HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon E5-2643 v3 3.4GHz 8GB DDR4 2x 600GB SAS H240ar

2U Rack Server with Dual Xeon E5-2643 v3

The HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 is a 2U rack server equipped with two Intel Xeon E5-2643 v3 six-core processors running at 3.4GHz. It includes 8GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and two 600GB 15K SAS drives managed by a Smart HBA H240ar controller. Redundant 500W hot-swap power supplies are fitted. The chassis provides eight 2.5-inch SFF drive bays and 24 DIMM slots for memory expansion. No operating system is installed.

Who this suits and who should look elsewhere

This server fits buyers who need a dual-socket Xeon platform with hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 support and room to grow memory up to the 3TB platform limit across 24 slots. It also suits workloads that benefit from 15K SAS spindle speed. Buyers who want NVMe boot drives or GPU compute cards should look elsewhere because the chassis and riser configuration do not support those additions.

Deciding specification — 24 DIMM slots

The single specification that decides fit is the 24 DIMM slots supporting up to 3TB of DDR4 ECC registered memory at 2400MT/s. With only 8GB installed today, the platform offers a very large memory ceiling for virtualisation, in-memory databases or large-scale caching, provided the buyer populates the remaining slots with compatible modules.