HPE Proliant MicroServer Gen10

HPE Proliant MicroServer Gen10

Overview

• Expansion bays
  • 1 x media bay (Optional (1) DVD-RW or (1) SATA SSD)
• Drive bays
  • 4 x 3.5" SATA 6Gb/s via caddy-less drive bays (behind front cover) -- advertised as Non-hot plug SATA
  • 1 x on-board SATA port (for device in media bay)
• USB
  • Font: 2 x USB 3.0 ports
  • Rear: 2 x USB 3.0 ports, 2 x USB 2.0 ports
  • 1 x on-board USB 2.0 port
• Network
  • Embedded Broadcom BCM5720 Dual Port Gbe LOM
• RAM
  • Type: DDR4 Unbuffered (UDIMM)
  • DIMM Slots: 2
  • Max RAM: 32GB (2 x 16GB) PC4-2400T DDR4 UDIMM ( DDr4-2400 )
• Display
  • 1 x VGA port
  • 2 x Display Ports 1.2
• Expansion Slots
  • 1 x PCIe3 x4 (1) (low-profile only in this chassis)
  • 1 x PCIe3 x8 (8, 4, 1) (low-profile only in this chassis)
• Fans
  • One (1) non-redundant system fan shipped standard -- not software controllable
• Misc
  • LFF/SFF SATA connector on motherboard connects to backplane for 4 x HDDs
  • Hard drive screws: 4 x per drive = 16
  • Front bezel lock/unlock indicators
  • Power on/Standby button and system power LED
  • Health LED
  • NIC status LED
  • Drive activity LED ( single, not per-drive )

Drivers

• ahci
  AHCI SATA low-level driver
• amdgpu
  AMD GPU
• ehci-pci
• fam15h_power
  AMD Family 15h CPU processor power monitor
• k10temp
  AMD Family 10h+ CPU core temperature monitor
• pcieport
• piix4_smbus
• snd_hda_intel
  Intel HDA driver
• tg3
  Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet driver
• xhci_hcd

lm_sensors found the following:

k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:        +23.0°C  (high = +70.0°C)
                       (crit = +100.0°C, hyst = +99.0°C)

amdgpu-pci-0008
Adapter: PCI adapter
vddgfx:      750.00 mV 
vddnb:       875.00 mV 
edge:         +23.0°C  (crit =  +1.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C)

fam15h_power-pci-00c4
Adapter: PCI adapter
power1:       21.27 mW (avg =   2.27 mW, interval =   0.01 s)
                       (crit =  15.00 W)

Not that impressive, but not bad.

My Model

My system has:

• CPU: AMD Opteron™ X3421 Processor (2.1-3.4GHz/4 compute cores/8 graphic cores/2MB/12-35W) -- See on cpu-world
  • CPU Core Count - 4
  • CPU Core Frequency (Base – Max Boost) - 2.1 – 3.4 GHz
  • GPU CU Count - 8
  • GPU Frequency (Max) - 800 MHz
  • cTDP Range - 12-35W
  • Max DDR4 Speed - 2400 MHz
  • L2 Cache - 2MB
  • MMX instructions
  • Extensions to MMX
  • SSE / Streaming SIMD Extensions
  • SSE2 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
  • SSE3 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 3
  • SSSE3 / Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3
  • SSE4 / SSE4.1 + SSE4.2 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 4  ?
  • SSE4a  ?
  • AES / Advanced Encryption Standard instructions
  • AVX / Advanced Vector Extensions
  • AVX2 / Advanced Vector Extensions 2.0
  • BMI / BMI1 + BMI2 / Bit Manipulation instructions
  • F16C / 16-bit Floating-Point conversion instructions
  • FMA3 / 3-operand Fused Multiply-Add instructions
  • FMA4 / 4-operand Fused Multiply-Add instructions
  • XOP / eXtended Operations instructions
  • AMD64 / AMD 64-bit technology  ?
  • AMD-V / AMD Virtualization technology
  • Supports IOMMU (via AMD-Vi [amd_iommu])
  • The processor supports configurable TDP in the 12 Watt - 35 Watt range
  • The CPU is compatible with DirectX 12 API.
  • Turbo Core 3.0 technology
• RAM: 8 GB

Resources

• Marketing: https://buy.hpe.com/us/en/servers/proliant-microserver/proliant-microserver/proliant-microserver/hpe-proliant-microserver-gen10/p/1009955118
• Support: https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/km/product/1009955119/Product#t=DriversandSoftware&sort=relevancy&layout=table&numberOfResults=25
• Misc: https://forum.openmediavault.org/index.php/Thread/19388-HP-microserver-Gen10/?pageNo=2
• User Manual: https://content.etilize.com/User-Manual/1046044075.pdf
• Specifications: https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=a00008701enw
• Storage Controller Specifications: https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/Getdocument.aspx?docname=a00017196ENW