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Overview

The all-new HP ProLiant BL685c server blade, delivers no-compromise performance and expansion in the most dense 4P server blade available. With up to four AMD Opteron™ 8000 Series processors, 64GB of DDR2 memory, two hot plug Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) 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

-Up to four next-generation AMD Opteron™ 8000 Series processors - delivering 64-bit dual-core computing, with industry-leading performance-per-watt and price/performance-per-watt; -AMD Direct Connect Architecture - Eliminates bottlenecks inherent in traditional front-side bus architectures, thereby increasing overall system performance.; -Up to 64GB Registered DDR2 Memory - Energy-efficient DDR2 memory, faster speeds and a large footprint for memory-intensive applications. 16 PC2-5300 DIMM slots are available for expansion; -Four embedded Gigabit Ethernet NICs - Two are Multifunction Gigabit NICs with TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) and RDMA/iSCSI; -Three mezzanine expansion slots allow for configuration options, such as Multifunction Gigabit NICs, standard Gigabit NICs, 4Gb Fibre Channel and Infiniband; -SAS or SATA—With up to two SAS or SATA drives and a new Smart Array RAID controller, you get quicker access to data and increase storage bandwidth for cutting edge storage performance.

-Delivers the ProLiant experience you expect - using the same drives, memory and RAID controllers as traditional ProLiant servers, plus the additional benefits of HP BladeSystem; -Choose between up to two Small Form Factor (SFF) hot-plug SAS or SATA drives for maximum availability; -Advanced ECC memory protection; -HP Smart Array E200i controller and optional battery-backed write cache option provide fault tolerance to limit costly network downtime.

Industry-leading management and configuration tools, offer superior remote administration, superb life cycle management and resource utilization. Conserve valuable IT resources and time by centralizing and simplifying management functions with Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) Standard Blade Edition and Insight Control Data Center Edition. 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, iLO 2 Standard Blade Edition now provides all of the capabilities required for administrative or maintenance tasks from a single remote console. iLO 2 Standard Blade Edition provides true in-front-of-the-server control of systems located in datacenters or remote locations from the office, home or travel location.

Ideal for: large Enterprise data centers, mainstream/mid-sized data centers and departments, branch offices, High Performance Computing (HPC), Ideal applications

At a glance

Model Key features Buy
HP ProLiant BL685c Server Blade (454906-B21)
AMD Opteron™ 8222 Dual Core Processor 3 GHz
3 GHz
2 processors
No hard disk drive in standard configuration
PC2-5300 DDR2 DIMMs (DDR2-667)
4 GB (4 x 1 GB) Standard Memory
Up to 8 supported in HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure


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