The ProLiant Essentials Integrated Lights-Out Advanced Pack provides HP Customers with an easy upgrade to full Lights-Out functionality on their Integrated Lights-Out Standard enabled ProLiant servers. The Integrated Lights-Out Advanced Pack features Virtual Graphical Console, Microsoft Terminal Services Integration, Virtual Floppy Drive, Virtual CD, and Directory Services that offer IT managers with true virtual presence and control to their distributed remote sites and data centers.

Using the Integrated Lights-Out Advanced, IT managers can perform all the "in-front-of-the-server" functions such as deployment, diagnostics, ROM upgrades, configuration, and maintenance without physically visiting the server. All this functionality is accessible through a standard browser without requiring special software or use of valuable PCI slot. The Integrated Lights-Out Advanced improves the efficiency of the IT managers who have too many servers to manage, are short-staffed and working with limited budgets.

Integrated Lights-Out Advanced results in significant cost savings from reduction of travel costs or requirement of dedicated IT staff for managing servers at distributed sites. Integrated Lights-Out Advanced also improves security and simplifies user management by integrating with enterprise-class directory services. Integrated Lights-Out offers added advantage in the dense data centers where space floor is at a premium. Integrated Lights-Out Advanced enables deployment of servers in a "headless" fashion in data center racks by eliminating the need for monitor, switch box, keyboard, mouse, and extra cabling associated with them.