872305-B21

HPE 872305-B21 is an ML110 Gen10 4LFF NHP CTO Server. It belongs to the ProLiant ML110 Gen9/10 Servers range. Matching on sight is unreliable here. The part number is what determines whether it will work in a given chassis.

What to check before you buy. Three things decide whether a server will suit the job. The generation, because the processors, memory and controllers that fit one generation generally do not fit the next even where the chassis looks identical. The drive configuration, because a chassis built for small form factor disks cannot take large form factor ones without a different cage and backplane. And how it is specified to be populated, since a second processor usually needs its own heatsink and may enable memory slots that are otherwise unusable. It is also worth asking what is physically included: rails, bezel, drive carriers and the remote management licence are all commonly sold separately from the chassis.

How we supply it. Supplied new where available, otherwise as tested stock with warranty, subject to availability. Quote the equipment it is for when you ask and we will verify the fit first. We come back by the next working day.

872305-B21 is an HPE ProLiant ML110 Gen10 supplied as a configure-to-order chassis. It is not a working server as it ships: there is no processor, no memory and no drives in the box. You specify those separately, which is the point of buying it this way.

The ML110 Gen10 is a single-socket tower aimed at a first server, a branch office or a quiet corner of a small office. It is a 4.5U tower machine with 1 processor socket, taking Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

To put this into service you will need a processor, memory and drives, plus an operating system. The processor is not included as standard.

Storage is 4 x 3.5-inch (large form factor) bays. These are non-hot-plug bays: replacing a drive means shutting the server down first, which is worth knowing before it goes into a role that cannot take downtime. Large form factor bays take the highest-capacity drives, which is what you want when the job is bulk storage rather than transactions.

There are 6 DIMM slots for RDIMM DDR4.

Expansion runs to 5 PCIe slots with networking from the Embedded 2-Port 1GbE HPE Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 332i Adapter.

The fans are non-redundant, which means a fan failure is a service event rather than something the server rides out.

Management is HPE iLO with Intelligent Provisioning, which gives you remote console, power control and health monitoring independently of the installed operating system.

Worth getting right when you specify one of these:

• How you populate the 6 DIMM slots. Filling them evenly across the memory channels matters more than the total figure — the same capacity spread correctly is measurably faster than the same capacity in too few slots.
• Drive carriers. ProLiant bays take HPE carriers, so bare drives bought separately will not simply slide in.

Green Code Technologies supplies HPE ProLiant servers from stock in the UK. If you want this quoted as a complete build — processor, memory, drives and controller specified for the workload you have in mind — ask us and we will put the configuration together and confirm it against HPE’s QuickSpecs before you order.