HP BladeSystem p-Class 1U manual Standard configurations

Standard configurations

The following configurations review some common usage scenarios for the HP BladeSystem p-Class 1U power enclosure, including the type of server blades populated and PDU options.

Using ProLiant BL35p server blades

In this configuration, the rack contains three enhanced server blade enclosures, three 1U power enclosures, and six PDUs (Figure 9). Each enhanced server blade enclosure is populated with ProLiant BL35p server blades and supported by a 1U power enclosure with four power supplies installed. The 1U power enclosures are attached to two 24 A modular PDUs.

The ProLiant BL35p server blades have two single-core 2.4-GHz processors with 1 MB L2 cache, 4 GB of RAM, and one 60-GB hard drive, resulting in 4,270 VA input. Four power supplies are needed in the 1U power enclosures for redundant power. The 24 A modular PDU used in this configuration has a load capacity of 4,992 VA, so it can support one server blade enclosure populated with ProLiant BL35p server blades.

Figure 9. Rack with enhanced server blade enclosures populated with ProLiant BL30p server blades, three 1U power enclosures and six 24 A modular PDUs

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