features such as embedded remote management and optional redundant power. Intel Xeon processors and a 533 MHz front-side bus combine with DDR SDRAM and PCI-X technologies to give the ProLiant DL360 G3 3.20 GHz server even more computing power to handle transactional workloads for Web hosting, infrastructure applications and Server based Computing (SBC).
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Updated: 2004-02-27 Reviewed: 2004-03-01
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The HP ProLiant DL380 G3 3.20 GHz server leads the scale-out environment, combining concentrated 1U computing power with unmatched features such as embedded remote management and optional redundant power. Intel Xeon processors and a 533 MHz front-side bus combine with DDR SDRAM and PCI-X technologies to give the ProLiant DL380 G3 3.20 GHz server even more computing power to handle transactional workloads for Web hosting, infrastructure applications and Server based Computing (SBC).
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Updated: 2003-10-29 Reviewed: 2003-11-12
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The HP ProLiant DL360 G3 3.20 GHz server leads the scale-out environment, combining concentrated 1U computing power with unmatched features such as embedded remote management and optional redundant power. Intel Xeon processors and a 533 MHz front-side bus combine with DDR SDRAM and PCI-X technologies to give the ProLiant DL360 G3 3.20 GHz server even more computing power to handle transactional workloads for Web hosting, infrastructure applications and Server based Computing (SBC).
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Updated: 2003-10-29 Reviewed: 2003-11-13
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The HP ProLiant DL380 G3 3.20 GHz server leads the scale-out environment, combining concentrated computing power with unmatched features such as embedded remote management and optional redundant power. This server delivers performance, flexibility and expandability in only a 2U form factor.
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Best Practices
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Updated: 2007-04-12 Reviewed: 2007-04-12
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This white paper describes two methods (imaging and scripting) by which HP ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack (RDP) can be utilized to deploy Citrix Presentation Server on HP ProLiant BL or DL servers, and demonstrates how RDP can combine with Citrix Installation Manager's command-line utility to publish applications on specific Citrix servers in a server farm

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Updated: 2007-04-12 Reviewed: 2007-04-12
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This paper is focused on both disk I/O and memory implications to server performance. The SBC test team explored many scenarios to help customers understand how to optimize server performance.

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Updated: 2007-11-14 Reviewed: 2007-11-14
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HP has tested and now supports its Universal Print Driver (UPD) in Citrix Presentation Server 4 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions.

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Updated: 2008-04-10 Reviewed: 2008-04-10
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This white paper lists the HP printer driver versions tested and supported by HP in Citrix Presentation Server environments.
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Updated: 2004-09-29 Reviewed: 2004-09-29
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This white paper provides guidelines for securing HP ProLiant servers and HP clients in a Citrix access infrastructure.
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Updated: 2004-08-17 Reviewed: 2004-08-17
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Despite the security advantages that Server Based Computing adds to an enterperise, SBC servers are vulnerable to many of the same security risks as any Microsoft® Windows®-based server. In addition, a default SBC deployment gives users access to any application from any location, the risks of remotely compromising the server are increased. This white paper provides guidelines for securing HP ProLiant servers and HP clients in a SBC environment.
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Updated: 2004-01-09 Reviewed: 2004-01-20
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There is a critical need for users to receive reliable, high-performance print services in a Server Based Computing (SBC) environment. However, with the large numbers of variables and technologies to be considered, print services management can be challenging.
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Capacity Planning
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Updated: 2007-11-10 Reviewed: 2007-11-10
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This white paper details the benefits of using HP BladeSystem as a platform for deploying Citrix Presentation Server 4.0. scalability and performance results of Citrix Presentation Server on various HP dual-processor BladeSystem servers.
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High Availability
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Updated: 2003-01-29 Reviewed: 2003-01-29
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This White Paper describes how to use the latest in HP server and Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies with Microsoft clustering software to support a high-availability Citrix MetaFrame XP FR2 data store. The solution features HP ProLiant servers, HP StorageWorks storage systems, Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Service, and MetaFrame XP FR2.
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Updated: 2004-03-23 Reviewed: 2004-03-24
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To support their growth and performance needs, small-to-medium businesses require IT solutions that are scalable, easy to deploy, and affordable. HP and Microsoft offer a variety of enabling technologies to meet these needs, while providing support for future growth. This White Paper describes the deployment of Microsoft Windows Small Business Server and Microsoft Windows Server Terminal Server on HP ProLiant servers. Guidelines for installation and configuration are provided.
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Updated: 2002-01-22 Reviewed: 2002-12-04
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While providing tremendous productivity and cost benefits, wireless technology poses significant challenges as the customer attempts to secure information transmitted through an inherently shared medium...air. Flaws in 802.11b make the WLAN vulnerable to intruders.
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Management
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Updated: 2007-04-04 Reviewed: 2007-04-04
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The HERMES SoftLab Citrix PresentationServer SPI for HP Software provides the ultimate management solution for Citrix environments

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Updated: 2006-05-17 Reviewed: 2006-05-17
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HP has hosted hands-on training sessions on the use of ProLiant Essentials tools to deploy and manage Citrix on Blade Servers. This presentation is a recreation of those training sessions, and is presented in PowerPoint style with embedded video including audio narration.

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Systems Management
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Updated: 2007-02-09 Reviewed: 2007-02-09
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This document describes the advantages that HP Virtual Connect on HP BladeSystem c-Class can bring to an Oracle 10g grid environment. HP Virtual Connect can greatly increase the speed at which servers in an Oracle 10g grid environment can be replaced or new servers added in response to changing business needs.

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Performance
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Updated: 2008-02-12 Reviewed: 2008-02-12
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This white paper details the performance characterization of the HP ProLiant DL580 G5 and the BL680c G5 with 130W and 80W processors respectively. The surprise finding is that the 80W processor is able to achieve very good results relative to its 130W counterpart. This paper shows details of the overall system power consumption relative to the number of users supported. The end result is that many data centers could benefit by deploying lower wattage processor versions while achieving very good performance.

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Updated: 2007-11-16 Reviewed: 2007-11-16
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This white paper details the performance of the HP ProLiant BL45p server blade in an HP Server Based Computing (SBC) environment. More specifically, this paper provides information on the testing environment, the application utilized and how many heavy, medium and light users the server will potentially support in a 64-bit environment.

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Updated: 2007-09-10 Reviewed: 2007-09-10
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Recent advances in storage technologies have enabled HP Server Based Computing (SBC) customers to easily incorporate additional storage in their environment. This white paper compares the performance of external and internal storage on an HP ProLiant BL460c in an HP SBC environment.

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Updated: 2007-08-30 Reviewed: 2007-08-30
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In order to characterize the impact of storage blades in an HP SBC environment, HP compared the performance of an HP ProLiant BL480c server blade booting from internal disks and booting from an HP StorageWorks SB40c storage blade.
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