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When HP launched its fifth generation of ProLiant servers last year, we brought you exclusive reviews of three of the choice models from the range. Among these was the DL380 G5 (web ID: 97777), which HP still claims is the world’s most popular rack server. So what’s been improved since then?

Naturally, quad-core Xeons are on the menu, with the review system sporting a pair of 2.33GHz Xeon 5345 modules. These are located over to the left of the motherboard, specifically so they can reap the benefits of the large air grille in the front panel. Each module is topped off with a solid passive heatsink, which is held in place by a large clamp and lever assembly, making it easy to remove and replace them. Alongside the processors is a bank of eight DIMM sockets, allowing the server to be upgraded to a maximum of 32GB of FB-DIMM memory.

I was having a chat with a colleague who works in Canary Wharf and he’d mentioned that the company he’d been working for had started buying DL380G5 servers to replace some of their systems, the object being to reduce their hardware support costs.

He’d mentioned that they’d found in some cases the DL380G5 had been good enough to replace some of their older Compaq Proliant and DL380/580G1 servers. Obviously it depended on the role and what it was doing.

If you take a walk around the typical data center on a purely space issue, you could easily take those larger rack servers and consolidate on to their newer less powerful equivalents due to the improvements in processor technology, the server system bus and memory. Where as before a 4x700MHz box was needed for your application, you might easily find it be replaced by a newer dual processor server and still offer improved performance per watt.

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