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Executive Summary........1
Introduction....................3
Customer
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Compaq ProLiant
Migration Path ......................4
Compaq Customer
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Intel Pentium II
Xeon Technology
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Superior
Performance ................... 6
Performance Results .............6
ProLiant 6000,
6500, and 7000
Upgrade Benefits ............ 7
Summary ........................ 8
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With the Compaq ProLiant 6000, 6500, and 7000, Compaq customers are reassured they have the
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highest investment protection for their enterprise servers today and in the future. By offering
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upgrade paths from the Intel Pentium Pro to future Intel Pentium II Xeon technology, Compaq
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provides opportunities for you to increase scalability without having to purchase new systems.
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Because your business is always changing, Compaq has designed the ProLiant 6000, 6500, and
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7000 to be upgradable, allowing the introduction of the Intel Pentium II Xeon technology while
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protecting your investments in memory, drives, and high availability features. These upgraded
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servers are fully optimized for Intel Pentium II Xeon and will contain all the high availability
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features of new Compaq servers featuring Intel Pentium II Xeon processors.
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Compaq has designed upgrade kits, which are fully tested by our factories to ensure a seamless
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transition. These kits are tested again after the service personnel completes the upgrades. The
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kits include all of the components necessary to upgrade the server to allow Intel Pentium II Xeon
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4-way and, in the future, 8-way SMP capability (ProLiant 7000 only) plus domestic on-site
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installation. A parts and support staff is available to make the upgrade as easy as possible.
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Compaq's strategy to upgrade to Intel Pentium II Xeon technology with the ProLiant 6000, 6500,
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and 7000 is designed to serve both customers' current requirements as well as fulfill future
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demands with the following features:
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Compaq servers using Intel Pentium II Xeon technology begin with a 400MHz core speed
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ProLiant 6000, 6500, and 7000 servers using Intel Pentium II Xeon technology will also
support future versions of Intel Pentium II Xeon technology for maximum scalability and
longevity.
• Superior Performance - The Intel Pentium II Xeon technology increases performance by
greater than 40-60% over Intel Pentium Pro 200MHz with similar cache sizes. In fact,
Compaq estimates show that initial 4-way SMP Intel Pentium II Xeon technology
outperforms leading 8-way Intel Pentium Pro servers at a lower cost and with far greater
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• Leadership in Industry-Standards – Compaq is committed to leadership by offering
customers ease of upgradability with Compaq’s industry-standard 8-way development
partnership with Corollary. The combination of Compaq’s joint development with Corollary
on the Profusion architecture and Intel Pentium II Xeon technology will yield a balanced,
high-performance industry-standard 8-way system architecture.
Because of Compaq's commitment to its customers and a lower total cost of ownership, you can
buy the ProLiant 6000, 6500, or 7000 servers with the confidence of superior investment
protection and stability, recognizing that Compaq servers provide leading performance today and
future upgradability to the next generation of performance.
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accompanying such products. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting a further or
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additional warranty.
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QuickBlank, QuickLock, UltraView, Innovate logo, Wonder Tools logo in black/white and color,
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Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, Windows NT Advanced Server, SQL Server for Windows NT
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Pentium is a registered trademark and Xeon is a trademark of Intel Corporation.
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White Paper: Investment Protection for ProLiant 6000, 6500,
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First Edition (June 1998)
Document No. ECG091/0698
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INTRODUCTION
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Once again, Compaq’s technical leadership continues to deliver systems that meet your most
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strategy. There’s a
strong possibility that
Intel’s Intel Pentium
II Xeon technology
will be introduced
within six months and
systems released today
based on the Intel
Pentium Pro will have
to be upgraded or
swapped out to the
newer technology. IT
managers don’t like to
transition installations
in such quick cycles.”
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Analyst for Servers at
DataQuest, 11/97, on the
longevity of 8-way Intel
Pentium Pro servers.
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critical needs. When Compaq introduced the ProLiant 6000, 6500, and 7000 servers, customers
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were ensured superior investment protection by enabling upgrades from the Intel Pentium Pro
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technology to Intel’s next generation processor, the Intel Pentium II Xeon. Compaq continues to
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offer you leading investment protection by providing processor upgrades to future Intel Pentium II
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Xeon processors, and future 8-way upgrades on the ProLiant 7000. These upgraded servers are
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fully optimized for Intel Pentium II Xeon and contain all the high availability features of new
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Compaq servers featuring Intel Pentium II Xeon processors.
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Compaq’s Pentium II Xeon-based server models build on Compaq’s award-winning ProLiant
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product line at the high end, enhancing processor power, I/O bandwith, and availability
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technologies beyond previous offerings. Customers can deploy ProLiant servers with confidence
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because of Compaq’s commitment to delivering leading industry standard technology today while
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providing superior customer investment protection for the future.
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Customer Investment Protection with the ProLiant 6000, 6500, and 7000
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With your business needs always changing, you can be reassured that your Compaq servers can
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quickly evolve to meet growing demands without compromising your investment. Compaq offers
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a wide range of servers, which move you to the next level of performance. Today's ProLiant 7000
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offers superior performance, availability, and investment protection for 7 x 24 environments. The
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ProLiant 6500 provides breakthrough availability, optimized for 7 x 24 multi-server rack-mount
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environments; while the ProLiant 6000 features superior value, performance, and expansion for
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business-critical computing.
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Compaq is again positioning itself as the leader of the server industry by partnering with
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Corollary developing the new revolutionary eight-way SMP Profusion architecture for next
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The ProLiant 7000 will be Compaq’s first server upgradable to 8-way Intel Pentium II Xeon. You
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can choose to upgrade your Intel Pentium Pro ProLiant 7000 first to 4-way Intel Pentium II Xeon
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and then to 8-way Intel Pentium II Xeon, or move straight to 8-way Intel Pentium II Xeon, when
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available, the ultimate in scalability. The ProLiant 6500 and 6000 offer you upgradability to 4-
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Figure 1: The ProLiant servers' migration path to future technology
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Award-winning
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ProLiant 7000
1998 Network Magazine Product
of the Year for Enterprise PC
Servers Award
“We looked for products that are
sure to make a significant impact
on our readers’ networks, and
therefore, on their businesses.”
-Alan Zeichick, Editor-in-Chief,
Network Magazine
ProLiant 6500 and 7000
"InternetWeek Approved"
designation for enterprise-class
servers, 1997
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ProLiant 6000
Large Workgroup Server A-List,
Top Pick, 1998
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1997 Analyst’s Choice Award
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Most Valuable Product 1997
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“When it comes to singling out the
best of the best in every major
category, nothing else comes
close.”
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Compaq ProLiant Family
1997 World Class Award for
Best Network Server
“Compaq’s line of ProLiant
workgroup servers continues to get
raves for expandability,
streamlined design, hot-swappable
drives, and server management
software.”
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Compaq Customer Advantages Using Intel Pentium II Xeon Technology vs.
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The Intel Pentium II Xeon is at the beginning of its lifecycle and enhancements will continue into
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the future, unlike the current Intel Pentium Pro processor. The Intel Pentium Pro has reached its
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limits in processor speeds, front-size bus speed, cache size, and cache speed. These four factors
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are especially critical for eight-way scalability, leading to a rapid fall-off in scalability for systems
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with greater than four Intel Pentium Pro processors. The benefits of Intel Pentium II Xeon
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processors over Intel Pentium Pro include support for a 100 MHz system bus, large secondary
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cache size (>512K), a faster, full-speed internal cache bus, and a higher internal (core) frequency.
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customers to the next generation of performance with the Intel Pentium Pro and Intel Pentium II
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processing choices:
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Table 1: Comparison of Intel Pentium Pro, Intel Pentium II, and Intel Pentium II Xeon
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Superior Performance
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Compaq has engineered these new Pentium II Xeon-based servers with a balanced architecture to
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provide increased performance through I/O and memory, which takes advantage of the increased
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performance offered by the Intel Pentium II Xeon chip. Compaq testing has indicated that
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customers will experience significant performance increases, especially in enterprise class
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applications. Recent TPC-C results show that four-way Intel Pentium II Xeon servers outperform
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Figure 2: Comparison of 8-way Intel Pentium Pro and Intel Pentium II Xeon performance using
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HP NetServer LXr Pro8 8 16,257 $34 $547,374
NEC Express 5800 HV8000 8 16,216 $39 $632,405
DG AviiON AV8600 Server 8 16,101 $56 $897,290
Based on Published TPC-C Results as of 6/29/98
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benchmark testing including TPC-C, TPC-D, SAP, and Microsoft Exchange, among others to be
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Compaq's upgrade program provides maximum investment protection and best value. A ProLiant
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6000, 6500, or 7000 customer upgrading to next generation Intel Pentium II Xeon processors
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preserves what could be a sizeable investment in memory, disk drives, and peripherals.
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Redeploying server components within ProLiant servers minimizes expenses over a longer period
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of time, lowering total cost of ownership.
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Compaq is the only vendor providing customers a true upgrade that protects existing hardware
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investments. Because these are true in-chassis upgrades, and therefore, maintain your all
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important system serial number, Compaq enables you to amortize your investments unlike other
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vendors offering "upgrades" requiring additional capital expenditures.
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As NT servers move higher in the enterprise, requirements for reliability, robustness, and
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scalability increase. Compaq engineering for Intel Pentium II Xeon platforms meets these
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requirements beginning with 4-way designs of the ProLiant 6000, 6500, and 7000. Early
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engineering analysis showed that the Intel Pentium II Xeon processors and the 100 MHz bus
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supported by the Intel Pentium II Xeon processors would create more power and thermal load
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than current Intel Pentium Pro-based systems. Planning in advance for Intel Pentium II Xeon and
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8-way requirements, Compaq engineered the ProLiant 6000, 6500, and 7000 power supplies and
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cooling to accommodate these additional loads. These examples are just a few of the advanced
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engineering features designed into ProLiant servers to ease migration.
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Specific customer advantages in buying the upgradable ProLiant servers include:
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depreciate your server on schedule (may also be tied to Operating System and Application
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for upgrading are both more flexible and affordable. Leasing is an excellent means to
manage technology obsolescence risk without the burden of ownership;
• Protecting investments by transferring memory (4-way migration only), disk drives, power
supplies, and peripherals;
• Providing free installation1 that will minimize expense and server downtime;
• Pre-planned next generation optimization on current platforms including superior cooling
and 750 watt redundant power supplies for the ProLiant 6000, 6500; and 7000; and
• Enhanced scalability with next generation Intel Pentium II Xeon processing.
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You can be assured that a parts and support staff is available to make the upgrade as easy as
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possible. A special upgrade installation service has been created for the installation of both 4-way
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and 8-way upgrade components. Hardware installation by trained and qualified technicians
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(Monday through Friday 9–5) is standard and included in the kit. Optional after hours hardware
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installation is available as well as restoration. For more information on the upgrade kit features,
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refer to Compaq’s website at http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/upgrade/index.html.
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With the Intel Pentium II Xeon technology at the beginning of its lifecycle, Compaq customers
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can buy ProLiant 6000, 6500, or 7000 enterprise class servers with the confidence of superior
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investment protection and longevity knowing their servers provide leading performance today and
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future upgradability to the next generation of server technology.
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§§System Serial
Number
§§Power Supplies
§§EDO Memory
§§Integrated
Management
Display
§§Hard Drives
§§CD-ROM and
Floppy Drives
§§Media Devices
§§PCI Cards
§§PCI Hot Plug*
and other High
Availability
features
4-way Intel
Pentium II
Xeon
§§System Serial
Number
§§Power
Supplies
§§Integrated
Management
Display
§§Hard Drives
§§CD-ROM and
Floppy Drives
§§Media Devices
§§PCI Cards
§§PCI Hot Plug*
and other High
Availability
features
8-way Intel
Pentium II
Xeon
*ProLiant 6500 and 7000 models
**Upgrade to 8-way available on
ProLiant 7000 models only
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