Page 3 - Abstract; components, see the HP website at; Overview of HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure; the c7000 enclosure is available on the HP technology website at
Abstract The HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure is the next generation in an evolution of the entire rack- mounted infrastructure. The c3000 enclosure is designed for remote sites, small and medium-sized businesses, and data centers with special power and cooling constraints. This technology brief provi...
Page 4 - Active Cool fan kits for a maximum of six fans
Figure 2. HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure – rear view The HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure has redundant signal paths between servers and interconnect modules. 1 The NonStop signal midplane in the c3000 enclosure has no active components. The enclosure is available with a single-phase power subsystem t...
Page 5 - OA support; Managing the c3000 enclosure; remote administration, local diagnostics, and troubleshooting.; Onboard Administrator; Detecting component insertion and removal
Table 1. Components supported by HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures Enclosure c3000 c7000 Model Rack (6U) or Tower Rack (10U) Blade orientation Horizontal (rack) Vertical (tower) Vertical Blades supported 8 HH , 4 FH, 6HH/1FH 16 HH, 8 FH Interconnect bays 4 8 Power supplies 6 at up to 1200 watts each...
Page 9 - “Managing the HP BladeSystem c-Class” at; Integrated Lights-Out 2 for c-Class server blades; back and forth to allow access to the power supplies.
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...
Page 10 - corrective action appear.; HP BladeSystem c-Class” at; Onboard Administrator cabling
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...
Page 11 - Enclosure link cabling; NOTE
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...
Page 12 - Enclosure-based DVD ROM; Install additional software; Enclosure KVM Module; PrintScrn
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...
Page 13 - Interconnect options and infrastructure
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...
Page 14 - Figure 9 illustrates
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...
Page 15 - communicate with another interconnect module.; Interconnect modules
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...
Page 16 - Server blades
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...
Page 17 - Mezzanine cards
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...
Page 19 - An example of a 2x port is a SAS interconnect module.
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...
Page 22 - HP Thermal Logic technologies
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 ...
Page 23 - Active Cool fans
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 ...
Page 24 - HP PARSEC architecture; parallel
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...
Page 25 - Redundant and scalable
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...
Page 26 - Thermal Logic for the server blade
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 ...
Page 27 - the proper HP BladeSystem environment.; Power supplies and enclosure power subsystem
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...
Page 28 - CAUTION; . The HP BladeSystem
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 ...
Page 30 - Dynamic Power Saver mode
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....
Page 31 - HP Power Regulator for ProLiant
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...
Page 32 - Summary
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...
Page 35 - IMPORTANT
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;...
Page 37 - be installed in device bay 4.
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...
Page 38 - For more information; For additional information, refer to the resources listed below.; Call to action; Send comments about this paper to
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...
