HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 1U Rackmount Server

Hewlett Packard Enterprise builds the ProLiant DL360 Gen10 as a two-socket 1U rack server with 24 DIMM slots and three front-end chassis. Rack density is the point of a 1U chassis and the constraint that comes with it; on this platform that constraint lands on expansion rather than on memory. Memory architecture is identical to the 2U DL380 of the same generation, at twelve slots per processor.

Three front ends cover the range: an 8 SFF chassis that can be extended in several directions, a 10 SFF NVMe Premium chassis, and a 4 LFF chassis for capacity in a single rack unit. All three share one feature that is easy to overlook on a used purchase and expensive to discover later, which is a rear boot bay position that does not consume a front drive slot.

DL360 Gen10 chassis options and the rear boot bay every one of them has

Three front-end chassis exist for the DL360 Gen10, and HPE's Chassis Types section in a00008159enw enumerates the extension paths for each. The 8 SFF chassis can be extended with an additional 2 SFF bays, or 2 NVMe bays, or 2 Dual uFF carriers holding four M.2 cartridges. The 10 SFF chassis is the NVMe Premium front end. The 4 LFF chassis is the large form-factor option in one rack unit.

Chassis	Front bays	Front extension options	Drive form-factor	Where it fits
8 SFF	8 x 2.5-inch	Plus 2 SFF, or 2 NVMe, or 2 Dual uFF carriers holding four M.2 cartridges	Small form-factor	The flexible general-purpose front end
10 SFF	10 x 2.5-inch	NVMe Premium front end	Small form-factor	Latency-sensitive builds wanting maximum bay count in 1U
4 LFF	4 x 3.5-inch	None documented in the chassis list	Large form-factor	Capacity per rack unit rather than spindle count

The rear boot option that applies to all three chassis

Every DL360 Gen10 chassis carries a rear drive option for additional boot or storage capacity: one additional SFF drive, or one Dual uFF carrier holding two M.2 cartridges. That matters more on a 1U server than it would on a 2U one, because it separates the boot devices from the front bays entirely. A 10 SFF DL360 Gen10 with a rear Dual uFF carrier presents ten front bays for data and a mirrored pair of M.2 cartridges for the operating system, without giving up a single front slot to do it. On a used purchase the rear carrier is a part that is frequently missing, so it is worth naming explicitly on the quote rather than assuming it is fitted.

Configuring a DL360 Gen10: the order the decisions have to be made in

Chassis is the first decision because it fixes the bay count and the drive form-factor, and neither is field-convertible on this platform. Processors follow, as a required CPU Socket 1 selection and an optional CPU Socket 2 selection carrying a None value so a single-processor build can be quoted. Memory is a quantity rather than a menu, capped at twelve DIMMs in steps of two, which is the single-processor-safe ceiling on a 24-slot server wired at twelve slots per processor. Drives, the storage controller, the power supply pair and the power cord pair follow, and the operating environment and warranty close the build.

Virtualization is the workload most DL360 Gen10 servers are bought for, and both paths are quotable on the same order. VMware ESXi is the incumbent across a large share of installed Gen10 estates. Proxmox Virtual Environment is the alternative we sell outright as an authorized reseller, with subscriptions and support available alongside the hardware rather than sourced separately. In a 1U chassis with 24 DIMM slots and a Smart Array controller, the hypervisor decision is a licensing decision rather than a hardware one.

Processors and memory on the DL360 Gen10

The DL360 Gen10 takes up to two Intel Xeon Scalable processors from the 1st or 2nd generation, and 24 DDR4 DIMM slots sit behind them at twelve per processor. Maximum memory is 3.0 TB with load-reduced DIMMs and 1.54 TB with registered DIMMs, both at 2933 MT/s. The figure that separates this platform from most 1U servers of its era is persistent memory: HPE records Intel Optane persistent memory support to 6.0 TB on the DL360 Gen10, which is double the load-reduced DIMM ceiling and is the reason the platform still appears in in-memory database conversations.

Attribute	DL360 Gen10
Form-Factor	1U rack
Sockets	2
Processor platform	Intel Xeon Scalable, 1st and 2nd generation
DIMM Slots	24, twelve per processor
Memory type	DDR4 registered and load-reduced
Maximum memory	3.0 TB load-reduced, 1.54 TB registered, both at 2933 MT/s
Persistent memory	Intel Optane persistent memory to 6.0 TB
Front Bays	8 or 10 x 2.5-inch, or 4 x 3.5-inch, by chassis
Rear boot option	1 SFF, or 1 Dual uFF carrier holding two M.2 cartridges, on every chassis
Storage Controllers	HPE Smart Array E208i-a, P408i-a and P816i-a modular
Accelerators	Primary GPU riser, low-height heatsink required
Power supplies	500 W and 800 W Platinum, 800 W Titanium, 800 W -48 VDC, 1000 W Titanium, 1600 W Platinum
Lifecycle status	RETIRED; QuickSpecs a00008159enw version 74, 18 May 2026

Twelve of the 24 slots are wired to the second socket, so a single-processor DL360 Gen10 has twelve usable slots and half the stated capacity no matter how many modules arrive with it. That is the single most common source of a memory quote that will not build, and it is why our configurator caps the DIMM quantity at twelve rather than 24 on a machine whose second socket may be empty.

Smart Array controllers on the DL360 Gen10, and the lane-to-bay match

Three HPE Smart Array modular controllers cover this generation and they are separated by lane count and cache rather than feature list. The E208i-a, 804326-B21, has eight internal lanes and no cache. The P408i-a, 804331-B21, has eight internal lanes and 2 GB of cache. The P816i-a, 804338-B21, has sixteen internal lanes and 4 GB of cache. Each part carries its cache size in its own product name, so the split can be confirmed from the part number rather than taken on trust.

Controller	Part	Internal lanes	Cache	Suits
HPE Smart Array E208i-a	804326-B21	8	None	4 LFF and small SFF front ends where write cache is not needed
HPE Smart Array P408i-a	804331-B21	8	2 GB	The 8 SFF front end
HPE Smart Array P816i-a	804338-B21	16	4 GB	Front ends above eight bays

The pairing is lane-correct rather than arbitrary: eight lanes behind eight bays, sixteen lanes behind ten. A DL360 Gen10 that arrives with an eight-lane controller behind a ten-bay NVMe Premium backplane will run, but it will not deliver the bandwidth the chassis was built for. That mismatch is one of the most common defects in secondary-market listings and it is invisible in a photograph, so it belongs on the quote as a named part number.

Expansion and power in 1U

Expansion is where a 1U server pays for its density, and the DL360 Gen10 is no exception. Our census extraction from a00008159enw records accelerator support through a primary GPU riser with a low-height heatsink required, which is a narrower proposition than the double-wide riser the 2U DL380 Gen10 of the same generation supports. For anything beyond a single low-profile card, the 2U chassis is the correct platform rather than this one.

Power is HPE Flexible Slot across a wider list than the 2U sibling carries: 500 W and 800 W Platinum, 800 W Titanium, 800 W -48 VDC, 1000 W Titanium and 1600 W Platinum. The -48 VDC option is the one worth flagging, because it makes this platform deployable in a DC-powered telecommunications or carrier environment where an AC-only server is not an option. Supplies are sold and quoted as a matching pair, as are power cords; a mismatched pair is not a redundant pair on any HPE Flex Slot platform.

Where the DL360 Gen10 sits in the ProLiant lifecycle

The DL360 Gen10 is marked RETIRED in HPE's own QuickSpecs banner, meaning HPE has retired the document and declared the base products no longer available for sale. The document identifier is a00008159enw and the most recent revision recorded in our census is version 74, dated 18 May 2026, which carries the newest revision date of any Gen10 QuickSpecs in our estate. HPE continuing to revise a document at version 74 for a retired product is the clearest available signal of a large installed base still in service, and it is a better argument for buying one on the aftermarket than any marketing claim.

HPE's earliest retained revision of a00008159enw is version 3, dated 14 August 2017, and versions 1 and 2 are no longer served, so that date is a floor rather than a launch date. HPE publishes no support-end date for this platform on any public surface, so none appears here. Enterasource does not host, mirror or reproduce HPE QuickSpecs documents; the document identifier is the reference and every figure on this page can be checked against it.

HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 vs Dell PowerEdge R640

The DL360 Gen10 and the Dell PowerEdge R640 are the two vendors' two-socket 1U servers from the same silicon era, with the same processor generation and the same 24-slot DDR4 memory architecture on both sides. Our own configurators carry the same processor option depth for each, so the compute decision between them is genuinely a coin toss. The differences are ecosystem: controller family, boot architecture and management stack.

Attribute	HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10	Dell PowerEdge R640
Chassis height	1U	1U
Processor platform	Intel Xeon Scalable, 1st and 2nd generation	Intel Xeon Scalable, 1st and 2nd generation
DIMM Slots	24, twelve per processor	24
Stated maximum memory	3.0 TB load-reduced, 1.54 TB registered	3 TB load-reduced on our listing
Memory speed	Up to 2933 MT/s	Up to 2933 MT/s
Persistent memory	Intel Optane to 6.0 TB	Intel Optane persistent memory
Boot architecture	Rear 1 SFF or Dual uFF carrier with two M.2 cartridges	Dell BOSS M.2 boot module
Storage Controllers	HPE Smart Array E208i-a, P408i-a, P816i-a	Dell PERC
Management	HPE Integrated Lights-Out	Dell iDRAC9

One caveat carries across both columns, and our own catalogue audit is where it came from. The 3 TB memory figure quoted for either platform is a load-reduced DIMM number. On the Dell side we stock no load-reduced module and no 128 GB module, so the maximum buildable from parts we sell is 24 x 64 GB registered DIMMs, or 1.5 TB. On the HPE side the registered ceiling is 1.54 TB. Comparing the two 3 TB headline figures without checking the DIMM type compares two things neither vendor will actually ship you.

Choose the DL360 Gen10 where the estate already runs HPE management tooling and Smart Array controllers, or where the -48 VDC power option or the 6.0 TB persistent memory ceiling matter. Choose the R640 where the estate runs iDRAC and PERC and the BOSS boot module is already the standard. The step up on the Dell side is the PowerEdge R650, and the rest of that line is in the Dell PowerEdge range.

DL360 Gen10 vs DL360 Gen10 Plus vs DL360 Gen11

Three DL360 generations circulate in the aftermarket at once and the difference between them is memory architecture before anything else. The Gen10 is a 24-slot DDR4 machine at 2933 MT/s; the Gen10 Plus keeps the 1U body and moves to 32 slots of DDR4 at 3200 MT/s on 3rd generation Xeon Scalable; the Gen11 moves to 32 slots of DDR5 on 4th and 5th generation Xeon Scalable and adds a 20-bay EDSFF front end the older two do not have.

Attribute	DL360 Gen10	DL360 Gen10 Plus	DL360 Gen11
Processor platform	Xeon Scalable 1st and 2nd gen	Xeon Scalable 3rd gen, to 40 cores	Xeon Scalable 4th and 5th gen
Memory	DDR4 at 2933 MT/s	DDR4 at 3200 MT/s	DDR5
DIMM Slots	24, twelve per processor	32, sixteen per processor	32, sixteen per processor
Stated maximum memory	3.0 TB load-reduced, 1.54 TB registered	8.0 TB load-reduced, 2.0 TB registered	8.0 TB registered
Persistent memory	Intel Optane to 6.0 TB	Intel Optane to 8.0 TB	Not recorded in our source extraction for this platform
Front chassis options	8SFF, 10SFF, 4LFF	8SFF, 4LFF	8SFF, 4LFF, 20EDSFF
Accelerators	Primary GPU riser	Primary and secondary full-height GPU risers	Low-profile only, tightly limited
Lifecycle status	RETIRED, doc a00008159enw v74	RETIRED, doc a50002559enw v44	CURRENT, doc a50004306enw v47

The practical reading is that the Gen10 Plus is the memory and accelerator step rather than a new platform, and the Gen11 is the platform change. A workload capped by 1.54 TB of registered DIMMs gains most from the Gen10 Plus; a workload that needs DDR5 bandwidth, PCIe Gen5 devices or EDSFF density needs the Gen11. A workload that is neither is better served by the Gen10, which has the deepest parts pool of the three and the largest installed base to draw spares from.

Choosing within the Gen10 ProLiant line

The DL360 Gen10 is the density member of the Gen10 line, and against its siblings the decision is about height and drive count rather than about processors, since the rack and tower models share the same Xeon Scalable generations and the same 24-slot DDR4 architecture.

Model	Form-Factor	Front chassis options	DIMM Slots	Where it fits
DL360 Gen10	1U rack, 2 sockets	8SFF, 10SFF, 4LFF	24	Density per rack unit
DL380 Gen10	2U rack, 2 sockets	8SFF, 24SFF, 8LFF, 12LFF	24	Expansion, drive count and double-wide accelerators
ML350 Gen10	4U tower, 5U racked, 2 sockets	SFF, LFF and LFF non-hot-plug cages	24	Offices and sites with no rack
BL460c Gen10	Half-height blade	c-Class enclosure bays	Blade platform	Existing c-Class enclosure estates
DL360 Gen10 Plus	1U rack, 2 sockets	8SFF, 4LFF	32	The memory step up, one generation on

All of them share this platform's management approach and its Smart Array controller family, so a mixed Gen10 estate is one spares pool and one firmware baseline rather than several.

Buying a refurbished DL360 Gen10, and what does not transfer with it

Four things decide whether a used DL360 Gen10 is the server that was quoted. The chassis, because 8 SFF, 10 SFF and 4 LFF are not convertible into one another. The controller, because lane count needs to match bay count. The processor count, because twelve of the 24 DIMM slots are wired to the second socket. And the rear boot carrier, which is the part most often missing from a second-hand 1U server because it lives out of sight behind the chassis.

Entitlement does not travel with the chassis

Advanced out-of-band management on an HPE ProLiant server is a licensed tier bought per server against an order, and nothing about an entitlement can be read off a chassis, a serial number or a firmware screen. A reset does not restore one. HPE support agreements and the firmware and driver bundles gated behind them work the same way, attaching to a contract rather than to a piece of hardware. Both belong on the quote as line items rather than in the assumptions, and any listing promising that an advanced management licence transfers with second-hand hardware is describing something it cannot deliver.

Enterasource builds each HP ProLiant DL360 Gen10 to the specification ordered. Every unit is tested on receipt, then disassembled, cleaned, inventoried, picked, assembled, configured and tested again on the bench before it leaves the building. Whole systems including this server carry the 2-year Enterasource warranty, and shipping is free to the lower 48 states. Browse the full HPE ProLiant server range for the rest of the line.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 specifications?

Two sockets for Intel Xeon Scalable 1st or 2nd generation processors, 24 DDR4 DIMM slots at twelve per processor, a maximum of 3.0 TB with load-reduced DIMMs or 1.54 TB with registered DIMMs at 2933 MT/s, Intel Optane persistent memory to 6.0 TB, three front chassis covering 8 SFF, 10 SFF and 4 LFF, a rear boot option on every chassis, HPE Smart Array E208i-a, P408i-a or P816i-a modular controllers, and Flex Slot power supplies from 500 W to 1600 W including a -48 VDC option.

How does the DL360 Gen10 compare to the Dell PowerEdge R640?

Both are two-socket 1U servers on Intel Xeon Scalable 1st and 2nd generation processors with 24 DDR4 slots and a 2933 MT/s ceiling, and our configurators carry the same processor option depth for each, so compute is equivalent. The differences are ecosystem: HPE Smart Array controllers and HPE management tooling against Dell PERC and iDRAC9, and a rear SFF or Dual uFF boot carrier on the HPE side against the Dell BOSS M.2 module.

How many drives does a DL360 Gen10 hold?

Eight, ten or four in front depending on chassis, plus a rear boot position on all three. The 8 SFF chassis holds eight 2.5-inch drives and can be extended with two more SFF bays, two NVMe bays or two Dual uFF carriers holding four M.2 cartridges. The 10 SFF NVMe Premium chassis holds ten. The 4 LFF chassis holds four 3.5-inch drives. Every chassis also takes one rear SFF drive or one Dual uFF carrier with two M.2 cartridges.

What is the difference between the DL360 Gen10 and the DL360 Gen10 Plus?

Memory architecture and accelerator support. The Gen10 has 24 DDR4 slots at twelve per processor, a ceiling of 3.0 TB load-reduced or 1.54 TB registered at 2933 MT/s, and a primary GPU riser. The Gen10 Plus has 32 DDR4 slots at sixteen per processor, a ceiling of 8.0 TB load-reduced or 2.0 TB registered at 3200 MT/s on 3rd generation Xeon Scalable, and both primary and secondary full-height GPU risers. Rack height and socket count are identical.

Where do I find the DL360 Gen10 QuickSpecs?

The document identifier is a00008159enw, and the most recent revision recorded in our census is version 74 dated 18 May 2026, which carries the newest revision date of any Gen10 QuickSpecs in our estate. HPE publishes the document directly, and asking for that identifier by name is the reliable way to get the current revision rather than a mirrored copy of an older one. Enterasource does not host or reproduce HPE QuickSpecs documents.

Is the DL360 Gen10 still sold by Hewlett Packard Enterprise?

No. HPE marks the DL360 Gen10 QuickSpecs banner as retired, meaning the document is withdrawn and the base products are no longer available for sale from HPE. The platform remains widely deployed and well supplied on the secondary market, which is where a replacement or an expansion unit for an existing estate comes from. HPE publishes no support-end date for the platform on any public surface, so none is quoted here.