HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 1U rack server 2× Xeon E5-2640 v3 2.6GHz 16GB DDR4 2× 1TB SAS H240ar

Compact 1U rack server with dual Xeon E5-2640 v3

This HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 fits a full dual-processor configuration into a single rack unit. Two eight-core Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPUs at 2.6 GHz deliver 16 physical cores and 32 threads. Sixteen gigabytes of DDR4 ECC registered memory occupy part of the 24 available DIMM slots. Two 1 TB 7.2K SAS drives connect through the Smart HBA H240ar controller, which supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Dual 500 W hot-swap power supplies provide redundancy.

Suits dense compute and virtualisation.

The 1U chassis is built for racks where space is at a premium and workloads benefit from high core counts per unit. Virtualisation hosts, database nodes and HPC clusters can exploit the 32 threads and DDR4 bandwidth. Buyers who need more than four 3.5-inch drive bays or who require GPU acceleration beyond the integrated Matrox G200 should look at larger form-factor servers.

Four LFF bays limit internal capacity to four

Only four large-form-factor bays are available, so the server tops out at four 3.5-inch SAS or SATA drives. The installed pair of 1 TB SAS disks leaves two bays free for expansion, but total raw capacity cannot exceed four drives. If the application demands eight or more spindles, a 2U or 4U platform with additional backplanes is required.