HP Integrity
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HP Integrity is series of Hewlett-Packard
server computers
produced by Hewlett-Packard
since 2003, based on the Itanium
processor architecture. The Integrity brand name was inherited by HP from Tandem Computers
via Compaq
.
HP supports the Windows Server
, HP-UX
11i, OpenVMS
, NonStop
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
operating systems on Integrity servers.
Earlier Integrity servers were based on two closely related chipsets. The zx1
chipset supports up to 4 CPUs and up to 8 PCI-X
busses. The sx1000 chipset supports up to 64 CPUs and up to 192 PCI-X buses. The successor chipsets are the zx2 and sx2000 respectively.
The 1U rx1620 server is based on the zx1 chipset and has support for one or two 1.3/1.6 GHz Fanwood Itanium 2 CPUs.
Common for the series is:
Optional features are:
The series support four operating systems:
The 2U rx2620 server is based on the zx1 chipset and has support for one or two 1.6 GHz Fanwood/Madison or 1.4/1.6 GHz Montecito CPUs.
The 2U rx2660 server is based on the zx2 chipset and has support for one or two 1.6 GHz Montvale or 1.42/1.66 GHz Montvale CPUs.
Common for the series is:
Optional features are:
The series support four operating systems:
Among features common for the series(HP Integrity Entry-class rx2800-i2 Overview) is:
The series supports three operating systems:
Standard features include:
Optional features:
The 4U rx4640 utilizes Itanium 2 CPUs with support for up to four dual-core CPUs, 128 GB RAM and 6 PCI-X slots.
Both of these models come with integrated USB and video as default, which enables support for Microsoft Windows operating systems out of the box.
The rx4640 is architecturally the same box as the rp4440, and can be changed from PA-RISC to Itanium 2 support with the flip of a switch.
Standard features include:
Optional features:
, memory, and I/O bus. This design allows the servers to be divided into hardware partitions, or groups of cell boards. Each partition is able to perform as if it were a separate server.
and Itanium 2 CPUs.
The 10U rx7640 is based on the SX2000 chipset which supports both PA-RISC and Itanium 2 CPUs.
The rx7600 series are the smallest cell-based servers from HP. Just like the bigger rx8600 (see below) and the HP Superdome (see below), these servers can be partitioned
, either as one big partition (two cells in one partition) or as two independent cells.
The 17U rx8640 is based on the SX2000 chipset which supports both PA-RISC and Itanium 2 CPUs.
Standard features:
Just like the smaller rx7600 (see above) and the HP Superdome (see below), the rx8600 can be partitioned using any combination of the four available cell boards (minimum of one, maximum of four separated partitions).
The maximum number of partitions is four when used with an I/O-expander unit (IOX
). Because each partition requires an available I/O slot, and the rx8600 series' integrated I/O-chassis statically maps its two I/O slots to cell board 0 and 1, an rx8600 series system is limited to two partitions unless an IOX is installed.
Cells can be freely moved from a rx7600 series to a rx8600 series as long as the chipset is the same on the cells, and the firmware
is compatible.
On November 22, 2011 HP announced Project Odyssey - a project to redefine the future of mission-critical computing with a development roadmap that will unify UNIX® and x86 server architectures on a single platform. The roadmap includes delivering blades with Intel® Xeon® processors for the HP Superdome 2 enclosure (code name “DragonHawk”) and the scalable c-Class blade enclosures (code named “HydraLynx”), while fortifying Windows® and Linux environments with innovations from HP-UX within the next two years.
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
server computers
Server (computing)
In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...
produced by Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
since 2003, based on the Itanium
Itanium
Itanium is a family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors that implement the Intel Itanium architecture . Intel markets the processors for enterprise servers and high-performance computing systems...
processor architecture. The Integrity brand name was inherited by HP from Tandem Computers
Tandem Computers
Tandem Computers, Inc. was the dominant manufacturer of fault-tolerant computer systems for ATM networks, banks, stock exchanges, telephone switching centers, and other similar commercial transaction processing applications requiring maximum uptime and zero data loss. The company was founded in...
via Compaq
Compaq
Compaq Computer Corporation is a personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it was acquired for US$25 billion by Hewlett-Packard....
.
HP supports the Windows Server
Windows Server
Windows Server is a brand name for a group of server operating systems released by Microsoft Corporation. All are part of Microsoft Servers.- Members :This brand includes the following software:* Windows 2000 Server* Windows Server 2003...
, HP-UX
HP-UX
HP-UX is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V and first released in 1984...
11i, OpenVMS
OpenVMS
OpenVMS , previously known as VAX-11/VMS, VAX/VMS or VMS, is a computer server operating system that runs on VAX, Alpha and Itanium-based families of computers. Contrary to what its name suggests, OpenVMS is not open source software; however, the source listings are available for purchase...
, NonStop
NonStop
NonStop can refer to the line of HP Integrity NonStop computers, the line of Tandem NonStop computers that preceded them, or the NonStop OS operating system that is designed for them. NonStop systems are based on an integrated hardware/software stack...
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux-based operating system developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64...
and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a Linux distribution supplied by SUSE and targeted at the business market. It is targeted for servers, mainframes, and workstations but can be installed on desktop computers for testing as well. New major versions are released at an interval of 3-4 years, while...
operating systems on Integrity servers.
Earlier Integrity servers were based on two closely related chipsets. The zx1
Zx1
The zx1 chipset is chipset for the Itanium 2 and PA-RISC microprocessors from Hewlett Packard. It is used in some of their HP Integrity servers and workstations. It supports up to four microprocessors...
chipset supports up to 4 CPUs and up to 8 PCI-X
PCI-X
PCI-X, short for PCI-eXtended, is a computer bus and expansion card standard that enhances the 32-bit PCI Local Bus for higher bandwidth demanded by servers. It is a double-wide version of PCI, running at up to four times the clock speed, but is otherwise similar in electrical implementation and...
busses. The sx1000 chipset supports up to 64 CPUs and up to 192 PCI-X buses. The successor chipsets are the zx2 and sx2000 respectively.
rx1600 series
The 1U rx1600 server is based on the zx1 chipset and has support for one or two 1 GHz Deerfield Itanium 2 CPUs.The 1U rx1620 server is based on the zx1 chipset and has support for one or two 1.3/1.6 GHz Fanwood Itanium 2 CPUs.
Common for the series is:
- Support for up to 8 DIMMDIMMA DIMM or dual in-line memory module, comprises a series of dynamic random-access memory integrated circuits. These modules are mounted on a printed circuit board and designed for use in personal computers, workstations and servers...
s - Dual-channel Ultra 320 SCSISCSISmall Computer System Interface is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices. The SCSI standards define commands, protocols, and electrical and optical interfaces. SCSI is most commonly used for hard disks and tape drives, but it...
controller with support for two internal hard drives - Support for two hot-swappable Ultra 320 drives
- One external Ultra 320 SCSI port
- 10/100/1000BaseTX LANLocal area networkA local area network is a computer network that interconnects computers in a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, or office building...
port - An additional 10/100BaseTX LAN port
- General-purpose RS-232RS-232In telecommunications, RS-232 is the traditional name for a series of standards for serial binary single-ended data and control signals connecting between a DTE and a DCE . It is commonly used in computer serial ports...
serial portSerial portIn computing, a serial port is a serial communication physical interface through which information transfers in or out one bit at a time... - Possibility for redundantRedundancy (engineering)In engineering, redundancy is the duplication of critical components or functions of a system with the intention of increasing reliability of the system, usually in the case of a backup or fail-safe....
power suppliesPower supplyA power supply is a device that supplies electrical energy to one or more electric loads. The term is most commonly applied to devices that convert one form of electrical energy to another, though it may also refer to devices that convert another form of energy to electrical energy... - Two USBUniversal Serial BusUSB is an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and protocols used in a bus for connection, communication and power supply between computers and electronic devices....
ports - Two PCI-X slots
Optional features are:
- SCSI RAIDRAIDRAID is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit...
controller - Management processor card (required for support of Windows Server 2003Windows Server 2003Windows Server 2003 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft, introduced on 24 April 2003. An updated version, Windows Server 2003 R2, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005...
) - CDCD-ROMA CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....
/DVD-ROM (required for installation of Windows Server 2003 and OpenVMSOpenVMSOpenVMS , previously known as VAX-11/VMS, VAX/VMS or VMS, is a computer server operating system that runs on VAX, Alpha and Itanium-based families of computers. Contrary to what its name suggests, OpenVMS is not open source software; however, the source listings are available for purchase...
)
The series support four operating systems:
- HP-UXHP-UXHP-UX is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V and first released in 1984...
11i v2 or later - OpenVMS for ItaniumItaniumItanium is a family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors that implement the Intel Itanium architecture . Intel markets the processors for enterprise servers and high-performance computing systems...
- Windows Server 2003 for Itanium
- LinuxLinuxLinux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
with kernelKernel (computing)In computing, the kernel is the main component of most computer operating systems; it is a bridge between applications and the actual data processing done at the hardware level. The kernel's responsibilities include managing the system's resources...
that supports Itanium
rx2600 series
The 2U rx2600 server is based on the zx1 chipset and has support for one or two 1.0/1.4 GHz Deerfield/Madison, 1.3 GHz Madison or 1.5 GHz Madison CPUs.The 2U rx2620 server is based on the zx1 chipset and has support for one or two 1.6 GHz Fanwood/Madison or 1.4/1.6 GHz Montecito CPUs.
The 2U rx2660 server is based on the zx2 chipset and has support for one or two 1.6 GHz Montvale or 1.42/1.66 GHz Montvale CPUs.
Common for the series is:
- Support for up to 12 DIMMs (8 DIMMs for the rx2660)
- Dual channel Ultra 320 SCSI controller with support for two internal hard drives
- Support for three hot-swappable Ultra 320 drives
- One external Ultra 320 SCSI port
- 10/100/1000BaseTX LAN port
- Two general-purpose RS-232 serial ports
- Possibility for redundant power supplies
- Two USB ports
- Four PCI-X slots
Optional features are:
- SCSI RAID controller
- Management processor card (required for support of Windows Server 2003)
- CD/DVD-ROM (Required for installation of Windows Server 2003 and OpenVMS)
The series support four operating systems:
- HP-UX 11i v2 or later
- OpenVMS for Itanium
- Windows Server 2003 for Itanium
- Linux with kernel that supports Itanium
rx2800 series
The 2U rx2800 i2 server utilizes the Intel Itanium 9300 series chipset with 8, 4 or 2 processor cores available.Among features common for the series(HP Integrity Entry-class rx2800-i2 Overview) is:
- Support for up to 24 DIMMs
- HP p410i 3 Gb SAS Controller
- Support for 8 hot-plug Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) small form factor (SFF) 2.5 inch drives
- Quad port 10/100/1000 Base TX LAN
- Six expansion slots
The series supports three operating systems:
- HP-UX 11i v3
- OpenVMS v 8.4 for Itanium
- Windows Server for Itanium
rx3600
The 4U rx3600 is based on the zx2 chipset and has two CPU sockets which support Montecito or Montvale processors. It supports up to 96 GB of main memory, using 24 four-gigabyte DIMMs.Standard features include:
- Support for up to 24 ECC protected PC2 4200 DDR2DDR2 SDRAMDDR2 SDRAM is a double data rate synchronous dynamic random-access memory interface. It supersedes the original DDR SDRAM specification and has itself been superseded by DDR3 SDRAM...
DIMMs (with two optional 12-slot memory carrier boards) - Dual-port 10/100/1000Base TX LAN
- Integrated iLO2 management processor
- Choice of I/O backplane: PCI-X with 8 available PCI-X slots, or the PCI ExpressPCI ExpressPCI Express , officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards...
I/O backplane, containing 4 x8 PCI Express slots, and 4 PCI-X slots. The system also has 2 reserved PCI-X slots, one of which is used for a PCI-X dual-port 10/100/1000Base TX LAN card, and the other is reserved for an optional internal Smart Array RAID card. - N+1 hot-swappable fans
- Hot-swappable power supply
- Eight 2.5" Serial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
(SAS) disk-drive slots - 8-port SAS host bus adapter, supporting two RAID 1 volumes and a hot spare
- Hot-swappable PCI-X I/O cards
Optional features:
- up to 8 SAS disk drives, with support for up to 72 GB 15K-RPMRevolutions per minuteRevolutions per minute is a measure of the frequency of a rotation. It annotates the number of full rotations completed in one minute around a fixed axis...
or 146 GB 10K-RPM disks. - Redundant hot-swappable power supply
- 8-port HP Smart Array P400 or P600, or 16-port P800 SAS RAID controllers available for internal disks, supporting RAID 1/5/6 and hot spare disks.
rx4600 series
The 7U rx4610 utilizes Itanium 1 CPUs with support for up to four single-core CPUs, 64GB RAM and 10 PCI 64-bit slots.The 4U rx4640 utilizes Itanium 2 CPUs with support for up to four dual-core CPUs, 128 GB RAM and 6 PCI-X slots.
Both of these models come with integrated USB and video as default, which enables support for Microsoft Windows operating systems out of the box.
The rx4640 is architecturally the same box as the rp4440, and can be changed from PA-RISC to Itanium 2 support with the flip of a switch.
rx5670
The discontinued 7U rx5670 server has four CPU sockets which support McKinley and Madison processors. It is zx1-based and can have up to 48 DIMM slots, supporting 256 MB to 2 GB DIMMs which must be loaded in matched sets of four (quads). It has 9 PCI-X slots and 1 PCI slot available.rx6600
The 7U rx6600 is based on the zx2 chipset and has four CPU sockets that support Montecito and Montvale CPUs. It supports 384 GB memory using 48 eight-gigabyte DIMMs.Standard features include:
- Support for up to 48 ECC protected PC2 4200 DDR2-memory DIMMs (with the 48-slot memory board)
- Dual-port 10/100/1000Base TX LAN
- Integrated iLO2 management processor
- Choice of I/O backplane: PCI-X with 8 available PCI-X slots, or the PCI Express I/O backplane, containing 4 x8 PCI Express slots, and 4 PCI-X slots. The system also has 2 reserved PCI-X slots, one of which is used for a PCI-X dual-port 10/100/1000Base TX LAN card, and the other is reserved for an optional internal Smart Array RAID card.
- N+1 hot-swappable fans
- Hot-swappable power supply
- Sixteen 2.5" SAS disk drive slots
- 8-port SAS host bus adapter, supporting two RAID 1 volumes and a hot spare
- Hot swappable PCI-X I/O cards
Optional features:
- Up to 16 SAS disk drives, with support for 72 GB 15K-RPM / 146 GB 10K-RPM or 300 GB 10K-RPM disks
- Redundant hot swappable power supply
- 8-port HP Smart Array P400 or P600, or 16-port P800 SAS RAID controllers available for internal disks, supporting RAID 1/5/6 and hot-spare disks
Mid-range servers
HP's mid-range and high-end (Superdome) servers are based on cell boards, sometimes called cells, which contain the chipset, ProcessorsCentral processing unit
The central processing unit is the portion of a computer system that carries out the instructions of a computer program, to perform the basic arithmetical, logical, and input/output operations of the system. The CPU plays a role somewhat analogous to the brain in the computer. The term has been in...
, memory, and I/O bus. This design allows the servers to be divided into hardware partitions, or groups of cell boards. Each partition is able to perform as if it were a separate server.
rx7600 series
The 10U rx7620 is based on the SX1000 chipset which supports both PA-RISCPA-RISC
PA-RISC is an instruction set architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard. As the name implies, it is a reduced instruction set computer architecture, where the PA stands for Precision Architecture...
and Itanium 2 CPUs.
The 10U rx7640 is based on the SX2000 chipset which supports both PA-RISC and Itanium 2 CPUs.
- Maximum of 2 cell boards
- 4 CPU sockets per cell board
- 16 DIMM slots per cell board
- Maximum of 4 SCSI disks and 2 tapeMagnetic tapeMagnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic. It was developed in Germany, based on magnetic wire recording. Devices that record and play back audio and video using magnetic tape are tape recorders and video tape recorders...
and/or CD/DVD-ROM internally (half to each cell board) - 7 hot-pluggable I/O slots per cell board plus 1 core I/O slot per cell board for SX1000
The rx7600 series are the smallest cell-based servers from HP. Just like the bigger rx8600 (see below) and the HP Superdome (see below), these servers can be partitioned
Disk partitioning
Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions, to treat one physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks. Partitions are also termed "slices" for operating systems based on BSD, Solaris or GNU Hurd...
, either as one big partition (two cells in one partition) or as two independent cells.
rx8600 series
The 17U rx8620 is based on the SX1000 chipset which supports both PA-RISC and Itanium 2 CPUs.The 17U rx8640 is based on the SX2000 chipset which supports both PA-RISC and Itanium 2 CPUs.
Standard features:
- Maximum of four cell boards
- Four CPU sockets per cell board
- 16 DIMM slots per cell board
- Maximum of four SCSI disks and two tape and/or CD/DVD-ROM internally (half to cell board 0, half to cell board 1)
- Eight hot-pluggable I/O-slots per cell board and 1 core I/O slot per cell board for SX1000
Just like the smaller rx7600 (see above) and the HP Superdome (see below), the rx8600 can be partitioned using any combination of the four available cell boards (minimum of one, maximum of four separated partitions).
The maximum number of partitions is four when used with an I/O-expander unit (IOX
IOS XR
IOS XR is a train of Cisco Systems' widely deployed Internetworking Operating System , used on their high-end carrier-grade routers such as the CRS-1, 12000, and ASR9000 series.-Architecture:...
). Because each partition requires an available I/O slot, and the rx8600 series' integrated I/O-chassis statically maps its two I/O slots to cell board 0 and 1, an rx8600 series system is limited to two partitions unless an IOX is installed.
Cells can be freely moved from a rx7600 series to a rx8600 series as long as the chipset is the same on the cells, and the firmware
Firmware
In electronic systems and computing, firmware is a term often used to denote the fixed, usually rather small, programs and/or data structures that internally control various electronic devices...
is compatible.
Superdome
The Superdome server is available in several models, including the SD-16, SD-32, and SD-64. HP announced Superdome 2 in April 2010, offering resiliency improvements, a modular, bladed design, common components and Crossbar Fabric that routes transactions to the optimal pathway between blades and I/O. Superdome 2 addresses requirements for high-performance computing by providing flexible scalability and fault tolerance necessary for mission-critical workloads.On November 22, 2011 HP announced Project Odyssey - a project to redefine the future of mission-critical computing with a development roadmap that will unify UNIX® and x86 server architectures on a single platform. The roadmap includes delivering blades with Intel® Xeon® processors for the HP Superdome 2 enclosure (code name “DragonHawk”) and the scalable c-Class blade enclosures (code named “HydraLynx”), while fortifying Windows® and Linux environments with innovations from HP-UX within the next two years.