HP ProLiant

BL685c G5
Server Blade
July 28, 2008
HP Confidential

2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

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HP ProLiant BL685c G5
Whats New
Support for the Quad-Core AMD
Opteron processor
Model 8384 (2.7 GHz, 75W ACP)
6MB L3 cache
45nm process

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Why the G5 designator?
Simple identification of common key features
across all platforms regardless of form-factor or
processor vendor
G5 platforms feature a balanced system
architecture
Multi-core processors
Registered DDR2 memory on AMD platforms
Small form factor SAS and SATA hard disk drives
Multifunction NICs
Power regulation and metering technologies
Integrated Lights-Out 2
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HP ProLiant BL685c G5
BL685c G5

Up to four AMD Opteron 8300 Series

Processor processors

PC2-5300 Registered DDR2 (667 MHz)

Memory 16 DIMM Sockets
128GB max (with 4GB DIMMs)
2 Hot-Plug SFF SAS or SATA HDDs
Smart Array E200i controller (64MB
Internal Storage cache) with optional BBWC
RAID 0/1 support

2 integrated Multifunction Gigabit NICs

Networking 2 integrated Gigabit NICs

Mezzanine
3 PCIe mezzanine expansion slots
Slots
Integrated Lights Out 2
Management Standard Blade Edition

Density 8 server blades in 10U enclosure

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HP ProLiant BL685c G5 Highlights
Designed to keep pace with strenuous computing demands, the BL685c
G5 server blade is equipped with outstanding 4P processing power and
expansion capabilities, enterprise-class availability features, and
industry-leading management tools that make it easy to deploy and
maintain.
Performance Expansion and Power Efficiency
Up to four AMD Opteron 8300 Series Ultra-dense and modular design
Quad-core processors Up to 32 four-processor server blades in
Integrated memory controller an industry standard rack
1GHz Hyper Transport Up to 500 GB of internal storage on dual,
PC2-5300 Registered DDR2 memory hot-plug SATA disks
(667 MHz), 16 sockets, 128 GB Max Energy-efficient DDR2 memory
Management & Deployment Superior Power:Performance
HP Insight Control Data Center Edition The low power AMD Opteron processor
Integrated Lights-Out 2 Standard Blade Edition HE enables greater density providing
excellent performance-per-watt
Options efficiencies for power constrained IT
Hot-plug SAS or SATA hard disk drives environments.
128 MB battery-backed write cache module HP Power Regulator and AMD
PowerNow!
Emulex or QLogic Fibre Channel mezzanine
cards AMD Dual Dynamic Power Management
Multifunction Gigabit or Standard Gigabit
Ethernet NIC mezzanine cards
Infiniband mezzanine card:
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Internal View
Embedded Smart Array E200i Three Mezzanine Slots
Three x8

Two hot-plug
SAS/SATA
drives

Four Embedded Gigabit

Ethernet Adapters
Two Multifunction
Two Standard

16 DIMM Slots
Registered DIMMs
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HP ProLiant BL685c G5
Blade Architecture

Memory

Memory
DIMMs

DIMMs
4

4
CPU 3 CPU 4
Memory

Memory
DIMMs

DIMMs

Server Blade Enclosure

4

4
CPU 1 CPU 2
Mezzanine 1
x4 PCI-Express
Sidecar
KBD/MS Connect
Enabler
E
x8 PCI-Express
Serial I/O
SAS Mezzanine 2
Hub
SUV Connector

Controller I/O
USB Hub NIC NIC

x8 PCI-Express
NIC NIC
Mezzanine 3

Video
Mgmt
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BL45p G2 BL685c G5 Comparison
BL45p G2 BL685c
Full-height

AMD Opteron 8200 Series AMD Opteron 8300 Series

Processor (Dual-Core) (Quad-Core)
ServerWorks NVIDIA
Chipset (HT-1000 and 2 HT-2100) (Gen 1, CK8-04 & IO-04)
PC2-5300 Registered DDR2 (667 PC2-5300 Registered DDR2 (667
MHz) MHz)
Memory 16 DIMM Sockets 16 DIMM Sockets
64GB max (with 4GB DIMMs) 128GB max (with 8GB DIMMs)
2 Hot-Plug SFF SAS or SATA HDDs
HDD and
Smart Array E200i controller (64MB cache) with optional BBWC
Controller RAID 0/1 support
4 Integrated NICs (2 Multifunction and 2 Gigabit)
Networking (additional via mezzanine card)

Management iLO 2 Standard Blade Edition

OS Support Microsoft Windows, Linux

4 Server Blades in 7U 8 Server Blades in 10U

Enclosure (includes 1U power enclosure) 4 Server Blades in 6U
BL45p G2 Up to 4 mezzanine cards: 2 BL685c G5
Up to 3 mezzanine cards
Mezzanine dedicated to multifunction NICs or
Choices: Multifunction NICs or
Support standard NICs and 2 dedicated to
Standard NICs, 4Gb FC, IB, 10GbE
2Gb FC
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Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors
The Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor offers significant
performance and performance-per-watt enhancements for
Socket F (1207) platforms.
Whats New?
Dual Dynamic Power Management
128-bit SSE floating point processing capabilities enabling each processor to
simultaneously execute up to four flops per clock
Enhanced AMD-V featuring nested paging acceleration for virtual
environments
Level 3 cache enhancements benefiting highly-threaded server applications
Ideal For:
Multi-threaded, multi-tasked environments including database and email
High performance computing environments

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Dual Dynamic Power Management
By powering the core and memory controller voltage planes
independently, Dual Dynamic Power Management offers
increased performance and improved power management.
Increased performance
Memory controller can run at a higher frequency which helps reduce memory
latency for increased application performance.
This performance benefit ranges from 3-10% on 2P on server workloads.
Improved power management
By operating independently from the memory controller, the cores in a Quad-
Core AMD Opteron processor can exploit the power savings benefits of
AMD PowerNow! more often, resulting in reduced power and cooling bills.
Further power savings can be achieved with Dual Dynamic Power
Management as Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors will also reduce power
to the Northbridge when memory is not in use while continuing to offer full
performance in the processor cores.
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Serial Technology Enables Choice
Serial ATA (SATA) and
Serial SCSI (SAS)
benefits:
Star topology (point-to-
point, no hubs)
SATA and SAS drives are
hot-pluggable
2.5 drives will consume
70% less space and 30%
SAS Drives less power than 3.5
drives enterprise drives
SATA Drives
SATA drives have a
One backplane accommodates 1 year warranty

both SAS and SATA drives

High-performance and highly-reliable Serial Attached SCSI disk drives
can be used for mission critical and performance-oriented applications
High-capacity SATA drives can be used for disk enhanced backup or
non-mission critical reference data
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Hard disk drive usage summary
SATA SAS
Capacity Reliability
Drive
Strengths
Lowest cost per GB Best price for performance

Reference data Transactional data

Performance for Rigorous
Sensitivity to Environmental Vibration Environments

Applications Non-mission critical applications Mission critical applications

(near-line storage, data tubs) (online transactions, banking)
Entry level servers and bulk Main stream servers and
storage storage
Desktop class architecture Enterprise class architecture
Reliability
8 to 10 hours, 5 days a week 24x7x365
50% duty cycle 100% duty cycle

Warranty
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HP Multifunction Networking

Feature Benefit
Physical Cable Software Functions Receive side scaling Increases server scalability
Cluster
Offloads TCP/IP processing
Storage TCP/IP Offload to NIC for improved server
(TOE) efficiency
Network

iSCSI processing is
Accelerated iSCSI offloaded to the NIC for
One connection, improved performance
multiple functions Allows a server to boot from
iSCSI Boot a SAN removing the need
for drives in the server

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Internal USB port
Internal USB connector added. Can be used for disk-on-key USB
device for enhanced security, local boot, or HP iVirtulization.
Acts as a multifactor authentication device for security (application/OS
access now requires password and physical device (the disk-on-
key)). Multifactor security schemes are inherently more secure than
password-only schemes.

USB Secure Key

Plugs into internal USB

slot

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Introducing iLO 2 licensing for
new ProLiant BL servers
iLO 2 Standard Blade Edition
Essential Lights-Out features bundled
with iLO 2 based ProLiant BL servers
Begins with ProLiant BL20p G4
Traditional iLO Standard PLUS blade
specific and selected new iLO 2
features
iLO Select Pack
Optional licensed Lights-Out
upgrades for new ProLiant BL servers
Activates security, new power
management, scripted virtual media
and more in the future
Flexible licensing including site
licenses and an eight blade kit
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iLO 2 Standard Blade Edition
HP Virtual KVM
Integrated Remote Console
Terminal Services Pass-through
Virtual Media (browser single server)
Blade specific features - setup wizard,
rackview, enclosure alerting, static IP bay
configuration
Embedded System Health
Remote Serial Console
Virtual power, Unit ID
Event logs, SIM integration
iLO Select Pack
Power Regulator Reporting
Virtual Media (scripted multi-server)
Enterprise security
Directory services
Two-factor Authentication
Technology for better business outcomes