The HP ProLiant BL280c G6 is the most versatile product in the BladeSystem scale-out server portfolio. With outstanding dual-processor performance and price per watt, the BL280c helps reduce overall data center power consumption while maintaining high performance. The latest Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors offer significant enhancements in both performance and power regulation to help high performance computing environments effectively manage their workloads. Also, the new low voltage DDR3 memory technology provides excellent bandwidth and lowers energy consumption. Overall, the BL280c offers customers the latest technology for improved power efficiency and performance optimization.

High performance and efficiency

Supports up to two Intel® Standard or Low Voltage Six-Core, Quad-Core, or Dual-Core Xeon® 5600 and 5500 series processors

Up to 192 GB of DDR3 Registered or Unregistered DIMMS to memory intensive applications

Support for Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors

Supports mezzanine expansion slots for I/O options such as multi-function gigabit NICs, standard NICs and Fibre Channel cards, which greatly improves I/O bandwidth and data throughput with additional levels of uptime

Support for HP NC553m 10Gb 2-port FlexFabric Converged Network Adapter

Choose up to two non-hot plug small form factor high performance serial attached SCSI (SAS) drives or lower cost serial ATA (SATA) drives

Support for HP 16GB Dual Rank x4 PC3L-10600 (DDR3-1333) Registered CAS-9 Low Power Memory Kit

Simple, flexible feature set for system optimization

Simple feature set makes it easy to customize server nodes that only support one application

Exceptional price per watt delivers data center savings over the lifetime of the server

HP ProLiant Onboard Administrator streamlines data center management applications and allows quick deployment of servers

Insight Control suite delivers comprehensive management for HP BladeSystem including hardware resource deployment, health and performance monitoring, software version control, and vulnerability scanning and patch management

Industry-leading management tools

Conserve valuable IT resources and time by centralizing and simplifying management functions with ProLiant Onboard Administrator

HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem-Additional iLO features with power capping, power regulator reporting, scripted multi-server virtual media and additional enterprise security

Insight Control suite is an integrated suite of software that simplifies the provisioning and management of HP BladeSystem infrastructures