HPE ProLiant DL160 Gen9 Rack Server Barebone

Chassis and platform

HPE offered the DL160 Gen9 with either four 3.5 inch LFF bays or eight 2.5 inch SFF bays across the front. This unit is listed with a flexible drive bay configuration, so confirm which front cage is fitted before ordering drives and carriers.

What you need to add

The DL160 Gen9 uses the same processors and memory as the rest of the Gen9 range but its own heatsinks and power supplies, so order chassis specific parts by model rather than by generation.

• One or two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 or v4 processors with DL160 Gen9 heatsinks
• DDR4 ECC Registered DIMMs, four per processor to fill every memory channel, up to sixteen in total
• SAS, SATA or SSD drives in HPE SmartDrive carriers of the size that matches the fitted cage
• A Smart Array controller or HBA if hardware RAID or SAS drives are planned
• Power supplies to suit the chassis, two where redundancy is required

Because the memory bank per processor is eight slots, plan capacity around eight DIMMs per CPU rather than the twelve the mainstream Gen9 servers take.

Part numbers and identification

Model and generation identify the platform. Buyers search for "DL160 Gen9" and "DL160 G9"; both refer to this chassis.

Compatibility

Processors, memory and drive carriers are shared with the other Gen9 rack servers, so the DL160 fits into an existing Gen9 estate without a separate spares pool for the parts that matter most.