HP BladeSystem Solution Block

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again,
action without a vision can be a nightmare.

Imagine happy employees working together—
collaborating from offices, at home and on the road.
Applications to get the job done are at their fingertips
whether they are in the office or on the road. Critical
data is accessible to only those who need it—and
protected from those who don’t. Best of all, no one is
complaining about performance or high costs. For
some, this may be nothing more than a daydream. For
others, namely those with their application delivery
infrastructure built on an HP BladeSystem and Citrix
Windows® Application Delivery, this is reality today.

Delivering real-time value

“Here and now” is today’s business norm. Anything
less raises fears of lower productivity, higher
operational costs and missed opportunities. The HP
BladeSystem and Citrix Windows Application Delivery
solution can meet, or dare we say beat, the norm with
a business-like approach that delivers applications and
data to users in virtually any location on virtually
any device.

It all begins with the HP BladeSystem c3000
enclosure—a versatile, smaller enclosure that
consolidates hardware resources (compute, storage,
network, power and cooling) into a single box. The
c3000 enclosure moves beyond the norm by allowing
you to virtualize your network, your storage and your
power infrastructure. This helps you manage it all as a
unified environment—locally or remotely—for real
savings on hardware acquisition costs, operating
expenses (like energy) and IT administrator time.

The savings continue with Citrix Windows Application
Delivery software—by centralizing your applications
and then virtualizing access to them, you can deliver
applications as a service, providing on-demand access
to users, while maintaining the flexibility to leverage

future application architectures. This approach not only
cuts management and support costs, but also increases
data security and provides fast, reliable performance.

Capitalizing on change

Now more than ever, you need flexible business
solutions that provide the services you need without
breaking your IT budget. The modular, all-in-one
design of the HP BladeSystem is designed to do just
that. For instance, HP Virtual Connect technology
reduces barriers to change by allowing server and
storage blades to be added, swapped or moved
without impacting the local area network (LAN) or
storage area network (SAN)—or even moving cables.
In addition, to guard against unwelcome change, HP
Insight Control technology provides continuous system
monitoring/alerts and policy-based automation,
enabling you to quickly recover from a system failure.

Citrix software is also ready for change, offering
advanced tools for application load management,
system-wide troubleshooting, and automated server
failover and recovery. This proven combination of
mission-critical services enables Citrix application
delivery on the HP BladeSystem to be a dream-team
combination that delivers outstanding levels of business
continuity, security and efficiency.

And as your business grows, your investment in
this infrastructure is protected because every HP
BladeSystem component you purchase—server blades,
storage blades, Virtual Connect modules, LAN and
SAN switches—can be moved from the 8-slot c3000
enclosure to the 16-slot HP BladeSystem c7000
enclosure and still run with Citrix as your needs grow.

On-demand access and delivery of business information

With the HP BladeSystem and Citrix Windows Application Delivery solution

HP BladeSystem
solution

• HP BladeSystem Solution

Blocks – proven application
solution definitions that cut the
time and effort needed to
create, combine and upgrade
business solutions on an HP
BladeSystem server

• Accommodating future growth

– through seamless upgrade to
16-slot HP BladeSystem c7000
enclosure; your investment
remains protected

• Efficient shared storage –

serves file/print and iSCSI-
based application data

• Simple connectivity – via HP

Virtual Connect modules

• Management – Microsoft®

System Center Essentials, HP
Systems Insight Manager

Bill of materials

1 HP BladeSystem c3000 enclosure

5 HP BladeSystem BL46xc Server Blades with 2 dual-core processors
with 4 GB RAM

2 HP Virtual Connect Modules

1 HP BladeSystem All-in-One SB600c Storage Blade

HP BladeSystem Installation and Start-up Service

The bottom line is value

You’re working hard to turn your IT vision into reality.
Today, more than 75,000 production environments
are running Citrix software on HP servers. Those
organizations understand the value of an IT solution
that provides highly secure, on-demand access to any
application from virtually any device, at any time. You
can too, when you choose the HP BladeSystem and
Citrix Windows Application Delivery solution. You will
discover the power of HP Insight Control for speeding

deployment and monitoring of your IT infrastructure.
You will use Rapid Deployment Pack to auto-provision
Citrix servers within your environment. Through
increased system performance, accessibility and
availability, you will enjoy increased performance
coupled with lower operating costs.

Your next step

You have the vision for a high-performance, low-cost
Microsoft Windows application delivery solution for
your company—and HP and Citrix share that vision.
But without action on your part, that vision will never
be anything more than a daydream. Take the next step
toward realizing your goal. Call your local authorized
HP and Citrix reseller today. These HP and Citrix
experts have just what it takes to accelerate your
business growth and lower your operating costs while
mitigating solution design and deployment risks.

For more information, visit www.hp.com/go/bladesolutions

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notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying
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4AA1-4414ENW, July 2007

Simple connectivity (GbE2c)

Citrix Windows Application
Delivery

Citrix server (BL46xc)

Infrastructure (BL46xc)

Efficient shared storage
(AiO SB600c)

Citrix server (BL46xc)

Example configuration for 100 users.