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Overview

The HP ProLiant BL685c G5 server blade, delivers no-compromise performance and expansion in the densest four processor server blade form factor available. With up to four Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, 128GB of DDR2 memory, two hot plug serial hard drives, four embedded Gigabit NICs, and three I/O expansion slots, the HP ProLiant BL685c delivers the density you want with the performance you need to handle the most demanding enterprise class applications.

Features

Outstanding performance from the densest four processor server blade form factor available, including quad-core processors, expanded memory capacity and best-in-class networking: Up to four Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ 8300 Series processors delivering 64-bit quad-core computing with industry-leading performance-per-watt and price/performance-per-watt; Support for AMD Dual Dynamic Power Management™ technology for optimum performance and reduced power consumption; Sixteen DIMM sockets support a large memory footprint of up to 128GB ECC 667MHz Registered DDR2 for memory-intensive applications; Two embedded Multifunction Gigabit NICs with TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) and iSCSI support and two embedded Gigabit Ethernet NICs; Three mezzanine I/O expansion slots allow for configuration options such as Multifunction Gigabit NICs, 1GB and 10GB Ethernet NICs, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand.
Proven ProLiant design and availability features you can depend on: Delivers the ProLiant experience you expect with the same hard drives, memory, and RAID controllers as traditional,rack-mount ProLiant servers, plus the additional benefits of the HP BladeSystem; HP Smart Array E200i storage controller delivers essential RAID 0 and 1 support with optional battery-backed write cache for additional fault tolerance to limit costly downtime; Hot plug serial hard disk drives for maximum availability; Embedded Gigabit Ethernet NICs for redundant LAN connections; Advanced ECC memory protection.
Industry-leading management and configuration tools offer superior remote administration, superb life cycle management and resource utilization to help lower total cost of ownership: Conserve valuable IT resources and time by centralizing and simplifying management functions with Integrated Lights-Out 2 Standard Blade Edition and Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem; HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO2) Standard Blade Edition delivers the industry's most complete, high-performance, out-of-band remote management solution; Get even more out of HP iLO 2 by upgrading to the iLO 2 Advanced Pack, featuring power regulator reporting, scripted multi-server virtual media and additional enterprise security; HP Insight Control Environment is an integrated suite of software that simplifies the provisioning and management of HP BladeSystem infrastructures delivering comprehensive infrastructure management.

At a glance

Model Key Features Buy
HP ProLiant BL685c G5 8384 2.7GHz Quad Core 2P 8GB Blade Server (494266-B21)
2.7 GHz
2 processors
No hard disk drive in standard configuration
PC2-6400 DDR2 Registered DIMMs at 800 MHz
8 GB (4 x 2 GB) Standard Memory
Up to 4 full-height blades supported in the HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure; Up to 8 full-height blades supported in HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure
64 GB




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