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Overview

It is without question, that the new BL260c server blade offers the best performance per watt and price per watt in the industry. It offers a 64% better performance/watt and costs 20% less than any other 2P server blade in the market. Also, the BL260c consumes 33% less power with full features. It is: The world's most affordable, power efficient 2P server blade. Like all HP BladeSystem components, the new HP BL260c offers greater energy efficiency and features than IBM's HS21 server. The two processor, multi-core BL260c combines energy efficient compute power, high density with sufficient memory and I/O for the full range of cluster environments. This new balanced architecture supports Intel's newest Xeon® 5400 and 5200 series processors. And as a bonus, the BL260c also offers support for Intel's affordable uP processors.

Features

More Performance: The HP ProLiant BL260c Server Blade delivers uncompromising performance by: Supporting up to two Intel® Standard or Low Voltage Quad-Core or Dual-Core Xeon® 5000 Sequence Processors or one entry level Xeon®, Core™2 Duo or Celeron® Uni-Processor in either Single, Dual or Quad-Core; Supporting up to 48 GB of DDR2 Registered ECC 667 MHz DIMMs to eliminate a common system bottleneck; Offering one Mezzanine expansion slot for I/O options such as multi-function gigabit NICs, standard NICs, or 4-Gb Fibre Channel, which greatly improves I/O bandwidth and data throughput with additional levels of uptime
Simplicity and Flexibility with Industry-leading management and configuration tools: Delivers simplicity and flexibility with it's Industry-leading management and configuration tools by: Providing superior remote administration, superb life cycle management and resource utilization to help lower total cost of ownership; Conserving valuable IT resources and time by centralizing and simplifying management functions with Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) Standard Blade Edition and Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem; Offering HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) Standard Blade Edition - Delivers the industry's most complete, high-performance, out-of-band remote management solution. With new Virtual KVM performance, it now provides all of the capabilities required for administrative or maintenance tasks from a single remote console
Uncompromising Power Efficiency: The HP ProLiant BL260c Server Blade delivers uncompromising power efficiency by: Supporting the low voltage Intel® Xeon® 5400 and 5200 Series processors. The low voltage processors enables greater density providing excellent performance-per-watt efficiencies for power constrained IT environments; Utilizing a new Intel chipset, Intel® 5100, which uses ECC DDR2 Registered DIMMs versus Fully Buffered DIMMs, resulting in lower power per DIMM and a cooler BladeSystem solution; Including only the basic feature set required by a Small to Mid-Market Customer without all the frills

At a glance

Model Key Features Buy
HP ProLiant BL260c G5 L5240 3.0GHz Dual Core 2GB Blade Server (464941-B21)
3 GHz
1 processor
No hard disk drive in standard configuration
PC2-5300 DDR2 Registered ECC DIMMS at 667 MHz
2 GB (2 x 1 GB) Standard Memory
16 blades per c7000 (10u) enclosure; 8 blades per c3000 (6U) enclosure
48 GB (6 x 8 GB DIMMs) maximum memory




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