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HP Apollo 4200 Gen10 Plus (ProLiant XL420 Gen10 Plus)

A 2U density-optimized storage/compute server (motherboard name ProLiant XL420 Gen10 Plus) built for deep data lakes, archive/backup, HCI and analytics workloads, with up to 24 LFF or 48 SFF hot-plug drive bays and dual 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

Memory

Type
HPE DDR4 Smart Memory, Registered (RDIMM) or Load Reduced (LRDIMM)
Slots
24 (12 per processor, 8 channels per processor, 2-2-1-1 deployment)
Max (LRDIMM)
3.072 TB (24 × 128 GB LRDIMM @ 3200 MT/s)
Max (RDIMM)
1.536 TB (24 × 64 GB RDIMM @ 3200 MT/s)
Max (HPE Persistent Memory)
4.0 TB (8 × 512 GB modules)

Storage

Standard drive cages
24 LFF SAS/SATA or 48 SFF SAS/SATA hot-plug
Optional cage 3
4 LFF or 8 SFF SAS/SATA/NVMe U.3 x4 tri-mode (SSD only)
Optional cages 4 / 5 (rear)
2 SFF or 2 LFF SAS/SATA, or 2 SFF NVMe U.3 x4 tri-mode hot-plug
Example max capacity
480 TB (24 × 20 TB LFF SAS/SATA HDD, standard cage)
Essential RAID controllers
HPE Smart Array E208i-a, E208i-p, E208e-p SR Gen10
Performance RAID controllers
HPE Smart Array P408i-a, P408i-p, P408e-p, P816i-a SR Gen10 (require separately sold Smart Storage Battery or Smart Hybrid Capacitor)
Tri-mode controller
HPE SR932i-p Gen10 Plus (PE80xx NVMe drives not supported)
Boot device
HPE NS204i-p x2 Lanes NVMe PCIe3 x8 OS boot device
Hard drives standard
None ship standard

Graphics

Integrated
Up to 1920×1200 @ 60 Hz (32 bpp), 16 MB video memory
Accelerators
Planned upgrade support for select GPU and FPGA accelerators

Expansion

Primary riser, Slot 1
PCIe 4.0 x16 (x16 connector), full-height half-length — CPU 1
Primary riser, Slot 2
PCIe 4.0 x8 (x8 connector), full-height half-length — CPU 1
Primary riser, Slot 3
Power-only, or PCIe 4.0 x16 with 2SFF tri-mode drive cage 4 kit — CPU 1
Secondary riser, Slots 4–5
PCIe 4.0 x16 / x8, full-height half-length — CPU 2
Tertiary riser, Slots 6–7
PCIe 4.0 x16 / x8, full-height half-length — CPU 2 (Slots 6–7 shared with optional 2SFF tri-mode drive cage 5)
Network
1 × OCP NIC 3.0 slot; no embedded (LOM) networking — choice of OCP 3.0 or stand-up adapter required

Power

Supplies
HPE Flex Slot 800 W / 1000 W Platinum or Titanium; 1600 W Platinum; 1800–2200 W Titanium, hot-plug, redundant (up to 2)
Input
100–120 VAC or 200–240 VAC (1600 W supplies require 200–240 VAC only)

Ports

Front
1 × iLO Service Port, 1 × USB 3.0
Rear
2 × USB 3.0, 1 × VGA, 1 × iLO dedicated 1 Gb management port, 1 × optional serial port
Internal
1 × USB 3.0

Physical

Dimensions (H × W × D)
87.5 × 448.0 × 837.90 mm (3.44 × 17.63 × 33.00 in)
Weight
17.21–48.35 kg (37.95–106.61 lb)
Form factor
2U rack
Fans
5 hot-plug dual-rotor fan modules, standard

Management

BMC
HPE iLO 5 ASIC (32 MB flash, 4 Gbit DDR3 with ECC)
System board
HPE ProLiant XL420 Gen10 Plus Server (motherboard name; product name remains Apollo 4200 Gen10 Plus)
Tools
UEFI (Class 2), Intelligent Provisioning, iLO RESTful API (Redfish-conformant), HPE OneView Standard/Advanced, iLO Amplifier Pack, HPE SIM
Security
UEFI Secure Boot/Secure Start, Silicon Root of Trust, FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria, TPM 2.0 option, Secure Recovery, iLO Advanced Premium Security

Operating systems

Supported
Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022, 2025; VMware vSphere 7.0 U2/U3, 8.0, 8.0 U1/U2/U3; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9, 8.2, 9.0; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5, 15 SP2; Canonical Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS

Processors

  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8352Y
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8352M
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6354
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6346
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6338
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6336Y
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6334
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6330
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6326
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6314U
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6312U
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5320
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5317
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5315Y
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4316
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4314
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4310
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y