HP announces ProLiant GEN9 Server technical details

"Tenkine Server channel September 3 News" recently, Hewlett-Packard announced the launch of the GEN8 series successor Gen9,gen9 claims to be able to configure virtual machines faster, with greater throughput and lower power consumption. The new GEN9 system includes new Apollo 6000 and 8000, ML 350, DL 360 and 380 products. Hewlett-Packard said that from the 3721.html ">2014 year September to next June will be released four waves of GEN9 products, various products will be phased in 18 months to launch."

Existing DL 360E and 380E will be renamed to 160 and 180, targeting low-end markets, with rivals such as Fujitsu, Supermicro and the industry's upstart Huawei.

HP Vice president and Tower HP Server Global business unit head Peter Schrady said Hewlett-Packard's GEN9 design route is completely different from the GEN8 design. Gen8 designed to take the route is affordable type very high-end price. With the new GEN9 system, HP's current server sales revenue can reach 2 billion dollars.

GEN9 innovations include smart caching, RESTful APIs, smart arrays, virtual connections, and the use of 20GB controllers, among other technologies. HP's GEN9 focuses on the Uefi BIOS, RESTful API, HP Smartcache, and the workload accelerator, but also promises to support Microsoft and VMware virtualization technologies more closely.

HP says its GEN8 products can achieve double virtual data performance and 3 times times response time performance through the integration of virtualization technologies. There is no doubt that tighter integration of Hyper-V and VMware means shorter virtual machine setup times.