HP nPartitions (nPars) manual Overview, Server blade overview

1 Overview

The HP Integrity BL860c i4 Server Blade is a dense, low-cost, Intel® Itanium® processor server blade. Using a Blade Link hardware assembly, multiple BL860c i4 Server Blades can be conjoined to create dual-blade, four socket and quad-blade, eight socket variants.

Name	Number of Conjoined Server Blades	Number of Processor Sockets
BL860c i4	1	2
BL870c i4	2	4
BL890c i4	4	8

The three blade configurations support the HP-UX operating system and are designed for deployment in HP c-Class enclosures, specifically the 10U c7000 and the 6U c3000 Enclosures. The nPartition configuration feature is enabled from the factory, enabling the BL870c i4 and BL890c i4 to be partitioned into one more electrically isolated partitions. See the nPartitions Administrator Users Guide for more information.

NOTE: For purposes of this guide, make sure that the c-Class server blade enclosure is powered on and running properly and that the OA and iLO 3 is operational.

Server blade overview

				PCIe I/O
				Mezzanine card	SAS Hard Disk
Product	CPU cores (octo)	DIMM slots	max memory	capacity	Drives
BL860c i4	16	24	364GB with	3	2
			16GB DIMMs
BL870c i4	32	48	768GB with	6	4
			16GB DIMMs
BL890c i4	64	96	1.5TB with 16GB	12	8
			DIMMs

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