HP ProLiant G8 servers

While Hewlett-Packard has formally announced any ProLiant servers based on Intel's Xeon E5-4600 processors for four-socket boxes are here and a sight to see.
As you can see from the feeds and speeds of the DL560 Gen8 machine, the box sports up to four processor sockets and up to 1.5TB of main memory across its 48 memory slots. HP is supporting all eight variants of the Xeon E5-4600 processors inside the machine, including 95 watt, 115 watt, and 130 watt processors that come with four, six, or eight cores.
The machine comes with two processors standard, but if you want the full memory addressability of the system and the full I/O capability, you need all four processors to be plugged in because the memory controllers and PCI-Express 3.0 controllers are on the die, not on the mobo. This is exactly the case with all Xeon E5-4600 machines, not just those made by HP.
The DL560 Gen8 machine sports FlexibleLOM networking ports, with LOM being short for LAN on Motherboard and allowing for daughter cards sporting Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and QDR and FDR InfiniBand connectivity to be snapped into the motherboard to reach out to the networks of the world. You can have four Gigabit Ethernet ports or two 10GE or InfiniBand ports coming off the DL560 Gen8.
The server has five 2.5-ich drive bays, which run along the bottom of the unit, below much larger system fans. While this is not a lot of storage for a machine of this processing capacity, you can't expect more than that in a 2U rack form factor if you want a lot of airflow coming in from the front. Frankly, packing all of that processing and memory in such a small space and not having it melt is a feat of engineering triumphing over thermodynamics. And as a comment below indicates, Dell crams sixteen drives in its four-socket PowerEdge R820 in the same 2U space, which is even more impressive.
The system has an embedded Smart Array P420i/ZM RAID 0 and 1 disk controller, which can be upgraded with models with 1GB or 2GB of write cache and RAID 5 support.
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