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HP Integrity rx8640 Server—key benefits

Ideal platform for scale-up, performance, and server consolidation workloads with low total cost of ownership (TCO)
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HP Integrity rx8640 Server
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Outstanding scalability mission-critical reliability for all types of workloads

The HP Integrity rx8640 Server offers state-of-the-art features in balanced performance for optimum, real world performance. Powered by the latest generation Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® processors—optimized by the HP Super-Scalable Processor Chipset sx2000 (PDF, 104 KB) —the HP Integrity rx8640 Server delivers the scalability and real world performance needed to meet your most demanding business needs.

Industry-leading high-availability and reliability features

Leading high-availability technologies in the Integrity rx8640 Server guard your applications with proven, mission-critical reliability. The HP Super-Scalable Processor Chipset sx2000 (PDF, 104 KB) employs error-correcting and self-healing technologies throughout, which reduces customer outages.

Unique technologies include Double Chip Sparing, which immediately restores chip-spare protection after a DRAM chip has failed—shielding against the vast majority of memory failures. In addition, it provides link retries and reconfiguration on reboot, which allows the recovery from virtually any link failure.

Combined with other products in HP's enterprise portfolio like HP StorageWorks' network storage solutions, the Integrity rx8640 Server makes it easier for your business to increase information availability and protect data while radically cutting costs.

Optimized resource utilization and consolidation opportunities

The cell-based architecture of the HP Integrity rx8640 Server and robust soft, hard, and sub-core partitioning capabilities enhance your consolidation initiatives. With comprehensive server tools to provide excellent resource partitioning, increase resource utilization, and reduce complexity, the Integrity rx8640 Server frees up IT resources and staff to perform other mission-critical tasks.

HP also offers the Insight Dynamics-VSE, a flexible, fully integrated server virtualisation solution that makes excellent use of your server resources. The Integrity rx8640 Server and VSE enable higher resource utilisation, continuous service levels and utility pricing – including HP Instant Capacity and Pay per use to provide a better return on IT.

Enterprise-grade I/O

The Integrity rx8640 Server supports enterprise-grade multi-port Gigabit Ethernet, SCSI, and Fibre Channel adapters as well as a variety of specialized PCI-X and PCI EXPRESS I/O cards for network, storage, high-performance, and legacy connectivity. Additionally, the Integrity rx8640 Server supports multifunction cards that offer both storage and network connectivity for high-density I/O.

Increased flexibility with deployment/redeployment simplicity

The HP Integrity rx8640 Server offers a full range of secure, reliable operating environments including:


By doing so, this server provides the flexibility to easily deploy and redeploy a broad range of applications that are best suited for your business on the operating system of your choice. You can even run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the same server using soft and hard partitioning.

In addition, the convergence of system management technologies such as integrated Lights Out 2 (iLO2) adds to greater flexibility and a better return on IT.

Sound return on investment

Multiple generations of Intel Itanium processors can be mixed in the same HP Integrity rx8640 Server in different hard partitions, which means avoiding costly box swaps and delivering better return on your IT investment.
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