HP Bc1500 - BladeSystem - Blade PC Operating and safety instructions

Setup and Installation Guide
HP BladeSystem bc1500 Blade PC and PC
Blade Enclosure
Document Part Number: 399089-003
December 2005
This guide provides step-by-step instructions for installation, and
reference information for operation, troubleshooting, and future
upgrades for the HP Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI)
solution.

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Setup and Installation Guide
HP BladeSystem bc1500 Blade PC and PC Blade Enclosure
Third Edition (December 2005)
Document Part Number: 399089-003

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Contents
1 About This Guide
Audience Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–1
Important Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–1
Symbols on Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–1
Rack Stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–3
Symbols in Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–3
Related Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–4
Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–4
Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–4
HP Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–4
2 HP CCI Solution Technology
Hardware Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–1
HP PC Blade Enclosure Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–2
HP BladeSystem bc1500 Blade PC Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–5
Software Deployment and Management Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–8
Diagnostic Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–10
3 Planning the Installation
Optimum Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–1
Rack Warnings and Cautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–1
HP PC Blade Enclosure Warnings and Cautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–3
Preparing for Software Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5
HP Rapid Deployment Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5
Alternate Deployment Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5
Shipping Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5
Blade Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–6
Rack-Mounting Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–6
Blade PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–7

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Interconnect Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–8
Optional RJ-45 Patch Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–8
Optional Installation Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–8
4 Installing and Cabling the HP CCI Solution
Measuring with the Rack Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2
Installing the Rack Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–4
Installing the Enclosure into the Rack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–7
Cabling the HP CCI Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–9
HP PC Blade Enclosure C-GbE Interconnect Switch Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–10
Optional RJ-45 Patch Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–11
Cabling the Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–12
Installing a Blade PC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–15
Powering Up the HP CCI Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–19
Powering Down the HP CCI Solution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–19
Powering Down a Blade PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–19
Powering Down the Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–21
Removing a Blade PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–21
Installing Additional Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–22
Attaching the Graphics Diagnostic Card and Diagnostic Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–25
5 Deployment and Management
Blade PC Deployment Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–2
Automated Deployment Using HP Rapid Deployment Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–2
Alternate Deployment Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–2
Diagnostic Adapter and Optional Graphics Diagnostic Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–3
Blade PC Features and Supported Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–4
Supported Operating Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–4
Computer Setup (F10) Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–4
Flashing the Blade PC ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–16
HP PC Blade Enclosure Integrated Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–17
Blade PC Event Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–20
HP Systems Insight Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–21
HP PC Blade Enclosure C-GbE Interconnect Switch
Management Tools and Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–22

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A Regulatory Compliance Notices
Regulatory Compliance Identification Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–1
Federal Communications Commission Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–1
Class A Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–2
Class B Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–2
Declaration of Conformity for Products Marked with the
FCC Logo, United States Only. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–3
Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–3
Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–3
Canadian Notice (Avis Canadien). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–4
Class A Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–4
Class B Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–4
European Union Notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–4
Japanese Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–5
Korean Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–5
Class A Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–5
Class B Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–5
Taiwanese Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–6
Laser Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–6
Battery Replacement Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–7
B Electrostatic Discharge
Preventing Electrostatic Damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–1
Grounding Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–2
C POST Error Messages
D Troubleshooting
When the Enclosure Does Not Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–3
Enclosure Diagnostic Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–5
When the Blade PC Does Not Start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–14
Blade PC Diagnostic Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–16
Problems After Initial Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–21
Remote Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–22
Opening a Remote Console Session to a Blade PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–22
Accessing the Computer Setup (F10) Utility for a Blade PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–23

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Reviewing Activity of a Blade PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–25
Powering Off the Blade PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–26
E LEDs and Switches
LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–1
Enclosure Front Panel LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–1
Enclosure Rear Panel LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–2
Enclosure Rear Panel LEDs with optional RJ-45 Patch Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–5
Fan Health LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–8
Blade PC and USB 1.1 Diagnostic Adapter LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–9
Switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–11
Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–11
Rear Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–12
CMOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–12
F Specifications
Blade Enclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F–2
Blade PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F–3
Hot-Plug Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F–4
G Blade PC Battery
Blade PC Battery Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G–1
Index

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About This Guide
This guide provides step-by-step instructions for installation, and
reference information for operation, troubleshooting, and future
upgrades for the HP Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI)
solution.
✎The cross-references in this guide are linked to the referenced section.
Click on a cross-reference to go directly to that section.
Audience Assumptions
This guide is for the person who installs, administers, and
troubleshoots HP CCI solutions. HP assumes you are qualified in the
servicing of computer equipment and trained in recognizing hazards
in products with hazardous energy levels.
Important Safety Information
ÅWARNING: Before installing this product, read the Important Safety
Information document included with the system.
Symbols on Equipment
The following symbols may be placed on equipment to indicate the
presence of potentially hazardous conditions:
WARNING: This symbol, in conjunction with any of the
following symbols, indicates the presence of a potential hazard.
The potential for injury exists if warnings are not observed.
Consult your documentation for specific details.

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This symbol indicates the presence of hazardous energy circuits or
electric shock hazards. Refer all servicing to qualified personnel.
WARNING: To reduce the risk of injury from electric shock
hazards, do not open this enclosure. Refer all maintenance,
upgrades, and servicing to qualified personnel.
This symbol indicates the presence of electric shock hazards. The
area contains no user or field serviceable parts. Do not open for
any reason.
WARNING: To reduce the risk of injury from electric shock
hazards, do not open this enclosure.
This symbol on an RJ-45 receptacle indicates a network interface
connection.
WARNING: To reduce the risk of electric shock, fire, or damage
to the equipment, do not plug telephone or telecommunications
connectors into this receptacle.
This symbol indicates the presence of a hot surface or hot
component. If this surface is contacted, the potential for injury
exists.
WARNING: To reduce the risk of injury from a hot component,
allow the surface to cool before touching.
These symbols, on power supplies or systems,
indicate that the equipment is supplied by multiple
sources of power.
WARNING: To reduce the risk of injury from electric
shock, remove all power cords to completely
disconnect power from the system.

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Rack Stability
Symbols in Text
These symbols may be found in the text of this guide. They have the
following meanings.
ÅWARNING: Text set off in this manner indicates that failure to follow
directions in the warning could result in bodily harm or loss of life.
ÄCAUTION: Text set off in this manner indicates that failure to follow
directions could result in damage to equipment or loss of information.
IMPORTANT: Text set off in this manner presents essential information to
explain a concept or complete a task.
Weight in kg
Weight in lb
This symbol indicates that the component exceeds the
recommended weight for one individual to handle safely.
WARNING: To reduce the risk of personal injury or
damage to the equipment, observe local occupational health
and safety requirements and guidelines for manual material
handling.
WARNING: To reduce the risk of personal injury or damage to
the equipment, be sure that:
• The leveling jacks are extended to the floor.
• The full weight of the rack rests on the leveling jacks.
• The stabilizing feet are attached to the rack if it is a
single-rack installation.
• The racks are coupled together in multiple-rack installations.
• Only one component is extended at a time. A rack may
become unstable if more than one component is extended for
any reason.

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✎Text set off in this manner presents additional information to
emphasize or supplement important points of the main text.
Related Documents
For additional information on the topics covered in this guide, refer to
the following documents:
■HP PC BL Enclosure Integrated Administrator User Guide
■ProLiant Integration Module for Altiris User Guide
■Servers Troubleshooting Guide
■Product Service Card
■HP PC BL Enclosure Interconnect Switch User Guide
■White paper: HP ProLiant BL e-Class System Overview and
Planning
■QuickSpecs
Getting Help
If you have a problem and have exhausted the information in this
guide, you can get further information and other help in the following
locations.
Technical Support
For technical support, call the HP Technical Support Phone Center for
your region. Telephone numbers are listed in the Support Telephone
Numbers guide included on the Documentation CD that ships with
Blade PCs. Telephone numbers for Technical Support Centers are
also listed on the HP website, www.hp.com.
HP Website
The HP website has information on this product as well as the latest
drivers and flash ROM images. You can access the HP website at
www.hp.com.

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HP CCI Solution Technology
Hardware Features
The HP CCI solution is comprised of a rack-mountable HP
BladeSystem PC Blade Enclosure that contains advanced electronics
for managing up to 20 single-processor blade PCs.
HP BladeSystem PC Blade Enclosure with blade PCs (20)
The enclosure and blade PC features described in the following
sections are standard on HP CCI solutions, unless otherwise
specified.

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HP PC Blade Enclosure Standard Features
The HP PC Blade Enclosure features include:
■3U height and standard 48 cm (19 inch) width
■Support for up to 20 Blade PCs
■Interconnect Tray supporting an Interconnect Switch (standard
configuration) or an RJ-45 Patch Panel (optional).
■Integrated Administrator for local and remote management and
monitoring
■Redundant power
■Redundant cooling
■System health LEDs
Interconnect Switch
The HP PC Blade Enclosure C-GbE Interconnect Switch features
include:
■Significant cable reduction - 40 Blade PC NIC connections to
four RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet uplink connectors.
■Four sockets supporting optional fiber optic Gigabit Interface
Converter (GBIC)/Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) modules.
■Interconnect tray form factor that fits into blade enclosure
■Low wattage for maximum power efficiency
■Compatibility with common core switches

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RJ-45 Patch Panel (Optional)
The RJ-45 Patch Panel features:
■40 port 10/100 RJ-45 connectors
■1 to 1 mapping between each NIC on the blade PCs to one of the
40 RJ-45 ports on the back of this tray-mounted patch panel
■Separate Link and Activity LEDs, for each 10/100 port
Integrated Administrator
Integrated Administrator features include:
■Local and remote access to enclosure and blade PC information
■Secure Shell, Telnet, and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Web access
■Virtual power and Unit Identification (UID) buttons
■Access to any blade PC’s remote console
■Access to any blade PC’s Computer Setup (F10) Utility
■Support for command line scripting

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Redundant Power
The HP PC Blade Enclosure includes two 600-W redundant hot-plug
power supplies
■1 + 1 redundancy
■Integrated hot-plug capability
■Autosensing input voltage range from 100 to 127 VAC and 200 to
240 VAC
■Load-sharing across all Blade PCs
Redundant Cooling
The HP PC Blade Enclosure ships with four redundant hot-plug fans.
These fans offer:
■2 + 2 redundancy
■Hot-swapping among all fan positions
■Variable-speed fans
■Individual fan status LEDs
System Health LEDs
System health information is displayed locally through a full set of
system LEDs, including:
■Internal fan health LEDs
■External health LEDs
❏Fan health LED
❏Enclosure health LED
❏Blade PC LEDs
❏Power supply LEDs
❏Integrated Administrator health LED

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HP BladeSystem bc1500 Blade PC Features
The Blade PC is simple to install, deploy, and service. A Blade PC
that requires out-of-the-rack upgrades, service, or maintenance can be
easily replaced by another Blade PC. The following figure shows a
Blade PC.
Blade PC
A Blade PC supports processor and system architecture technology,
including the following:
■Processor
■Memory
■Mass storage
■Blade PC status and monitoring
■Diagnostic adapter (requires optional graphics diagnostic card)
■Video (connector for a graphics diagnostic card; optional
graphics diagnostic card part number is 346204-001)
■ROM
■2 LOM (LAN on mother board)
■Health and power control

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Processor
Each Blade PC ships with an integrated AMD Athlon™ 64 1500+
with 512KB cache.
ÄCAUTION: The processor heatsink assembly is integrated into the system
board and cannot be removed.
Memory
The Blade PC supports the following memory features:
■DDR 333 (2 SODIMM connectors)
For more information, refer to QuickSpecs located on the HP
website: www.hp.com
■512MB system memory expandable to 2GB with two 1GB
SODIMMs Mass Storage
The Blade PC ships with one ATA hard drive attached with screws.
Blade PC Status and Monitoring
A Blade PC provides the following status and monitoring features:
■Blade PC Unit Identification (UID) button/LED
■Blade PC health LED
■Blade PC network activity LEDs
■Hard drive activity LED
■Power button/LED
■Diagnostic support through the Computer Setup (F10) Utility, the
Integrated Management Log (IML), and HP Systems Insight
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Diagnostic Adapter and Graphics Diagnostic Card
Each Blade PC has a diagnostic connector. Using the diagnostic
adapter and the graphics diagnostic card (available together as an
after-market option), the following capabilities are available:
■USB connectivity for two USB devices including diskette drive,
CD-ROM drive, keyboard, and mouse
■PS/2 connectivity for keyboard and mouse
■Video connectivity through a standard 15-pin VGA connector
(optional graphics diagnostic card required for video)
■Serial connectivity for facilitating software maintenance
✎The diagnostic adapter may be represented under System Devices in
Device Manager as “Generic Bus.”
Video (optional)
The Blade PC supports video through the diagnostic adapter and the
graphics diagnostic card (available together as an after-market
option). Video features include:
■Support for SVGA, VGA, and EGA graphics resolution
■Video is obtained by attaching an optional graphics diagnostic
card to the Blade PC (the optional graphics diagnostic card
supports a resolution of up to 1024 x 768 @ 24 bit color depth)
■4MB SDRAM video memory
ROM
Blade PC ROM features include:
■1MB ROM to support system and video
■Flashbin utility used to upgrade the system ROM
■Hardware boot block protection
■Remote ROM flash support
■Bootable USB diskette drive support
■Bootable USB CD-ROM drive (limited support)

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NICs
The two embedded NICs on the Blade PC have the following
features:
■Embedded 10/100-Mbps Broadcom 5705F Fast Ethernet NICs
■Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support (first NIC only)
■Auto-negotiation of 10/100-Mbps link speeds
■Full-duplex Ethernet support
■Teaming for network fault tolerance or load balancing (also
known as port bonding or trunking)
Software Deployment and Management Features
HP offers an extensive set of features and optional tools to support
effective software deployment and management. See Chapter 5,
“Deployment and Management,” for more detailed descriptions of the
following:
■HP PC Blade Enclosure Integrated Administrator
The HP PC Blade Enclosure Integrated Administrator is a
centralized management and monitoring system for the HP PC
BL Enclosure and blade PCs. The Integrated Administrator acts
as a combination terminal server and remote power controller,
enabling out-of-band, secure, serial console connections to all
Blade PCs in the enclosure.
■Computer Setup (F10) Utility
Computer Setup performs a wide range of configuration activities
and provides access to numerous settings, including those for
system devices, security, storage, and boot order.
■HP Rapid Deployment Pack
HP Rapid Deployment Pack features include:
❏A graphical deployment console which provides intuitive
drag-and-drop events, such as scripts and images, to deploy
the operating systems and applications on any combination of
Blade PCs installed in the enclosures
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❏Advanced features that can detect and display Blade PCs
based on their physical rack, enclosure, and bay locations
❏The ability to set the deployment console to automatically
install pre-defined configurations on newly-installed Blade
PCs
For more information about HP Rapid Deployment Pack, refer to
your authorized reseller, the Rapid Deployment CD that ships
with the enclosure, or visit the HP website: www.hp.com
■HP Systems Insight Manager
HP Systems Insight Manager provides in-depth fault, inventory,
and configuration management of HP server platforms (including
hundreds of Blade PCs) from a single console.
■Automatic System Recovery-2 (ASR-2)
ASR-2 is a diagnostic/recovery feature that automatically restarts
the Blade PC in the event of a critical operating system failure.
■Enclosure Self Recovery (ESR)
ESR, similar to ASR-2, is a self-monitoring reliability feature of
the Integrated Administrator. If the Integrated Administrator does
not boot or hangs during operation, ESR automatically resets the
Integrated Administrator for an attempted self-recovery. The
Blade PCs and interconnect tray are not affected by ESR.
■Integrated Management Log (IML)
The IML provides a detailed log of key system events. This log,
which also monitors the health log, is accessible by utilities,
including HP Systems Insight Manager.
■Flashbin
Flashbin enables you to upgrade the firmware (BIOS) with
system or option Flashbin utilities.
■Online ROM Flash
Using the Smart Components for Remote ROM Flash with the
Remote Deployment Utility (RDU) console application, Remote
ROM Flash enables you to upgrade the firmware (BIOS) from a
remote location.
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The interconnect switch concentrates the forty 10/100 Ethernet
Blade PC network connections into four RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet
uplink connectors. Each uplink can communicate with all 40
network connections; thus, only one to all four of these
connectors may be used providing up to a 40-to-1 reduction in the
number of network cables connected to the enclosure. The
interconnect switch is compatible with industry standards and is
fully pre-configured for immediate use.
For more information about these tools and utilities, see Chapter 5,
“Deployment and Management.”
Diagnostic Features
The hardware, software, and firmware diagnostic tools that are
available include:
■HP PC Blade Enclosure Integrated Administrator
■Diagnostic adapter for local Blade PC access (requires optional
graphics diagnostic card)
■Optional graphics diagnostic card
■HP Systems Insight Manager
■Power-On Self Test (POST)
■Diagnostics Utility
■Flashbin
■Health monitoring LEDs