Product Overview

The HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen11 is a high-density, four-socket (4S) enterprise server housed in a compact 2U rack chassis. Powered by up to four 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, it provides exceptional compute density, memory scalability, and high-speed PCIe Gen5 I/O bandwidth. It is engineered for business-critical applications, enterprise virtualization, server consolidation, in-memory databases (such as SAP HANA), and data-intensive analytics workloads.

Key Features & What’s New

4-Socket Compute in 2U: Supports 2 or 4 Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with up to 60 cores per CPU (up to 240 cores total).
DDR5 Memory Scalability: 64 DIMM slots supporting up to 16 TB total capacity at speeds up to 4800 MT/s.
PCIe 5.0 High Bandwidth: Up to 6 PCIe 5.0 expansion slots plus up to 2 OCP 3.0 slots for low-latency networking and storage controllers.
GPU Acceleration Support: Supports up to 6 Single-Wide (SW) or 2 Double-Wide (DW) GPUs for graphics-heavy and AI acceleration tasks.
Flexible Cooling Solutions: Options for high-performance air cooling or a Smart Closed-Loop Liquid Cooling system design.
Security & Cloud Management: Integrated HPE iLO 6 (Silicon Root of Trust) and support for HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management.

Detailed Technical Specifications

Feature	Technical Details
Form Factor	2U Rack Mount Chassis
Processor Family	4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (Platinum 8400 / Gold 6400 series)
Processor Sockets	2 or 4 Sockets
Core Count	8 to 60 cores per processor (up to 240 cores total)
Max TDP	Up to 350W per processor
Maximum Memory	Up to 16.0 TB using 64 x 256 GB DDR5 RDIMMs @ 4800 MT/s
Memory Slots & Channels	64 DIMM slots (16 DIMMs per CPU, 8 channels per CPU, 2 DIMMs per channel)
Memory Protection	Advanced ECC, Online Spare, Mirroring, Combined Channel (Lockstep), HPE Fast Fault Tolerant Memory (ADDDC)
Expansion Slots	Up to 6 x PCIe Gen5 slots + up to 2 x OCP 3.0 PCIe Gen5 slots
Drive Bays	Up to 24 SFF (SAS/SATA/NVMe) drive bays; Direct-attach EDSFF support (up to 16 or 24 drives)
OS Boot Options	Dedicated HPE NS204i-u NVMe Hot-Plug Boot Device
Storage Controllers	HPE Smart Array Gen11 / MegaRAID / SmartRAID Controllers (e.g., MR416i-p, MR416i-o, SR932i-p, SR416i-o)
Network Controllers	PCIe adapters or OCP 3.0 form factor cards (1 Gb, 10 Gb, 25 Gb, 100 Gb, or 200 Gb Ethernet/InfiniBand)
Power Supplies	Dual/Quad Hot-Plug Flex Slot Kits: 800W, 1000W, 1600W, or 1800W–2200W Titanium/Platinum (1+1, 2+2, 3+1, or 4+0 redundancy)
System Fans	Hot-plug redundant performance fans or Smart Closed-Loop Liquid Cooling kit
Management	Embedded HPE iLO 6, Intelligent Provisioning, HPE OneView Standard/Advanced, HPE Compute Ops Management
Security Features	HPE Silicon Root of Trust, TPM 2.0 (standard), Chassis Intrusion Detection, optional Locking Bezel Kit
Warranty	3/3/3 (3 years parts, 3 years labor, 3 years on-site support)

Core Target Workloads

In-Memory Databases: Optimized for massive memory footprint requirements (e.g., SAP HANA, Oracle Database).
Enterprise Virtualization: Dense VM hosting with high CPU core count and 16 TB RAM capacity.
Business Processing / ERP: High-availability computing for critical enterprise resource planning and transaction processing.
Data Analytics & Inference: High PCIe 5.0 I/O throughput combined with GPU support for large data pipelines.