Basic RAID is provided by the embedded Smart Array S100i SR Gen10 controller, which supports software-managed stripes and mirrors. You can upgrade to fast SAS3 storage as the Gen10 Plus supports HPE’s Smart Array E208i-p SR Gen10 PCI-E adapter which also brings RAID5 arrays into the storage equation. HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus review: Maintenance and expansion

Standard on the unit, one gets a minimal iLO 5 experience. All management is in-band as standard which means no out of band NIC nor shared NIC. You are not managing the MicroServer Gen10 Plus remotely directly through iLO out of the box. HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus ILO Enablement Kit P13788 B21 you wanna compare xeon anything, you scale up performance with cores, but in each case, consumption will be horrid We are going to focus on some of the different parts of the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus. If you are interested in a specific area, feel free to skip ahead scrolling through pictures and subheadings. We are going to keep the MicroServer Gen10 on the left side of these photos and the MicroServer Gen10 Plus on the right side. MicroServer Gen10 Plus v Gen10 Front HPE Pointnext Services simplifies all stages of the IT journey. Advisory and Professional Services understand customer challenges and design an enhanced solution. Professional Services enables rapid deployment of solutions and Operational Services provides ongoing support.You can see the notch on the upper left side of the foam insert in the photo above. Moving the power supply to an external unit allowed HPE to increase the component density, clean up the cabling, and remove a fan from the assembly. MicroServer Gen10 Plus v Gen10 Motherboards The motherboard tray can be removed by removing two screws giving one access to the inside including the CPU, DRAM, PCIe card slot and iLO card. Its a tiny bit of cool engineering HPE included that most other brands would skip over.

For our transactional SQL Server benchmark, the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus had a score of 3,146.43 TPS with 1VM. In our HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 review, we are splitting the hardware overview into two parts. First, we are going to look at the general purpose server hardware. We are then going to focus on the storage-centric aspects of the server. The ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 is a storage-focused box so we wanted to align our review along that axis. HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Hardware Overview Our next set of tests are our SQL workloads: SQL, SQL 90-10, and SQL 80-20. Starting with SQL, the MicroSever was able to perform at sub-millisecond latency throughout peaking at 196,799 IOPS at a latency of 639µs.Cooling the CPU is a passive CPU cooler. This is flanked by two DDR4 ECC UDIMM slots. It was a nice touch that our inexpensive review unit came with a single 8GB DDR4 DIMM instead of two 4GB DIMMs. 4GB DIMMs have become less common, and the implication is that one can upgrade this server to 16GB by simply adding an 8GB DIMM. If there were two 4GB DIMMs, they would be discarded in a memory upgrade. HPE ProLiant Microserver Gen10 Motherboard ECC UDIMM And Passive CPU Heatsink As you may start to notice, the single PCIe x16 slot is great but if one wants to expand storage or networking, there is an obvious conflict. MicroServer Gen10 Plus v Gen10 iLO 5 With Oracle 80-20 the MicroServer hit a peak of 152,129 IOPS with a latency of 539µs before a slight drop.

The PCIe slots are interesting. HPE has a PCIe 3.0 x8 slot with an open-ended connector. The PCIe x4 slot is also open-ended but is only an x1 electrical slot. The open-ended design lets one install larger cards, although not with full bandwidth. Here, if the PCIe 3.0 x1 slot was an x4 slot, it would have made the expansion capabilities truly tantalizing. As an x1 slot, it simply does not have the bandwidth for high-speed NICs, NVMe storage, or most other add-in cards. HPE ProLiant Microserver Gen10 PCIe Expansion Upon unboxing the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10, one will immediately notice a diminutive stature. The entire unit is 9.25″ x 9.06″ x 10.00″. Finished in a matte material, one gets the updated HPE logo and two front panel USB 3.0 ports. The top of the unit has a slim optical drive bay, however we suspect most people will use it for a SSD if at all. HPE ProLiant Microserver Gen10 FrontOn the topic of CPUs, we are going to have benchmarks of the MicroServer with both the Pentium G5420 and the Intel Xeon E-2224 but we can say the CPU performance is several times that of the older MicroServer Gen10. This is a huge upgrade. HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 And Plus Motherboards Side By Side For 64K write the MicroServer ran up until about 27K IOPS again (or about 1.7GB/s) until going over 1ms. It peaked there and dropped over rather dramatically afterward. paper limit of 16TB doesn’t apply in real life of course. My config is 3x2TB RAID0 + 10TB (nightly scrubber), all 4 is 20dB (the max for any of my setups), even the big one from the brand called “WD” (first time trying this brand after 20years with Seagate only, they now offer 10-12TB drives with idle 20dB!)