Escala PL6460R

The industry’s most powerful open server with the latest advanced virtualization features

For Data centers supporting large-scale transaction processing and database applications For large scale server consolidation to increase flexibility and lower operational and energy cost For enterprises requiring the highest levels of RAS features for their mission-critical applications.

Unique level of reliability, availability and performance for the Unix Data Center

Escala PL6460R server is the top-end Escala server based on 64-bit POWER6™ processors designed for critical and complex open Data Center applications. Equipped with ultra-high frequency POWER6™ processors in up to 64-core, multiprocessing (SMP) configurations, Escala PL6460R server scales rapidly and seamlessly to address the changing needs of today's data center. Escala PL6460R server benefits from the very latest developments in the Escala, server family, in particular « Live Partition Mobility » and « Workload Partitions ».

Performance, flexibility and high availability for the environment service

Escala PL6460R is designed for critical and complex open Data Center applications involving large-scale databases. The advanced POWER and AIX virtualization functions, such as Live Partition Mobility and Worload Partitions, deliver service continuity and resource optimization, generating substantial savings in power consumption. This represents a fundamental step forward in the move to tackle issues surrounding sustainable development. With Bull Application Rollover Facility (ARF™), Bull provides an innovative high availability clustering solution. The new ARF release supports the "LPM" and "WPAR" functions. To simplify the task of managing virtualized infrastructure performance, Bull is further strengthening its Bull Performance Report, which provides a global, integrated and analytic view of virtualized environments around Escala.

Making BULL competence centers more accessible to our customers

Bull’s centers of expertise have given their active role in recent hardware and software developments for servers based on POWER6 and AIX6 technologies. Bull’s customers will be able to draw on the full range of expertise available in these centers to define, deploy, implement and monitor their complex infrastructures. The centers’ service offerings range from architecture definition and scoping of application environments though the Proofs of Concept (POC). More specifically, the centers play a key role in the area of service continuity, middleware and infrastructure rationalization.