HP server blades offer an entirely modular computing system with separate computing and physical I/O modules that are connected and shared through a common chassis, called an enclosure; for more information on enclosures, see “Server Blade Enclosure Components” (page 22). Full-height Opteron server blades can take up to four dual core CPUs and Xeon server blades can take up to two quad cores.

Table 1-2lists the HP ProLiant hardware models supported for use in an HP XC hardware configuration.

Table 1-2 Supported HP ProLiant Server Blade Models

HP Proliant

 

 

Core

 

Hot Plug

Mezzanine

 

 

 

 

Blade Model

Height

Processor

Number

Built-In NICs

Drives

Slots

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BL2x220c G5

half

Intel Xeon

up to two quad core or

2 (1 per

0

2 (1 per

 

 

 

up to two dual core per

server node)

 

server node)

 

 

 

server node

 

 

 

BL260c G5

half

Intel Xeon

up to two quad core or

1

0

1

 

 

 

up to two dual core

 

 

 

BL460c

half

Intel Xeon

up to two quad core or

2

2

2

 

 

 

up to two dual core

 

 

 

BL465c

half

AMD Opteron

up to two single core or

2

2

2

 

 

 

up to two dual core

 

 

 

BL465c G5

half

AMD Opteron

up to two single core or

2

2

2

 

 

 

up to two dual core

 

 

 

BL480c

full

Intel Xeon

up to two quad core or

4

4

3

 

 

 

up to two dual core

 

 

 

BL680c G5

full

Intel Xeon

two quad core or four

4

2

3

 

 

 

quad core

 

 

 

BL685c

full

AMD Opteron

up to four dual core

4

2

3

BL685c G5

full

AMD Opteron

up to four dual core

4

2

3

BL860c

full

Intel Itanium®

up to two quad core or

4

2

3

 

 

 

dual core

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information on an individual server blade, see the QuickSpec for your model. The QuickSpecs are located at the following Web address:

http://www.hp.com/go/clusters

1.1.2 Supported Server Blade Combinations

The HP XC System Software supports the following server blade hardware configurations:

•A hardware configuration composed entirely of HP server blades, that is, the head node, the service nodes, and all compute nodes are server blades.

•A hardware configuration can contain a mixture of Opteron and Xeon server blades, but not Itanium server blades.

•A mixed hardware configuration of HP server blades and non-blade servers where:

—The head node can be either a server blade or a non-blade server

—Service nodes can be either server blades or non-blade servers

—All compute nodes are server blades

1.1 Supported Cluster Platforms

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