HP BL870c User Manual
QuickSpecs
Overview
HP Integrity BL870c Server Blade
1.
Four small form factor (SFF) hot-plug drive bays
2.
Three PCIe Mezzanine slots
3.
Processor 0 of up to four Intel® Itanium® 9100 series
processors
4.
Processor 1 of up to four Intel® Itanium® 9100 series
processors
At A Glance
This document covers the HP Integrity BL870c server blade only. For more information on HP BladeSystem c-Class
Infrastructure and HP BladeSystem c-Class Interconnects, please see the following QuickSpecs:
HP BladeSystem c-Class Infrastructure QuickSpecs:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12517_div/12517_div.html
HP BladeSystem c-Class Interconnect Components QuickSpecs:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12524_div/12524_div.html
The HP Integrity BL870c delivers the performance, reliability, and availability on 64-bit operating systems for the ultimate in
scalability and flexibility in deployment: HP-UX 11i v3/v2, 64-bit versions of Red Hat and SUSE Linux Windows® Server
2003 (Enterprise and Datacenter editions), and OpenVMS v8.3. To further enrich your cost-efficient, consolidated Integrity
blade infrastructure, HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) can help with solution components such as HP Integrity Virtual
Machines, HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor and Virtualization Manager, HP-UX Workload Manager, HP VSE
Reference Architectures, and HP Serviceguard.
HP Integrity BL870c server blade includes:
Processor:
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Up to four Intel® Itanium® 9100 Series processors
Memory:
Up to 96 GB of memory. Supporting (24) DDR2-533 ECC memory DIMMS
Storage Controller:
Embedded LSI 1068 SAS RAID Controller integrated on system board
Standard SAS controller (RAID 1 only)
Internal Drive Support:
Supports up to (4) four small form factor (SFF) SAS hot plug hard drives
Network Controller:
Four (4) Embedded Standard Gigabit NICs
Plus one (1) additional 10/100 NIC dedicated to Integrity iLO 2 Management
Mezzanine Support:
Three (3) additional I/O expansion slots via mezzanine cards.
Supports up to (3) mezzanine cards
Dual-Port Fibre Channel Mezzanine (4-Gb) options for SAN connectivity (QLogic).
4X DDR InfiniBand (IB) Mezzanine (20 Gb/s) options for low latency server interconnectivity
NOTE:
http://www.hp.com/go/hptc
Four-Port GbE adapter expansion via HP NC364m PCI-Express Quad-Port Adapter
Internal USB Support:
Internal USB port on the BL870c
Management:
HP Integrity Server Blades Management Software
Integrity Integrated Lights Out 2 (iLO 2) management processor
HP Integrity Integrated Light Out 2 (iLO 2) with Advanced Pack, (factory integrated)
HP Integrity Essentials,
HP System Insight Manager
HP System Management Homepage
HP-UX 11i Management Software for Integrity Blades,
HP BladeSystem Infrastructure Management Software:
HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager in HP SIM
HP Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem
HP BladeSystem c-Class Onboard Administrator
HP BladeSystem c-Class Virtual Connect
Enterprise Management Software
Data Protector Software
GlancePlus Pak
Performance Manager and Agent
Virtualization with HP Virtual Server Environment,
Intelligent Control
HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor
HP Integrity Essentials Virtualization Manager
HP-UX Workload Manager
HP Systems Insight Manager
Partitioning Continuum
HP Integrity Virtual Machines (with HP-UX guest OS's and Windows Guest OS's)
HP Process Resource Manager/pSets
Secure Resource Partitions
Continuous availability
HP Serviceguard for HP-UX 11i
HP Serviceguard Extensions for SAP
HP Serviceguard Extensions for Faster Failover
VSE Reference Architectures
VSE Suites including HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor, HP Integrity Essentials Virtualization
Manager, HP-UX Workload Manager, HP Integrity Virtual Machines, and VSE Reference Architectures
Form Factor:
For Linux support See the HPC Cluster Platform 6000 at:
HP Ignite-UX
HP-UX Software Assistant (SWA)
HP Integrity BL870c Server Blade
www.hp.com/go/integrityilo
www.hp.com/go/integrityessentials
www.hp.com/go/hpuxblades
www.hp.com/go/vse
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The BL870c server blade plugs vertically into the BladeSystem c7000 and c3000 enclosures
HP Integrity BL870c server blade is a full-height, BladeSystem c-Class form factor occupying two (2) full height
slots.
BL870c server blades can be configured in a fully populated rack.
Enclosures:
HP offers three different c-Class server blade enclosures to meet your individual needs:
The HP BladeSystem c7000 rack enclosure is 10U high and holds up to 4 HP ProLiant BL870c servers
plugged vertically. Four (4) enclosures can be configured to a standard 42U rack
The HP BladeSystem c3000 rack enclosure is 6U high and holds up to 2 HP ProLiant BL870c servers
plugged horizontally. Up to 7 enclosures can be configured to a standard 42U rack
The HP BladeSystem c3000 tower enclosure is designed with casters for sites without racks and holds up
to 2 HP ProLiant BL870c servers plugged vertically.
The HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure targets three separate market segments:
Remote sites needing between 2 and 8 server blades
Mid-sized companies with between 3 and 100 servers in their company
Enterprise accounts with special datacenter requirement, such as DC power, or very limited rack
power and cooling capacity.
Server blades, storage blades, and interconnect modules are all designed to fit into the c7000 and c3000
enclosures.
Warranty:
Protected by HP Services and a worldwide network of HP Authorized Channel Partners. Three-year parts, 3
Year Labor and 3 Year on-site limited global warranty. Certain restrictions and exclusions apply
HP Integrity BL870c Server Blade
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Standard Features
HP Integrity BL870c Server Blade
Processor
Upgradeability
Cache Memory
Chipset
Memory
Intel® Itanium® Dual-Core Processors Model 9150N (1.6 GHz, 24MB L3 cache, FSB533)
Intel® Itanium® Dual-Core Processors Model 9140N (1.6 GHz, 18MB L3 cache, FSB533)
Intel® Itanium® Dual-Core Processors Model 9120N (1.42 GHz, 12MB L3 cache, FSB533)
Upgradeable to four (4) processors
NOTE:
The HP Integrity BL870c supports 1, 2, 3 or 4 processor configurations. Processors must
be identical
L2 cache per core; 1MB Instruction, 256KB Data
HP zx2
Type
Minimum
Maximum
NOTE:
NOTE:
identical DIMM types and capacities
Memory modules consist of four (4) DIMMs.
Double Chip Spare is enabled in a single memory module. Double Chip Spare requires
PC2-4200 DDR2 DIMMs (DDR2-533)
4 GB (4 x 1 GB)
96 GB (24 x 4 GB)
Network Adapter
Expansion Slots
Integrated
Manageability
Storage Controller
Maximum Internal
Storage
Graphics
Four (4) embedded NIC ports, plus one (1) additional management NIC port:
Four (4) NIC (LOM) ports via (2) Broadcom 5704 Dual Port Gigabit NIC
One (1) additional 10/100 NIC dedicated to Integrity iLO 2 Management
Three Mezzanine slots (two (2) Type II PCIe, one (1) Type I PCIe x4)
Integrity Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) Advanced Pack (Factory integrated)
HP BladeSystem c-Class Onboard Administrator
HP BladeSystem c-Class Virtual Connect
LSI 1068 SAS Controller
Hot Plug Serial Attach
SCSI (SAS)
Integrated ATI ES1000 1280 x 1024 x 16M color (32 MB DDR memory)
4 SAS Channels (one to each HDD)
Supports RAID 1 only
584GB SAS
4x 146GB Serial Attached SCSI
Graphics Resolution
Supported
Resolution Color Depths
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Depths 1280 x 1024, 16.7M , 64k, 256,16
1024 x 768, 16.7M, 64k, 256, 16
800 x 600, 16.7M, 64k, 256, 16
640 x 480, 16.7M, 64k, 256, 16
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Standard Features
HP Integrity BL870c Server Blade
Fibre Channel on the
HP Integrity BL870c
server blade
Compatible SAN
Integrity Server Blades
Management Software
and HP Integrity
Essentials Software
Plug-ins
Optional Fibre Channel HBAs are supported by the HP Integrity BL870c. The mezzanine circuit
board connects directly to the server blade system board.
QLogic QMH2462 4Gb FC HBA for HP c-Class BladeSystem (403619-B21)
QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs feature
Optimal performance utilizing PCI Express
4/2/1Gb/s auto negotiating speeds
Dual-ports for redundant path connections
Up to two FC HBAs per server blade providing redundant FC HBA support
Optimized for HP StorageWorks and supported by third party SAN vendors
Support for HP-UX, Microsoft® Windows® OpenVMS, and Linux operating systems
environments
HP Integrity BL870c server blades are optimized for HP StorageWorks MSA, EVA, and XP
HP Integrity BL870c server blades are compatible with select third party SANs (please see blade
storage page for more details:
Class/storage.html
HP-UX 11i Management
Software for HP Integrity
BL870c Server Blade
and HP BladeSystem
)
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliant-bl/c-
Getting Started
HP Systems Insight Manager
HP Integrity Essentials for HP-UX 11i
HP-UX 11i System Management
HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager in HP System Insight
Manager
HP Onboard Administrator
HP BladeSystem c-Class Onboard Administrator Firmware
HP BladeSystem c-Class Virtual Connect Firmware
HP Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem
Deploy
HP Ignite-UX
Software Distributor-UX
Software Package Builder
Monitor
HP Systems Insight Manager
HP System Management Homepage
Glance Plus Pak
Performance Manager and Agent
HP Serviceguard Manager
Control
HP Integrity Integrated Lights Out (iLO) 2 (Advanced Pack
factory integrated with BL870c)
HP Integrity iLO 2 Power Regulation for HP-UX 11i v3
Protect
HP-UX Bastille
Secure Resource Partitions
Data Protector Software
Software Assistant (SWA)
Security Patch Check and Patch Assessment Tool
Optimize
HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisory
HP Integrity Essentials Virtualization Manager
HP-UX Workload Manager
Process Resource Manager
HP Insight Power Manager
*
*
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Standard Features
HP Integrity BL870c Server Blade
Integrate
HP Business Technology Optimization
IT Management Software
HP Virtual Server Environment Suite for HP-UX 11i for HP
Integrity server blades
Learn More
HP-UX 11i on Integrity Server Blades
*Fee based software products which aren't bundled with the HP-UX 11i
v3/v2 Foundation OE. GlancePlus Pak and the Performance Agent are
bundled with the HP-UX 11i v3/v2 Enterprise OE.
NOTE:
For additional information on HP Insight Control Environment
BladeSystem support on specific components supported with HP-UX
please visit:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12631_div/
12631_div.html
Glossary of Integrity
Server Blades
Management Software
Product Description
HP BladeSystem
Integrated Manager in
HP Systems Insight
Manager
HP Blades Visualization
HP GlancePlus Pak
HP Ignite-UX
for HP-UX Deployments
HP Integrity Essentials
Capacity Advisor
HP Integrity Essentials
Foundation Pack for
Linux
The HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager is a component in HP
Systems Insight Manager (SIM) that provides streamlined management
for the entire HP BladeSystem product family. The HP BladeSystem
Integrated Manager enables users to quickly navigate their HP blade
environments including blade servers, enclosure infrastructures, racks,
and integrated switches, via automatically generated blade rack picture
views and hierarchical trees. Users are able to conveniently configure,
deploy, and manage individual or groups of blade systems. Additionally,
users are able to quickly set up logical collections of blade systems for
convenient management and control.
Used by System Administrators to identify, associate and group blades
into collections, using tables, trees, and picture views, and it can also
be used to monitor performance and launch Integrity Essentials.
NOTE:
Servers go to
HP GlancePlus Pak provides you with a single product for managing a
system's availability and performance. It is an integrated product that
includes
includes the real-time diagnostic capabilities of GlancePlus and the
historical data collection capabilities of the Performance Agent. The
performance agent is used with other availability and performance
management products, thus providing an integrated real-time and
historical performance management solution.
HP Ignite-UX is a free toolset that enables a network install of HP-UX
onto multiple PA-RISC and/or Integrity servers on a network. It can also
be used to create custom install configurations, or golden images,
recover systems remotely, create custom recovery media including
tape, CD and DVD, and manage and monitor multiple client installation
sessions
HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor is the industry's first
lightweight, integrated tool for ongoing capacity planning, simulating
placement of application workloads to help IT administrators improve
server utilization. Capacity Advisor provides planning capability for the
intelligent control of the HP Virtual Server Environment.
The HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux contains
software designed to simplify the installation, configuration, and
management of Linux on HP Integrity Servers with Linux in a Data
Center. HPIEFPL simplifies tasks including system and disk partitioning
as well as prepares your system for installing either the RHEL or SLES
distribution.
For more information about Manageability solutions for Integrity
http://www.hp.com/go/integrityessentials
HP GlancePlus
. As an integrated product, the GlancePlus Pak
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Standard Features
HP Integrity Essentials
Virtualization Manager
HP Integrity Integrated
Lights Out (iLO) 2
(Advanced Pack factory
integrated with BL870c)
HP Onboard
Administrator
HP Integrity BL870c Server Blade
The Smart Setup application is a bootable media that HP recommends
to be used prior to installing the operating system distribution. This
application media contains the latest documentation, firmware, and
tools to help configure and optimize your system. Smart Setup provides
the following: a system hardware inventory tool, tools to help configure
system internal storage arrays and adapters, installation of the
hardware diagnostics tools, and tools to launch the appropriate Red Hat
or Novell distribution installer.
The Support Pack component of HPIEFPL includes HP value added
software that can be used to either integrate with existing system
management solutions or directly manage an HP Integrity server.
Following the installation of the Linux distribution of choice, use the
Management media to install additional tools, HP Insight Management
Agents, HP WBEM providers, and System Management Homepage
(SMH).
HP System Insight Manager
HP Insight Manager Agents
HP System Management Homepage
Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Solutions
HP Management Base for Integrity Servers
OpenPegasus
HP Array Configuration Utility
HP Integrity Essentials Virtualization Manager is easy-to-use
virtualization management software that reduces complexity by
providing unified visualization and management of physical and virtual
servers. Virtualization Manager provides a central point of control that
allows you to manage all the resources in your
Environment (VSE)
business needs.
HP Integrity Integrated Lights Out (iLO) management processors make
it simpler, faster, and less costly to remotely manage your Integrity
servers. Integrity iLO 2 enables a complete remote console experience
with the addition of Virtual Media and Integrated Remote Console
(virtual keyboard, video, and mouse). Blade power can be monitored
and regulated directly through the Integrity iLO 2 interface.
The Onboard Administrator for the HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure is
the brains of the new c-Class infrastructure. Together with the
enclosure's HP Insight Display, the Onboard Administrator has been
designed for both local and remote administration of HP BladeSystem cClass. This module and its firmware provides:
. It is a powerful way to connect IT resources to real
Virtual Server
Wizards for simple, fast setup and configuration
Highly available and secure access to the HP BladeSystem
infrastructure
Security roles for server, network, and storage administrators
Automated power and cooling of the HP BladeSystem
infrastructure
Agent-less device health and status
Thermal Logic power and cooling information and control
HP Serviceguard
Manager
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HP Serviceguard Manager is a graphical user interface (GUI) that
provides configuration, administration, and monitoring capabilities for
Serviceguard, Serviceguard Extension for RAC, Metrocluster, and
Continentalclusters. Using Serviceguard Manager, operators see colorcoded icons that provide a big-picture view of multiple clusters. From
this big-picture view, operators can drill down and proactively manage
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Standard Features
HP Systems Insight
Manager
HP System Management
Homepage
HP Virtual Server
Environment for HP
Integrity
HP-UX Software
Assistant (SWA)
HP-UX Workload
Manager
Insight Management
Agents
HP Integrity BL870c Server Blade
clusters, systems (nodes), and packages that run applications.
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) provides a unified, secure and
extensible environment to centrally manage servers, storage and other
infrastructure devices across multiple operating system platforms.
HP System Management Homepage is a web-based interface that
consolidates and simplifies the management of individual ProLiant and
Integrity servers running Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems,
or HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers running
data from HP Insight Management Agents and other management tools,
the System Management Homepage provides a secure and intuitive
interface to review in-depth hardware configuration and status data,
performance metrics, system thresholds and software version control
information. The System Management Homepage can also be used to
access the HP Lights-Out Management processor on ProLiant and
Integrity servers.
HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) for HP Integrity servers and
blades provides an automated infrastructure that can adapt in seconds
with mission-critical reliability. HP VSE allows you to optimize server
utilization in real time by creating virtual servers that can automatically
grow and shrink based on business priorities and service-level
objectives.
HP-UX Software Assistant (SWA) is a command-line based tool that
consolidates and simplifies patch management and security bulletin
management on HP-UX systems. The SWA tool is new for HP-UX
releases and includes Security Patch Check (SPC), and is the HPrecommended utility to use to maintain currency with HP-published
security bulletins for HP-UX software.
HP-UX Workload Manager (HP-UX WLM) is a resource management
tool that provides automatic CPU resource allocation and application
performance management based on your service-level objectives
(SLOs) and business priorities. WLM is most effective managing
applications that are CPU-bound. It automatically adapts system or
partition CPU resources (cores) to the demands, SLOs, and priorities of
the running applications. (A core is the actual data processing engine
within a processor, where a single processor can have multiple cores,
and a core can support multiple execution threads through HyperThreading, introduced with HP-UX 11i v3, as discussed below.) It
adjusts the CPU allocation of a group of processes known as a
workload, basing adjustment on the current needs and performance of
the applications in that workload.
Insight Management Agents should be installed on all HP servers to
present system instrumentation, health and configuration information
into HP Systems Insight Manager and the HP System Management
Homepage. The HP System Management Homepage aggregates
systems data from Insight Management Agents and other HP
management tools, providing a consolidated browser-based interface
for managing individual servers.
The HP System Management Homepage (SMH) and OS
instrumentation (WBEM providers) to support management tools such
as SMH and HP SIM are included in the HP-UX Operating
Environments
Insight Management Agents and The HP System Management
Homepage are included on ProLiant Support Packs, and can also be
installed using the server profiles provided with the ProLiant Essentials
Rapid Deployment Pack
HP-UX 11i
. By aggregating
For additional information about the Management Agents and the HP
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Performance Manager
and Agent
Process Resource
Manager
ProLiant Essentials
Performance
Management Pack
(Windows for HP
Integrity Server Blades
only)
ProLiant Essentials
Rapid Deployment Pack
(designed for Windows
and Linux for HP
Integrity Server Blades
only)
Secure Resource
Partitions
Software Distributor-UX
HP Integrity BL870c Server Blade
System Management Homepage please visit the management Web site
at
http://www.hp.com/servers/manage
HP Performance Manager, Agents, and Monitor combine to provide a
powerful and flexible distributed management solution. This solution is a
single interface for centrally monitoring, analyzing, and forecasting
resource utilization for distributed multi-vendor environments, enabling
you to offer the best possible level of service in a cost-effective manner.
HP Process Resource Manager (HP PRM) is a resource management
tool used to control the amount of resources that processes use during
peak system load. HP PRM can manage allocation of the following
resources:
CPU: Ensures a minimum allocation of CPU; can also
simultaneously cap CPU resource usage for each group in the
configuration. (Starting with HP-UX 11i v3, per-group capping is
available.)
Memory: Ensures a minimum allocation of private real memory;
can also cap private memory usage. Allows you to allocate an
exact amount of shared memory.
Disk bandwidth: Ensures a minimum allocation of disk bandwidth
Performance Management Pack detects, analyzes, and explains
hardware bottlenecks on HP Integrity servers running Windows.
NOTE:
Rapid Deployment Pack (RDP) extends HP Systems Insight Manager
with a complete deployment solution for HP Integrity server blades
running Linux or Windows. RDP provides a central location to configure
server hardware, deploy the Windows, Linux operating environments
and install HP Integrity Support Pack drivers using images and scripted
profiles.
One method the HP VSE uses to improve server resource utilization is
to consolidate multiple applications within a single operating system
image. Secure Resource Partitions combine kernel level security and
proven resource management to stack multiple applications within the
same operating system.
Workload Manager
applications within an operating system image, avoiding resource
contention issues. Using
organizations can ensure that application instances cannot access
processes or files from other applications or the system. This ensures
that multiple application instances run securely in a consolidated
environment, providing the benefits of consolidation while preserving
the security of a scale out environment. For software licensing
purposes, the maximum number of CPUs in a Secure Resource
Partition can be capped.
Software Distributor (SD) is the HP-UX administration tool set used to
deliver and maintain HP-UX operating systems and layered software
applications. SD is delivered as part of HP-UX; you do not need to
download it separately.
No PMP license is required to manage Integrity servers.
HP Process Resource Manager
can dedicate specific resources to specific
HP-UX 11i V2 Security Containment
.
and
HP-UX
,
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