HP COMPAQ PROLIANT 7000 SERVER User Manual
January 1999
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Product Marketing Guide:
Prepared by Industry Standard
Server Division
Compaq Computer Corporation
Contents
Executive Summary ...................1
Power and Reliability for 7 x
24 Environments ........................3
ProLiant 7000 with
Pentium II Xeon
450MHz/2MB L2 Cache
Processors...............................3
Product Overview.......................4
Highest Performance and
Scalability................................... 5
Highest Availability for 7 x 24
Environments.............................7
Expansion-Optimized
Chassis....................................... 9
Open Industry Standards.........11
Tight Integration with
Leading Applications and
Solutions ..................................11
Most Manageable Server..........13
Testing, Integration, and
Manufacturing ..........................15
Benefits of Compaq ProLiant
7000 ..........................................18
Competitive Comparison
Chart vs. X86............................ 21
Product Specifications............. 23
Compaq ProLiant 7000
Abstract: The Compaq ProLiant 7000 is the ultimate standards-based
server delivering the most scalable performance and highest levels of
availability and expansion for 7 x 24 environments. The ProLiant 7000 is
the ideal server for large business-critical databases, OLTP, ERP,
messaging, and web applications.
Executive Summary
Key Features
• 4-way Pentium II Xeon processing now with 450MHz for superior
power and performance and NEW 2MB L2 cache.
• 8 GB ECC-protected EDO memory for the highest performance in
memory-intensive applications
• Next-generation cable-free 3-channel Wide-Ultra SCSI RAID
Controller (Smart Array 3100ES) with enhanced features, offering high
performance and contiguous RAID across all 3 internal hot plug drive
cages, plus NEW optional redundant Smart Array 3100ES.
• New Fast Ethernet 64PCI, Dual Based 10/100 Controller for higher
bandwidth requirements.
• Industry-first, easy-to-use push button PCI Hot Plug technology
includes intelligent software shut-off during transitions, eliminating the
need for software utility shutdown at a keyboard or console.
• Investment protection to future industry-standard 8-way processing.
• Standard Integrated Remote Console and Optional PCI Remote Insight
Board for faster remote access.
• Compaq Insight Manager with web-enabled agents for the broadest
management and systems software integration and the best pre-failure
alerting.
• Rack-ready for ease of expansion, upgrade, and service, with 3 servers
fitting in an industry-standard 19” x 42U (7-ft.) rack.
• Compaq Care provides a wide range of service offerings including a
three-year limited warranty, Pre-Failure Warranty, and Compaq Service
and Support Programs available on a worldwide basis.
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Copyright ©1999 Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.
Product Marketing Guide: Compaq ProLiant 7000
Competitive Analysis prepared by Industry Standard Server Division
First Edition (January 1999)
Document Number ECG028/0199
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NOW AVAILABLE WITH
Power and Reliability
for 7 x 24 Environments
PENTIUM II XEON
ProLiant 7000 with Pentium II
Xeon 450MHz/2MB L2 Cache
Processors
Compaq combines cutting-edge
performance and reliability with
the benefits of industry standards
to deliver the highest quality and
lowest cost of ownership.
“Best Network Server” Award, Annual Best Buy
Awards presented at Comdex, Computer
Shopper Magazine (11/19/98)
450MHZ PROCESSORS
Evolving enterprises need a
server that takes change in stride,
and the Compaq ProLiant 7000 is
designed to evolve with you.
The ProLiant 7000 offers the
highest levels of scalability to
meet changing IT needs and
protect your investment over time. The ProLiant 7000 was engineered with technology foresight,
delivering an innovative design that allows customers to easily take advantage of future eightway computing.
The ProLiant 7000 is ideal for large business-critical databases, messaging and web databases,
high-availability OLTP, and ERP. You can trust Compaq ProLiant 7000 to run your business.
“CRN Recommended,” CRN Test Center at Fall
Comdex, Computer Reseller Magazine (11/98)
Enterprise PC Server Product of the Year
Award, Network Magazine (3/98)
Businesses Everywhere Trust Compaq
• Compaq is the global and U.S. leader in industry-standard
servers, holding a 32.2% market share.
• 55% of Windows NT customers running SAP/R3 entrust their
business-critical applications to Compaq servers.
• Compaq is #1 in NT, SAP, and Novell.
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IDC Quarterly PC Market Tracker, 11/98.
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Compaq and respective partner data.
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Product Overview
The Compaq ProLiant 7000 is the ultimate standards-based server
delivering the most scalable performance and highest levels of availability
and expansion for 7 x 24 environments. Compaq continues to set new
standards for server power and customer confidence.
Highest Performance and Scalability – The ProLiant 7000 delivers next-generation technology:
• Up to 4 400MHz to 450MHz Pentium II Xeon processors, with 500MHz expected to be
available in March 1999.
• 100MHz system bus and now 2MB L2 cache.
• 3-channel Wide-Ultra SCSI RAID Controller.
• 8GB ECC-protected EDO memory.
• 10 I/O expansion slots, with room for large amounts of integrated disk storage with the
flexibility to choose 18x1” or 12x1.6” disks.
• Clustering supported in a variety of cluster configurations and operating systems.
• Upgradability to future 8-way Pentium II Xeon processor technology maximizes
investment protection.
Critical Availability for 7 x 24 Environments – The Compaq ProLiant 7000 offered the first
industry-standard push button PCI Hot Plug platform in July 1998, and offers the following
additional availability features:
• NEW optional redundant RAID controller,
• redundant hot plug power supplies,
• redundant hot plug fans,
• redundant processor power modules,
• redundant hot plug NICs,
• cluster support,
• RAID-protected hot plug drives,
• OSCRO (Online Storage Controller Recovery Option), an automatic failover option that
allows controllers to back each other up.
Tight Integration with Leading Applications and Solutions – Compaq and its partners work
together through every stage, from product development and engineering to product delivery and
support – delivering systems that have been tested and optimized with the leading businesscritical applications.
• Compaq has established 11 SAP Competence centers worldwide dedicated to testing and
optimizing SAP R/3 solutions exclusively on Microsoft Windows NT.
• Compaq is the sole development and deployment platform for Baan’s Windows NT
clustering.
• Compaq is the number one platform for the leading standards-based solutions, including
Microsoft Windows NT, Novell NetWare, SCO Unix, as well as Oracle, SAP R/3, Lotus,
Citrix, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and Baan on Windows NT.
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Leading Manageability for Reduced TCO – Everything about the ProLiant 7000 is engineered
for ease of management and decreased resource utilization.
• With SmartStart, Compaq Insight Manager, Integrated Remote Console, Integrated
Management Display, Remote Insight Board (now PCI-based), new push button PCI Hot
Plug, and easy access, customers recognize a 20-41% reduction of time spent on management
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tasks.
• Compaq provides an unbeaten 3-Year Pre-Failure Warranty for servers using Compaq Insight
Manager, covering memory, drives, and processors.
Highest Performance and Scalability
The ProLiant 7000 delivers balanced system performance to meet the
demands of today’s business-critical applications.
Compaq’s balanced system architecture maximizes performance of processor, scalable memory,
and Compaq’s I/O subsystem, minimizing bottlenecks.
NEW!
Next-Generation Processor Performance
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The ProLiant 7000 with 4-way Pentium II Xeon processors raises performance to the next
level for applications requiring 4-way scalability and beyond. Processor mixing is now
supported. Customers can now populate the server with processors of different speeds and cache
sizes (maximum of 2 different configurations), allowing them to take advantage of faster
processor speeds and larger cache sizes.
Enhancements
Faster processing speeds Up to 500MHz vs. 200MHz
Larger L2 cache size 2MB vs. 1MB
Larger L1 cache size 16KB vs. 8KB
Faster bus speeds 100MHz vs. 66MHz
Higher peak memory transfer rate 1.6GB/s vs. 1.07GB/s
Higher peak PCI transfer rate 399MB/s vs. 266MB/s
Concurrent CPU to Memory and PCI to Memory transfers
Pentium II Xeon vs. Pentium Pro
Processors
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The Business Case for Investing in Manageable Systems, IDC White Paper, 1997.
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For Performance Data (TPC-C, TPC-D, SPECWeb 96, and SAP R/3 SD) see the following site:
http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/benchmarks/index.html.
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ProLiant 7000
4-way
New Models and
Upgrade Kit
Future industry-
standard 8-way
ProLiant 7000
with Intel’s faster
next generation
processors
with
Pentium Pro
processors
New Models and
Upgrade Kit
ProLiant 7000
with Intel
Pentium II
Xeon
processors
Ultimate Industry-Standard Scalability
Uncompromising investment protection is provided by 8-way in-chassis upgradability.
Enhanced Memory Architecture
The ProLiant 7000 has ECC protected EDO memory, up to 8 GB RAM using industry-standard
EDO DIMMs.
The memory architecture provides parallel memory access for increased performance support.
The ProLiant 7000 has two memory boards, each with its own memory controller. This allows
for overlapping memory accesses providing longer sustained peak transfer rates.
Advanced I/O Scalability with Higher Bandwidth
• Three PCI buses for faster I/O throughput.
• 64-bit PCI for double the bandwidth to storage, networks, and peripherals.
• Ten total I/O expansion slots: 5 x 64-bit PCI, 4 x 32-bit PCI, all nine hot-pluggable, plus one
ISA modem slot, to meet growing I/O requirements for the most demanding environments.
• Hot-pluggable, cable-free internal 3-channel RAID controller continues to provide a major
new concept in internal drive expandability.
• A single controller supports all three internal hot plug drive cages. All internal hot plug
disk drives can be configured as one 218.4GB array (12 x 18.2GB) for optimum
application performance or as three 72.8GB arrays. The ProLiant 7000 offers the
flexibility of up to 18 x 1” or 12 x 1.6” hot plug disk drives, mixing allowed.
• Compaq-unique, cable-free design allows the disk drive cages to be connected directly to
the I/O board via an extended SCSI connector. Installation is a snap, and there are no
complex cable configurations. The cable-free bus greatly enhances PCI Hot Plug
operation and serviceability.
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• Compaq’s advanced array technology allows these NEW features: 1) logical drive
capacity expansion allowing the user to extend the size of existing logical drives offline
independent of the operating system used, 2) online migration to new RAID level
without disrupting system operation or causing data loss; and 3) online drive stripe
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sizing to enhance application performance. Compaq Insight Manager monitors key
parameters and provides information for proactive system planning.
• The large 64MB (ECC-protected and battery-backed removable read/write) cache
maximizes I/O performance without sacrificing data integrity.
NEW!
• NEW optional redundant Smart Array 3100ES for failover support. The Smart
Array software upgrade is available as an option kit with the Smart Array 3100ES,
separate software purchase, or can be downloaded from the Web.
Up to Six SCSI Channels
• Two integrated Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 controllers are used for internal media or internal storage,
and one integrated Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 is used for external storage.
• A three-channel RAID controller is standard, allowing flexible expansion.
Support for the Industry’s Highest Performing Storage Devices
• 10,000-RPM Hot Plug Drives provide 26% higher performance than 7200 RPM drives.
• 35/70 DLT tape drives give faster performing, efficient backup for massive storage, optimally
configured with individual SCSI channels to reduce load on the network.
• 32X CD-ROM gives faster access to programs.
NEW!
Fast Ethernet 64 PCI Dual Based 10/100 NIC
• The dual port Fast Ethernet NIC satisfies customers’ higher bandwidth requirements.
• Dual Port 10/100 Upgrade Module and 64-bit Gigabit Ethernet Upgrade Module available.
Highest Availability for 7 x 24 Environments
Push Button PCI Hot Plug
Compaq industry-first push button design provides full
PCI Hot Plug capabilities for all 9 PCI Hot Plug slots. A
single button at each slot enables rapid replacement, upgrade,
and addition of PCI cards. LED notification provides easyto-read PCI Hot Plug status. The push button capability
includes the feature of intelligent software shut-off during
transitions, eliminating the need for software utility
shutdown at a keyboard or console.
Redundant and Hot Plug Components
• Hot-Pluggable Redundant Power Supplies provide maximum system availability.
• Load sharing between the 2-3 power supplies saves critical time in the event of redundant
takeover, auto sensing for 750-watt/220 volt or 500-watt/110 volt.
• Independent power cords eliminate single points of failure and provide more power to the
system.
• Security bar with user-supplied key lock further ensures availability and security of
components.
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