What the HP ZCentral 4R Is
The HP ZCentral 4R is a rack-mountable workstation built into a 1U (1 RU) chassis, designed to deliver tower-workstation class compute in a high-density rack footprint. Rather than sitting under a desk, it slides into a standard 19-inch rack alongside servers, which makes it popular in studios, engineering labs, research clusters and VDI/remote-graphics deployments where many workstations need to be centralised, cooled and managed in one place. Because it is a full workstation platform, it is typically paired with discrete professional GPUs rather than relying on integrated graphics.
Key Specifications and Technical Details
The ZCentral 4R is a single-socket platform. Published configurations pair it with Intel® Xeon® W-series processors (for example the Xeon W-2295 at 3 GHz with vPro), and memory configurations run from modest 64 GB kits up to 256 GB depending on the SKU and module mix. Storage is PCIe/NVMe SSD based, with factory configurations shipping dual large-capacity SSDs, and two PCIe 3.0 x16 slots accept up to two graphics cards — commonly NVIDIA® Quadro® class parts in the configurations resellers stock. Operating system options published by retailers include Windows 10 Pro for Workstations and an HP Linux Installer Kit covering 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 and Ubuntu 18.04.
| Attribute | Typical ZCentral 4R Specification |
|---|---|
| Form factor | 1U rack-mountable, 19-inch rack |
| Processor | Intel® Xeon® W-series, single socket, vPro-capable |
| Memory | Up to 256 GB (SKU dependent) |
| Storage | NVMe SSD, dual-drive configurations offered |
