QuickSpecs
HP ProLiant BL30p Server Blade
Standard Features (Server Blade Enclosure and Interconnects)
Full featured
ProLiant BL | The Storage Connectivity Kit (option) is required for Fibre Channel signal |
Storage Connectivity Kit | CGESM or a GbE2 Interconnect Switch Kit. Both Ethernet cable consolidation and Fibre Channel |
Option | connectivity is possible using a single interconnect option. Order one Storage Connectivity Kit per server |
(supports a pair of two | blade enclosure for Fibre Channel pass through of HP ProLiant BL20p and HP ProLiant BL30p server |
CGESM or GbE2 switches) blades series.
The Storage Connectivity Kit includes two OctalFC Interconnect Modules that provide sixteen open transceiver cages for the pluggable small form factor transceivers that come with each HP ProLiant BL30p
ProLiant BL p-Class
RJ-45 Patch Panel
(A pair of patch panels
provided per kit)
(Each server blade enclosure requires a pair of interconnects - patch panels or interconnect switches)
6U
Passes through Ethernet NIC signals, from all installed server blades, individually out as
Supports Gigabit Ethernet network adapters.
16
The benefits to the
-Allows the customer to connect signals to their own LAN infrastructure components.
-Provides very economical option enabling the lowest cost blade solution.
-Is completely passive and requires no software or management.
ProLiant BL
Patch Panel 2 (with Fibre
Channel pass through)
(A pair of patch panels provided per kit)
(Each server blade enclosure requires a pair of interconnects - patch panels or interconnect switches)
6U
Passes through Ethernet NIC signals, from all installed server blades, individually out as
Supports Gigabit Ethernet network adapters.
16
Passes through Fibre Channel signals, from all installed HP ProLiant BL20p and HP ProLiant BL30p server blades series, individually out through small form factor pluggable (SPF) transceiver cages.
Supports 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel signals and backward compatible with existing 1 Gb/s Fibre Channel equipment.
NOTE: Either Patch Panel 2 or a Switch Interconnect Kit is required for SAN connectivity with HP ProLiant BL20p server blade series and HP ProLiant BL30p server blades series.
8 Fibre Channel small form factor pluggable (SPF) transceiver cages on the front of each Patch Panel 2 (16 Fibre Channel SPF transceiver cages per server blade enclosure).
The benefits to the
-Allows the customer to connect signals to their own LAN and SAN infrastructure components.
-Provides a very economical option enabling the lowest cost blade solution.
-Is completely passive and requires no software or management.
-Electrically isolates the Ethernet and Fibre Channel signals from each other.
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