HP ProLiant BL680c Specification page 9

QuickSpecs
Standard Features
transfers.
VM migration features that enhance flexibility for failover, load balancing, disaster recovery,
and maintenance.
Intel® VT-x Real Mode & Pause Loop Exiting:
Real Mode allows guests to operate in real mode, removing the performance overhead and
complexity of an emulator.
Pause Loop Exiting provides detection of spin locks in guest software and helps avoid lock-
holder preemption to reduce overhead and improve performance
Intel® VT-d (Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O) enables the VMM to assign specific I/O
devices to specific guest OSs improving security and availability.
Mezzanine options and I/O
Optional dual-port Fibre Channel mezzanine cards for redundant SAN connections.
Optional dual-port InfiniBand mezzanine cards for redundant high performance connections.
Six embedded Ethernet adapter ports for redundant LAN connections.
Multiple mezzanine I/O expansion slots each supported multiple data paths routed to redundant
interconnect modules.
Network Adapter Teaming (Bonding) provides network fault tolerance, transmit load balancing, and
switch-assisted load balancing.
Processor/Chipset
Processor Internal Sensors & Thermal Control protection against over-temperature conditions.
Cache parity/ECC protects cache data from accidental data corruption due to particle hits.
Machine Check Architecture (MCA) detects and captures hardware errors such as system bus, ECC,
parity, cache, other.
Enhanced MCA handling & error logging builds upon the original Machine Check Architecture to:
offers more "banks" and increased "resolution" for reporting errors that cause MCA events and 2)
sets check flags for the OS to poll.
External Bus Error Recovery (ECC) enables automatic correction from a single data bit error and
detection of double data error bits on the memory data bus.
Corrupt Data Containment tags faulty data before it is consumed (often called data poisoning) to
limit the impact to the currently running program and to greatly reduce the need to reset the
system.
On-Die Error Protection protects registers from particle hits.
Storage
Four hot-plug SAS/SATA/SSD drive bays.
Integrated HP Smart Array P410i Controller with RAID 0 and 1 standard; optional RAID 1+0, 5, and 6.
Integrated HP Smart Array P410i Controller upgradeable firmware with recovery ROM capability.
HP Smart Array P410i flash backed write cache (FBWC) options to 1GB.
Optional multiple Smart Array RAID mezzanine controllers (with BBWC and FBWC) for direct attach
and shared SAS storage external to the c-Class enclosure.
Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (QPI)
QPI Link Retry restarts as cycle when a failure is detected on the link.
QPI Clock Failover redirects the forwarded clock to one of the two failover clock lanes in the event of
a forwarded clock failure.
QPI Self-Healing enables a QPI link to map a failed lane and downshift from full to ½ width (or ½
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