Technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 c-Class server blades

Full-height ProLiant Gen8 server blades

Full-height ProLiant Gen8 server blades (Figure 3) provide up to 4 processors, and provide twice as much I/O bandwidth

to the interconnect modules as the half-height server blades.

Figure 3.

The full-height ProLiant Gen8 server blade platform, represented by the ProLiant BL660c, is a new density-optimized

offering with 4P performance and features in a single-wide, full-height form factor. Built on the Gen8 features of the

ProActive Insight Architecture, this server blade platform doubles the computing density compared to the previous 4P

server blade without compromising on performance, scalability, and expandability. In addition, the ProLiant BL660c

Gen8 server blade gives customers the ability to consolidate servers and repurpose valuable enclosure space, further

reducing data center server sprawl. This server blade platform includes:

 Two 2.5” hot plug bays; 2.0TB SAS, 2.0TB SATA, 1.6TB SSD

 Enhanced PCIe 3.0 Smart Array P220i controller with optional 512MB FBWC

 New ProLiant Gen8 Smart Drive carrier

 32 DDR3, LRDIMM/RDIMM/LVDIMM sockets to 1600 MHz, 1.0TB maximum

 HP SmartMemory, Advanced ECC, Lock-Step, Online Spare

 One or two dual-port FlexibleLOMs: 10Gb FlexFabric, 10Gb Flex-10, and 10Gb Ethernet

 Three mezzanine slot options for1Gb Ethernet, 10Gb Ethernet, 10Gb Flex-10, 10Gb FlexFabric, 8Gb Fibre Channel, I/O

accelerators, external storage controllers, and QDR and FDR InfiniBand

The ProLiant BL660c Gen8 server blade is ideal for virtualization, database, business processing, decision support, HPC,

and general 4P data-intensive applications where fine-tuning of data center space and price versus performance are

important.