The HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 occupies a single rack unit but is built around a genuine dual-socket Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 platform, supporting core counts from four up to eighteen per CPU depending on the SKU chosen. Twenty-four DDR4 DIMM slots give a theoretical ceiling of 768 GB, and because the DIMMs are HP SmartMemory, the server can validate module authenticity and report health data back through iLO, which matters when you're mixing memory from different sourcing runs over the server's working life.
Storage is handled through a standard HP Dynamic Smart Array B140i, with the option to step up to a Flexible Smart Array or Smart Host Bus Adapter controller for hardware RAID or pass-through configurations. Backplane choice determines drive count: up to eight SFF or four LFF hot-plug bays, in HDD or SSD form, with a flash-backed write cache option (2 GB DDR3, 14.9 GB/s) on supported P440ar controllers for write-heavy database or transactional workloads. Networking comes via four embedded 1GbE ports plus a FlexibleLOM slot, so 10GbE or converged fabric adapters can be fitted without consuming a PCIe slot outright.
Expansion headroom is respectable for a 1U form factor: up to three PCIe 3.0 slots and support for two single-wide GPUs up to 150 W and 9.5 inches in length, which is enough for entry-level acceleration or graphics-assisted virtual desktop workloads. Management is built around iLO 4 Advanced, HP OneView integration, Intelligent Provisioning, and HP SUM for firmware and driver lifecycle work, all accessible through a documented RESTful interface for scripted deployment at scale.
Typical deployments for this platform include general-purpose virtualisation clusters, departmental database servers, and dense compute nodes for HPC or analytics workloads where power draw and rack space are both constrained. The chassis supports ASHRAE A3/A4 ambient ranges and Platinum Plus power supplies, so it sits comfortably in server rooms without dedicated close-control cooling, not just purpose-built data centres.
Buying this generation refurbished makes sense on its own technical merits rather than as a generic cost play: the Gen9 architecture, iLO 4 management stack, and E5 v3 processor family are mature, well-documented, and still fully capable of running current hypervisors and Linux distributions. Every unit we supply is configured to order rather than pulled as-is from bulk stock, so the CPU pairing, memory footprint, storage controller and drive complement match the workload you're actually deploying, and it ships under our 3 year warranty.
