HP ProLiant BL460c server -
overview

Features

• What's New with the BL460c - Maximize your energy efficiency savings with the latest Low Voltage Dual Core Intel ® Xeon® L5200 series processor, with expanded cache. This power efficient blade configuration supports up to two of the new Intel® Xeon® 5200 low voltage series processor that provide capabilities for enhancing power optimization and virtualization as well as processor extensions for improved interruption handling in virtualization of 32-bit Windows operating systems. It also provides low power leakage and system transparent energy smart technology to reduce idle state power consumption by 50%. The new low voltage dual-core processor is availabe for purchase as a standard pre-confiigured SKU or as a configure to order SKU.
• Do you need a larger memory footprint to support up to 64GB? No worries with the BL460c. Now supporting up to 64 GB of ECC 667 MHz DDR2 Fully buffered DIMMs, with mirrored memory, memory interleaving and online spare capability. 2 mezzanine expansion slots and the HP Smart Array E200i with 64MB read cache with optional Battery-Backed Write Cache in standard BTO models

• Integrated Lights Out 2 (iLO 2) Management for unprecedented, high-speed management which includes virtual KVM and graphical remote console at no additional cost
• New Systems Insight Manager Thermal Logic Cooling - Instant thermal dashboard for system diagnostics and control of power and cooling
• Dual Multifunction Gigabit NICs with TOE and RDMA/iSCSI options to reduce network latency
• Smart power and thermal management now available with HP Power Regulator for policy based power management. Also offering, new industry exclusive Power Meter reporting capability to log actual power usage

• Drive-Less model now available through configure to order for customers who do not utilize internal disk drives and attach directly to SAN
• Storage support in standard BTO models of up to two high performance small form factor hot- plug serial disk drives.¹ Low voltage processor option kits targeted at most optimal performance per U and power per watt resulting in cooler, power-optimized systems
• Optional battery backed-write cache option to protect against data loss in standard BTO models¹

• Highly optimized for maximum density deployments of 64-bit systems without sacrificing functionality
• Internal USB connector¹ for enhanced security in standard BTO models
• Supports up to 8 DIMM memory expansion slots
• Two hot-plug small form factor SAS drives with battery-backed write cache in standard BTO models¹
• Simultaneously supports multiple I/O cards with two expansion slots

Ideal environment

Large Enterprise data centers

• Essential fault tolerance: Embedded 0,1 RAID capability to limit costly network downtime with optional Battery Backed-Write Cache in standard BTO models.¹
• High performance remote manageability to support centralized or remote data center environments
• Data center efficiency with low power processors targeted at most optimal performance per U and power per watt

Mainstream/mid-sized data centers and departments, branch offices

• Enterprise performance and reliability at an affordable price
• ProLiant management tools ease server deployment and life cycle management when resources are limited
• Internal configuration flexibility supports a variety of applications
• Flexible SAS and SATA storage options in standard BTO models.¹

Ideal applications

• Multi-tiered enterprises applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle, and JDE
• Corporate infrastructure: file/print, mail/messaging, domain name system, directory services, firewall such as Exchange, Lotus Notes, Databases and portals
• Performance sensitive network infrastructure services, Client/server: Citrix Terminal Services
• Low-end High Performance Computing (HPTC); Clustering; and Storage Area Networks