HP ProLiant DL360 G5 server -
overview

What's new

Powerful HP ProLiant DL360 G5 introduces an unprecedented number of technology enhancements. Now available with Intel® XeonT 5100/5000 series processors and large memory capacity. The ProLiant DL360 server combines powerful Xeon processing power with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), PCI-Express, and robust remote management capability for the most complete ultra dense server platform.

Performance

• Up to two Intel XeonT 5100/5000 series processors with Intel VT technology to improve performance in a virtual environment.
• Up to 32MB of 667MHz DDR2 Fully-buffered DIMMs; with 4:1 interleaving, mirrored memory and online spare capability
• Two PCI-Express x8 expansion slots standard, optional PCI-X
• HP Smart Array P400i with 256 MB read cache; or Smart Array E200i with 64MB read cache. Both controllers are upgradeable to write cache capabilities and larger cache sizes.

Management

• Integrated Lights Out 2 (iLO 2) Management for high speed remote management, and Physical To ProLiant (P2ProLiant) for automated, accurate, and affordable server migration.
• New Systems Insight Display for walk up system diagnostics.
• Smart power and thermal management. HP Power Regulator for policy based power management providing energy. What more, new Power Meter reporting capability to log power usage.
• Dual multifunction Gigabit NICs with TOE to reduce network latency.

Reliability and Efficiency

• Redundant fans standard; redundant power optional.
• Expandable storage for support of up to six high performance serial disk drives
• Optional ambidextrous cable management arm
• Ultra dense 1U rack design offers maximum utilization of server rack and data center space

Ideal environment

Corporate data centers and service providers

• Redundant fans standard and optional redundant power supplies limit costly network downtime
• Remote manageability to support centralized or remote data center environments
• Sliding rack rails standard and optional cable management arm & fixed cord PDU accommodate dense server deployment

Small and medium businesses

• ProLiant management tools ease server deployment and life cycle management when resources are limited
• Internal configuration flexibility supports a variety of applications
• SCSI and SATA models expand deployment options

Ideal Applications

• Corporate infrastructure: mail & messaging, domain controller, directory services, firewall
• Web hosting
• Citrix Terminal Services
• High Performance Computing (HPC); High Availability Clustering and Storage Area Networks