Your customer plans to deploy VMware ESXi 7.0 U2, and they are looking for a hardware platform that will allow them to use up to 24 TB of physical memory. Which HPE compute system meets the…

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Options

• AHPE Superdome Flex
• BHPE ProLiant DL380 Gen 10 Plus
• CHPE ProLiant DL580 Gen 10
• DHPE Synergy 480 Gen10 Plus

• A
  72% (36)
• B
  16% (8)
• C
  8% (4)
• D
  4% (2)

Explanation

HPE Superdome Flex is a mission-critical, modular server platform designed for extreme scalability, supporting up to 48 TB of physical memory across configurations - making it the only option here capable of meeting a 24 TB requirement under VMware ESXi 7.0 U2.

Why the distractors fail:

• B (DL380 Gen10 Plus) is a standard 2-socket rack server capped at roughly 6 TB of RAM - a solid general-purpose workhorse, but nowhere near 24 TB.
• C (DL580 Gen10) scales to 4 sockets, which sounds powerful, but it is still limited to approximately 6 TB of memory maximum.
• D (Synergy 480 Gen10 Plus) is a 2-socket compute module in HPE's composable infrastructure frame, with even tighter memory limits than the DL380 - designed for density and flexibility, not massive in-memory workloads.

Memory tip: When you see memory requirements in the tens of terabytes, think "mission-critical platform" - the Superdome Flex is HPE's answer for in-memory databases (SAP HANA, large Oracle workloads) where no standard ProLiant or Synergy module can compete. If the question mentions >12 TB RAM, Superdome is almost always the answer.

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