HP offers powerful, reliable server blades with the same trusted features as award-winning HP rack and tower servers. With features equal to standard 1U rack mount servers, the two processor BL465c G6 combines energy efficient compute power and high density with expanded memory and I/O for maximum performance.
A balanced architecture featuring 6 core AMD Opteron™ processors with DDR2 memory, serial hard-drives, support for Multifunction Gigabit networking and multiple I/O cards provides a performance system ideal for a full range of applications. In this small form factor, the BL465c G6 includes features to ensure high availability such as hot plug hard drives, memory interleaving, embedded RAID capability, and enhanced remote Lights-Out management.
What's new
The HP ProLiant BL465c G6 Server Blade provides enterprise-class features for high performance and reliability without compromising energy efficiency or density.
Performance
Up to two 6 core AMD Opteron 2400 Series processors with AMD Dual Dynamic Power Management™ for optimum performance and reduced power consumption
Supports up to 64GB of ECC Registered DDR2 DIMMs; with memory interleaving capability
Two (2) mezzanine I/O expansion slots
HP Smart Array E200i storage controller with 64MB read cache and optional battery-backed write cache
Management
ProLiant Onboard Administrator powered by iLO 2 delivers industry leading remote control and embedded health management including virtual KVM and graphical remote console
HP iLO Power Management Pack software delivers centralized control of server power consumption and thermal output, reliable security, and energy savings
HP Power Regulator provides an innovative operating system-independent power management feature for server power consumption and system performance to meet critical business needs
HP Insight Control suite provides comprehensive system health, remote control, vulnerability scanning, and patch management, as well as flexible deployment and power management in an easy to install software suite
Options
Low wattage processor options targeted at the most optimal performance per U and performance per watt resulting in cooler, power-optimized systems
Local storage options including high performance small form factor hot plug serial disk drives and a battery-backed write cache option to protect against data loss
I/O expansion with optional Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Ethernet, and InfiniBand mezzanine cards
Direct-attach blades for additional local storage, data protection, or PCI card expansion
Density
Highly optimized for maximum density deployments of 64-bit systems without sacrificing functionality
Supports up to eight (8) Registered DDR2 DIMM memory expansion slots
Up to two (2) hot plug small form factor serial hard drives
Simultaneously supports multiple I/O cards with two (2) expansion slots
Ideal environment
Exceptional performance with 6-core processors, expanded memory, and best-in-class networking
Essential fault tolerance: Embedded RAID 0,1 capability to limit costly network downtime with optional battery-backed write cache
High performance remote manageability to support centralized or remote data center environments
Mainstream/mid-sized data centers and departments, branch offices
Enterprise performance and reliability at an affordable price
ProLiant management tools ease server deployment and life cycle management when resources are limited
Internal configuration flexibility supports a variety of applications
Flexible SAS and SATA storage options
Ideal applications
Multi-tiered enterprise applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle, and JDE
Corporate infrastructure: file/print, mail/messaging, domain name system, firewall, and directory services; Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, databases and portals
Performance sensitive network infrastructure services, Client/server: Citrix XenApp and Microsoft Windows Terminal Services
Optimal solution for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications that require high bandwidth and low latency access to system memory; Clustering; and Storage Area Networks
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Reviews dated from 9/1/09 – 10/15/09 may have been part of a sweepstakes submission