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Buying used servers: what really matters
Generation, form factor, CPU, memory, controller, remote management and warranty: the points that decide whether a used server fits your workload.
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Blade servers
Blade servers are compact server modules without their own power supplies, fans or network switches: that infrastructure is provided by the enclosure, which for HPE is the BladeSystem c7000 with 16 half-height bays in 10 rack units. Networking runs through interconnect modules such as Virtual Connect FlexFabric, and the Onboard Administrator handles central management, including access to each blade's iLO. Compared with individual rack servers you save cabling, rack space and power supplies, but a fully populated enclosure needs an adequately fused 230 V supply and matching cooling. Typical uses are virtualization clusters running VMware ESXi or Proxmox VE and VDI environments. We supply HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 and Gen10 blades with your choice of CPUs, RAM and SSDs – tested, cleaned, updated to current firmware and covered by a 12 to 36 month warranty. For larger quantities, we are happy to prepare a project quote.
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Buying blade servers: the HPE c7000 and BL460c Gen10 explained
A blade server is a server module without its own power supplies or fans; it only runs inside an enclosure. At HPE, that pairing is the BladeSystem c7000 and the ProLiant BL460c blades, which we stock as Gen9 and Gen10. Below you'll find when blades beat rack servers, how the two generations differ and what power and noise mean for where you install them.
Blade servers or rack servers?
Blade system
c7000 with BL460c
- 16 dual-socket servers in 10 rack units
- a few uplinks instead of dozens of cables
- power, cooling and management shared centrally