HP Z420

Product Items/Features
(Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported)
RH EL WS 4.8 or later
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x86 & EM64T
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RH EL DT 5.3 or later
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x86 & x86_64
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RH EL WS 6.0 or later
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x86 & x86_64
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SLED11 or later
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x86_64
)
HP Workstation Base System
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc.
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Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP Localization Kit
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Software
Remote Graphics Software
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 CPU configs) ••••
Hyperthreading
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Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
No Graphics Card
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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295
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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300
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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
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NVIDIA Quadro FX380
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NVIDIA Quadro 400
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NVIDIA Quadro FX580
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NVIDIA Quadro 600
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NVIDIA Quadro FX1800
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NVIDIA Quadro 2000
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NVIDIA Quadro FX3800
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NVIDIA Quadro 4000
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NVIDIA Quadro FX4800
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NVIDIA Quadro 5000
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NVIDIA Tesla C2075
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ATI v2270 PCIe - Single Card Supported
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ATI v3700 PCIe - Single Card Supported
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ATI v5700 PCIe - Single Card Supported
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ATI v7750 PCIe - Single Card Supported
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ATI v3800 PCIe - Single Card Supported
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ATI v3900 PCIe - Single Card Supported
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ATI v4800 PCIe - Single Card Supported
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ATI v4900 PCIe - Single Card Supported
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ATI v5800 PCIe - Single Card Supported
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ATI v5900 PCIe - Single Card Supported
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ATI v7900 PCIe - Single Card Supported
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System RAM
Minimum (GB)
1GB 1GB 1GB 1GB
Maximum (GB)
24GB 24GB 24GB 24GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS Disk Drives 4444
All Supported SSD Disk Drives ••••
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Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
HP Z400 Workstation Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL4.7 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL5.3 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL6.0 (x86 & x86_64) and SLED 11 (x86_64)
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All Supported USB Drive Keys ••••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5761 PCIe
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Intel Pro 1000 CT Gigabit PCI
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Intel NC360T PCIe Dual Port Gigabit NIC
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Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5764 10/100/1000
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Onboard Audio
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Onboard SATA RAID
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Add Ons
LSI 3041E SAS Card
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LSI 8888 ELP
4444
LSI 9212-4i
4444
LSI 9260-8i
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IEEE 1394A PCI Card
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IEEE 1394A PCI-E Card
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IEEE 1394B PCI-E Card
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USB 3.0 PCI-E Card
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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
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Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive
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HP 16x Super Multi DVD+RW
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HP BD-RE (writer)
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Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2
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HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2
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HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB
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HP Standard Keyboard, USB/PS2
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TPM Module/ Smart Card
22 in 1 Card Reader
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HP Printers
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All Supported Monitors
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footnote 5 - The Z400 can support up to 4 SATA drives. To support the third and fourth SATA drives, you must acquire the Optical Bay Conversion Kit for each drive.
footnote 6 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP printers, please visit http://www.hplip.net.
footnote 7 - Hyperthreading is supported on platforms when the processor allows it. There are one or two low-end processors which do not support turbo mode or hyperthreading.
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China (PRC), AB4 Singapore/
Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English, AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English).
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7", "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3", and "HP Installer
Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for SuSE Linux Enterpise Desktop 11" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/z400 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download drivers and software".
footnote 3 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW and Blu-ray media on Red Hat EL WS 4 or later, Red Hat EL 5 Desktop or later and SLED11 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe functionality,
please visit www.lightscribe.com for software to enable the labeling feature.
footnote 4 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 3041E (RAID 0,1 SAS only), LSI 8888 ELP (RAID 0, 1, 5 SAS only), LSI 9212 (RAID 0,1 SAS only) and the LSI 9260-8i (RAID 0, 1, 5 SAS only).
SATA RAID is not supported.