HP introduced new networking, storage and server technologies that reduce costs, increase bandwidth flexibility and improve overall performance of virtual server environments in data centers.

The HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet module, a direct connect storage bundle for HP BladeSystem, and the HP ProLiant DL385 G5p server are among HP’s offerings that are designed to help customers efficiently deploy their virtualized infrastructures.

The HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 is designed to eliminate high costs and strains associated with networking virtual servers. It offers a four-to-one network consolidation and distributes the capacity of one 10Gb Ethernet port into four connections.

The recently announced HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade includes built-in Virtual Connect Flex-10 functionality that enables it to support up to 24 NIC connections. Existing HP ProLiant c-Class blade customers can upgrade to Virtual Connect Flex-10 with the new HP NC532m Flex-10 expansion card.

HP direct connect SAS storage offers simple, cost-effective storage expansion for HP BladeSystem customers and includes two HP StorageWorks 3Gb serial attached SCSI (SAS) BL switches and an MSA2000sa storage array.

By purchasing additional MSA2000sa arrays, customers can deploy up to 192 terabytes (TB) of external shared storage directly connected to an HP BladeSystem enclosure.

The HP ProLiant DL385 G5p offers an innovative server design that removes bottlenecks to virtual server performance. Features include rack-based server optimized for virtualization, up to 6 terabytes of internal storage as well as double the memory, is based on the new AMD Opteron 2300 Series Quad-Core processor, and is designed to improve application performance and expands support for virtual machines.