HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Servers

Chassis options

HPE builds the DL380 Gen10 around removable drive cages rather than fixed backplanes, so a unit is described by its base chassis and the cages fitted. The two base chassis are SFF (2.5") and LFF (3.5"); they cannot be converted into each other, but SFF units can often be expanded by adding a second or third 8-bay cage.

A rear 2 SFF cage is available on most configurations for boot drives, and an M.2 riser or NS204i boot device keeps the operating system off the front bays. [VERIFY: which cage configurations you stock]

Processors

The DL380 Gen10 takes first-generation (Skylake-SP, 2017) and second-generation (Cascade Lake, 2019) Intel Xeon Scalable processors in two LGA3647 sockets, with TDPs up to 205 W. Second-generation CPUs need System ROM U30 at v2.00 or later and unlock 2933 MT/s memory. Both CPUs in a system must be identical. The list below covers the SKUs most commonly found in refurbished DL380 Gen10 units; the platform supports the full range up to 28 cores. [VERIFY: which CPUs you stock for this model]

Second-generation Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake)

First-generation Xeon Scalable (Skylake-SP)

Silver and Gold 5xxx processors cap memory at 2400 or 2666 MT/s regardless of the DIMMs fitted. If memory bandwidth matters to your workload, a Gold 6xxx or Platinum with second-generation silicon is the difference between 2400 and 2933 MT/s on the same board.

Memory

Twenty-four DDR4 DIMM slots, twelve per processor across six channels. HPE SmartMemory registered (RDIMM) and load-reduced (LRDIMM) modules are supported; they cannot be mixed in the same system. With one CPU installed, only the twelve slots on that side are usable. Third-party DIMMs work but the system reports them as non-HPE memory and disables some HPE Fast Fault Tolerance features.

For best performance populate all six channels per CPU in matched sets: 6, 12 or 24 DIMMs in total for a dual-CPU system. Memory runs at the lower of the DIMM rating and the CPU limit.

Storage and RAID

Drive support depends on the cages fitted. All cages are hot-plug. HPE Smart Array controllers come in two forms: modular (the "-a" suffix, fitted to a dedicated slot) and PCIe card ("-p" suffix). The controller options are:

The E208i-a and P408i-a can be switched to HBA (pass-through) mode for vSAN, Ceph, ZFS and Storage Spaces. Supported drive types are 12 Gb/s SAS and 6 Gb/s SATA in hard disk and SSD form, plus U.2 NVMe with the NVMe cage and riser. Drives need HPE Gen10 Smart Carriers (SC) for the SFF cages; Gen8 and Gen9 carriers are not interchangeable.

Networking and expansion

Onboard networking is an embedded HPE 331i quad-port 1 GbE adapter, and a FlexibleLOM slot takes a second adapter without using a PCIe slot. Common FlexibleLOM options:

• HPE 366FLR quad-port 1 GbE
• HPE 561FLR-T dual-port 10 GbE BASE-T
• HPE 562FLR-SFP+ dual-port 10 GbE SFP+
• HPE 640FLR-SFP28 dual-port 25 GbE

Beyond the FlexibleLOM, the DL380 Gen10 offers up to eight PCIe Gen3 slots across three risers, and the GPU riser configuration supports up to three double-width 300 W accelerators such as the NVIDIA V100 or A-series cards. Fibre Channel HBAs, 100 GbE adapters and SAS expansion controllers all have room.

Power supplies

Two hot-plug redundant Flex Slot power supply bays, configured 1+1. Options are 500 W, 800 W and 1600 W in Platinum and Titanium grades. A dual-CPU system with a full memory load and a Smart Array generally sits within the 800 W envelope; GPU configurations need 1600 W units. Both supplies in a system should be the same rating.

Management

Every DL380 Gen10 includes iLO 5 with a dedicated management port. iLO Standard covers remote power, health monitoring and basic alerts; iLO Advanced adds the virtual console, virtual media, remote firmware updates and the full Redfish API, which is what most buyers actually want for a server in a rack they do not visit. Advanced licences can be added to any unit. Intelligent Provisioning handles bare-metal OS installs, and HPE OneView or iLO Amplifier Pack cover fleet management.

Physical specification

Supported operating systems

Windows Server 2016, 2019 and 2022; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8 and 9; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and 15; Ubuntu Server LTS releases; VMware ESXi 6.5, 6.7, 7.0 and 8.0; Citrix Hypervisor; and Proxmox VE, which is unsupported by HPE but widely deployed on this platform. Confirm your hypervisor's hardware compatibility list before buying if you need vendor support.

Buying a refurbished DL380 Gen10 from ServerDove

Every unit we sell has been through full hardware diagnostics and a burn-in run: memory tested across every installed DIMM, controller and drive health verified, both power supplies load-tested, and the management controller reset and confirmed reachable. BIOS is returned to defaults and the firmware brought to a stable release. Units carry a six-month warranty and are held in Doha, so a replacement part is a short drive away rather than a shipment from overseas. [VERIFY: same testing and warranty wording as the R640 page]

Because the DL380 Gen10 is now past the manufacturer's mainstream support window, we are also the practical route to keeping one in service: we stock the caddies, DIMMs, controllers, rails and power supplies it needs, and our hardware support plans cover units the manufacturer no longer will. [VERIFY: parts stocked for this model]

If you need a specific configuration that is not listed, tell us the CPU, memory and drive layout you want and we will quote a build from stock. Custom configurations are usually ready within two working days. [VERIFY: lead time]