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The DL580 G7 uses HP’s leading “Sea of Sensors” technology to track and manage the temperature and health of
both individual subsystems and field-replaceable units (FRU). At a reduced level of power and noise, a set of four
redundant (3+1) fans run efficiently and cool the DL580 G7 reliably.
The reliability, serviceability, and manageability features in the server have improved with the development of
components, interconnect fault tolerance, structured design and validation as well as the renewed ProLiant iLO3
system management processor.
In the server chassis, the eight front-serviceable small form factor (SFF) drive bays offer a low-latency solution for hot-
plug RAID disk drives and solid-state drives. The support for external drives gives you additional storage capacity
for direct-attached, network-attached, or SAN-attached solutions.
Environments for the DL580 G7
The DL580 G7 is ideal for the following environments:
Server Consolidation and Virtualization–Within a virtual environment, the DL580 G7’s high-bandwidth and large
memory footprint speed the execution of multiple applications.
Large Enterprise Database–The server’s multiple processor cores provide the performance necessary for mining
large databases for information. (The closer the memory’s database to the processor, the shorter is the time to
access the data.)
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)–The DL580 G7’s large memory footprint efficiently utilizes VDI thin clients.
(Each client requires approximately 4 GB of memory.) The server’s high I/O capacity allows many VDI clients to
move a large amount of small data packet traffic.
Web Hosting–The DL580 G7’s memory footprint optimally meets the memory requirements and demands of web-
hosted applications.
High Performance Numeric Computing– The DL580 G7 easily handles the high I/O bandwidth requirements of
these applications through its support of up to three double-wide x16 General- Purpose Computing on Graphics
Processing Units (GPGPUs). The GPGPUs offload repetitive floating-point applications (numeric computing
intensive, high precision arithmetic). GPGPUs have a 10x floating point advantage over processors.
Operating systems and Virtualization software
The HP ProLiant DL580 G7 supports the following operating systems and virtualization software:
Microsoft Windows Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
Oracle Solaris
VMware
Citrix XenServer
For more information on HP's Certified and Supported ProLiant Servers for OS and Virtualization Software and for
the latest listing of software drivers available for your server, see our Support Matrix at www.hp.com/go/ossupport
and our driver download page at www.hp.com/support/DL580G7.
Comparison between the DL580 G7 and DL580 G5 servers
The DL580 G7 offers multiple enhancements:
Processors—With the introduction of the new Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 series, the DL580 G7 supports up to 40
cores and 80 hyperthreads (10 cores/20 threads and 30MB shared cache per processor). This allows for