• No mixing of processor types within a nPartition
• No support for processors running at different frequencies or different cache sizes within the same
nPartition
• Processor modules on a blade must be the same revision, frequency, & cache size
• Mixing of processors with different frequencies and/or cache sizes will be NOT allowed within a
nPartition
• You can mix blades of different processor frequencies, cache sizes and generations within a single
enclosure provided each different processor type is in separate nPartitions per the rules listed above.
Interconnect 2 (SMI2 or VMSE) technology on the memory controller and the DDR3 DIMMs.
The following DIMMs are supported on BL920s Gen9 blades:
• 16GB DDR4-2133 CAS-15-15-15 LRDIMMs for BL920s Gen9 (v3)
• 32GB DDR4-2133 CAS-15-15-15 LRDIMMs for BL920s Gen9 (v3)
• 32GB DDR4-2400 CAS-17 LRDIMMs for BL920s Gen9 (v4)
• 64GB DDR4-2400 CAS-17 LRDIMMs for BL920s Gen9 (v4)
The following DIMMs are supported on BL920s Gen8 blades:
• 16GB PC3-12800R (DDR3-1600) Registered CAS-11 DIMMs for BL920s Gen8
• 32GB PC3-14900R (DDR3-1866) Registered CAS-13 DIMMs for BL920s Gen8
Only DIMMs that Hewlett Packard Enterprise has qualified on BL920s Server Blades are supported.
The BL920s Server Blade supports 48 DIMMs and eight Intel® Scalable Memory Buffer chips. This equates to
twelve DIMMs and two Scalable Memory Buffer chips per memory controller (two memory controllers per
processor).
General memory configuration rules:
• For best performance, the amount of memory on each blade within the partition should be the same.
• Use the same amount of memory on each processor module within a partition.
• Use fewer DIMM populations of larger DIMM sizes to get the best performance where possible (use