As server, storage and network technologies have changed; traditional rack-mounted infrastructure solutions have generated increased complexity of both infrastructure management and physical datacenter deployment.
HP BladeSystem is the evolution of the entire rack-mounted infrastructure. A BladeSystem reduces costs and simplifies the management, building, and maintenance of the infrastructure behind your multi-server environment. It consolidates and repackages all the supporting infrastructure elements-compute, storage, network, and power into a single platform that can accelerate the integration and optimization of your data center.
With the flexibility to scale from a single enclosure holding up to 16 blades, to a rack containing 4 enclosures holding up to 64 blades, the c-Class infrastructure is designed to meet the needs of today's businesses.
An HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure is made up of several components:
- ProLiant and Integrity Server blades for Windows, Linux, and HP UX.
- Choice of AMD or Intel processors, including the latest dual-core processors for 32-bit and 64-bit applications.
- HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosure that provides connectivity, power, and cooling options. The c-Class enclosure is designed for full redundancy and high availability. Redundant power, cooling, enclosure management, and interconnect modules are part of the standard enclosure design.
- Onboard Administrator module which provides a single point of control for intelligent management of the entire enclosure.
- Insight Display powered by the Onboard Administrator provides local management through an LCD display conveniently sited on the front of the system.
- Ethernet, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, iSCSI, and other interconnect choices
- A power subsystem that provides hot-plug redundant power modes and Dynamic Power Saving mode, which uses up to 22% less power than traditional rack-mounted servers.
- PARSEC (Parallel, Redundant, Scaleable, Enclosure Cooling) architecture: for maximum cooling that consumes less power and reduces datacenter noise.
- Zoned cooling that allows only those fans that are required to speed up, reducing power consumption noise and airflow through the system.
- Direct-attach storage blades, tape blades, or future shared storage blades, which will provide block-based shared storage capacity for the server blades in the enclosure.
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