QuickSpecs

Upgradeability Up to:
Four (4) processors
Ninety-six (96) DDR3 DIMM slots
Nine (9) PCIe Gen3 expansion slots
Note: PCIe slot availability is dependent on the number of processors installed. Please refer to the
"Expansion slots" section for more details.
Ten (10) SFF internal HDD/SSD drive bays
Four (4) redundant hot-plug power supplies
System Fault
Management and
Diagnostics
HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 offers advanced error recovery, component quarantine, fault tolerance and event
reporting features to enable class-leading availability and rock-solid reliability that businesses can depend
on. The DL580 Gen8 server firmware features advanced machine check architecture and memory fault
tolerance capabilities that customers need for running their mission-critical applications. These advanced
fault management features combine with quality components (HP Qualified Options) and extensive
qualification to provide a high degree of system availability.
HP Advanced Error Recovery
Introduced with the HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8, HP Advanced Error Recovery enables applications to recover
from uncorrectable errors found in processor, cache and memory during execution. The system firmware
works with the operating system and/or hypervisor and/or end-application to enable the optimal recovery
response so that the impact of the error can be avoided or minimized. Where such an error would have
crashed the system in the past, with HP Advanced Error Recovery, the system can continue to function
with limiting the impact of the error to a killed/re-started thread, process and/or virtual machine.
NOTE:
Supported on Intel® E7-4800/8800 based systems only
On select Operating Systems, Hypervisors and end-applications that support Intel Machine Check
Architecture Recovery feature.
Windows Server 2012 R2 and Hyper-V 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012 (requires Microsoft hotfix 2901012) and Hyper-V 2012
Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.4
SLES 11 SP3
HP Memory Quarantine
HP Memory Quarantine Identifies memory regions containing uncorrectable hardware errors by using a
patrol scrubber and isolates the bad memory location before it affects other data. If an error is found, the
hardware attempts to correct it. If the hardware cannot correct the error, the platform firmware notifies
the operating system. Depending on the state of the memory pages associated with the identified memory
region, the OS or hypervisor may take those pages out of the available pool. If the memory pages are
already committed to a virtual machine (VM), the OS or hypervisor may choose to shut down the
associated VM (Guest OS) or cause a Machine Check Exception to the Guest OS. The associated VM (Guest
OS) might in turn close down the affected thread or process or it might shut down on its own. You can
restart the halted VM or process once you replace the bad memory at the server's next maintenance cycle.
NOTE:
Supported on Intel® E7-4800/8800 based systems only
On select Operating Systems, Hypervisors and end-applications that support Machine Check
Architecture Recovery functionality.
QuickSpecs
HP ProLiant DL580 Generation 8 (Gen8)
Standard Features
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