HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen9 CTO Rack Server

The refurbished HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen9 Server is the 4S enterprise standard x86 server offering commanding performance, rock-solid reliability and availability, and compelling consolidation and virtualization efficiencies. Supporting Intel Xeon E7-4800/8800 v4/v3 processors, the DL580 Gen9 Server offers enhanced processor performance, up to 6 TBs of memory, greater IO bandwidth (9 PCIe Gen 3.0 slots), and 12 Gb/s of SAS speeds.

The HP ProLiant DL580 Gen9 Server is ideal for mission-critical enterprise, business intelligence, and database applications. This server can handle your most demanding workloads, business data, and advanced analytical tasks— while freeing IT teams to focus on innovations for your business.

What's New for DL580 Gen9

• New 128GB memory
• HPE Lockstep memory mode FIO setting
• HPE 2.4TB SAS 12G Enterprise 10K SFF SC 512e DSF HDD

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Commanding Performance and Scalability

The HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen9 Server provides up to 26% increased processor performance with Intel Xeon E7-4800/8800 v4/v3 processors than the previous generation.

HPE SmartMemory prevents data loss and downtime with enhanced error handling. Support of up to 6 TB DDR4 max capacity (96 DIMM slots) with speeds up to 2400MHz with up to 23% performance gain. Ideal for large-scale in-memory computing and virtualization.

Comes standard with nine FL/FH PCIe 3.0 slots for GPGPUs and choice of HPE FlexibleLOM or PCIe standup 1GbE, 10GbE or InfiniBand Adapters provide you flexibility of networking bandwidth and fabric so you can adapt and grow to changing business needs.

Faster access to your data with the redesigned HPE Flexible Smart Array and HPE Smart SAS HBA Controllers allow you the flexibility to choose the optimal 12 Gb/s SAS controller most suited to your environment. Additional support for HPE NVMe Mixed Use and Write Intensive PCIe Workload Accelerators.

Rock-solid Availability and Reliability

The HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen9 Server provides increased system availability and less need for service with advanced error recovery, error diagnosis, and built-in redundancy; all features of the DL580 Server Comprehensive Fault Management and Diagnostics.

Improved reliability and data protection with HPE Smart Array Controllers featuring HPE Secure Encryption and Advanced Data Mirroring, and HPE SmartDrive technology.
Increased security with four new levels of Secure Boot with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) mode.

HPE Proactive Care Services helps customers prevent problems before they occur by integrating uptime and productivity into a personalized, simplified support experience.

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HPE DL580 Gen9 Base Knowledge

The HPE DL580 Gen9 Rack Server by HPE is a 4U up to 4 Socket system. The DL580 Gen9 holds up to 96 DDR4 DIMMs and 4 PSUs. This system needs at least the following to run.

• A minimum of two processors are required
• Can support two, three, or four processors installed.
• A minimum of two memory cartridges are required (one per processor).
• A minimum of two memory DIMMs are required per cartridge (minimum of 2 DIMMs per processor).
• A minimum of two power supplies are required.

The DL580 Gen9 supports the Intel® Xeon® E7-4800/8800v3 and v4 Processor Family. Mixing different processor models is not supported.

Support for 96 DDR4 Registered (RDIMM) or Quad Rank Load Reduced (LRDIMM). LRDIMM and RDIMM are distinct memory technologies and cannot be mixed within a server. The system holds 8 Memory Cartridges and each cartridge can hold up to 12 DIMMs. To install more cartridges, use the HPE DL580 Gen9 12 DDR4 DIMM Slots Memory Cartridge (788360-B21).

• Maximum Capacity 12TB (96 x 128GB)

New on the DL580 Gen9 server is the protection against memory errors with the HPE Lockstep memory setting. Lockstep mode provides protection against multi-bit memory errors that occur on the same DRAM device. Lockstep mode can correct any single DRAM device failure on x4 and x8 DIMM types. The DIMMs in each channel must have identical HP part numbers.

HPE DL580 Gen9 Maximum Internal Storage
Internal SAS lower and upper backplanes support up to ten SFF hard disk drives or solid-state drives or Express Bays (NVMe drives). To add a drive Bay or to add a second drive bay you will need the HPE ProLiant DL580 5 Small Form Factor Drive Backplane Cage Kit (739405-B21). If you don’t plan to fill all the drive slots. Use the HPE Small Form Factor Hard Drive Blank Kit (666987-B21).

• Hot Plug SFF SAS 24TB (10 x 2.4TB)
• Hot Plug SFF SAS SSD 4TB (10 x 3.84TB)
• Hot Plug SFF SATA SSD 4TB (10 x 3.84TB)
• Hot Plug SFF NVMe PCIe SSD 8TB (5 x 1.6TB)

The DL580 Gen9 has very limited Drive configurations. Below are the different drive setups.

• 5 Drives = 5 SFF HDD/SSD SAS drive bays
• 10 Drives = 10 SFF HDD/SSD SAS drive bays
• 10 Drives = 5 SFF NVMe + 5 SFF HDD/SSD drive bays

Dual microSD USB option kit also available (741279-B21).

HPE DL580 Gen9 NVMe Drives
The DL580 Gen9 comes with two Drive Bays. One 5 Drive Bay on the bottom as standard and another 5 Drive Bay on top of the 4 Fans. The NVMe Drives can only be installed on the top drive bay. To support NVMe PCIe SSDs you need to select the SSD Express Bay Kit(788359-B21), maximum of 5 drives supported.

HPE DL580 Gen9 M.2
There was no mention of M.2 drive in any of the Spec sheets.

HPE DL580 Gen9 PCI Risers
HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen9 servers offer a dedicated FlexibleLOM slot, which offers customers a choice of 1Gb, 10Gb, or 10Gb base-T Ethernet or converged networking in their embedded adapter.
PCIe slot availability is dependent on the number of processors installed, view the table below for details. Up to 9 slots supported; all full-length/full-height. All slots support PCIe cards to 150W or more depending on the card but an additional Power Cord Option is required (PN 669777-B21).

Expansion Slots #	Technology	Bus Width	Connector Width	Bus Number	Form Factor	Notes
1	PCIe 3.0	x16	x16	C0/03/0	Full-length / Full-height	Proc 4
2		x16		C0/02/0		Proc 4
3		x16		80/03/0		Proc 3
4		x8		80/02/0		Proc 3
5		x8		80/02/1		Proc 3
6		x16		40/03/0		Proc 2
7		x8		40/02/0		Proc 2
8		x8		40/02/1		Proc 2
9		x16		00/03/0		Proc 1

HPE DL580 Gen9 Cooling
The DL580 Gen9 comes with 4 Hot Plug Fans (eight rotors with N+1 redundancy) as standard. The only other cooling option you have on the DL580 Gen9 HPE Rack Server is if you install a Graphics Card. If you do install a Graphics Card you will also need the HPE DL580Gen9 M60 Reverse Air Flow Cable Kit (869724-B21).

HPE DL580 Gen9 GPU / Workload Accelerator
Up to 4 cards are supported on the DL580 Gen9. Supporting a multiple number of cards on the DL580 Gen9 blocks some active IO cards as follows due to space constraints:

• For 2P config: Max of 2 double-wide cards installed on slot 6 and slot 9 (slot 8 is blocked).
• For 3P config: Max of 3 double-wide cards installed on slot 3, slot 6, and slot 9 (slot 5 and slot 8 are blocked).
• For 4P config: Max of 4 double wide cards installed on Slot 1, Slot 3, Slot 6, and Slot 9 (slot 5 and slot 8 are blocked).

When installing Graphics Cards you must also install the HPE DL580Gen9 M60 Reverse Air Flow Cable Kit (869724-B21)

HPE DL580 Gen9 Common Slot your power!
A minimum of two (2) power supplies are required. Four (4) 1500W power supplies offers N+Nredundancy for highly loaded configurations. Mixing of power supplies in the same server is not supported. All power supplies must be of the same output and efficiency rating. If non-matched power supplies are inserted you will get errors and the operation will fail.

HPE DL580 Gen9 Lights Out! iLO

HPE Integrated Lights-Out (HPE iLO) - Monitor your servers for ongoing management, service alerting, reporting, and remote management with HPE iLO.
UEFI - Configure and boot your servers securely with industry-standard Unified Extensible
Firmware Interface (UEFI).
RESTful API - RESTful API for iLO 4 is Redfish 1.0 conformance for simplified server management such as configuration and maintenance tasks based on modern industry standards.
Intelligent Provisioning – Hassle-free server and OS provisioning for 1 or few servers with Intelligent Provisioning.
Embedded Remote Support - The Hewlett Packard Enterprise embedded remote support when used with Insight Online direct connect or HPE Insight Remote Support, allows HPE ProLiant servers to transmit hardware events directly to Hewlett Packard Enterprise or a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Partner for automated phone home support.
Lockstepmode:In this mode, the memory controller operates two DDR4 channels behind one memorybuffer as single channel and the SMI2 channel operates at the DDR4 transfer rate (1866 MT/s max).