Hewlett-Packard ProLiant BL45p four-processor server blade designed for enterprise availability and mission-critical applications features powerful processors, SAN storage capability, and four gigabit NICs standard. The BL45p also shares the same infrastructure components as all other p-Class server blades.The ProLiant BL45p delivers optional Fiber Channel support for SAN implementations and clustering capabilities. Through SAN implementation with the ProLiant BL45p, customers can achieve improved data availability, easily scale capacity, and realize management cost savings from consolidating disk resources. In addition, with HP's fusion of SAN and NAS (Network Attached Storage), customers can design a storage architecture that incorporates application, database and file serving solution functionality. Fiber Channel capability is achieved using a Dual Port Fiber Channel Mezzanine Card (2Gb) specifically designed for the ProLiant BL45p. The ProLiant BL45p is optimized for HP StorageWorks and is also compatible with a variety of third party storage vendors.
