HPE ProLiant DL20 Gen11 NS204i-u Hot Plug Boot Optimized Storage

Lifecycle

• Obsolete Date 30-09-2027

Specifications

• Cache N/A
• Form factor PCIe half-height, half-length (HHHL) card
• Warranty HPE Solid State Drives (SDDs) and add-in cards have a standard 3/0/0 warranty; customer self repair (CSR) subject to maximum usage limitations. Maximum usage limit is the maximum amount of data that can be written to the drive. Drives that have reached this limit will not be eligible for warranty coverage.
• RAID levels Preconfigured hardware RAID 1
• Drive supported 2280 M.2 NVMe SSD, included with kit
• Capacity 480 GB
• Form factor (fully configured) PCIe HHHL card, mezzanine or 1U riser
• Platform supported HPE Mainstream Compute Platforms, see QuickSpecs for more information
• Compliance RoHS, Lot 9
• Usable capacity 480 GB
• PCIe support Gen3
• Battery N/A
• Maximum drives supported 2, included in kit

Quickspecs

• QuickSpecs
• QuickSpecs (PDF)
• QuickSpecs (HTML)
• QuickSpecs

Overview

Do you need to simplify data segregation? HPE Boot Device Options offer enterprise customers turnkey, resilient boot solutions that easily segregate the OS from the data storage plane in today’s popular OS for virtualized environments—VMware®, Linux®, Windows. NS204i presents itself to your management interface as a single directly connected NVMe drive, not a RAID controller. As the NS204i is a hardware boot device, only RAID 1 mode is supported and it will not operate in any other RAID mode. NS204i is plug-and-play with no need to configure or manage the device. Always ensure you are running the latest HPE iLO version and update server BIOS, FW and drivers when they become available.

What’s new

• Dedicated hardware RAID 1 OS boot device
• Includes two HPE enterprise-class 480 GB NVMe M.2 SSDs
• Utilizes native in-box OS NVMe drivers
• Hot-plug universal installation (No longer requires a PCIe slot)
• No cables or backplanes required

Features

Simple and Secure OS Mirroring Through Dedicated Hardware RAID 1

HPE Boot Device Options is a complete, turnkey optimized that is easy to deploy—no need to configure or format, simply insert and it works, no GUI or user setup required.

Pre-configured RAID 1 boot device utilizes a single HPE Synergy designed card that connects to PCIe connection under drive cages to safely isolate OS from user data in today’s popular virtualized environments.

HPE Boot Devices are certified for VMware and Microsoft Azure Stack HCI for increased flexibility.

It is engineered with enterprise-class high-endurance NAND for non-stop data center environments.

It uses native in-box drive support for VMware, Linux, and Windows OS.

It enables all drive bays to be used for data, greatly reducing server complexity, while providing an economical way for booting in virtualized environments.

State-of-the-Art, Hardware Accelerated RAID 1 NVMe Boot Device

HPE enterprise-class NVMe M.2 SSDs deliver enhanced data protection with power loss protection and error correction.

Full Hardware RAID 1 Boot Solution for VMware Environments

HPE USB flash drive with dual 32 GB microSD cards and on-board RAID 1 boot device deliver redundant OS boot without consuming server storage drive bays.

It has integrated on-board RAID 1 for customers requiring dual boot solutions.

Increased Storage Density and Dedicated Hardware RAID 1 Resiliency for Boot Device

HPE Boot Device Options provide separate, redundant disk solutions for the OS that enables a more robust, optimized compute platform.

Dedicated hardware RAID 1 boot device mirroring helps eliminate downtime due to a failed OS drive—even if one drive fails the business continues running.

Compatible products

• HPE DL20 GEN11 E-2434 1P 16G 4SFF SVR
• HPE ProLiant DL20 Gen11 E-2436 2.9GHz 6-core 1P 16GB-U 4SFF 800W PS Server

Documents

• An Intelligent Choice for Virtualized Workloads product brief
• HPE OS Boot Device Options