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Today’s data centers face numerous constraints—including power, space, and budget—making server density an increasingly important feature for enterprise applications. With only the typical 2S and 4S servers available, this scenario creates a mutually exclusive trade-off—get more processor performance and scalability, or conserve space, minimize server sprawl, and reduce overall total cost of ownership. In addition to these challenges, today’s data-intensive applications require greater performance, memory capacity for virtualization, I/O, bandwidth, and expandability/scalability. Accommodating these demands usually means deploying servers with at least four processors. With all things considered, deploying a server blade that provides the optimal balance of performance, expandability, and processor density is a critical success factor. And today, the density-optimized 4S HP ProLiant BL660c Gen8 Server is the ideal choice.
Denser is better
Supporting the high-density and cost-effective Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600v2 family, the ProLiant BL660c Gen8 Server series redefines density-optimized four-socket blade technology. Leveraging the advanced features of HP ProActive Insight Architecture, ProLiant BL660c Gen8 Servers deliver greater performance without compromising on performance, scalability, and expandability. Adding to the benefits, the ProLiant BL660c Gen8 Server enables you to consolidate servers and repurpose valuable enclosure space, further reducing data center sprawl and improving total cost of ownership (TCO).
The ideal match for workloads that require a fine-tuned balance between space, price, and performance, ProLiant BL660c Gen8 Server blades are the right-fit solution for virtualization, databases, business processing, decision support, high-performance computing , and general 4S data-intensive applications In addition to exceptional performance and significant enhancements to memory, storage, and I/O capacity, ProLiant BL660c Gen8 Server blades also offer:
- Reduced downtime—With HP SmartDrive, Smart Socket guide, HP SmartMemory, HP FlexibleLOM technology, 3D Sea of Sensors, the next-generation 6 Gb PCIe 3.0 embedded HP Smart Array P220i RAID controller, and more.
- Simplified system setup—With Intelligent Provisioning
- Automated alerts—Active Health for agentless hardware monitoring and alerting
- Automated firmware and system software maintenance—With Smart Update
Key features and benefits
Ideal form factor
- Support for up to four cost-effective Intel Xeon E5-4600v2 processors, each with up to 12 cores and 130 watts with no system configuration restrictions
- 32 DDR3 DIMM sockets for up to 1.0 TB of Gen8 HP SmartMemory and a maximum memory speed up to 1,866 MHz
- Three PCIe 3.0 expansion slots (two x16) supporting the highest performing mezzanine option cards, both now and in the future
- Your choice of embedded networking, with up to four 10 Gb FlexFabric ports with the Gen8 FlexibleLOM solution
Innovative design
Keeping the focus on you, the ProLiant BL660c Gen8 Server series includes user-inspired design features, such as:
- HP SmartDrive hot plug carrier and Smart Socket guide—Anticipating your needs and reducing common issues that can result in downtime
- Integrated Lifecycle Automation—An industry-first technology that provides embedded provisioning tools, Active Health monitoring features for speeding problem resolution, and Smart Update for simplifying system maintenance
- Dynamic Workload Acceleration—Delivering smarter data protection for ever-increasing hard drive capacities
- Automated Energy Optimization—Improving the server’s ability to analyze and respond to information gathered by the embedded 3D Sea of Sensors; these sensors work to selfidentify the server’s location and inventory through HP Insight Control; the result is optimized workloads across the data center
Improved memory, storage, and I/O performance
Gain the benefits of enhanced performance, quality, manageability, and efficiency provided by:
- Gen8 SmartMemory—Using less power and leveraging low-voltage registered DIMMs (RDIMMs), with no impact on performance
- Gen8 embedded Smart Array P220i RAID controller with optional 512 MB flash-backed write cache (FBWC)—Supporting the HP Smart Storage and SmartDrive carrier, as well as a very wide selection of hot plug SAS, SATA, SAS SSD, and SATA SSD hard drives
- PCIe 3.0 I/O technology with one x8 and two x16 slots—Supporting reduced latency and additional bandwidth per I/O expansion slot, as compared to ProLiant Gen7 server blades
- FlexibleLOM—Customizing the server networking bandwidth, technology, original equipment manager (OEM) provider, and number of ports, while also meeting future server networking needs without overhauling the server hardware
Intuitive, highly configurable management system
Reduce tedious, time-consuming tasks by using:
- HP Intelligent Provisioning—A single tool for all server configuration tasks; all the firmware, drivers, and tools you need to get your systems online are embedded in the ProLiant BL660c Server blade; no more CDs or DVDs required for resource provisioning
- HP Agentless Management—Hardware monitoring and alerting capabilities are built into the server; management capabilities are online the moment you connect a power cord and an Ethernet cable to the enclosure
- Active Health System—Providing 24x7 continuous health monitoring and 100 percent configuration change logging; unified diagnostic tool helps start problem analysis quickly with secure data transfer to the HP support team
Key features and benefits
Ideal form factor
Delivering 4S computing in a single-wide, full-height form factor, the ProLiant BL660c Gen8 Server Series offers:
Innovative design
Keeping the focus on you, the ProLiant BL660c Gen8 Server series includes user-inspired design features, such as:
Improved memory, storage, and I/O performance
Gain the benefits of enhanced performance, quality, manageability, and efficiency provided by:
Intuitive, highly configurable management system
Reduce tedious, time-consuming tasks by using:
Hardware enhancements include the HP SmartDrives, Smart Socket guide, SmartMemory, FlexibleLOM technology, "3D Sea of Sensors", the embedded Smart Array P220i RAID controller, and more. Software enhancements include HP Integrated Lifecycle Automation, Dynamic Workload Acceleration, Automated Energy Optimization, Intelligent Provisioning, agentless hardware monitoring, and Active Health System to name just a few.