8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver

ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver

The ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver is a high-performance server built for businesses and enterprises seeking reliability, scalability, and optimal processing power. Equipped with Intel’s Xeon Silver 4210 processor running at 3.2GHz, this server delivers exceptional performance for a wide range of workloads, including virtualization, business applications, and data processing tasks. With eight cores and sixteen threads, the ProLiant DL380 can efficiently handle demanding workloads while providing energy-efficient solutions to help businesses lower operational costs. Ideal for applications such as file and print services, database management, and virtualization, the ProLiant DL380 ensures that your IT infrastructure is both powerful and scalable to meet future demands.

Key Features of the ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver

Intel Xeon Silver 4210 Processor

The heart of the ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver is the Intel Xeon Silver 4210 processor, offering 8 cores and 16 threads. This processor is specifically engineered for enterprise workloads, delivering robust performance, quick processing speeds, and efficient multitasking capabilities. Running at a clock speed of 3.2GHz, it ensures responsive performance for even the most demanding tasks, while its multi-core architecture helps distribute workloads across the cores for improved parallel processing. This makes it suitable for both single-threaded and multi-threaded applications, offering versatility across various use cases.

Energy Efficiency for Cost-Effective Operations

Energy consumption is a significant consideration for any business running large-scale IT infrastructure. The ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver offers excellent energy efficiency thanks to the Xeon Silver 4210 processor. With Intel's advanced power management features, this server reduces overall power consumption while maintaining peak performance. This energy efficiency leads to lower operational costs over time and helps businesses meet sustainability goals by minimizing their carbon footprint. This feature makes the ProLiant DL380 an eco-friendly option for enterprises concerned about both cost-effectiveness and environmental responsibility.

Scalable Memory Configuration

The ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver provides a highly scalable memory solution, supporting up to 512GB of DDR4 memory. This allows the server to handle memory-intensive applications and workloads efficiently, providing enough capacity for tasks such as virtualization, data analytics, and large databases. The ability to expand memory as needed allows businesses to scale their infrastructure to meet future demands. Furthermore, the server is equipped with 12 DIMM slots, enabling flexible memory configurations to match varying workload requirements, ensuring optimal performance and uptime.

Flexible Storage and RAID Support

The ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver offers flexible storage options designed to meet the needs of both small and large-scale businesses. It supports both large-form-factor (LFF) and small-form-factor (SFF) drives, allowing users to choose the storage solution that best suits their performance and capacity requirements. The server can accommodate up to 12 LFF or 24 SFF drives, offering a significant amount of storage space for applications, data, and backups. Additionally, the server supports a wide range of RAID configurations, including RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60, enabling users to configure the storage for redundancy, performance, or both, depending on the nature of their workloads.

Reliability and Availability Features

Redundant Power Supplies

The ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver comes with redundant, hot-swappable power supplies, which ensure that the server remains operational even if one power supply fails. Redundant power supplies are essential for high-availability environments, minimizing the risk of downtime and ensuring business continuity. This feature is particularly valuable for organizations that rely on 24/7 operations, as it enables them to maintain uptime and prevent service interruptions, even during power failures or hardware issues.

Advanced Thermal Management

Effective cooling is critical for maintaining system performance and longevity. The ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver is equipped with advanced thermal management features that ensure the server operates at optimal temperatures. Its smart cooling technology uses automatic fan speed adjustments based on workload, ensuring energy-efficient cooling without excessive noise. This not only enhances the server's longevity but also keeps operational costs down by minimizing unnecessary power consumption while maintaining a reliable and consistent performance level.

Hot-Swappable Components

For increased uptime and operational efficiency, the ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver features hot-swappable components, such as hard drives, memory, and network cards. These components can be replaced or upgraded without shutting down the server, minimizing downtime and reducing the need for IT personnel to perform on-site maintenance. This feature is particularly beneficial for businesses that require continuous operation and need to maintain high service levels.

Security Features

Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT)

The ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver is equipped with Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT), which helps protect the system from malicious attacks. Intel TXT provides hardware-based security features that ensure the integrity of the server’s firmware, operating system, and applications. By verifying the server's platform during boot-up, TXT ensures that only trusted software is allowed to run, offering an additional layer of protection against rootkits, malware, and other security threats. This feature is essential for businesses handling sensitive data and seeking to secure their infrastructure from unauthorized access.

HPE Silicon Root of Trust

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has implemented its Silicon Root of Trust technology in the ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver, which is designed to protect the system’s firmware from tampering. This technology creates a secure hardware foundation for the server, providing robust protection against firmware-based attacks. By embedding cryptographic keys in the server’s silicon, the Silicon Root of Trust ensures that only authorized firmware can run, enhancing the overall security posture of the server and reducing the likelihood of data breaches or system compromises.

Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) Management

HPE’s Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) management technology offers advanced, remote management capabilities for the ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver. iLO allows IT administrators to monitor, manage, and troubleshoot the server remotely, even if the server’s operating system is not running. Features include remote power control, system health monitoring, and firmware updates. This functionality is invaluable for businesses that need to manage servers across multiple locations or data centers, reducing the need for on-site intervention and ensuring that critical tasks are performed quickly and securely.

Virtualization and Cloud Support

Optimized for Virtualization Environments

The ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver is an ideal choice for businesses looking to deploy virtualization solutions. With 8 cores and the processing power to support multiple virtual machines (VMs), it is optimized for running hypervisors like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and others. The server’s scalable memory and storage options allow businesses to create efficient, resource-optimized virtual environments that maximize hardware utilization while maintaining system performance. This makes the ProLiant DL380 an excellent solution for businesses seeking to reduce their physical server footprint, consolidate workloads, and increase overall efficiency.

Hybrid Cloud and Private Cloud Support

The ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver is designed to integrate seamlessly with both hybrid cloud and private cloud environments. It supports the necessary hardware and software configurations to host cloud services on-premise while also enabling organizations to extend their infrastructure to public cloud providers. The server’s flexibility allows businesses to take advantage of both private and public cloud benefits, offering greater control over their data while benefiting from the scalability and cost-efficiency of the cloud. This combination of on-premise and cloud resources ensures that businesses can build a cloud infrastructure that meets their unique requirements.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

The ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver is also an excellent choice for deploying Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions. VDI enables businesses to provide employees with secure, remote access to applications and desktops while centralizing desktop management. The ProLiant DL380’s performance capabilities, including its 8 cores and large memory capacity, ensure a smooth and responsive VDI experience, even when handling a large number of virtual desktops. By utilizing VDI with the ProLiant DL380, businesses can improve desktop security, simplify IT management, and offer flexible working solutions to their employees.

Performance for Business Applications

Enterprise-Grade Database Hosting

The ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver is designed to excel in environments that require the reliable and high-performance hosting of enterprise-grade databases. Whether running Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or other large database applications, the server’s multi-core architecture and large memory capacity provide quick data processing and enhanced transaction management. With the ability to handle large amounts of data and perform high-speed queries, the DL380 is a great choice for businesses with demanding database requirements. The server’s RAID support ensures that data is securely stored, with options to prioritize performance or redundancy, based on business needs.

Business-Critical Applications

In addition to database hosting, the ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver is capable of running other business-critical applications, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and collaboration software. With its processing power, memory, and storage flexibility, the server ensures that these applications run smoothly, even under heavy workloads. Whether hosting financial applications, HR systems, or other essential business tools, the ProLiant DL380 offers the reliability and performance that businesses require for their day-to-day operations.

Scalability and Expansion

Future-Proof for Growing Businesses

The ProLiant DL380 8 Core 3.2GHz Xeon Silver is built with scalability in mind, providing businesses with the flexibility to grow their infrastructure as their needs evolve. The server supports up to 512GB of memory, which can be easily expanded over time to meet growing demands. Additionally, businesses can scale storage by adding more drives as their data needs increase. The ProLiant DL380’s modular design and flexible expansion options ensure that it can adapt to changing workloads, making it a future-proof investment for organizations of all sizes.