The new HPE ProLiant Gen10 servers are designed to deliver the right compute for your workload at the right economics.
Gen10 Servers are key to infrastructure modernization, accelerating business insights across a hybrid world of traditional IT, public and private cloud.
The most sold server in the world remains the most versatile workload workhorse in a 2U form.
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MORE FEATURES ABOUT HPE Gen10 SERVERS
New levels of Storage
Most of the servers will have more capacity inside the Gen10 servers compared to the previous generation. For example: DL380 Gen10 will now support up to 30 SFF drives or 19 LFF drives giving you more than 190TB of storage inside a single 2U server. Further is it now possible to connect more NVMe drives per system, up to 20 PCIe SSDs direct connect per system for the faster storage performance. Need more performance? The capacity of NVDIMMs is doubled to 16GB with also more NVDIMMs supported per system. Maximum capacity will be around 1TB in a 2-socket system. Impressive.
New levels of management
Also, the onboard systems management chip ILO got an important upgrade. Besides the typical performance upgrade (double CPU and memory power we see a lot of new features:
- Agentless management: retiring OS-based agents
- RESTful everything: Redfish standards compliancy
- Firmware update technology: update everything through the ILO network for complete out-of-band management
- Better security: see next section for more details
- New ILO Service Port: some models will have a dedicated USB port for ILO so you can connect your laptop directly to the server for diagnostics and troubleshooting
Intelligent Systems Tuning brings more new features inside the Gen10 platform based on Intel Skylake and ILO5 functions to obtain more performance from the system:
- Jitter smoothing: Smooths fluctuations in processor frequency as customers increase performance
- Core boosting: Unique ability to dynamically modulate frequency and performance. It reduces application core charges through greater performance with fewer processor cores
- Workload matching: Custom profiles on ProLiant Server systems match the more common customer workloads, automatically matching internal resources to those typical needs
Finally there is also an update on OneView being version 3.1. I will post another article dedicated on this new update. New levels of Security One of the biggest announcements was the fact that Gen10 is the most secure server in the world.
The ILO chip and the BIOS of the motherboard team up for this new feature called Silicon Root of Trust. HPE-designed logic in iLO chip validates the iLO firmware based on an immutable hardware fingerprint. When the ILO firmware is safe it will validate the System ROM. The digital signature must match or the ROM is not executed. First the iLO firmware is trusted, now the ROM is trusted which gives this Chain of Trust. Finally, the ROM then validates Option ROMs and the OS Bootloader via UEFI Secure Boot. Option ROMs and OS Bootloader are NOT executed if they fail authentication. Of course, what will happen if something is detected? Well recovery is quite simple since ROM and ILO have built-in redundancy.
Background runtime scans are scheduled and can be configured to log only or log and repair automatically (with a safe firmware image). It can be triggered manually as well in case of suspicious behavior. Want to add that HPE also secured their supply chain of all these components. Quite easy since they build these components themselves, but this is the only way you can guarantee full hardware root of trust…
Info from https://www.bitcon.be/hpe-launch-their-next-gen-10-server-platform/
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