Hey, HPEStorageGuy Calvin Zito and I'm gonna venture out of my storage space a
little bit. We're gonna look at ProLiant servers today and we're gonna do a
walk-through of a couple of different ProLiant servers. We're gonna look
at the DL160 and DL180. Steven you're gonna help me do this, why don't you introduce
yourself everybody? I'm Steven Chatham. I managed the tower product
management team. And tell me a little bit about just who we are trying to target with
these two servers, the 160 and 180. The DL160 and 180 are really part of our
100 series line which we call the "Right Size" level server, targeting
performance, efficiency, and management at the right size level. We really target
small-medium business customers those that are really looking for on-premises
capabilities; both servers actually provide the Right Size level of
capability but the 180 actually allows customers to expand where they need more
storage. OK! How about if we do a walk-through and take a look. Great!
So this is the ProLiant DL180. Why don't you just give us a high level, point out
what we're looking at here inside the DL180. Ok. Let's start with the processor.
This is a 2p processor system; it's actually a 2p/2U in terms of form
factor. It has 16 DIMM slots so you can see 8 DIMMs per CPU. You can
also see in the front of the system here we actually had come standard with three
system level fans. And the different the big difference between the 180 and
the 160 is really a storage capability. So if you look at the front of this
particular server, you can see it has 8 small form-factor drives. It also has the
capability to expand to 8 large form factors so you've got increased density
in terms of small form factor versus large form factor. Small form factor will
get you 9.6 TB of data whereas eight large form factor
will get you 32 TB of data. And we have the DL160 right next to it
this looks like it's limited to just a small form-factor so eight small
form-factor drives in the 160. It will actually support 4 large form factor,
8 small form factor so half the density is essentially is what we have
here. Let's keep looking over at this one. So if you look back in the back of
the chassis here, you'll see a couple of things. First of all you see the riser;
this actually has multiple different offerings on the riser so I would
suggest customers who are interested in understanding the different
configurations for the risers to go look at the product level QuickSpecs. But it
actually has six PCIe slots all of them ready x8 performance levels and in
depending upon the flexibility of what you're looking for, there's some
additional capacity there. There's also a little slot here which is for a FlexLOM
so that gives you capability of putting a FlexLOM down there. Now in the
rear here you'll see it has a redundant power supply capability. This is up to
500 Watts redundancy, hot-swappable as well.
It is 94% platinum efficiency on the power. On the left here, this is part of
our storage controller. This is a battery backup cache capability here so
when you get the storage controller, you also have some capability in case
you have a total system failure. Some backup there as well.
Ok and just to summarize, we're not going to open it up and have you
talk me through it but the big difference with
the DL160 comes down to the PCIe slots and the storage capacity.
Everything else is the same: CPU, memory slots. Exactly! Everything else is the
same there. Now again I mentioned there were six PCIe slots here. That's based on two CPUs
in there. Same thing on the 160: you get two PCIe slots off of
CPU 1 and then the third one off of CPU2. And then of course these are
part of our Gen 10 portfolio which comes with our standard iLO5.
Our iLO5 capability - so our most secure industry standard server
providing you with the capability. Silicon Root of Trust!
I've got that nailed into my brain! Exactly! Detect, protect, and restore
capabilities so these all part of that product family as well.
I don't know about you but when I'm at trade shows, I don't see monsters dancing. It's kind of
weird but beyond that we want to help our customers find more about HPE
ProLiant. Where can they find more information on our website?
Well, the easiest place to do is to hpe.com/info/ProLiant. Well I
appreciate you taking the time to show me the walkthrough of the DL160 and DL180
and thanks a lot for your help today. Thank you!