Technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 c-Class server blades

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Half-height HP ProLiant Gen8 server blades
Half-height ProLiant Gen8 server blades provide up to two processors, twelve to sixteen DIMM slots, up to two hot-plug
drives, one FlexibleLOM slot, and up to two mezzanine slots. Optional mezzanine cards provide a wide variety of
different I/O fabric connectivity to the interconnect bays. The FlexibleLOM features up to two 10 Gb FlexFabric ports
(Figure 2).
Figure 2.
Improved access to mezzanine cards facilitates quicker removal and easy access to the FlexibleLOM adapter. To further
improve serviceability, every ProLiant Gen8 server blade comes with a DIMM tool to make insertion and removal of
individual DIMMs much easier.
We've designed the half-height ProLiant Gen8 servers for midmarket and enterprise IT environments. With an ideal
balance of performance, scalability, and expandability, the new half-height ProLiant Gen8 server blades offer a simpler
way to manage a data center. We’ve engineered this server blade platform with enhanced memory and storage
capacities, the HP iLO Management Engine, and with HP Insight Remote Support (HP Insight Online) to give you cloud-
based service and support.
Workstation blades
If you need to you to centralize your organization’s workstations in the data center rather than placing standalone units
at the user’s desk, the HP ProLiant WS460c Gen8 Workstation series will allow you to do that. Locating this half-height
workstation in the data center lets you more easily, securely, and economically manage computing resources.
The HP ProLiant WS460c Gen8 Workstation series (with an optional expansion blade) provides hardware accelerated
graphics in a dedicated remote desktop environment. HP Remote Graphics Software helps deliver a client operating
system on the WS460c Gen8 made available to a single remote access client. HP Session Allocation Manager manages
and seamlessly maps end-users to available resource pool.