administrator can take full, remote control of the enclosure and quickly complete the configuration. The c-Class blades are now ready for the operating system deployment from the RDP server.

The c7000 enclosure houses the entire infrastructure for all HP BladeSystem components (server blades, blade network switches or pass-through modules, blade SAN switches or SAN pass-through modules, management modules, power supplies, and fans). In addition, the enclosure provides an integrated on-board Insight Display screen that allows for the physical management of the entire BladeSystem enclosure and components.

Figure 5. HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure, front view, empty: BLc7000 Enclosure Part number: 412152-B21

Table 1. BLc7000 Enclosure Specification

Device bays (Front side)

• Up 16 Half-Height Blades

• Up to 8 Full-Height Blades

 

 

• Mixed configurations supported

 

 

Interconnect bays (Rear side)

Installed in matched pairs for redundancy, 8 total, any

 

supported I/O fabric (Ethernet, Fibre Channel,

 

InfiniBand (IB))

 

 

Interconnects Ethernet

• HP 1Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module

• 3020 Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch

 

 

• GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch

 

 

Interconnects Fibre Channel (FC)

• HP 16 port 4Gb FC Pass-Thru Module

• Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch

 

 

 

Interconnects InfiniBand

HP 4X DDR IB Switch Module

 

 

Power supply (Rear side)

Up to 6 x 2250W

 

 

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