Features
 
Ideal 4-socket Dense Form Factor Without Compromising on Performance, Scalability, and Expandability
The HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 Server Blade delivers four socket (4S) computing in a single-wide, full-height form factor. It has support for two or four cost-effective Intel Xeon E5-4600 v3 or v4 processors each with up to 22 cores and 135 watts without system configuration restrictions.
Provides the flexibility to optimize your core IT applications with right-sized storage for your workload, lowering TCO; all managed by HPE OneView, the converged management platform that accelerates IT service delivery and boosts business performance.
The HPE Gen9 FlexibleLOM solution for your choice of 10 Gb or 20 Gb FlexFabric ports.
Supports four Small Form Factor (SFF) drive bays for increased internal storage capacity.
 
Improved Memory, Storage, and I/O Performance
The HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 Server Blade delivers up to 21%2 performance increases with Intel Xeon E5-4600 v4 processors.
HPE DDR4 SmartMemory at 2400MT/s (up to 4 TB with 128 GB DIMMs): +33% throughput compared to competition and 35% lower power consumption than 1.5 V DDR3 at the same bin speed.
Optional support for up to two SFF NVMe Solid State Disks (SSDs) for additional performance.
Optional HPE Smart Array P246br storage controller with 1 GB Flash-Write Back Cache (FWBC) DDR3 at 1866 MHz improves storage performance for demanding workloads.
 
Flexibility to Configure for Your Specific Workload for Reduced TCO
The HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 Server Blade delivers tiered storage controller options (HPE Smart Array P246br Controller or the HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i Controller) for increased deployment flexibility.
Every BL660c Gen9 Server Blade includes USB 3.0, optional dual Micro-SD, two SFF drives, 12 Gb SAS and optional 64GB or 120GB M.2 support for configuration variety of system boot options at an optimal price.
Both Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Legacy BIOS modes available for increased configuration and deployment versatility.
 
Transforming Business Economics by Accelerating Service Delivery
HPE OneView provides the HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 Server Blade with the Power of One—a single comprehensive view of the data center, managing hardware, software, firmware, and drivers.
HPE Integrated Lights-out (iLO) software features server lifecycle management advancements including iLO federation, which remotely manages groups of servers at scale with built-in rapid discovery of all iLOs, group configurations, group health status, and ability to determine iLO licenses.
 
Technical Specifications
Processor family
Intel® Xeon® E5-4600 v3 product family; Intel® Xeon® E5-4600 v4 product family
Number of processors
4 or 2
Processor core available
6 or 10 or 12 or 14 or 16 or 18 or 22
Processor cache
55MB L3; 45MB L3; 40MB L3; 35MB L3; 30MB L3; 25MB L3; 20MB L3
Processor speed
2.9GHz
Form factor (fully configured)
4 (c3000); 8 (c7000)
Form factor chassis
Blade
Power supply type
Enclosure-based
Expansion slots
(3) Maximum - For detail descriptions reference the QuickSpecs
Memory, maximum
4TB; with 128GB LRDIMMs
Memory slots
32 DIMM slots
Memory type
DDR4 SmartMemory
Memory protection features
Advanced ECC
System fans features
Enclosure-based
Drive description
(4) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD or; (2) SFF NVMe (optional) SSD; Hot plug, depending on model
Network controller
10Gb 536FLB FlexFabric Adapter 2 Ports per controller; Applicable to all models
Storage controller
Dynamic Smart Array B140i or; Smart Array P246br; Applicable to all models
Infrastructure management
iLO Management (standard), Intelligent Provisioning (standard), iLO Advanced for BladeSystem (optional), HP OneView Adanced (optional), HP Insight Control (optional)