HP unveiled three new hardware products this week, all part of its Converged Infrastructure portfolio. They include a new blade enclosure, new networking for that enclosure and a new blade server.

The new BladeSystem c7000 Platinum enclosure is designed to improve performance, efficiency and reliability of virtualized and cloud environments, according to HP. It is 10U in size and can hold up to ...

40 Gb Ethernet switch — An industry first, HP also announced a 40Gb Ethernet switch for the c7000 enclosure that can provide full 40 Gb/port bandwidth to the blades.

56gbit IB, 16gb FC and 40gbit-e are only supported in the platinum enclosure if memory serves me right, there is one other module upcoming that won't be supported in before Platinum Enclosures.

Our VMware hosts in the C7000 enclosures. mostly 8x BL680c G5's with 128Gb ram will peak around 4K everyday. The c7000 does give you the ability to do power management and capping if you have hard ...