Powered by latest AMD Opteron™ 6 core Processors, the HP ProLiant DL785 G6, is the next generation server of the award winning HP ProLiant DL785 G5. HP ProLiant DL785 G6 is an 8 socket x86 server, supporting up to eight 6 core AMD Opteron Processors, 512GB of memory, 11 PCI-e I/O slots or an optional I/O backplane with 7 PCI-e & 2 HTx I/O slots.
With this highly expandable feature set, the DL785 G6 is an ideal choice for the growing enterprise class database, consolidation and virtualization environments seeking to improve server utilization and reduce server and virtualization sprawl, while continuing to leverage all the familiar and easy to use ProLiant management tools and options.
What's new
Performance
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Support of AMD Opteron Model 8439 SE (2.8 GHz, 105W ACP)
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Support of AMD Opteron Model 8431 (2.4 GHz, 75W ACP)
Support of AMD Opteron Model 8425 HE (2.1 GHz, 55W ACP)
Management
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Enhanced Power management to reduce energy cost and reclaim trapped capacity
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Support of Power monitoring, regulation and capping (Power monitoring and capping functionality will be available with next maintenance ROM)
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Support HP Insight Power Manager
Options
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Support of HP Smart SAS Expander Card that enables the management of all 16 hard drives in a single array
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Higher efficiency power supply unit
Ideal environment
Virtualization and Consolidation
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With 64 DIMM slots for a maximum of 512GB of memory (with 8GB DIMMs) and 11 expansion slots the DL785 G6 has the memory and I/O expansion capabilities to support very large virtualization and consolidation environments.
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With the capacity to support eight 6 core AMD Opteron™ processors the DL785 G6 delivers outstanding scalability and performance for the most demanding applications.
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Management features such as Integrated Lights-Out 2 and Insight Management agents to remotely monitor and control your mission critical applications
Database Applications, Decision Support and Business Intelligence
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Its balanced architecture with ample I/O and memory makes it an ideal platform for ‘read-intensive’ decision support and business intelligence.
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High performance Six-Core AMD Opteron processors for data intensive environments
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Reliability features (redundant power supplies and fans, ASR, pre-failure warranty etc.) ensure the DL785 G6 is well suited to support your Enterprise class database environments
Applications demanding high-performance I/O
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11 PCIe slots with three PCIe x16 slots for high performance I/O for accelerators, visualization, or high speed communications.
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Two (2) slots are provisioned for up to 300W per I/O slot for the ultimate in high performance I/O cards. This is great for visualization and graphics intensive workloads that are now moving from workstation based solutions to servers with high-performance graphics cards like NVidia FX5600 1.5GB graphics card.
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HTx option and third-party HTx cards allows direct and faster access to the processors
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Reviews dated from 9/1/09 – 10/15/09 may have been part of a sweepstakes submission
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