

The reduction in heat within the server means HPE could also drop down to one fan from two fans in the prior chassis. Much of this is related to moving the power supply (180W) outside the enclosure, which has a secondary benefit besides size.

Immediately obvious is the reduction in size, the Plus is roughly half the size of the predecessor. HPE has made many changes in the generational progression to the Gen10 Plus. The HPE line of MicroServers are also extremely popular with the homelab and mod communities, largely because of this combination of quality, out-of-band management and price combination in the diminutive enclosure. The MicroServer is ideal for small business and can be used for a variety of use cases including hybrid cloud needs, or for workloads that need enterprise server reliability and management, without the rack and server room.

This nifty little device is very compact and affordable, while remaining powerful and highly customizable. Last month, HPE quietly snuck out their new HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen 10 Plus.
