HP Unveils Power Management & Cooling Products
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has introduced a number of new power management and cooling technologies designed to support their broad portfolio of enterprise servers and storage systems. The new products include: a modular cooling system that uses chilled water to triple the standard cooling capacity of a single server rack; a universal rack that standardizes efficiencies across all HP server and storage platforms; and a power distribution unit management module that monitors data center environments to provide customers with a more reliable power infrastructure.
The HP Modular Cooling System is a self-cooled rack for high-density deployments in data centers. The system, which attaches to a standard HP 10000 G2 Series rack, uses any data center's chilled water supply and distributes cool air consistently across the entire front of the rack. Furthermore, the Modular Cooling System allows for the deployment of up to 30 kilowatts in a single rack - three times the amount of energy that a standard server rack can handle - allowing for unprecedented server consolidation and long-lasting investment protection.
The HP 10000 G2 Series Rack is a standard, unified rack that accommodates all HP rack-mounted server and storage products. The rack enables simpler, faster data center deployments and a significant return on investment as it standardizes from seven previously incompatible HP racks to a single rack and power platform. To address cooling, the rack's innovative design provides efficient convection cooling and improved ventilation over previous racks.
The HP Power Distribution Unit Management Module is a power monitoring tool that provides remote monitoring of a rack PDU to eliminate the possibility of an overloaded circuit. The module offers centralized, standard SNMP control of all individual power distribution units via HP Systems Insight Manager and other software.
"HP's power and cooling technologies are helping customers win the war on heat," said Paul Perez, vice president, storage, networking and infrastructure, Industry Standard Servers, HP. "In combination with HP's best practices to optimize data center operations, these solutions offer customers high-density IT resources that improve overall cost, performance and reliability."
The HP Modular Cooling System, HP 10000 G2 Series Racks and HP Power Distribution Unit Management Module are expected to be available Feb. 6. The Modular Cooling System starts at $30,500, the 42U 10000 G2 Series Rack at $1,249 and the 36U rack at $1,199; the HP Power Distribution Unit Management Module starts at $199.
