Design and build
The sliding-rack and cable management arm allows DL360p to be serviced by sliding it out of the rack, which works seamlessly and without disconnecting any cables from the server. A more barebones version of the DL360p can be purchased without rails, or with a basic non-sliding friction mount.
The front panel of the DL360p is equipped with 2x USB ports and a VGA connector, the latter of which requires a Front Video Adapter Kit. Our unit features eight 2.5" SFF drive bays. There is also a slot for an optional optical drive to the left of the hot plug bays. The slide-out System Insight Display (SID) provides users with useful information so they can diagnose server failures or to ensure that everything is running well. If there are currently no failures, the system health is normal and LEDs will be green. If a failure does occur and a redundant feature has enabled the system to continue running, the LED will appear as amber. If a critical failure occurs and causes shutdown, the LED shows red. The two NIC 1 link/activity LED display the network status; green light and indicates that the network link exists whereas no light shows that the network does not exist. If the issue is serviceable without having to open the enclosure's hood, the External Health LED will illuminate. However, if the hood must be removed then the Internal Health LED illuminates. Note that depending on the model, you may or may not have this LED.

HP has jam-packed the DL360p server with useful features for many of its components and hardware. For example, the drive tray includes handy LED indicators: the rotating LED, where green tells users that there is drive activity, while off means no activity; the Locate LED, where solid blue means the drive is being identified by a host application, while flashing blue means firmware is being updated or requires and update; the do not remove LED, where solid white means removing the drive may cause logical drives to fail, while off means it is safe to remove. The drive status LED also gives users a plethora of information. Though it may seem a bit overwhelming when drives flashing all kinds of different lights, it's very straightforward on how to interpret what exactly is going on. HP is really keen on users being able to specifically diagnosing whatever might be going on within the server.