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Overview

The HP ProLiant DL785 G5, the newest and most expandable addition to the award winning HP ProLiant line, is an 8 socket x86 server, supporting up to 8 Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors, 256GB of memory, 11 PCI-e I/O slots and 2.3TB of internal storage. With this highly scalable feature set the DL785 G5, is an ideal choice for the growing enterprise class database, consolidation and virtualization environments seeking to improve server utilization and reduce server sprawl, while continuing to leverage all the familiar and easy to use ProLiant management tools and options.


What's new

Introducing the HP ProLiant DL785 G5, the most expandable ProLiant server available. An x86 workhorse, this server features outstanding processor, memory and I/O capacity, and the same industry leading management tools customers expect from the award winning ProLiant server family.

Performance
Up to (8) eight Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, each with a shared 2MB Level 3 cache
64 DIMM sockets scaling up to 256GB of PC2-5300 DDR RAM (with 4GB DIMMs) and 512GB ready (with future 8GB DIMMs)
11 PCI-e Expansion Slots: 3 x16 slots, 3 x8 slots and 5 x4 slots

Management
Industry leading remote management capabilities from the integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO-2)
Systems Insight Display for wake-up system diagnostics, and front access to memory, processors and hard drives, as well as rear access to power supplies while the server remains secured in the rack
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) which provides a unified, secure and extensible environment to centrally manage servers, storage and other infrastructure devices across multiple operating system platforms
HP SmartStart, a tool that simplifies server setup, providing a rapid way to deploy reliable and consistent server configurations

Options
Optional ProLiant Essentials packs, including Rapid Deployment Pack, Server Migration Pack, Virtual Machine Management Pack and other tools to speed deployment, reduce downtime and simplify management tasks
Small Form Factor SAS hard drives that provide high reliability at lower power than Large Form Factor hard drives
Communication options including multiport and multifunction Ethernet, 10 Gigabit, Fibre and Infiniband adapters

Reliability
Pre-failure warranty on processors, SAS hard drives and memory
Hot plug redundant power supplies and fans
Redundant/adaptive load balancing NIC support
Redundant ROM, Hot Spare Boot, Automatic Server Recovery, and other features to improve your server uptime


Ideal environment


Virtualization and Consolidation
With 64 DIMM slots for a maximum of 256GB of memory (with 4GB DIMMs) and 11 expansion slots the DL785 G5 has the memory and I/O expansion capabilities to support very large virtualization and consolidation environments.
With the capacity to support 8 Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors the DL785 G5 delivers outstanding scalability and performance for the most demanding applications

Database environments
Reliability features (redundant power supplies and fans, ASR, pre-failure warranty etc.) ensure the DL785 G5 is well suited to support your Enterprise class database environments
High performance quad core AMD Opteron processors for data intensive environments


*Except where noted, all prices are estimated U.S. HP prices. Actual prices from other locations or websites may vary.

** Leasing information, where displayed, is for a 48-month lease. Call 1-800-888-5858 to talk to a representative about leasing options to meet your needs. Shipping and tax not included. Details

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