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HP Apollo 6500 Gen10 (ProLiant XL270d Gen10)

A 4U, up to 8-GPU HPC/deep-learning server (motherboard name ProLiant XL270d Gen10) with a choice of NVLink SXM2 or PCIe GPU modules, up to two 1st/2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and up to four high-speed fabric adapters.

Memory

Type
HPE DDR4 SmartMemory, Registered (RDIMM) or Load Reduced (LRDIMM)
Slots
24 (12 per processor, 6 channels per processor, 2 DIMMs per channel)
Max (LRDIMM)
3.0 TB (24 × 128 GB LRDIMM @ 2666/2933 MHz)
Max (RDIMM)
1.5 TB (24 × 64 GB RDIMM @ 2933 MHz)
Notes
Mixing RDIMM and LRDIMM is not supported; DDR4-2933 kits require 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable

Storage

Drive bays
Up to 16 SFF SAS/SATA/NVMe hot-plug (two HPE DL38X Gen10 Premium 6 SFF + 2 NVMe drive cages); none ship standard
M.2
2 × M.2, none ship standard (shares embedded SATA ports)
Software RAID
HPE Smart Array S100i SR Gen10 (UEFI only, off by default, Windows only)
Embedded
Embedded AHCI controller for SATA/M.2
Performance RAID controllers
HPE Smart Array P408i-a, P408i-p, P408e-p, P816i-a SR Gen10 (require separately sold HPE Smart Storage Battery)
Fibre Channel HBAs
HPE StoreFabric SN1200E/SN1600E (Emulex), SN1100Q/SN1600Q/SN1610Q (QLogic), 16–32 Gb, single/dual port
Max capacity example
244 TB (16 × 15.3 TB SFF SAS SSD)

Graphics

Integrated
Up to 1920×1200 @ 60 Hz (32 bpp), 16 MB video memory
GPU accelerators
Up to 8 SXM2 NVLink GPU (300 GB/s interconnect) or PCIe GPU modules; NVIDIA Quadro RTX6000/RTX8000 and up to 12 × Tesla T4 supported (Tesla T4 low-profile, uses fabric-adapter PCIe slots)

Expansion

System board
1 × PCIe 3.0 x16, full-height half-length (Proc 2)
SXM2 GPU module
4 × PCIe 3.0 x16, full-height half-length (2 on Proc 1, 2 on Proc 2)
PCIe GPU module
4 × PCIe 3.0 x16, low-profile; topology (4:1 or 8:1 per CPU root complex) selected in BIOS
GPU topology
8 GPU: single fixed topology (NVLink Hybrid Cube Mesh); 4 GPU: factory-installed Topology A (fully connected) or Topology B (higher CPU/memory bandwidth) FIO kits
Fabric adapters
Up to 4; HPE InfiniBand EDR/HDR 100/200 Gb, InfiniBand HDR100/Ethernet, Intel Omni-Path 100 Gb OP101 adapters

Power

Supplies
HPE 2200 W Platinum Hot Plug Power Supply Kit, 80 PLUS Platinum, 2 standard, up to 4
Input
200–240 VAC

Ports

Rear
1 × VGA, 2 × USB 3.0, 4 × 1 GbE embedded network ports (optional FlexibleLOM or stand-up card), 1 × iLO dedicated management port (1 Gb)
Internal
1 × USB 3.0

Physical

Dimensions (L × W × D)
17.5 × 43.9 × 85.1 cm (6.9 × 17.3 × 33.5 in)
Weight
25–59 kg (55–130 lb)
Form factor
4U rack
Fans
5 hot-plug fan modules standard (each: one 80 mm dual-rotor top + one 60 mm single-rotor bottom); hot-plug fan function requires the rail kit's cable-management arm, which needs a 1200 mm-deep rack

Management

BMC
HPE iLO 5 ASIC (32 MB flash, 4 Gbit DDR3 with ECC)
System board
HPE ProLiant XL270d Gen10 Server module
Firmware
UEFI (default; Legacy BIOS mode selectable), Redfish API, IPMI 2.0

Operating systems

Supported
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, 8; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11, 12, 15; Canonical Ubuntu 16.04.3 HWE / 18.04 LTS; Windows Server 2016 (most recent version)

Processors

  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8176
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8160
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8276
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8270
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8268
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8260
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6258R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6254
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6252
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6248R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6248
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6246R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6244
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6242R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6242
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6240Y
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6240R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6240
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6238R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6230R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6230
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6226R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5220R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5220
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5218R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5120
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6154
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6152
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6150
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6148
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6146
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6144
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6142M
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6142
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6140M
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6140
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6136
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6134
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6130
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6126