HP ProLiant DL360 Gen8 Server Rental

Eighth generation 1U server with Sea of Sensors monitoring tool and increased automation capabilities. Compared to Dell PowerEdge R420. CPUs are loaded by 24 DIMM slots and the full 768GB capacity can be realised in dual CPU systems using 1066MHz LR-DIMMs. Up to 256GB of 1600MHz RDIMM memory is supported or you can go up to 384GB of HP’s high performance 1333MHz HDIMM memory. Storage capacity have four LFF, eight SFF or ten SFF drive bay options. The disk carriers show off HP’s SmartDrive feature as they are packed with status LEDs. A

locate LED on each carrier glows blue whilst the drive is being identified by the host and flashes when it’s being updated.

The circular button has a rotating green disk activity ring whilst its multicolour centre LED shows the drive status and warns of impending failures. An LED on the carrier release button glows white to warn users it must not be removed where, for example, another drive in the same RAID-5 array has already failed. Battery pack as it uses a small capacitor. It can fully charge itself in around five minutes and provides up to 80 seconds of power – enough time to write the DDR cache contents to flash memory in the event of a power failure.

A key feature of the Gen8 ProLiants is they all show off HP’s new iLO4 chip embedded with HP’s Agentless Management, Active Health System (AHS) and Embedded Remote Support features The AHS monitors the server and stores up to 1GB of diagnostics data which can be securely downloaded to HP support for faster problem resolution. It links up with HP’s new SmartMemory and SmartDrive devices and if it identifies a problem or impending failure, arranges for replacement memory and hard drives to be ordered in advance Networking a FlexLOM connector which accepts a variety of cards. We had the quad-Gigabit version but HP also offers a dual 10GbE version with 40GbE and Infiniband options on the way. The embedded Smart Array P420i RAID controller links up directly to the motherboard’s SAS 2 ports and provides plenty of RAID and cache options.

Our configuration Tips:

Server was supplied with dual 2GHz E5-2650 eight-core Xeons, and we found power consumption to be commendably low; with Windows Server 2008 R2 in idle of 92W. Again pushing all 32 logical cores to maximum load, this rose to only 220W.

Workloads:

High demand and dynamic computing workloads for virtualization, data base, or high-performance computing