General Dimm Slot Population Guidelines - HP ProLiant DL380p User Manual

Online Spare memory configuration
Online spare memory provides protection against degraded DIMMs by reducing the likelihood of
uncorrected memory errors. This protection is available without any operating system support.
Online spare memory protection dedicates one rank of each memory channel for use as spare memory. The
remaining ranks are available for OS and application use. If correctable memory errors occur at a rate
higher than a specific threshold on any of the non-spare ranks, the server automatically copies the memory
contents of the degraded rank to the online spare rank. The server then deactivates the failing rank and
automatically switches over to the online spare rank.
Lockstep memory configuration
Lockstep mode provides protection against multi-bit memory errors that occur on the same DRAM device.
Lockstep mode can correct any single DRAM device failure on x4 and x8 DIMM types. The DIMMs in each
channel must have identical HP part numbers.

General DIMM slot population guidelines

Observe the following guidelines for all AMP modes:
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Install DIMMs only if the corresponding processor is installed.
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When two processors are installed, balance the DIMMs across the two processors.
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White DIMM slots denote the first slot of a channel (Ch 1-A, Ch 2-B, Ch 3-C, Ch 4-D).
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Do not mix LRDIMMs, UDIMMs, or RDIMMs.
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Do not install more than two UDIMMs per channel. UDIMMs should not be installed in slots Ch 1-I, Ch
2-J, Ch 3-K, or Ch 4-L.
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When two processors are installed, install the DIMMs in sequential alphabetical order balanced
between the two processors: P1-A, P2-A, P1-B, P2-B, P1-C, P2-C, and so on.
For detailed memory configuration rules and guidelines, use the Online DDR3 Memory Configuration Tool
on the HP website (http://www.hp.com/go/ddr3memory-configurator).
DIMM speeds are supported as indicated in the following table.
Populated slots
(per channel)
1
1
2
3
Advanced ECC population guidelines
For Advanced ECC mode configurations, observe the following guidelines:
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Observe the general DIMM slot population guidelines (on page 51).
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DIMMs may be installed individually.
Rank
Single- or dual-rank
Quad-rank
Single- or dual-rank
Single- or dual-rank
Speeds supported (MT/s)
1333, 1600
1333
1333
1066
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