HPE ProLiant XL730f Gen9 Parts

The HPE ProLiant XL730f Gen9 is not a rack server. It is a 1U half-width water-cooled tray for the HPE Apollo f8000 Rack, holding two two-socket servers whose heat leaves through sealed copper tubes rather than through fans. Every part below is genuine HPE, available new and refurbished, and tested for compatibility before it ships. The listing further down this page is short: the two DDR4 memory kits carry live pricing, while the solid state drives and the InfiniBand adapter render a quote link.

XL730f Gen9 Platform at a Glance

• Form factor: a 1U half-width tray of 1.75 × 7.9 × 38.27 in (4.45 × 20.07 × 98.98 cm), up to 30 lb (13.6 kg), built as a front server and a rear server
• Cooling: dry-disconnect liquid cooling — sealed copper tubes hand heat to thermal bus bars in the rack, on facility water at 50 to 95 F (10 to 27 C) for most configurations
• Rack scale: up to 72 trays, or 144 two-socket servers, in one Apollo f8000 Rack cooled by one Apollo 8000 iCDU Rack, with FDR InfiniBand built into the rack
• Processors: up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 per server on the Intel C610 Series chipset, eight to twenty-two cores, 20MB to 55MB of level 3 cache
• Memory: sixteen DDR4 Registered slots per server and thirty-two per tray, taking HPE SmartMemory with heat spreaders fitted to the module
• Storage: one optional SATA small form factor SSD per server — 120GB, 240GB, 480GB or 960GB — on a single SATA 3 port from the embedded C610 controller
• Networking: one 1GbE port and one FDR InfiniBand port per server, from an HPE Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 363i Adapter and an InfiniBand FDR/Ethernet 10/40Gb 2-port 544+A8L Adapter
• Power: a High Voltage to 12V converter on the tray, fed by the Apollo f8000 Rack, rated 1200W per tray and 600W per server node
• Management: HPE iLO 4 on a dedicated 1GbE internal port, UEFI boot by default, an internal microSD slot and an internal USB port; the Serial/USB/Video (SUV) port is the only front-pluggable interface

Two things decide almost every XL730f Gen9 question: it is water-cooled, and it is a tray. Heat leaves through sealed copper tubes and dry-disconnect couplings into thermal bus bars in the HPE Apollo f8000 Rack, which also supplies the rack mounting and the power — 1200W per tray, 600W per server node. There is no power supply, no fan and no rail kit to buy for the tray itself.

Specifications on this page are taken from the HPE QuickSpecs for this server, HPE ProLiant XL730f Gen9 Server QuickSpecs, Version 8, Worldwide edition.

Shop XL730f Gen9 Parts by Category

• XL730f Gen9 memory — 8GB single rank and 16GB dual rank PC4-17000P Registered heat spreader kits, the two parts here that carry a live price
• XL730f Gen9 drives — the 80GB and 120GB SATA Value Endurance boot solid state drives, one per server, both quote-only
• XL730f Gen9 processors — a specification reference for the nine Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 kits HPE built for the XL7x0f trays; no processor part number is listed

The InfiniBand FDR/Ethernet 10/40Gb 2-port 544+A8L Adapter renders further down this page rather than in a category of its own. Parts for the other HPE ProLiant XL tray servers are listed separately, including the HPE ProLiant XL230a Gen9 and the HPE ProLiant XL220a Gen8 v2, alongside the HPE ProLiant SL scalable servers and every model under HPE parts by server model.

XL730f Gen9 Parts FAQ

Is the XL730f Gen9 a rack server?
No. It is a 1U half-width tray for the HPE Apollo f8000 Rack, which supplies the rack mounting, the power and the liquid cooling. The tray has no power supply, no fans and no rails of its own.

How is the XL730f Gen9 cooled?
By water, not air. HPE describes dry disconnect server trays that provide liquid cooling through sealed copper tubes, with heat exchange via thermal bus bars in the rack. The system inlet specification is facility water at 50 to 95 F (10 to 27 C) for most configurations.

How many servers are in one XL730f Gen9 tray?
Two, and each one is a two-socket server. HPE describes 2 x 2P nodes per tray, a front server and a rear server, with up to 144 servers per Apollo f8000 Rack.

Could you buy an XL730f Gen9 on its own?
No. The HPE Apollo 8000 System shipped as a configure-to-order product only, and a valid order had to include an Apollo f8000 Rack, an Apollo 8000 iCDU Rack, at least 72 XL730f Gen9 trays and eight InfiniBand switches.

What power does an XL730f Gen9 tray draw?
Each tray carries a High Voltage to 12V converter fed by the Apollo f8000 Rack, rated at 1200W total and 600W per server node. Power input is provided by the rack rather than by a supply in the tray.

Which operating systems run on an XL730f Gen9?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. HPE supports only 64-bit versions of both, and lists no Windows option for this platform.

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