Why is the new HPE ProLiant DL20 Gen9 Server a great asset for my SMB?

[Xani]

On November 11^th, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced new end-to-end solutions which would provide small and midsize businesses (SMBs) with the tools they need to increase productivity, reduce costs, and grow the business. Part of this announcement included the introduction of the HPE ProLiant DL20 Gen9 server. This dense and compact server, the latest edition to HPE’s one processor rack family of Gen9 servers, is powered by Intel® Pentium®, Core i3 and E3-1200v5 processors and provides a unique blend of enterprise-class capabilities. The DL20 Gen9 was engineered specifically for SMBs, and features a short-depth chassis, 15.05 inches, which is ideal for space constrained environments. In addition, this server provides ultimate mobility, and has the best entry level price point in the HPE ProLiant rack family—great for SMBs!

 HPE ProLiant DL20 Gen9 specs:

Processor family: Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v5 product family; Intel® Core™ i3; Intel® Pentium®

Number of processors: 1

Processor core available: 4 or 2

Form factor (fully configured): 1U

Power supply type: (2) Entry: Level

Expansion slots: (2) maximum—for detailed descriptions reference the QuickSpecs

Memory: 64GB maximum

Memory slots: 4 DIMM slots maximum

Storage drive description: (2) LFF SAS/SATA/SSD or (4) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD Hot plug and/or Non-hot plug, depending on the model

The combination of this single processor DL20 Gen9 server and Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 R2 solutions—such as Foundation or Essentials edition—provides SMBs with a great storage and expandable offering for unique environments and/or businesses that are space constrained.

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Combining HPE and Microsoft for your IT solutions gives you the world’s leading server hardware and software innovations, applications, resources, and support. HPE has developed the HPE OEM Microsoft Windows Server Reseller Option Kit (HPE ROK) to deliver value pricing, flexible choices, one-stop ordering, and single source support through HPE Reseller Partners. HPE Resellers can preinstall the ideal Windows Server operating system to deliver a solution that is entirely customized to your SMB’s specific needs.

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[EarlWer]

Not impressed. Slow and very complicated boot process. 3 minutes to boot is not acceptable.

Each time the boot process takes a different amount of time. After 5 minutes, I usually kill it.

Fans are loud.

2 days to try to install Ubuntu 16.04 and still no success.  I've done many Lenovo servers without a problem...

This will probably be my first and last HP server...