Two new four-processor ProLiant DL
June 21, at the Technology Forum conference in Las Vegas, HP made a series of important announcements of standard architecture and storage servers. The HP ProLiant DL G7 rack server family has been extended with three high-end models, including the new flagship of the series - the eight-way HP ProLiant DL980 G7. It is based on the Intel Xeon 7500, HP PREMA’s proprietary horizontal scaling architecture and redundant system “factory”.
About this 64-core machine, supporting up to two terabytes of RAM and designed for servicing business-critical applications, we will tell in the fall, when customers will start delivering it, and today I would like to talk about two other new products that have already entered the market - four-processor HP ProLiant DL580 G7 with Xeon 7500 processors and its equivalent on 12-core AMD Opteron 6000 processors — the HP ProLiant DL585 G7 server.
The four-unit HP ProLiant DL580 G7 replaces the fifth-generation HP ProLiant DL580 released about three years ago (older HP ProLiant models are updated less frequently than single- and dual-processor servers in this series, so they can skip one generation in their development). Using the Xeon 7500 instead of the Xeon 7300/7400, the maximum number of cores in the server increased by one and a half times from 24 to 32, the maximum amount of RAM increased four times to one terabyte (in the HP ProLiant DL580 G7 64 DIMM slots against its 16 predecessor slots , moreover, PC3-10600E DDR3 is used instead of PC2-5300 FBDIMM DDR2 modules. In addition, the increased number of DIMM slots makes it possible to obtain a sufficiently large amount of RAM on the machine using relatively cheap four-gigabyte modules.
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Among other improvements to the configuration of the new server generation, we note four Gigabit Ethernet ports instead of the previous two and optional support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet on two ports, the ability to use solid-state SSD drives and an SD card slot that loads the virtual machine hypervisor.
Compared to the fifth-generation model, the HP ProLiant DL580 G7 has significantly enhanced hardware failure protection — for example, the processor itself uses the Machine Check Architecture (MCA) technology, originally developed for Intel Itanium, to protect the data in the cache memory controller of the Smart Disk Subsystem. Array now uses flash memory (Flash-Backed Write Cache) with almost unlimited storage time instead of backup batteries, an On-Die Error Protection error recovery algorithm, isolation of faulty DIMM modules and mem mode are implemented for RAM. ory lockstep.
In addition, memory error isolation technology, unique for servers of this class, is used. When a fatal memory error occurs, only one application or virtual machine affected by this error is reloaded, and not the entire server. Due to the transition to the third version of iLO, standard for the HP ProLiant seventh generation, the remote server management console works up to eight times faster (compared to iLO2).
In the seventh generation of HP ProLiant rack mounts, you can install power supplies of different capacities (750 or 1200 watts) depending on the configuration of the components of the machine and the specifics of its operation, since the servers are equipped with four universal Common Slot Power Supply bays that support hot swapping of one of the power supplies.
A large number of processor cores and RAM, as well as high resiliency and optional support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet, allow using this system as a platform for consolidating "heavy" server applications based on virtualization solutions from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix and implementing virtualized workplace infrastructure (VDI). ), as well as traditional tasks for multiprocessor servers - maintenance of large databases, ERP and CRM applications, large e-mail systems. The server supports Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Oracle Enterprise Linux, VMware, and Citrix XenServer operating systems.
Its counterpart on AMD processors differs from the HP ProLiant DL585 G6 released last year by twice the maximum number of cores and memory (HP ProLiant DL585 G7 is equipped with 48 DIMM slots, the maximum RAM capacity is 512 GB). As in the HP ProLiant DL580 G7, it has eleven PCIe 2.0 expansion slots against nine of its predecessor. The rest of the two new DL58x G7 servers are virtually the same (of course, with the exception of the functionality specific to Intel and AMD processors, for example, the interconnect for Xeon 7500 uses QPI architecture and Opteron 6000 for Direct Connect Architecture 2.0).
As always, we will be happy to answer your questions.
About this 64-core machine, supporting up to two terabytes of RAM and designed for servicing business-critical applications, we will tell in the fall, when customers will start delivering it, and today I would like to talk about two other new products that have already entered the market - four-processor HP ProLiant DL580 G7 with Xeon 7500 processors and its equivalent on 12-core AMD Opteron 6000 processors — the HP ProLiant DL585 G7 server.
The four-unit HP ProLiant DL580 G7 replaces the fifth-generation HP ProLiant DL580 released about three years ago (older HP ProLiant models are updated less frequently than single- and dual-processor servers in this series, so they can skip one generation in their development). Using the Xeon 7500 instead of the Xeon 7300/7400, the maximum number of cores in the server increased by one and a half times from 24 to 32, the maximum amount of RAM increased four times to one terabyte (in the HP ProLiant DL580 G7 64 DIMM slots against its 16 predecessor slots , moreover, PC3-10600E DDR3 is used instead of PC2-5300 FBDIMM DDR2 modules. In addition, the increased number of DIMM slots makes it possible to obtain a sufficiently large amount of RAM on the machine using relatively cheap four-gigabyte modules.
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Among other improvements to the configuration of the new server generation, we note four Gigabit Ethernet ports instead of the previous two and optional support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet on two ports, the ability to use solid-state SSD drives and an SD card slot that loads the virtual machine hypervisor.
Compared to the fifth-generation model, the HP ProLiant DL580 G7 has significantly enhanced hardware failure protection — for example, the processor itself uses the Machine Check Architecture (MCA) technology, originally developed for Intel Itanium, to protect the data in the cache memory controller of the Smart Disk Subsystem. Array now uses flash memory (Flash-Backed Write Cache) with almost unlimited storage time instead of backup batteries, an On-Die Error Protection error recovery algorithm, isolation of faulty DIMM modules and mem mode are implemented for RAM. ory lockstep.
In addition, memory error isolation technology, unique for servers of this class, is used. When a fatal memory error occurs, only one application or virtual machine affected by this error is reloaded, and not the entire server. Due to the transition to the third version of iLO, standard for the HP ProLiant seventh generation, the remote server management console works up to eight times faster (compared to iLO2).
In the seventh generation of HP ProLiant rack mounts, you can install power supplies of different capacities (750 or 1200 watts) depending on the configuration of the components of the machine and the specifics of its operation, since the servers are equipped with four universal Common Slot Power Supply bays that support hot swapping of one of the power supplies.
A large number of processor cores and RAM, as well as high resiliency and optional support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet, allow using this system as a platform for consolidating "heavy" server applications based on virtualization solutions from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix and implementing virtualized workplace infrastructure (VDI). ), as well as traditional tasks for multiprocessor servers - maintenance of large databases, ERP and CRM applications, large e-mail systems. The server supports Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Oracle Enterprise Linux, VMware, and Citrix XenServer operating systems.
Its counterpart on AMD processors differs from the HP ProLiant DL585 G6 released last year by twice the maximum number of cores and memory (HP ProLiant DL585 G7 is equipped with 48 DIMM slots, the maximum RAM capacity is 512 GB). As in the HP ProLiant DL580 G7, it has eleven PCIe 2.0 expansion slots against nine of its predecessor. The rest of the two new DL58x G7 servers are virtually the same (of course, with the exception of the functionality specific to Intel and AMD processors, for example, the interconnect for Xeon 7500 uses QPI architecture and Opteron 6000 for Direct Connect Architecture 2.0).
As always, we will be happy to answer your questions.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/97982/
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