Samsung Solid State Drive Selected for New HP ProLiant Virtualization Blade Server

 Samsung (News - Alert) Electronics Co., Ltd., a provider of advanced semiconductor technology, announced the selection of its 32 gigabyte (GB) and 64 GB solid state drives (SSDs), after testing, to be used in the HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade server.

 

SSD has been qualified for use in a server optimized for virtualization, for the first time. The server is first server blade designed for hosting virtual machines, and for use in virtualized environments that require significant memory, data storage and network connections for better server performance.

 

Replacing hard disk drives with SSDs has helped HP to free up a significant amount of space for using additional DRAM capacity, improving system performance. The BL495c has 16 DRAM sockets.

 

The Samsung SSD looks like a hard disk drive, but it doesn't act like it. The NAND is the basis for the SSD's reliability, superior performance, low total cost, shock resistance and low power consumption. Comparing the SSD and HDD and it shows why Popular Mechanics selected the Samsung SSD for a 2007 Breakthrough Award. With its capabilities, the Samsung SSD lineup opens up a new era of computing.

Jim Elliott, vice president, memory marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. stated ”SSDs used as the primary storage medium in server blades provide a much better value proposition than hard drives for the server marketplace, with their added reliability, low-power requirements and high performance.” 

 

Jim Ganthier, director, marketing and solutions, BladeSystem, HP, commented “Customers looking to maximize the performance of their virtualized infrastructure have the answer with the BL495c. The use of two ports for SSDs to serve as local booting devices and general configuration storage is one of many features that help customers better manage virtual machines.” “With its storage, memory and I/O capabilities, the BL495c is unmatched in redefining server blades for virtualization.”

 

The HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade removes performance bottlenecks in virtual machine hosts. It has larger memory and I/O compared to other two-processor blade servers. It has a maximum processor speed of 2.3 GHz and a maximum front-side bus speed of 1 GHz. It is available with the option of two SATA SSD storage drives (either 32 or 64 GBs).

 

The Samsung single-level-cell (SLC) SSD comes with (sequential) read speed of 100 megabytes per second (MB/s) and a (sequential) write speed of 80 MB/s. and takes power as little as 0.5 watt in active mode and 0.1 watt in sleep mode.