HP designed its rx3600 server with remote operations in mind, making it ideal for clustered, as well as distributed environments. It is compatible with several 64-bit operating systems, including HP-UX 11i v2 (June 2006 update); Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux As 4 update 3 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10); Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition; and, OpenVMS 8.3. One or two dual-core Intel Itanium 2 processor may be installed running at up to 1.6 GHz each, with up to 96GB of RAM and up to eight 2.5-inch hot-pluggable SAS SCSI drives, in a compact, internally expandable 4U EIA enclosure. HP’s new zx2 chipset compliments the Itanium 2 CPUs, providing lower memory latency and increased memory and I/O subsystem availability, which results in improved reliability and availability, according to HP. Designed to be highly manageable and reliable, the rx3600 features hot-swappable redundant power and fans; double DRAM chip spare, which enables the server to recover even if two DRAMs fail; PCI online repair; an integrated Integrity iLO 2 management processor and high-availability clustering support. The CPUs can be swapped out with the next iteration of Intel’s Itanium 2 processor, requiring only a firmware update, making the rx3600 easily upgraded. Integrated management software includes: HP Systems Insight Manager and HP OpenView.
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, Calif.
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