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HP Xw460c - ProLiant - Blade Workstation Overview

storage and file serving inside the BladeSystem enclosure. The X1800sb can also be used as a low

cost gateway to external FC, SAS, or iSCSI storage.

For the most up-to-date information about HP StorageWorks storage blade solutions, go to the HP

website:

www.hp.com/go/storageblades

Mezzanine cards

HP offers a variety of mezzanine card options to provide connectivity to networks and storage. HP

ProLiant c-Class server blades use two types of mezzanine cards to connect to the various interconnect

fabrics such as Fibre Channel, Ethernet, serial-attached SCSI, or InfiniBand. Type I and Type II

mezzanine cards differ only in the amount of power allocated to them by the server and in the

physical space they occupy on the server blade. Type I mezzanine cards have slightly less power

available to them and are slightly smaller. Type I mezzanine cards are compatible with all ProLiant

c-Class server blades in all mezzanine connectors (Table 1). Type II mezzanine cards are compatible

with Mezzanine 2 or 3 connectors in full-height c-Class server blades. Type II mezzanine cards are

also compatible with Mezzanine 2 connectors in half-height c-Class server blades.

Table 1. Compatibility of mezzanine cards and mezzanine connectors in ProLiant c-Class server blades

c-Class server blades

Mezz connector 1

Full height

Half height

Mezz connector 2

Full height

Half height

Mezz connector 3

Full height

Half height

For the most up-to-date information about the c-Class mezzanine card options, go to the HP website:

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/c-class-interconnects.html

Virtual Connect

Virtual Connect technology is a set of interconnect modules and embedded software for c-Class

enclosures that simplifies the setup and administration of server connections. HP Virtual Connect

includes the following components:

HP 1/10 Gb Virtual Connect Ethernet Module

HP 1/10 Gb-F Virtual Connect Ethernet Module

HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10 Gb Ethernet Module

HP Virtual Connect 4 Gb Fibre Channel Module

HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb 24-Port Fibre Channel Module

HP Virtual Connect Manager

Virtual Connect implements server-edge virtualization so that server administrators can upgrade,

replace, or move server blades within their enclosures without changes being visible to the external

LAN and SAN environments. HP recommends using Virtual Connect or managed switches to reduce

cabling and management overhead.

Like other Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches, Virtual Connect modules slide into the interconnect

bays of c-Class enclosures. To support Fibre Channel, the enclosure must have at least one Virtual

Type I mezz card

yes

Type II mezz card

yes