HP ProLiant Servers – The next generation…
According to some of our industry sources, the next generation of ProLiant servers, the successors to the current G7 series, will be known as Gen8. We’re not sure why HP fancied a change from the norm for the next series, as we would have expected ‘G8′ to be more in line with the previous generations.
However, we have heard that all ProLiant Gen8 servers will feature iLO 4 – or Integrated Lights-Out 4 – to give it it’s full name. The iLO 4 management system will bring a range of new features and improvements over iLO 3.
Although we have not been given a release date, we can speculate that ProLiant Gen8 servers will be released sooner rather than later as they will feature CPU’s that are backward compatible with the current G7 series servers.
All HP ProLiant Gen8 Servers will be available to configure on our iQuote hardware configuration tool, watch this space for more details as soon as we have them.
Looks like the Gen8′s are nearly ready to go.
Bit of Googling shows some results coming through, looks they’re likely going to be called DL360p Gen8′s, coming with embedded P420i disk controllers, E5-2620/E5-2640/E5-2660 processors and 16GB/32GB ram? The BL460c Gen8 looks to be getting a E5-2660 proc,64GB of ram and a P220i controller in at least one of it’s forms.
Hurry up and release them already!