HPE ProLiant Rack & Tower Servers

ProLiant is bought for iLO and for the certification matrix. Estates standardised on HPE have their firmware baselines, their remote-hands runbooks and their compliance evidence built around iLO, and moving one workload off that stack rarely saves what it costs. The Gen11 rack line runs from the single-socket DL320 through the DL360 at 1U and the DL380 at 2U — the two models that carry most of the world's virtualization — to the AMD EPYC DL345 and DL385, the four-socket DL560 and DL580 for consolidation and in-memory databases, and the ML350 tower where there is no data center to rack into.

There are also ProLiant models that exist for one job. The DL110 Gen11 is built for telco and NEBS Level 3 environments rather than a normal machine room, and the DL380a Gen11 is the variant that takes double-wide accelerators when a standard DL380 will not. Buying either by family name instead of by exact SKU is how the wrong box arrives, so we quote the model and the Gen, not the line.

This page is the ProLiant rack and tower line. HPE's accelerator-first platforms — the Cray XD670 and XD675, the Apollo 6500 — are dense eight-way GPU systems with their own power and fabric design, and we quote those against the workload rather than listing them here.