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HPE
ProLiant Servers

by Sherry Kercher

Docid: 00018907

Publication Date: 2007

Report Type: PRODUCT

Preview

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s HPE ProLiant Server portfolio is a line of
servers aimed at both small-to-medium-sized businesses and large
enterprises. It features Intel and AMD processors and offers a number of
features including redundancy, embedded RAID controllers, virtual connect
technology, and integrated lights out (ILO). A recent addition to this
line is the HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10. This report provides information on
the HPE ProLiant Server product line and its main features.

Report Contents:

Description

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HP Inc. Company
Profile

HPE’s ProLiant Server line of products is aimed at small-to-medium and
large businesses and features both Intel and AMD processors.

Designed for Efficiency and Effectiveness. HPE designed
ProLiant Servers to balance the needs for energy-efficiency,
effectiveness, performance efficiency, and cost in datacenters and IT
departments that face budget cuts and increased demand for computing
capacity. Features include smaller form factors to consolidate space
and reduced energy consumption through shared power and cooling.


Vendor
Hewlett-Packard
3000 Hanover St
Palo Alto CA 94304-1185
Phone: (650) 857-1501
Fax: (650) 857-5518
Web: http://www.hp.com/
Type of Vendor: Hardware, software, and
professional services firm
Founded: 1939
Service Areas: Global
Stock Symbol: HPQ (NYSE)

ProLiant Servers’ main product lines are built for a distinct purpose.

HPE ProLiant for Private Cloud . HPE Helion Rack is a
hardened HPE ProLiant for Private Cloud offering delivered in a single rack.
It consists of four or more HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9 Servers, 36 cores of
processing power, and 256GB of memory. Each server is optimized for future
scale out.

WS Server Blade Series. This series provides full
dual-processor workstation performance support from a remote data center to
a desktop client appliance over standard network. Users can simultaneously
connect from a single client device to multiple blade workstations.

400c Series. The 400c series offers features that are
intended to provide the same capabilities of ordinary rack servers in a
smaller, energy-efficient design. It provides remote management features,
as well as reliability features, such as Advanced ECC control, to improve
uptime.

600c Series. The 600c is a series of 4-socket server
blades that offer core processor servers with the latest AMD and Intel
servers. It offers large-scale memory, as well as enhanced system
redundancy capabilities. It is optimized for server consolidation, and was
designed to allow for the deployment of many virtual machines.

Table 1 outlines the features of select HPE ProLiant Server product
series.

Table 1. Select HPE ProLiant Server Features
Product Series Models Features
DL Series DL380 Gen10 entry SATA server
  • With one Intel Xeon Bronze 3106 processor, 16 GB dual rank
    memory, S100i storage controller, eight large form factor
    drive bays and one 500W power supply
  • Processors Supported: Intel Xeon Scalable
  • Memory Slots: 23 DIMM
  • Maximum Memory: 1.5 TB, memory supported differs by
    processor selection
DL380 Gen10 entry SATA server
  • With one Intel Xeon Bronze 3104 processor, 16 GB dual rank
    memory, S100i storage controller, eight large form factor
    drive bays and one 500W power supply
  • Processors: Xeon Scalable 8100 series Intel Xeon Scalable
    6100 series Xeon Scalable 5100 series Xeon Scalable 4100
    series Xeon Scalable 3100 series
  • Maximum number of cores: 6
  • Memory Slots: 24 DIMM
  • Maximum Memory: 3.0 TB with 128 GB DDR4
DL385 Gen10
  • AMD EPYC 7262 (8 core, 3.2 Ghz, 128 MB, 155/180W)
  • 16 GB (1x 16 GB) RDIMM
  • None ship standard, 8 SFF drives supported
  • 1 HPE 500W Flexible Slot Power
DL325 Gen10
  • AMD EPYC 7262 (8 core, 3.2 Ghz, 128 MB, 155/180W)
  • 16 GB (1x 16 GB) RDIMM
  • None ship standard, 8 SFF drives supported
  • 1 HPE 500W Flexible Slot Power Supply
ML Series ML350 Gen9 tower server
  • With one Xeon E5-2620 v4 processor, 8 GB memory, and one
    500W power supply
  • Maximum number of cores: 8
  • Memory Slots: 24 DIMM
  • Maximum Memory: 16 GB
ML110 Gen10 3104 1P 8GB-R S100i 4LFF NHP SATA 350W
PS DVD Entry Server
  • Processors: Xeon Scalable processors
  • Maximum number of cores: 6
  • Processors Supported: Intel Xeon Scalable 5100 series Intel
    Xeon Scalable 4100 series Xeon Scalable 3100 series
  • Memory Slots: 6 DIMM
  • Maximum Memory: 192 GB
HPE ProLiant ML30 Gen9 E3-1220v6 1P 8GB-U B140i 4LFF
NHP 350W PS Entry Server
  • Maximum number of cores: 4
  • Processors Supported: Xeon E3-1200 v5 product family Intel
    Xeon E3-1200 v6 product family Core i3; Intel Pentium
  • Memory Slots: 4 DIMM
  • Maximum Memory: 64 GB
MicroServers MicroServer Gen10 server
  • 1 MD Opteron X3216 processor
  • 8 GB memory
  • 1 TB large form factor SATA drive
  • 200W power supply
MicroServer Gen10 server
  • With one AMD Opteron X3216 processor, 8 GB memory, four
    large form factor drive bays, and a 200W power supply
  • Maximum number of cores: 2 per processor
  • Memory Slots: 2 standard 288p DIMM slots, maximum
  • Maximum Memory: 32 GB
MicroServer Gen10 server
  • With one AMD Opteron X3421 processor, 8 GB memory, four
    large form factor drive bays, and a 200W power supply
  • Maximum number of cores: 4 per processor
  • Memory Slots: 2 standard 288p DIMM slots, maximum
  • Maximum Memory: 32 GB

Strengths

According to IDC, Dell Technologies held the top spot in the in the
global server market during the first quarter of 2020 with a revenue share
of 18.7%. HPE/New H3C Group was in second place with 15.5%, followed by
Inspur/Inspur Power Systems with 7.1%. Lenovo and IBM were tied for the
fourth position with market shares of 5.6% and 4.8%, respectively.
Overall, vendor revenue in the market decreased 6.0% year over year to
$18.6 billion during the first quarter of 2020. Worldwide server shipments
decreased 0.2% year over year to just under 2.6 million units in the
quarter. Volume server revenue declined 2.1% to $15.1 billion, and
midrange server revenue decreased 23.0% to just under $2.6 billion.
High-end systems decreased by 9.1% to just under $1.0 billion.1

An IDC study found that by deploying virtual machines using Blade
Servers, IT organizations have been able to reduce infrastructure savings
by 17 percent.2 Additionally, Demartek tested the ProLiant
BL460c Gen9 Server Blade and the BL460c Gen8 Server Blade, and found that
the BL460c Gen9 Server Blade outperformed the BL460c Gen8 Server Blade.
Also, the company determined that, when looking at similar configurations
of both servers that it used in testing, the cost of the Gen9 Server Blade
hardware fell 10 percent lower than the cost for the Gen8 Server Blade.3
According to researchandmarkets.com, the data center blade server
market is expected to reach $16.85 billion USD by the end of 2021, a
growth rate of 8.68 percent from 2016 to 2021.4

Weaknesses

BladeServers do not offer as many features as servers with more capacity.
They also do not support all operating systems or virtualized computing
environments. Additionally, HPE faces formidable competition in the blade
server market from vendors such as IBM, Dell, and Oracle.

Applications

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HPE’s ProLiant blades are designed for use in small to medium-sized
enterprise environments, as well as in large enterprise environments.

Environment

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HPE Integrity and HPE ProLiant server blades run in operating
environments similar to other HPE servers. BladeServers support certain
Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux, Micro Focus Novell SUSE Linux, Citrix
ZenServer, and VMware systems.

Support

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HPE offers customers off-site and on-site support. Users can choose phone
support, as well as next-day and four-hour on-site support options. HPE
also can install a customer’s hardware for an additional fee, in addition
to help-desk, back-up, and recovery options. Finally, the company offers a
one- to three-year warranty on all of its ProLiant Servers.

Pricing

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Prices for HPE’s ProLiant Servers vary in pricing according to how users
customize the blades. General pricing for select products is provided
in Table 2.

Table 2. HPE ProLiant Pricing
Product Price (USD)
HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen 10 Starts at $6,649.99
HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Starts at $2,569.99
HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 server Starts at $430.60
DL380 Gen10 performance server Starts at $2,499.99

Competitors

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The ProLiant Server family competes against products such as IBM’s
BladeCenter, Dell’s PowerEdge Servers, and Oracle’s Sun Blade System.

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References

About the Author

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Sherry Kercher is an editor for Faulkner Information
Services. She holds a master’s degree in library and information science,
and tracks and writes about storage, communication networks and equipment,
and Internet technologies.

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