HP offers the industry's broadest portfolio of blade servers and technologies optimized to address customers' needs. The new ProLiant BL20p G2 is a performance dual-processor server blade engineered for the enterprise. The ProLiant BL20p G2 delivers high performance Intel 3.2GHz/533MHz Xeon processors available with 512KB L2 cache or 1M L3 cache, SAN storage capability, up to 8GB of PC 2100 DDR memory and gigabit NICs standard. The new ProLiant BL20p G2 fits into the same server blade enclosure as the ProLiant BL20p and the new ProLiant BL40p and shares the same power.

The ProLiant BL20p G2 delivers optional Fibre Channel support for SAN implementations and clustering capabilities. Through the implementation of a SAN with the ProLiant BL20p G2, customers can achieve improved data availability, easily scale capacity, and realize management cost savings from consolidating disk resources. In addition, with HP's fusion of SAN and NAS (Network Attached Storage), customers can design a storage architecture that incorporates application, database and file serving solution functionality. Fibre Channel capability is achieved using a Dual Port Fibre Channel Mezzanine Card (2-Gb) specifically designed for the ProLiant BL20p G2. The ProLiant BL20p G2 is optimized for hp StorageWorks and compatible with EMC and Hitachi SANs.

The ProLiant BL p-Class system is part of the ProLiant BL servers and infrastructure portfolio developed for adaptive computing and optimized for rapid deployment and automated provisioning. The ProLiant BL p Class system provides high performance, high availability server blades for multi-tiered data center architectures.

The ProLiant BL p-class system enables dynamic scaling and protects your investment with an intelligent, modular infrastructure that can accommodate future server blades. The first 4-way server blade in the ProLiant BL p-Class family is the BL40p, engineered for the back-end enterprise space. This server blade features up to four Xeon MP 2.0GHz/1M, 2.2GHz/2M, 2.8GHz/2M and 3.0GHz/4M processors, PC2100 ECC SDRAM (12GB max memory w/ online spare), Integrated Smart Array 5i Plus (with optional BBWC) and four hot-plug SCSI drives.

Using the ProLiant BL40p in conjunction with other BL servers, expenses can be reduced by managing remotely from anywhere in the world with the advanced version of Integrated Lights Out (iLO). In addition, an integrated management system and full compatibility with the Insight Manager™ Suite gives you maximum virtual presence and control, management and health monitoring with blade visualization of all your applications.