The DL380 G4 extends its history of design excellence with enterprise-class uptime and manageability, proven 2-way Intel Xeon performance, and 2U density for a variety of rack... more...deployments and applications.
The HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Storage Server benefits customers by adding increased storage ... more
management functionality and data protection, performance enhancements and print services allowing customers to take control of their storage requirements. The HP...
The HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Storage Server benefits customers by adding increased storage ... more
management functionality and data protection, performance enhancements and print services allowing customers to take control of their storage requirements.
The HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Storage Server benefits customers by adding increased storage ... more
management functionality and data protection, performance enhancements and print services allowing customers to take control of their storage requirements.
The HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Storage Server benefits customers by adding increased storage ... more
management functionality and data protection, performance enhancements and print services allowing customers to take control of their storage requirements. The HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Storage Server is a network attached storage (NAS) solution delivering quick and simple storage with multi-protocol file support and storage management for the enterprise and workgroups environment and requires limited IT knowledge. The DL380 Storage Server is both appliance and NAS/SAN fusion storage solution that offers ease of installation and management features that reduce overall total cost of ownership (TCO). The DL380 Storage Server is ideal for customers with limited IT resources and need quick, simple, rapidly deployable, flexible storage and who need remote manageability. The DL380 Storage Server uses Microsoft's Windows Storage Server 2003 operating system. It provides excellent storage management, data protection, performance tuning and print services allowing customers to manage their storage efficiently. Plus, it comes with HP Global Services, providing cost-effective support to ensure continuous availability.
Advantages: High Density, excellent availabilty Disadvantages: Default SmartArray5i does not have option to add battery cache
We have 12 of these machines, all with dual 2.8Ghz Xeons. The thing I like most about them is that almost everything is hot-plug. From the drives, to the fans, power supplies to the pci cards. Opening the top cover leads to an incredibly well laid out system. PCI cards can be installed and de-installed (assuming the OS supports it) while the system is up and running. I'd highly recommend you invest in the redundant fan option kit. If you're installing another processor then you really need to have this.
On a downside, the only thing that springs to mind is there is no front USB port available. With floppy discs disapppearing these days, it would have been nice. HP seem to have realised this and on the G4 servers there is now a front USB, and no floppy drive.
Managability wise these servers are fantastic. We went from using ...
Advantages: Slimline, only takes a few U's in the Rack. very reliable. Disadvantages: The new HP Smartstart is not as easy to understand as the original version.
For those of you who aren't aware HP have taken over Compaq and rebadged compaq Servers with the HP badge.
This is just an upgrade to the Compaq Proliant DL380G2.
You are still getting one of the most reliable servers in the industry for the right price.
They have also rectified the problem on the last model where there was only 4 bays for hard disks , there are now 6 bays, a FDD and a CD drive.
The server is a slimline model and for those of you who rack their servers, this is ideal as it only takes a few U in the rack.
I have built several of these without any real problems and all have been stable once built.
The only critisimn I can make is that Smartstart, a compaq utility to assist you in building these servers, has been rebadged, HP smartstart and given an overall and so far im not impressed, the screens don ...
Advantages: Reliable well-built stable high-quality HP Disadvantages: Expensive
As part of my job I build, configure and maintain servers for small to medium sized business so have used a wide range of servers on a regular basis.
The Proliant ML370 G4 like most HP servers is generally a well constructed, reliable server computer. I have used the lightning fast dual Xeon 3.02GHz version with standard 1GB of PC2-3200 DDR2 and as you might expect it runs quite nicely. The server case is quite robust and fits nicely into your rack if you put it together correctly!
Our ML370 is currently running Windows 2003 SBS, Exchange 2003, BizTrack, Navision with still plently of processing power left over. Based on 50 users constantly access files over the network, emailing and using SQL server heavily it still seems to show room for expansion alongside the growth of the business. If you are considering using Terminal ...
The DL380 G4 extends its history of design excellence with enterprise-class uptime and manageability, proven 2-way Intel Xeon performance, and 2U density for a variety of rack deployments and applications.
