HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 1U rack server 2× Xeon E5-2643v3 3.4GHz 96GB DDR4 H240ar 4 LFF

Dense 1U compute platform

The HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 packs dual Xeon E5-2643v3 processors and 96GB of DDR4 into a single rack unit. Four LFF drive bays and an H240ar controller provide local storage capacity for databases or virtualisation hosts. Redundant 500W supplies keep the platform running through a power-module failure.

Upgrade from single-socket or lower-core servers

Moving from a single-CPU system to two six-core 3.4GHz Xeons doubles the thread count to 24 with hyper-threading. The jump is worth it when workloads exceed the memory ceiling of a 12-slot board, because this chassis offers 24 DIMM positions and a 3TB maximum. Buyers who need more than four 3.5-inch drives or a GPU accelerator will need a wider chassis.

Sustained load behaviour

Under continuous demand the dual 3.4GHz CPUs maintain their base frequency while the redundant power supplies share the load. The H240ar handles 12Gb SAS and 6Gb SATA traffic across RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 without a battery-backed cache, so write throughput depends on the drives installed. The embedded 331i four-port 1Gb Ethernet adapter provides steady network connectivity for storage replication or cluster heartbeats.