P55953-001 - HPE ML350 G11 54116S MR408I-O 8SFF Tower Server

HPE P55953-001 — ProLiant ML350 Gen11 1P Xeon Gold 5416S (16-core) NC 8×SFF, 32GB, MR408i-o, 800W RPS (Tower)

What it is

An HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen11 tower server (rack-convertible 4U) pre-configured for scalable office/edge or data-center workloads.
P55953-001 is a Network Choice (NC) build with a single Intel Xeon Gold 5416S, 8× SFF hot-swap bays, 32GB DDR5, and an HPE MR408i-o Gen11 RAID/storage controller. It ships with an 800W Flex Slot Platinum hot-plug PSU and is RPS-ready for redundant power.

Why buyers pick P55953-001 (plain English)

• Tower flexibility with enterprise guts
  Great for branches/offices that want a tower now, with the option to rack it later.

• Gold-tier CPU baseline
  16 cores is a strong “do-everything” starting point for virtualization, apps, and databases.

• SSD-friendly 8×SFF layout
  Clean front-bay setup for fast local storage without a huge drive count.

• Network Choice freedom
  Lets you standardize on your preferred OCP/PCIe NICs (1/10/25Gb) instead of a fixed onboard config.

• Hardware RAID included
  MR408i-o provides cache-backed RAID for production storage builds.

60-second spec box (P55953-001)

Processor

• 1 × Intel Xeon Gold 5416S

• 16 cores / 32 threads, 2.0 GHz base (turbo ~4.0 GHz class)

• Chassis supports up to 2 CPUs (add a second later)

Memory

• 32 GB DDR5 Registered (1 × 32 GB RDIMM)

• Large Gen11 DDR5 expansion ceiling

Drive bays / storage

• 8 × 2.5" SFF hot-swap bays (front)

• Ships without drives

• HPE MR408i-o Gen11 OCP controller with 4GB cache

• Supports SAS/SATA; NVMe depends on selected backplane

Networking

• Network Choice (NC)

• OCP 3.0 / PCIe NIC options per your build

Expansion

• Multiple PCIe Gen5/Gen4 slots for NICs, HBAs, accelerators

Power

• 1 × 800W Flex Slot Platinum hot-plug PSU installed

• Supports second PSU for 1+1 redundancy

Form factor

• Tower / 4U rack-convertible ML350 Gen11 chassis

Included / not included

• No HDD/SSD

• No OS (BTO-ready)

Where it fits (and when to choose something else)

Perfect for:

• Branch/edge or office deployments needing a quiet, serviceable tower

• Virtualization hosts, app servers, file/print, light database workloads

• Customers who want Gen11 longevity with room to scale

Choose something else if:

• You want rack-only → DL360/DL380 Gen11

• You need lots of big disks → ML350 Gen11 LFF configs

• You’re building GPU-heavy workloads → GPU-optimized ProLiant variants

TL;DR

P55953-001 is a scalable ML350 Gen11 tower starter build:
1× Xeon Gold 5416S (16-core), 32GB DDR5, MR408i-o RAID controller, 8×SFF hot-swap chassis, Network Choice NIC flexibility, and 800W redundant-ready power.