Superior Value Across Different Workloads
The HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade delivers the right performance, scalability, and economics for the converged data center in the new era of compute at lower costs, faster time to value with recent innovations. Provides the flexibility to optimize your core IT applications, with right-sized storage for the right workload lowering TCO, all managed by HPE OneView the converged management platform that accelerates IT service delivery and boosts business performance.
Increased Performance in the Data Center
The HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade delivers up to 21% performance increases with Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors1. HPE DDR4 Smart Memory at 2400 MT/s (up to 2 TB): delivers up to a 33% throughput increase compared to competition2 and 35% lower power consumption than 1.5v DDR3 at the same bin speed. High-end workload acceleration with NVMe SSDs, providing 7x better random performance and 4.5x better sequential performance3. Persistent memory options providing faster transactions for data management and analytics workloads.
More Versatile Than Ever Before
The HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade delivers flexible embedded storage controller options (HPE Smart Array P244br, HPE H244br Smart Host Bus Adapter, or the HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i Controller) and pass through cards (NVMe) to enable the improved TCO for a variety of workloads. Every BL460c Gen9 Server Blade includes USB 3.0, optional dual micro-SD, and optional 64/120 GB M.2 support for a variety of system boot options. Both Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Legacy BIOS modes available for increased configuration and deployment versatility.
Transforming Business Economics by Accelerating Service Delivery
HPE OneView provides the Power of One—a single comprehensive view of the data center, managing hardware, software, firmware, and drivers. HPE Integrated Lights-out (iLO) software features server lifecycle management advancements including iLO Federation, which remotely manages groups of servers at scale with built-in rapid discovery of all iLOs, group configurations, group health status, and ability to determine iLO licenses.
Technical Specifications
Processor family
Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 product family
Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v4 product family
Number of processors
2 or 1
Processor core available
4 or 6 or 8 or 10 or 12 or 14 or 16 or 18 or 20 or 22
Processor cache
10MB L3
15MB L3
20MB L3
25MB L3
30MB L3
35MB L3
40MB L3
45MB L3
50MB L3
55MB L3
Processor speed
3.5GHz
Form factor chassis
Blade
Power supply type
(6) Enclosure-based
Expansion slots
(2) Maximum – For detail descriptions reference the QuickSpecs
Memory, maximum
2TB
Using 128 GB DIMMs, planned release in June 2016
Memory slots
16 DIMM slots
Memory type
DDR4 SmartMemory
Drive description
(2) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD or
(2) SFF NVMe (optional) SSD
System fan features
Hot plug enclosure-based
Network controller
10Gb 536FLB FlexFabric Adapter 2 Ports per controller or
20Gb 650FLB FlexFabric Adapter 2 Ports per controller
Depending on model
Storage controller
H244br Host Bus Adapter or
Smart Array P244br
Depending on model
Infrastructure management
iLO Management (standard), Intelligent Provisioning (standard), iLO Advanced for BladeSystem (optional), HP OneView Adanced (optional), HP Insight Control (optional)
