The BL680c G7 provides maximum performance & unparalleled scale-up expansion never before seen in a 4P x 86 blade. This creates an extremely powerful database engine while handling very demanding workloads & making traditional 4P rack to blade transition a true reality. Two models are now available, one optimized for the on E7-4800 series & the other for the 7500 series. Four 130W processors are supported with 64 RDIMM slots for 2.0TB (E7-4800 models) & 1.0TB (7500 models) of memory, 7 PCIe Gen 2 I/O slots, & 6 10 Gb Flex Fabric CNA ports for standard Ethernet to advanced networking. By designing a balanced architecture, the server is a very unique 4P blade offering ensuring all subsystems are used effectively. Traditional 4P blades are often unbalanced, providing CPU performance & density at the expense of proportional memory & I/O bandwidth. These server often fail when faced with larger databases, higher-density virtualization & general data-intensive applications. Features Never Before Seen Multiprocessor Scalability in a Blade Server
- World′s first 4P server blade to support a two terabytes of memory providing the ultimate database machine, ability to handle very large consolidation projects & a variety of data-demanding workloads
- Up to four top performing Intel Xeon E7-4800 or 7500 series processors each up to 130 watts deliver maximum computing power
- 60 Gb of embedded Flex Fabric ports & seven (7) I/O expansion slots bring the total maximum I/O bandwidth to 192 Gb supporting up to 273 VMs
- Four hot-plug SAS/SATA/SSD bays for up to 4.0 TB of internal storage powered by a high performance Smart Array P410i 6 Gb controller for RAID 0 & 1 standard & optional flash backed write cache options to 1 GB with RAID 1+0, 5, & 6 capability Six Embedded HP Virtual Connect 10 Gb Flex Fabric Adapters
- Six embedded NC553i 10 Gb Converged Network Adapter ports deliver extensive bandwidth for network intensive applications with up to Up to 24 connections to network & storage without the need for add-in I/O mezzanine cards
- Integrated Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCo E) & hardware-based i SCSI with i SCSI boot simplify management & lower infrastructure costs by converging LAN & SAN traffic over the same flexible connection
- Ability to utilize the adapter high-end Flex Fabric features or configure than as standard 1 Gb or 10 Gb Ethernet ports Making Multiprocessor Server Rack to Blade Transition a True Reality
- Performance, memory, & I/O slot expandability equal to or greater than a typical 4P x 86 rack server
- Reduce rack space up to 58%. Consolidate four standard 4P rack servers & eight high performance LAN/SAN edge switches (that can occupy up to 24U) into a single 10U c 7000 enclosure.
- Radically simplify system design & lower cost by eliminating all rack server to edge switch cables & decrease power cables to no more than six
- The HP Blade System enclosures also eliminate individual server management cables, consolidating them into just one (or two for redundancy) even further simplifying system design Fully Balanced, Optimized Intel Xeon 4S Architecture
- With major advances in processor performance, applications are already memory & I/O bound, not processor. Yet, typical server blades are often unbalanced, providing processor performance & density at the expense of proportional memory capacity, I/O bandwidth, & storage.
- The E7-2800 & the 6500/7500 series represent Intel's greatest performance leap in history over the previous generation 7400 series. Rather than provide a processor-heavy design, the BL680c G7 fully optimizes all the capabilities of the E7-4800 & 7500 series multiprocessor 4S architecture.
- Each socket
Includes:: the maximum allowable two memory controllers that each have two Intel Scalable Memory Interface (SMI) buses. Each SMI connects to a memory buffer that supports four 16 GB DIMMs for a total of 16 DIMMs per processor socket (64 DIMMs or up to 2.0 TB of memory per server).
- Each socket supports 130 watts allowing up to four maximum performing E7-2800 or 7500 series processors