878612-B21

HPE 878612-B21 is a ProLiant DL385 Gen10 CTO Mod-X 8 Small Form Factor Server. It belongs to the ProLiant DL385 10 Server range. Go by the part number. Items like this are routinely identical to look at and specific in what they actually fit.

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. If you are unsure whether this is the right part, give us the model it is going into and we will confirm it. Quotes by the next working day.

878612-B21 is an HPE ProLiant DL385 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 DL385 Gen10 is HPE’s two-socket AMD platform, built for workloads that want a lot of cores and memory channels per rack unit rather than the highest clock speed. It is a 2U rack machine with 2 processor sockets, taking AMD EPYC 7001 or 7002 processors.

To put this into service you will need a processor, memory and drives, plus an operating system.

Storage is 8 x 2.5-inch (small form factor) bays. 2.5-inch drives trade capacity per drive for spindle count.

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:

• Whether you need the second processor. It is not only about cores: on these platforms some memory slots and some PCIe slots are wired to the second socket and stay inert until it is populated, so a one-processor build is cheaper but caps both memory bandwidth and expansion.
• Drive carriers. ProLiant bays take HPE carriers, so bare drives bought separately will not simply slide in.

Mod-X refers to HPE’s modular chassis arrangement for this generation, which is what lets the same base server be ordered with different drive cage configurations.

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.