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The all new HP ProLiant BL680c Server Blade, delivers no-compromise performance and expansion in the first Quad-Core 4P BladeSystem Server. With up to four Intel Xeon 7300 Series processors, 128 GB of Fully Buffered memory, two hot-plug Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, four embedded Gigabit NIC's and three I/O expansion slots, the HP ProLiant BL680c G5 delivers the density you want with the performance you need to handle the most demanding enterprise class applications.

Features

Designed to keep pace with strenuous computing demands, the HP ProLiant BL680c Server Blade is equipped with outstanding 4P processing power and expansion capabilities, enterprise-class availability features, and industry-leading management tools that make it easy to deploy and maintain.

Performance
  • Up to four Quad-Core Intel Xeon 7300 Series processors
  • Up to 128GB Fully Buffered DDR2 Memory via 16 PC2-5300 FB DIMM slots
  • Embedded HP Smart Array P400i with optional Battery-Backed Write Cache
Expansion
  • Two drive bays for your choice of hot-plug serial attached SCSI (SAS) or serial ATA (SATA) hard drives
  • Four embedded Gigabit Ethernet network adapters - Two are Multifunction Gigabit Ethernet with TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) for Microsoft Windows and iSCSI boot for Linux
  • Three mezzanine expansion slots to simultaneously support a wide variety of I/O mezzanine cards
Management
  • Integrated Lights Out 2 (iLO2) Standard Blade Edition delivers the industry's most complete, high-performance, out-of-band remote management solution
  • New BladeSystem Thermal Logic Cooling displays instant thermal dashboard for system diagnostics and control of power and cooling
  • Insight Control Data Center Edition is an integrated suite of software that simplifies the provisioning and management of HP BladeSystem infrastructures
  • Smart power and thermal management available with HP Power Regulator. Policy-based management includes new industry-exclusive power meter reporting capability to log actual power usage
Options
  • Add battery backed-write cache option to the Smart Array P400i to provide fault tolerance
  • Get even more out of HP ProLiant Essentials for Integrated Lights-Out - upgrade to Integrated Lights-Out Select Pack for the following features: Power Regulator Reporting, Command line and scripted multi-server virtual media, and Enterprise security (includes directory services and two-factor authentication)
  • Take advantage of the three mezzanine expansion slots that allow for a variety configuration options - Multifunction Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters, standard Gigabit Ethernet adapters, 4Gb Fibre Channel, and 4x DDR (20Gb) InfiniBand

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 capability to limit costly network downtime with optional Battery Backed-Write Cache
  • High performance remote manageability to support centralized or remote data center environments

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

  • Affordable enterprise 4P performance and reliability
  • ProLiant management tools ease server deployment and life cycle management when resources are limited
  • Flexible SAS and SATA storage options

High Performance Computing (HPC)

  • With a large memory footprint of 64GB and quad-core processors from Intel, the ProLiant BL680c delivers exceptional technical performance capabilities in an industry-standard server blade
  • Ideal for EDA, petrochemical, life sciences and material sciences

Ideal applications

  • Multi-tiered enterprise applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle, and JDE
  • Great for server consolidation, large database applications, ERP, CRM, mail and messaging and business integration applications
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