HPE ProLiant DL360p Gen8 Server

The HPE ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server is powerful, general-purpose server. This server is perfect for businesses of all sizes This 1U rackmount server has thress chassis options to choose from: 4 Bay SFF, 8 Bay SFF, 10 Bay SFF.

4 Bay LFF

The 4 Bay LFF chassis for the HPE ProLiant DL360p Gen8 can accept up to eight 3.5" SAS/SATA drives. 2.5" hard drives and solid-state drives can be installed via a 2.5" to 3.5" drive converter. Drive bays for the DL360p are hot-swap, meaning that drives can be added or removed while the system is powered on. The rear of the 4 Bay LFF chassis includes two type A USB 3.0, a VGA port, a serial connector, a iLO 4 port, four 1GbE RJ45 Ethernet ports, one FLOM bay, and two hot-swap power supply bays.

8 Bay SFF

The DL360p Gen8's 8 Bay SFF chassis supports up to eight 2.5" SAS/SATA hard drives and/or solid-state drives. Drive bays for the 8 Bay SFF chassis are hot-swap. The rear of the 10 Bay SFF chassis includes two type A USB 3.0, a VGA port, a serial connector, a iLO 4 port, four 1GbE RJ45 Ethernet ports, one FLOM bay, and two hot-swap power supply bays.

10 Bay SFF

The DL360p Gen8's 10 Bay SFF chassis supports up to ten 2.5" SAS/SATA hard drives and/or solid-state drives. Drive bays for the 10 Bay SFF chassis are hot-swap. The rear of the 10 Bay SFF chassis includes two type A USB 3.0, a VGA port, a serial connector, a iLO 4 port, four 1GbE RJ45 Ethernet ports, one FLOM bay, and two hot-swap power supply bays.

The HPE ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server supports up to two 2nd Generation Intel Scalable CPUs. Total of 24 cores with a total of 12 cores per processor.

DIMM slots & Memory Channels

The HPE ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server is a DDR3 basd machine with 24 DIMM slots and 4 memory channels. Each channel consist of 3 DIMM slots.

Supported Memory Types

The DL360p Gen8 accepts both ECC Registered (RDIMM), Load Reduced (LRDIMM) and ECC Unbuffered (UDIMM) memory. It is important to not mixed together memory types. For example, if you are installing LRDIMMs into your server, do not install any RDIMMs. If you are installing RDIMMs, do not install any LRDIMMs. Mixing memory types can lead to issues such as boot failure.

Supported Memory Capacities

Capacities of 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB. 32GB is only available with LRDIMMs, 16GB are only available with RDIMM, 8GB are only available with UDIMM. With Load Reduced and RDIMM, you can achieve an overall greater RAM capacity.

Max Configurations

With ECC Registered memory, you can achieve a max of 384GB with a configuration of 24x16GB modules at 1333MHz. With Load Reduced, the max you can achieve is 768GB with a configuration of 24x32GB modules at 1066MHz. With UDIMM, 128GB can be achieved with 16x8GB modules at 1333MHz.

Supported Memory Speeds

The Dell R640 supports memory speeds of 1066MT/s, and 1600MT/s. The processor you have installed will determine the max memory speed that you can use with your system. For example, if your processor supports a max memory speed off 2666MT/s and you install a 2933MT/s module, the module will clock down to 2666MT/s. 2933MT/s is the fastest possible speed for this system.

The DL360p G10 chassis that you have will determine what form factor and number of drives you can install. With the 4 Bay LFF chassis, you can install up to four 3.5" SAS/SATA hard drives. With the 8 Bay SFF chassis, you can install up to eight 2.5" SAS/SATA hard drives. 2.5" SAS/SATA HDDs and/or SSDs can be install into the 4 Bay SFF chassis via a 2.5" to 3.5" drive adapter. The 10 Bay SFF chassis can accept up to ten 2.5" SAS/SATA hard drives and/or solid-state drives. All three chassis for the DL360p Gen8 are hot-swap, meaning the drives can be added or removed while the server is powered on.

Power Supplies Overview

The HPE ProLiant DL360p Gen8 has support for Embedded and PCIe RAID controllers. Embedded RAID controllers have a dedicated spot of the motherboard that the card is installed.

The HPE DL360p Gen8 server has 2 2GbE port integrated into the motherboard. There is also a dedidicated FlexibleLom (FLOM) slot in the rear of the system. This FLOM slot allow you to install cards with up to two ports. If you want additional networking capabilities in addition to the built in network ports and an FLOM card, you can also install PCIe network cards. FLOM and PCIe network cards are available with a variety of different speeds and port types. There are cards with port interfaces of RJ45, SFP, SFP+, SFP28, QSFP, and QSFP28. There are also speed options of 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE. The number of ports, network speeds, and port interfaces that are best for you are entirely based on you applications.