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Combining concentrated 1U compute power, integrated Lights-Out management, and essential fault tolerance, the HP ProLiant DL360 G6 is optimized for space constrained installations.

Latest Intel 5500 Series Xeon® Processors (Quad-Core and Dual-Core), with choice of DDR3 Registered or Unbuffered DIMMs, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and PCI Express Gen2 technology provide a high performance system, ideal for the full range of scale out applications.

What’s more, the DL360 G6 steps up the fault tolerant in an ultra-dense platform with redundant power, redundant fans, mirrored memory, embedded RAID capability, and full-featured remote Lights-Out management.

I remain a fan of the new DL360 G6 server having played with them since the 850R which became the DL360. It might be an ideal grid device, web server or even virtualization platform for small sites/requirements. The 1u as a platform has moved on a lot (as have the procesor technologies), I wonder if we might see this become what the DL380 became.

By that I mean, due to PCI slot requirements, the need for a RIB card and maybe a few more local disks, the DL380 became more appealing, I had enough slots for my Emulex cards, maybe an additional network card and space for 6 slots). The 1u now with integrated ILO, two slots and more drive support might be just what we’re after if we actually think of what it is we need from a rack server for the average application server, particularly if we’re doing a like for like swap, that DL380G1 might easily be replaced by a DL360 G6.

I’m off to check them out, I wonder what’s changed, the last one I played with was the DL360G3, using full size scsi disks.

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