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HP Server Learning Milestone

Module 2: Industry Standard Servers
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Part Number: 00107124S20903 - Book 2 of 4

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Course overview
The HP Learning Milestone is an introductory sales
program designed to provide strategic information and
prescriptive testing on key HP TSG servers, services,
software, solutions, and storage.
The HP Servers course consists of the following modules:
• Module 1: Overview

• Module 3: BCS Integrity and NonStop

• Module 4: Virtualization

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Objectives
• Describe the common features of ProLiant servers
• Explain the typical server needs of ProLiant customers
• Differentiate between the ML and DL product lines
• Identify ProLiant 100, 300, 500, and 700 server families
and their advantages

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Objectives
provides
an overview of the ISS server portfolio, positioning, and
ideal customers.
In business, change is constant. Business models must be
dynamic to manage globalization, deregulation, mergers
and acquisitions, recession, emerging technologies, scarce
resources, unpredictable demand, and mounting
competitive pressures. It is no longer the larger company
acquiring the smaller company. It is now the agile
company outpacing the slower company. Business agility
is critical to success. The ProLiant family of servers is
positioned to help mid- market customers capitalize on
business agility.
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
• Describe the common features of ProLiant servers
• Explain the typical server needs of ProLiant customers
• Differentiate between the ML and DL product lines
• Identify ProLiant 100, 300, 500, and 700 server
families and their advantages

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Key challenges

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Key challenges
Businesses are facing some important challenges in their IT
infrastructure that directly affect their ability to conduct and
grow their business, lower overall costs, and mitigate risk.
Virtualization
Virtualization will continue to be top of mind with
customers; however, as virtualization technologies are
deployed, additional management challenges can be
created, particularly in a production environment.
Customers must manage infrastructure and process
changes to best control an environment with both virtual
and physical servers.
Power & Cooling
Dealing with data center power and cooling challenges is
one of the key issues right now as customers manage the
high costs of energy. Customers often try to add more
servers into an existing data center; budget issues often
delay the building of new data centers.
Scalability and growth
As the business grows, customers must adapt the IT
infrastructure to meet those demands; however, most
customers must meet these challenges in the face of budget
reductions. Customers are often faced with producing
better results with existing resource levels.

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HP ProLiant server strategies

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HP ProLiant server strategies

HP provides customers with the confidence that they can
deliver what they need in their business.
There are three key pillars where HP applies its research
and development resources to best deliver that confidence:
— Much of this is related to power
and cooling efficiency. HP continues to deliver great
efficiency with technologies such as Power Regulator
and Insight Power Manager.
— HP
gives customers the ability to resolve IT issues facing
the business with solid data on infrastructure
performance. Tools such as Insight Manager and
Insight Control help customers diagnose and resolve
issues, providing return on their investment.

— HP continues to make significant

contributions to research and development, as well as
creating and leveraging strategic partner
relationships. This results in the best possible solutions
for customers, as evidenced in the market leadership
that HP has earned over the years.

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HP server portfolio

Traditional
Industry-standard servers StorageWorks
RISC servers

• Storage arrays and NAS

Access ProLiant servers

HP 9000 servers

• SAN infrastructure,
software media
Application

• Tape storage
Integrity servers
Database NonStop
servers
Multiple
operating NonStop
systems
Management services

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HP server portfolio
The HP server families demonstrate strong complementary
positioning to fill the entire range of customer server needs.
Each product family is designed for innovation based on
standards to help customers simplify their infrastructure. A
standards-based, solid, and flexible infrastructure is the
core of a data center that meets customer business
demands, aligning IT and business objectives. Ranging
from departmental servers to mission-critical enterprise
computing, HP is committed to meeting the exact needs of
the customer. In fact, every third server sold worldwide is
an HP server.
Below is an industry sampling of where the HP portfolio is
utilized:
• Nine out of the top ten automotive companies
• Four out of the five largest airlines worldwide
• 95%of securities transactions worldwide
• 80% of mobile billing and traffic in Europe
• 65% of the energy infrastructure worldwide
HP ProLiant is the family of industry-standard server,
storage, blade, and facility solutions that deliver the
world's most preferred way to run x86 IT, providing:
• Thought-leading innovation
• Control
• Total cost discipline
• Trusted experience

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ProLiant servers are available with an extensive selection

of management tools, virtualization software, storage and
networking products, and services and support-along with
close collaboration with world-class independent software
vendors and systems integrators.
With the ProLiant family, customers are able to choose
the correct levels of performance, availability,
expandability, and manageability.

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ProLiant leadership
Total Servers
( #2 )

Unix Servers ( #3 )

High End Unix ( #2 )

Mid Range Unix ( #3 )

Volume Unix ( #3 )

Windows Servers

Linux Servers

x86 Servers

x86 (Unit)

RISC Servers ( #3 )

EPIC Servers

Blade Servers

-5.0% 10.0 25.0 40.0 55.0 70.0 85.0 100.

% % % % % % 0%
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ProLiant leadership
The quality and reliability of the ProLiant family of servers
is demonstrated by its continued worldwide leadership
position.
According to IDC, HP has earned number one leadership
shares in both the x86 and blade markets. Customers trust
HP ProLiant to:
• Deliver on the demands of their business at the best
price for performance
• Drive innovation in areas that will bring customers real
and tangible benefits
• Drive standards and related cost advantages into
innovation
ProLiant continues to win technical awards from industry
authorities, public organizations, and the business and
trade press. Use these successes to demonstrate the quality
of ProLiant products.
Additionally, in independent technical testing, ProLiant
consistently earns high benchmarks against the
competition.
For a complete listing, visit the ProLiant benchmarks page
via the Internet.

Use this benchmarking information in competitive situations

or as leave-behind documents for customers.

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What makes a ProLiant?

ML
ML500 servers

ML300 servers DL 500 and

700 servers

ML100 servers DL 300 servers

BL c-Class

DL100 servers DL BL

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What makes a ProLiant?

ProLiant servers have long been known for reliability, and
are designed to offer value-added functionality,
performance, and flexibility. The ProLiant family
demonstrates:
• The broadest portfolio designed to fit many customer
requirements, maximizing performance and price
• Flexibility and control in deployment, management,
and maintenance
• Attention to detail in a fast-evolving industry
• Strong third party and business partner alliances
Features common to all ProLiant servers include:
— HP has defined a common set of
features and components across the ProLiant family to
simplify setup, operation, and service. Examples of
common chassis features include LED indicators, hood
latches, touch point colors, USB ports, and ROM-
based setup utilities.
— The ProLiant family consistently
outperforms it competitors in the marketplace. ProLiant
benchmarking will help the sales professional better
position the value of ProLiant in sales opportunities.
— Extensive testing creates platform stability,
limiting costly downtime and lowering support costs
over the product lifecycle. Testing includes software,
thermal, reliability, environmental, and regulations
and standards.

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— HP Integrated Lights Out

(iLO) is the remote management standard, providing
complete server control regardless of status or
location. This increases system availability and
lowers operational costs.
— The ProLiant family utilizes broadly
accepted standards in the design and development
of its servers. This means a seamless fit into a
heterogeneous environments, commonality in
options, and lower support costs. Examples of key
standards include Advanced Configuration and
Power Interface (ACPI), Pre-boot eXecution
Environment (PXE), SMBIOS, USB, and System
Management Architecture for Server Hardware
(SMASH) and Command Line Protocol (CLP).
— HP embeds firmware
capabilities within ProLiant servers and options that
streamline the maintenance process. System
firmware examples include redundant ROM,
SMBIOS, Virtual Install Disk, and Power Regulator.
The System Management Driver monitors and
manages multiple ProLiant server functions. Examples
include pre-failure warranty, advanced memory
protection, thermal protection, and power supply
monitoring.

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ProLiant series overview

ProLiant Essentials Value Packs

ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack

Universal Smart Array storage, rack, and power

300 series 700 series c-Class

100 series 500 series
300 series
ML DL 100 series BL

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ProLiant series overview

With the ProLiant architecture, customers can expect:
• Performance for business growth
• Industry standards for lower operational and support
costs
• Reliable hardware design and remote management
capabilities to mitigate the risks associated with
downtime
Customers evaluate several factors when choosing server
platforms, including:
• Performance and workload capabilities
• Reliability and availability
• Scalability
• Affordability
• Serviceability
• Stability
ProLiant servers are classified into entry-level, mid-range,
and high-end to meet a variety of business needs.
• Affordable rack and tower
servers are ideal for SMB customers, workgroups,
remote sites, and high-performance computing
environments.
rack and tower servers have
increased expansion capabilities to support
virtualization, email, and database applications.

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rack and tower servers

help customers consolidate business-critical
application environments while reducing complexity
and cost.
server blades deliver well-
balanced architecture for the next generation data
center.
View demos of ProLiant servers on the SMB interactive
showcase.

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ProLiant series family

ML customer needs DL customer needs BL customer needs
• Tower or rack server • Rack-optimized server • Rack-optimized server
• Industry-standard solutions • Industry-standard solutions • Industry-standard solutions
• In-chassis flexibility as a • Flexibility for multipurpose • High-density of servers in rack
dedicated server for single- deployments with cable system
purpose functions management options • Flexibility to deploy any
• Maximum internal expansion • Flexibility to deploy any volume of servers
to accommodate future needs volume of servers • Mezzanine slots for
• PCI slots for SAN • PCI slots for SAN expandability
connectivity, SSL, and connectivity, SSL, and • Integrated array controllers
accelerator cards accelerator cards
• Large amounts of memory
• Integrated array controllers • Integrated array controllers
• External storage
• Large amounts of memory • Large amounts of memory
• Headless management
• Large amount of internal • External storage capabilities
storage • Remote management
• Remote management capabilities
capabilities

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ProLiant series overview

ProLiant customers, regardless of size, are looking for ways
to grow their business, lower support costs and downtime,
increase efficiency, and better utilize existing data center
resources.
They require industry-standard solutions that allow for
server expansion, high-end processing power, and remote
management.
Customers for these lines also have several important
differences, specific to their business needs.
ML servers
If space is not an issue, but internal expansion is, suggest a
tower ProLiant ML server. These servers are:
• Optimized for maximum internal system expansion
• Designed with flexibility to increase the number of
expansion slots and hard drives inside the server
chassis
• Designed with high-availability features to ensure
maximum uptime
• Designed for remote and branch office environments
• Used for all-inclusive server and storage solutions
The ProLiant ML line represents servers that have defined
ProLiant as the industry leader. HP continues to develop
products within this line, giving customers the servers they
need to run their businesses.

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Customers have shown great interest in this line,

particularly businesses with remote and branch office
sites. Most of these servers are offered in both tower and
rack models.
DL servers
If space is an issue, suggest a rack-mountable ProLiant DL
server. These servers are:
• Optimized for density, stacking many servers in a
rack
• Designed to include more embedded features per
unit of space
• Designed for external storage
• Designed as an excellent platform for Microsoft
clusters
The ProLiant DL line represents an excellent market
opportunity. HP invented the rack server and options
market, and offers a distinctive line of servers clearly
optimized for use in those environments. With the
increasing number of ISP (Internet Service Providers), ASP
(Active Server Pages), and server farm businesses, there
is significant potential to market the ProLiant DL line.
BL servers
If rapid deployment and serviceability of servers and
infrastructure is an issue, suggest an ultra- dense ProLiant
BL system. These systems are:
• Optimized for dynamic, space-constrained, scaled-
out environments.
• Designed to easily adapt to changing workloads.
• Used for industry-standard, fabric-based computing.
The ProLiant BL line is designed to help corporate
customers and service providers adapt to changing
market requirements, conserve limited human and
technology resources, maximize efficiencies, and rapidly
respond to their customers in a dynamic business climate.
These systems range from power-efficient single processor
blades to high-performance symmetric multiprocessing
(SMP) server blades. They are designed to simplify
scaled-out deployments and use the ProLiant Essentials
Rapid Deployment Pack for automated server deployment
and provisioning capabilities.

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ProLiant operating systems

Microsoft Linux Novell
• Windows 2000 server • Red Hat 9 • NetWare 5.1
• Windows 2000 Small • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS • NetWare 6.0
Business Server 2.1, 3, and 4 • NetWare 6.5
• Windows Server 2003 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES • NetWare SBS 6
• Windows Small Business 2.1, 3, and 4
Server 2003 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Windows Compute Cluster • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Server 2003 8 and 9
• Windows Server 20003 • SUSE Enterprise 10
Release 2 • United Linux
• Windows Server 2008

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ProLiant operating systems

HP offers a complete heterogeneous portfolio supporting
many operating system requirements. HP demonstrates
worldwide leadership and expertise with all supported
operating systems through support and service offerings.
This allows customers to choose the appropriate operating
system for their business needs while standardizing on the
ProLiant hardware architecture.
Microsoft
The following operating systems are available for ProLiant
servers:
• Windows 2000 Server
• Windows 2000 Small Business Server
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Small Business Server 2003
• Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
• Windows Server 2003 Release 2
• Windows Server 2008
Linux
The following operating systems are available for ProLiant
servers:
• Red Hat 9
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1, 3, and 4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1, 3, and 4

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• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and 9
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10
• United Linux
Novell
The following operating systems are available for ProLiant
servers:
• NetWare 5.1
• NetWare 6.0
• NetWare 6.5
• Netware SBS 6
Purchasing operating systems
Operating systems can be purchased many ways,
including:
• Preinstalled on HP servers
• Delivered on CD
• Open license
• Through retail or reseller channels
View tested, certified, and supported operating system
matrices for ProLiant.

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ProLiant generational information

Examples of products expected to inherit this new generation alignment.

Current generation After launch

DL580 G4 DL580 G5

New product DL680 G5

DL365 G1 DL365 G5

DL385 G2 DL385 G5

DL585 G2 DL585 G5

BL465c G1 BL465 G5

BL685c G1 BL685 G5

ML110 G4 ML110 G5

ML115 G1 ML115 G5 * The ProLiant DL320 is

already a G5 so an
ML310 G4 ML310 G5 additional letter
designator will be used
New product DL 16x G5
for the next generation
New product DL 18x G5 "DL320 G5p" until the
entire portfolio moves to
DL320 G5 DL320 G5p* G6 in 2008.

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ProLiant generational information

With the speed of change and innovation in the ProLiant
product line, it is important to understand processor
generations available within each form factor, plus the
features and functions available in each generation.
The previous strategy was to increment the generation
number based on individual product lifecycles. For
example, when a product is added to the ProLiant server
portfolio, it was introduced as a Generation 1 (G1). With
subsequent major updates to processor technology, the
product was announced as a Generation 2 (G2).
HP now aligns both the ProLiant Intel Xeon and AMD
Opteron product generation numbers to describe a family
of technologies, rather than individual product lifecycle
steps. Any new product or generational update will
become a "Gx" instead of "G1", "G2", and "G3", to
align to the latest generation in the ProLiant portfolio.
For example, G5 is currently the highest generation in the
ProLiant server portfolio. The majority of G5 servers are
associated with technologies such as:
• Small form factor SAS and SATA hard drives
• iLO 2 and iLO 100 remote management
• Integrated multi-function networking
• Power Regulator and Power Meter
• Multi-function gigabit networking
• Fully-buffered DIMMs
• Systems Insight Display

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Choosing the right server

Customers are looking for
• Innovative features
• High performance and capacity
• Low cost of ownership

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Choosing the right server

Customers require innovative features that provide high
performance and high capacity, along with a low total
cost of ownership over the server lifecycle. Server
customers are looking for:
• Systems that can reliably support hundreds of users
• High-performance features that enable more users and
more applications per server
• Large storage capacities that can support the storage
needs of many users and applications
• Systems that are designed to be scalable, allowing
capacity and performance growth as needed
• Manageability features that proactively alert
administrators of problems, capacity limits, and
pending failures
• High-availability features, including redundant systems
that prevent unscheduled downtime
• Easy setup and configuration, plus simplified
maintenance to reduce support time and cost
• A variety of form factors to fit budgets and space
requirements

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ProLiant 100 series

Key benefits
• Proven HP reliability and support
• Expandability
• A true server at a desktop price

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ProLiant 100 series

The ProLiant 100 series offers affordable servers with a
limited suite of options and management tools. These
general purpose servers are designed for small and
medium businesses, workgroups, remote sites, or high-
performance computing (HPC). Deploy for networking, file-
and-print, shared Internet access, and HPC clusters.
Ideal customers for the HP ProLiant ML/DL 100 series
include:
• Run single, homogeneous environments with little or
no IT staff
• Place value on low acquisition cost, ease-of-purchase,
and ease-of use
• Rely on the server to run industry-standard
applications and provide data protection
Key benefits of the ProLiant 100 series include:
— ProLiant quality
begins with design and is optimized through testing,
process control, and final manufacturing.
— The 100 series contains all of the
necessary features and is designed for customers
requiring easy configuration and use. Companies with
remote locations can take advantage of Lights-Out
100 remote management to mitigate risk of downtime.
— The 100 series
incorporates features necessary for small and medium
business to limit the acquisition price

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ProLiant 300 series

Key benefits
• Enterprise-class management tools
• Expandability
• Redundancy and fault tolerance

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ProLiant 300 series

The ProLiant 300 series offers mid-range rack and tower
servers in a cost-effective single- and dual-processor
architecture. This series is ideal for file- and-print needs,
domain and web serving, email, database applications,
and virtualization.
The ideal customer for the ProLiant 300 series:
• Sophisticated small and medium business customers
and enterprise data centers
• Customers deploying email and database
applications, front-end network applications,
corporate infrastructure applications, critical
applications, and high-performance computing
• Customers requiring scalability, redundancy, rack and
cable management, and standard remote
management features
Key benefits of the ProLiant 300 series include:
• Enterprise-class management tools to reduce support
costs and complexity
• Expandability across the series to protect IT investment
• Redundancy and fault tolerance for protection of vital
business data
• Standard three-year warranty for optimal support
• Minimal data-center footprint (DL series)
• Internal expansion options (ML series) for scalability
• Optimal system performance and ease of
serviceability
• Excellent price performance and value
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ProLiant 500 series

Key benefits
• Enterprise-class management tools
• Redundancy and fault tolerance
• Superior cable management and rack-server access

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ProLiant 500 series

The ProLiant 500 series offers high-end rack and tower
servers for enterprise density and power efficiency. The
ProLiant 500 series delivers high levels of four-way server
performance for complex web applications, critical file
server functions, and large databases.
The ideal customer for the ProLiant 500 series:
• Ranges from sophisticated small and medium
businesses to enterprise data centers
• Typically deploys and maintains mission-critical
applications, large- scale messaging platforms, and
ERP and CRM applications
• Supports 24 x 7 environments
• Requires optimal rack and data center utilization, plus
enterprise remote management features
• Is evaluating or undergoing consolidation initiatives
Key benefits of the ProLiant 500 series include:
• Enterprise-class management tools for simplified
ownership and lower support costs
• Redundancy and fault tolerance for protection of vital
business data
• Superior cable management and rack-server access
for ease of deployment and serviceability
• Standard three-year warranty for optimal support
• Best-in-class four-socket price performance and value
• Design engineering for virtualization initiatives

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ProLiant 700 series

Key benefits
• More CPU, I/O, memory, and internal storage capacity
• Enterprise-class management tools
• Standards three-year warranty

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ProLiant 700 series

The ProLiant 700 series offers high-end rack optimized
servers. This server is ideal for these types of solutions:
• High-performance computing
• Electronic design automation
• Finance
• Large database applications
• ERP and CRM
• Petrochemical
• Life and material sciences
• Video rendering
Key benefits of the ProLiant 700 series include:
• More CPU, I/O, memory, and internal storage
capacity optimizes performance for database,
consolidation, and virtualization environments
• Enterprise-class management tools for simplified
ownership and lower support costs
• Standard three-year warranty for optimal support
• Designed to fit into existing enterprise data centers
and support for multiple operating systems to protect
current and future investments

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those vendors provide.

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HP SIM is easily extensible, integrating with other HP

management products and value-add plug-ins such as the
Insight Dynamics—VSE suite, Insight Control management
software suites, and the individual Insight Essentials
products. Individual system management capability is
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The Insight Control Environment suite brings the value of
Insight Control management to ProLiant ML and DL
customers and BladeSystem customers by delivering
comprehensive health and performance monitoring,
remote control, vulnerability scanning, patch
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Why ProLiant?
ProLiant Facts
• ProLiant has been x86 leader for over 15 years.
• Created x86 standard-based server category in 1989 with
Compaq SystemPro.
• Brought to market first 2, 4, 8 systems.
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questions:
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Record your answers on the flipchart. Then select a
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servers ideal for SMB customers, workgroups, remote
sites, and high-performance computing environments?
a. 100 series entry-level
b. Mid-range 300 series
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