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Overview

The all new HP ProLiant BL680c Server Blade, delivers no-compromise performance and expansion in the first Quad-Core 4P BladeSystem Server. With up to four Intel Xeon 7300 Sequence processors, 64 GB of Fully Buffered memory, two hot-plug Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, four embedded Gigabit NIC's and three I/O expansion slots, the HP ProLiant BL680c G5 delivers the density you want with the performance you need to handle the most demanding enterprise class applications.

Features

Up to four Intel Xeon 7300 sequence processors - delivering 64-bit quad-core computing, with industry-leading performance-per-watt and price/performance-per-watt; Up to 64GB Fully Buffered DDR2 Memory - large footprint for memory-intensive applications. 16 PC2-5300 DIMM slots are available for expansion; High performance HP Smart Array P400i with 256MB cache for hardware RAID 0,1; 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 P400i controller and optional battery-backed write cache option provide fault tolerance to limit costly network downtime.

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. This eliminates unnecessary travel and increases IT efficiency and responsiveness. Now IT customers have a single remote management and control solution.



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