Technical white paper HP Z640 Workstation Flexible, powerful, ready to work Redefine versatility and flexibility. Expand your capabilities with HP’s Z640 Workstation offering powerful performance, whisper-quiet computing, and tool-less access in a compact design. Table of contents Chassis and system highlights ......................................................................................................................................... 2 System architecture .....................................
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation Chassis and system highlights More power! More performance! HP is excited to introduce the Z640 Workstation. This surprisingly small workstation has been optimized to provide maximum performance in minimal space. The HP Z640 continues to offer a convenient tool-free design, amazingly quiet acoustics, and impressive expandability for its product size. Mobility and flexibility Our customers continue to express the need for easy system mobility.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation Tool-free design HP has always been a leader in tool-free product design and with the HP Z640, the serviceability could not be any easier! The following components can be easily accessed or upgraded without tools: side access panel, hard drives, optical drives, memory, expansion cards, power supply, system board, and the 2nd processor module. The hard drives are also direct-connect and can be swapped in and out without dealing with cables.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation System architecture The HP Z640 is the successor to the HP Z620 personal workstation. Its architecture introduces several new functionalities and technologies. These include DDR4 memory architecture, Intel®-integrated USB 3.0, I/O slot improvements and better performance.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation Intel® USB 3.0 The Intel® C612 PCH has an integrated USB 3.0 controller which provides the four rear, one internal, and four front USB 3.0 ports on the HP Z640 Workstation. The Intel® C612 USB 3.0 controller provides cost-effective support for greater I/O bandwidth than was provided by the HP Z620 solution. More information on the USB 3.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation Storage The C612 chipset supports two SATA AHCI controllers, sSATA and SATA. The sSATA controller supports four 6 Gb/s ports and RAID modes 0, 1, 10 and 5. The SATA controller supports two 6 Gb/s ports and RAID modes 0 and 1. Ports from both controllers can be routed to the rear panel with an eSATA bulkhead option. Note that it is not possible to RAID across the two SATA controllers.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation HP Z640 supported CPU line-up Single-socket only Dual-socket capable Table 2. Model Clock Speed (GHz) Cores Cache (MB) Memory Speed (MHz) QPI Speed (CT/s) HyperThreading vPro Turbo Boost Technology TDP (W) E5-2699 v3 2.3 18 45 2133 9.6 Yes Yes Yes 145 E5-2697 v3 2.6 14 35 2133 9.6 Yes Yes Yes 145 E5-2695 v3 2.3 14 35 2133 9.6 Yes Yes Yes 120 E5-2690 v3 2.6 12 30 2133 9.6 Yes Yes Yes 135 E5-2667 v3 3.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation I/O slot optimizations The HP Z640 Workstation utilizes PCI-Express 3.0 technology. This section provides guidance on optimizing the performance of your system when using PCI-Express and PCI cards in the I/O slots. Integrated PCI and PCI-Express 3.0 The HP Z640 provides one 32-bit/33 MHz PCI slot that can accommodate a full height, full length PCI card. The HP Z640 uses the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 series, with integrated PCI-Express 3.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation I/O slot options In addition to the 32-bit/33 MHz full height and full length PCI slot, the HP Z640 provides a total of up to five highperformance graphics and I/O slots in single CPU configuration and up to four high-performance graphics and I/O slots in Dual CPU configuration, including support for up to two PCIe 3.0 graphics cards in PCIe 3.0 x16 slots. The remaining PCIe slots are open ended and can accommodate a variety of different cards and configurations.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation Table 3: HP Z640 I/O slot recommended load order Load order (depending on slot availability) Slot 1* CPU Load priority Card description 1 Riser Card 2 1st Graphics or GPU Chipset Slot 2 Slot 3 PCIe3 x16 PCIe2 x1 Slot 4 Slot 5 PCIe3 x8 PCIe3 x16 PCIe2 x4 Slot 6 PCI Only Only 3 2nd Graphics or GPU 4 3rd Graphics Only 5 4th Graphics 6 NIC – 10G 4th 3rd 2nd 1st 7 Z Turbo Drive/PCIe storage 4th 3rd 1st 2nd 8 SAS Card 3rd x 1st
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation Storage configurations and RAID The HP Z640 Workstations includes a 2 port, 6 Gb/s Intel® SATA RAID controller (SATA) and a secondary 4 port, 6 Gb/s Intel® SATA RAID controller (sSATA).
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation Per Port Enable/Disable of SATA ports (SATA and sSATA controllers only) Individual SATA and sSATA ports can be Disabled or Enabled individually from the BIOS menu under Advanced > Device Configurations. Select Enable or Disable from the pull down menu for the Port that you would like to Enable or Disable. External SATA (eSATA) External SATA (eSATA) is supported on the SATA and sSATA controllers with an optional eSATA bulkhead adapter.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) AHCI is a technical standard developed by Intel for the hardware mechanism that allows software to communicate with SATA (Serial ATA) devices. It is enumerated as a PCI device and transfers data between system memory and SATA devices. AHCI provides many benefits over the legacy IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) hard drive interface. Some of the benefits include: • Elimination of master/slave handling.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation Creating RAID Arrays on the SATA and sSATA controllers RAID arrays on SATA and sSATA controllers can be created through Option ROM (OROM) at power on, UEFI driver within 3rd Party Option ROM Management from the BIOS Startup Menu, DOS utilities, EFI shell utilities, Windows command line utilities, or from a graphical user interface (GUI) within the Windows OS. 1.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation 2. RAID creation using the UEFI driver within 3rd Party Option ROM Management in BIOS setup In order to create RAID arrays using the UEFI driver within 3rd Party Option ROM Management in the BIOS, the Option ROM Launch Policy in BIOS must be set to All UEFI or All UEFI Except Video. This can be changed in BIOS Setup under Advanced > Option ROM Launch Policy.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation For the latest commands use “/?” option when executing the command. Example: > RCfgSata.exe /? Press Enter Results in: Intel® RAID Utility for Serial ATA - vn.n.n.nnnn RCfgSata.exe [/?] [/Y] [/Q] [/C:vol_name] [/SS:strip_size] [/L:raid_level] [/S:vol_size] [/DS:disk_id] [/D:vol_name] [/X] [/I] [/P] [/U] [/ST] [/V] /? /Y /Q Displays Help Screen. Other options ignored. Suppress any user input. Used with options /C, /D, & /X. Quiet mode/No output.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation Performance Considerations Power Settings The default “Balanced” and “Power Saver” plans in Windows Power Options may result in power management settings that may adversely affect performance of your applications. If the workstation is being used for a high demand application, consider choosing the “High performance” power plan or choose custom settings that better fit your use model.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation Memory Configurations and Optimization The purpose of this section is to provide an overview of the memory configurations for the HP Z640 Workstation and to provide recommendations to optimize performance.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation Memory features ECC is supported on all of our supported DIMMs • Single-bit errors are automatically corrected. • Multi-bit errors are detected and will cause the system to immediately reboot and halt with an F1 prompt error message. • Non-ECC memory does not detect or correct single-bit or multi-bit errors which can cause instability, or corruption of data, in the platform. See Memory Technology White Paper for more information.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation Loading rules • Load the memory modules in order of size, starting with the largest module and finishing with the smallest module. • For a single processor configuration, the DIMMs should be loaded starting with the DIMM furthest from the CPU, with the first DIMM loaded in the socket on the right side of the system and alternating sides of the CPU. • For a dual processor configuration, follow the loading order above, but alternate between the two processors.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation New UEFI BIOS and features/ legacy support This section describes the new features of the HP firmware (BIOS) installed on the HP Z640 Workstation. Additional information is available in the Maintenance and Service Guide for this workstation. New BIOS core The HP Z440, Z640, and Z840 Workstations all share the same BIOS image, for which the family name is M60.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation New Computer Setup graphical interface The Computer Setup (“F10 Setup”) user interface is now graphical, with variable-width text, drop-down boxes for item selection, and mouse support.
Technical white paper | HP Z640 Workstation Resources, contacts, or additional links This site includes white papers on USB 3.0 Technology, Battery Charging technology, Thunderbolt™ 2 Technology, etc. hp.com/go/whitepapers New performance settings Processor snoop modes The Xeon E5 v3 processor supports four different snoop modes: Early Snoop (also known as: ES mode), Home Snoop (a.k.a.: HS mode, Broadcast Snoop), Home Directory Snoop (a.k.a.
