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The HP ProLiant BL480c delivers an unmatched combination of two processor (2P), multi-core performance, and expansion. Experience the difference with the HP ProLiant BL480c, the industry's only 2P server blade that offers 12 DIMMs, four hot-plug drives and three I/O expansion slots. The HP ProLiant BL480c server blade features two Quad-Core or Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors, up to 48 GB of ECC 667 MHz DDR2 memory, four network adapters, and your choice of four hot-plug SAS or SATA drives. The HP ProLiant BL480c has more than you've come to expect from a 2P server blade, and can handle your most challenging applications.

What's New

The BL480c now supports the latest IntelŽ XeonŽ Dual-Core low voltage processor L5240 (40W)

Ideal environment

Ideal for...

Large Enterprise data centers

  • Outstanding performance with quad-core processors, extensive memory capacity and best-in-class networking
  • Essential fault tolerance: Embedded Hardware RAID 0,1,5 capability to limit costly network downtime with optional battery-backed write cache with RAID 6
  • High performance remote manageability to support centralized or remote data center environments

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
  • Flexible SAS and SATA storage options

Ideal applications

  • Multi-tiered enterprise applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle, and JDE
  • Corporate infrastructure: file/print, mail/messaging (such as Exchange and Lotus Notes), domain name system, directory services, firewall, and small to medium-size databases
  • Virtualization solutions such as VMwareŽ and Microsoft Virtual ServerŽ
  • Performance sensitive network infrastructure services, Client/server: Citrix Terminal Services
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