1 HP Workgroup System Overview

The HP Workgroup System is delivered to you factory assembled and ready for deployment. HP Workgroup System solutions offer a choice of HP ProLiant c-Class BladeSystem half-height

server blades with either Intel® Xeon™ or AMD Opteron™ processors. One server blade in the configuration is designated as the head node, which you can configure separately from the remaining server blades (compute nodes) in the enclosure. The head node can also be used for preprocessing, postprocessing, and computational workload. Compute nodes are normally used for application computation rather than administrative tasks.

NOTE: A hardware configuration can contain a mixture of Opteron and Xeon nodes, but not Itanium nodes.

The HP Workgroup System is comprised of a single-cabinet cluster containing a variety of components installed to meet the following specifications:

•A single Onboard Administrator (OA) module

•Up to eight half-height server blades

•A shared administration/Gigabit Ethernet network

•SB40 storage blade (optional)

The software option described in this document is HP XC System Software. It is not preinstalled. Installation procedures are included in this document in Chapter 5 (page 27). When you are done, the HP XC System Software will be fully installed, configured, and operational.

1.1 HP Workgroup System Views

The HP Workgroup System ships with the server blades and all of the factory integrated modules installed. Figure 1-1shows an example front view of the HP Workgroup System.

Figure 1-1 Example Front View

The following list describes the callouts in Figure 1-1:

1.DVD optical drive

2.HP ProLiant BL260c, BL460c, or BL465c half-height server blades (eight)

3.Redundant OA module slot (reserved)

4.HP Insight Display

5.OA module

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