Introduction, G7 technologies – HP PROLIANT BL465C G7 User Manual
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Introduction
Figure 1 shows the HP ProLiant BL465c G7 server blade.
Figure 1. The HP ProLiant BL465c G7 server blade, illustrating a unique drawer design that allows you to service hard drives
independently
G7 technologies
Seventh-generation AMD Opteron-based HP ProLiant servers such as the BL465c G7 server blade
feature the following key technologies:
AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors
DDR3 memory
Embedded dual-port FlexFabric 10 Gb Ethernet converged network adapter
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PCI Express 2.0
Smart Array controller with 1 GB Flash Backed Write Cache (FBWC)
FBWC
The embedded Smart Array P410i RAID controller
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featured in the HP
ProLiant BL465c G7 server blade provides 1 GB FBWC as standard.
FBWC, which does not require a battery, uses flash memory.
Data retention is indefinite; by comparison, retention with Battery Backed
Write Cache (BBWC) is approximately two days.
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Currently, FlexFabric is only available on HP ProLiant c-Class server blades.
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FBWC may be optional on some models. For more information on FBWC, refer to