HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 Review An AMD EPYC 8004 Edge Server

HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 Topology

We could not find the HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 block diagram. Instead, we have the topology.

Luckily, this is a single-socket system, so the entire system is attached to the AMD EPYC 8004 “Siena” CPU. We can see our Zen 4c cores along with the SSDs, NICs, and the NVIDIA L4 GPU.

HPE iLO 6 Management

Most folks in the HPE ecosystem are familiar with HPE iLO 6. Since this is a Gen11 server we get iLO 6 not iLO 7 that we are seeing on Gen12 machines.

HPE has a great dashboard.

There are features available beyond just the basics based on the license level. Our system came with the HTML5 iKVM enabled, which is always great.

HPE also has features like remote support integrated with iLO. These are the kind of features that are a step beyond what many other vendors are doing. Perhaps that is the big value add of iLO for organizations that want those higher-level features.

Overall, iLO has a robust ecosystem, and lots of documentation, so we are not going to go into it in-depth here. Still, if you have not seen it for many generations, it is getting nice upgrades.

HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 Performance

In terms of performance, we have done many AMD EPYC 8004 platform reviews at this point.

Performance was exactly what we would expect from the low-power AMD Zen 4c processor.

We also wanted to see if the NVIDIA L4 was performing at a clip similar to what we see in high-performance full-depth 2U servers.

The NVIDIA L4 is a 72W GPU that does not require additional power connections. Really, it is NVIDIA’s answer for those who want to put a 24GB GPU in just about any server. In the HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11, we had plenty of cooling. Just as a quick aside, we also used two NVIDAI T4’s in this system and we did not have issues with cooling those either. This might be a perfect application for the NVIDIA L4.

Next, let us get to the power consumption.