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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 eight (8) Quad-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 G5 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

This release introduces support for new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors with higher frequencies as well as support for new 10GbE Server adapter and smart array controllers.

Performance
Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor Model 8393 SE (3.1 GHz, 105W ACP)
Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor Model 8389 (2.9 GHz, 75W ACP)
Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor Model 8387 (2.8 GHz, 75W ACP)
Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor Model 8381 HE (2.5 GHz, 55W ACP)

Options
Support for HP NC522SFP Dual Port 10GbE Gigabit Server Adapter
Support for new Smart Array Controllers
- Smart Array P212 Controller and the Smart Array P411 Controller


Ideal environment


Virtualization and Consolidation
With 64 DIMM slots for a maximum of 512GB 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 eight (8) Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors the DL785 G5 delivers outstanding scalability and performance for the most demanding applications.

Decision Support and Business Intelligence
Its balanced architecture with ample I/O and memory makes it an ideal platform for ‘read-intensive’ decision support and business intelligence.
High performance Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors for data intensive 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

Applications demanding high-performance I/O
11 PCIe slots with three PCIe x16 slots for high performance I/O for accelerators, visualization, or high speed communications.
Two 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.
HTx option and third-party HTx cards allows direct and faster access to the processors



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