HP XC System Software 3.2.1 manual Supported Server Blade Combinations

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 21