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user credentials. Two-factor authentication allows even tighter security for the user management session to the Onboard Administrator. Rather than requiring separate logins to multiple resources (once to each enclosure and/or once to every server management processor), the Onboard Administrator allo...

configured, the Insight Display verifies that there are no installation or configuration errors. The Installation Wizard turns off the enclosure UID when the installation is complete. When an error or alert condition is detected, the Insight Display Health Summary screen displays the total number of...

Figure 6. HP BladeSystem c3000 Onboard Administrator link module Enclosure link cabling The Onboard Administrator link module contains two enclosure link ports to allow any active Onboard Administrator module to access linked enclosures. On a standalone enclosure or upper enclosure in a series of li...

Enclosure-based DVD ROM The HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure has an optional CD/DVD ROM drive that installs in the front of the enclosure. The Insight Display and Onboard Administrator allow system administrators to connect and disconnect the media device to one or multiple servers at a time. In addit...

Figure 7. Optional c3000 KVM Module – KVM menu screen Interconnect options and infrastructure A key component of the c3000 enclosure is the I/O infrastructure—essentially, a NonStop signal midplane that provides the internal wiring between the server or storage blades and the interconnect modules. T...

Figure 8. Diagram of the HP BladeSystem c3000 signal midplane By taking advantage of the similar four-wire differential transmit and receive mechanism, the NonStop signal midplane can support either network-semantic protocols (such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand) or memory-semantic proto...

Figure 9. Logically overlaying physical lanes (right) onto sets of four traces (left) Each device bay connector has a 100-pin signal connector with 64 high-speed signal pins hard-wired from the device bay connector to the interconnect bays. This configuration results in 16 lanes (64 ÷ 4) to each int...

Each interconnect module also provides external connectors that vary based on the particular design. In the c3000 enclosure, pairs of single-wide interconnect modules installed in adjacent horizontal bays provide redundant connectivity for dual-port interfaces in each device bay. Adjacent interconne...

a Smart Array controller to enable hardware-based RAID configurations. A mezzanine card is not required to connect a half-height server blade to a direct attach storage blade. However, a full-height server blade does require a mezzanine card to connect to the direct attach storage blade. The card mu...

Figure 10. HP BladeSystem c3000 interconnect bay numbering For interconnect bay mapping purposes, it does not matter in which device bay a server blade is installed. The mezzanine connectors always connect to the same interconnect bays. Because the connections between the device bays and the interco...

Figure 13. HP BladeSystem c3000 device bay crosslinks as indicated by the arrows Interconnect bay crosslinks Interconnect bay crosslinks are wired between adjacent interconnect bay pairs as indicated by the arrows in the c3000 enclosure rear view (Figure 14). The crosslink connectivity is identical ...

HP Thermal Logic technologies include many elements and capabilities: • Active Cool fans • Parallel Redundant Scalable Enclosure Cooling (PARSEC) design • Instant power and thermal monitoring • Pooled power for a variety of power redundancy modes • Dynamic Power Saver mode • Power Regulator • Power ...

Figure 15. Ducted fan cross-section and ducted fan blade compared to traditional server fan HP PARSEC architecture The c3000 enclosure uses PARSEC architecture—parallel, redundant, scalable, enclosure-based cooling. In this context, parallel means that fresh, cool air flows over all the server blade...

Figure 16. HP BladeSystem c3000 self-sealing enclosure Redundant and scalable BladeSystem c3000 enclosures ship with four installed fans that provide redundancy and support up to four half-height devices in device bays 1, 2, 5, and 6, or two full-height server blades in device bays 1 and 2. Adding t...

Figure 17. The c3000 enclosure fan bay and device bay population guidelines Thermal Logic for the server blade Precise ducting on HP server blades manages airflow and temperature based on the unique thermal requirements of all the critical components. The airflow is tightly ducted to ensure that no ...

Figure 18. Processor heat sink using fully ducted design (left) and a traditional heat sink in a 1U rack-mount server (right) Instant Thermal Monitoring provides a real-time view of heat, power, and cooling data. The Onboard Administrator retrieves thermal information from all server blades, storage...

Figure 19. HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure supports up to six power supplies High efficiency HP c3000 power supplies provide greater than 90 percent efficiency in AC to DC conversion. These power supplies use the ProLiant universal form factor so they can also be used in other ProLiant servers. Each ...

Figure 21. Redundant HP BladeSystem c3000 power supplies connected to an HP R5500 UPS Connecting to PDUs with AC redundancy to each rack In an N+N AC redundancy configuration, the total power available in the power pool equals the amount from the A or B side, whichever contains fewer power supplies....

NOTE In redundant environments using Dynamic Power Saver mode, a minimum of two power supplies are always active. The maximum load for any power supply is 50 percent. Once the 50 percent load is reached, another two power supplies are activated to ensure redundancy at all times. HP Power Regulator f...

type, application utilization, and ambient temperature. The BladeSystem Power Sizer is available at the following URL: http://www.hp.com/go/bladesystem/powercalculator . Summary The HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure is the next generation of a new modular computing architecture that consolidates and si...

Figure A-3. Full-height server blade device bay numbering for HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure. Full--height servers should be populated from bottom to top (rack) or left to right (tower) when viewing from the front of the enclosure. With four fans, only the bottom or left two device bays can be used;...

37 CAUTION If a full-height server blade is installed in device bay 1/5 and half-height server blades are installed in device bays 2 or 6, removing the full-height server blade leaves server blades installed in device bays 2 and 6 unsupported. This might cause damage to the server blades and the enc...

For more information For additional information, refer to the resources listed below. Resource description Web address General HP BladeSystem information http://www.hp.com/go/bladesystem/ HP BladeSystem c-Class documentation http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/316735-0-0-0- 121.html HP BladeS...