• Addition of HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Module for c-Class BladeSystem

• Provides sixteen 10GbE downlinks along with four10GbE uplinks (XFP) make this switch the perfect choice for any bandwidth intensive application.
  
• A robust set of industry standard Ethernet Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing functions, QOS, security and high availability features.
  
• Dramatically reduces cabling, power and cooling requirements compared to stand-alone switches or pass-thru modules, while providing over 34Gb of non blocking uplink bandwidth to handle the most demanding applications.
  
• A combination of excellent performance which includes low latency, wire speed performance for Layer 2 and Layer 3 packets and low power consumption makes the HP 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch an ideal solution for any large data center environment.

• Provides sixteen 1Gb downlinks, four 1Gb uplinks along with 3 10Gb uplinks (CX4, XFP) and a 10Gb cross-connect.
• A robust set of industry standard Ethernet Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing functions, QOS, security and high availability features.
• Dramatically reduces cabling, power and cooling requirements compared to stand-alone switches or pass-thru modules, while providing over 34Gb of non blocking uplink bandwidth to handle the most demanding applications.
• A combination of excellent performance which includes low latency, wire speed performance for Layer 2 and Layer 3 packets and low power consumption makes the HP 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch an ideal solution for any large data center environment.

• Provides sixteen internal 1Gb downlinks
• Up to four uplinks can be optionally configured as fiber SX/LX links
• Designed to fit seamlessly into existing Cisco networks.
• Two uplinks can optionally be configured as internal cross-connects
  

• Provides sixteen internal 1Gb downlinks and eight 1Gb RJ-45 copper uplinks.
• Up to four uplinks can be optionally configured as fiber SX/LX links.
• Designed to fit seamlessly into existing Cisco networks.
• Two uplinks can optionally be configured as internal cross-connects.

• Provides sixteen internal downlinks, five uplinks and two internal cross-connects.
• Provides a full set of industry standard Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 features.
• Dramatically reduces cabling, power and cooling requirements compared to stand-alone switches or pass-thru modules, allowing you to realize the full cost saving capabilities of the HP c-Class BladeSystem

• Provides sixteen internal downlinks, five uplinks and two internal cross-connects.
• Up to four uplinks can be optionally configured as fiber SX links
• Provides a full set of industry standard Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 switching and layer 3 routing features
• Dramatically reduces cabling, power and cooling requirements compared to stand-alone switches or pass-thru modules, allowing you to realize the full cost saving benefits of the HP c-Class BladeSystem.

• Enables support of virtualized environments and other emerging technologies through high-speed technology that doubles the performance of the current storage network. Both internal and external facing ports auto-sense lower bandwidth components for flexibility and investment protection (2, 4, or 8 Gbps).
• Includes connection speed support for all ports to provide a high-performance system with aggregate bandwidth of up to 384 Gbps (24 ports x 8 Gbps x 2 for full duplex).
• Support for up to a single trunk made up of all eight SAN ports for a total of up to 64 Gbps balanced throughput.
• Enables organizations to better manage data flows and meet service level agreements while maintaining optimized application performance in virtual environments with new optional Adaptive Networking services, including Quality of Service Traffic Prioritization, Preferred Path Traffic Isolation, Top Talkers, and Ingress Rate Limiting.
• Employs N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), an ANSI T11 standard, to enable interoperability with other SAN fabrics and eliminate domain considerations while improving SAN scalability.
• Designed to scale as business needs dictate with the option of a 12-port model and a 12-port upgrade license, as well as a 24-port and 24-port Power Pack+ models.

• An embedded Fibre Channel switch, delivering high performance, value, and high-availability for HP BladeSystem c-Class customers who desire the benefits of a SAN solution in a hot-pluggable design supporting redundant configurations.
• Up to eight external facing ports auto-sense lower bandwidth components for greater flexibility and investment protection (4, 2, or 1 Gbps).
• Employs N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), an ANSI T11 standard, to enable interoperability with supported SAN fabrics and to eliminate domain considerations for improving SAN scalability via Brocade Access Gateway technology.
• Designed to scale as business needs dictate with the option of a 12-port model and a 12-port upgrade license, as well as a 24-port and 24-port Power Pack models
• IT organizations can lower costs, minimize deployment time, increase performance, and significantly simplify their environments through the integration of 4 Gbps Fibre Channel switching with the HP BladeSystem c-Class.

• An embedded Fibre Channel switch, delivering high performance, value, and high-availability for HP BladeSystem c-Class customers who desire the benefits of a SAN solution in a hot-pluggable design supporting redundant configurations.
• Up to eight external facing ports auto-sense lower bandwidth components for greater flexibility and investment protection (4, 2, or 1 Gbps).
• Designed to scale as business needs dictate with the option of a 12-port model and a 12-port upgrade license, as well as a 24-port model.
• Simplifies deployment while optimizing core edge fabrics with support for virtual output queuing, flexible buffer credit allocation, Port Channels, Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF), and more.
• New N-Port Virtualizer with FlexAttach (SAN-OS v3.3(1a) and later) employs industry-standard N-Port Virtualization technology to eliminate domain count concerns, enable fabric interoperability, and enables the flexibility to move or replace servers without impact to the SAN connections.
• Support for up to 16 VSANs per switch
• Offers an extensive security framework to protect highly sensitive data crossing today's enterprise network

• HP Flex-10 technology significantly reduces infrastructure costs by increasing the number of NICs per connection without adding extra blade I/O modules, and reducing cabling uplinks to the data center network. The HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Module for c-Class BladeSystem is an innovative, new class of integrated interconnects from HP.
• Supports up to 4 FlexNIC connections per 10Gb link
• Fine tune each FlexNIC speed from 100Mb to 10Gb based on the application needs.

• The simplest, most flexible connection to your Fiber and copper Ethernet networks.
• A new class of blade interconnect that simplifies server connections by cleanly separating the server enclosure from LAN, simplifies networks by reducing cables without adding switches to manage, and allows you to change servers in just minutes, not days.
• An innovative, new class of integrated interconnects from HP.

• Simplest, most flexible connection to your SAN fabrics.
• A new class of blade interconnect that simplifies server connections by cleanly separating the server enclosure from SAN, simplifies SAN fabrics by reducing cables without adding switches to the domain, and allows you to change servers in just minutes, not days.
  • An innovative, new class of integrated interconnects from HP.

• The QLogic QMH4062 1GbE iSCSI Adapter is a dual port fully integrated Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI target mezzanine optimized for iSCSI traffic from an c-Class ProLiant server. It is an alternative to less integrated iSCSI offerings and often more costly non TCP/IP implementations. Designed for ultimate performance, the QMH4062 provides full stateful offloading of iSCSI and TCP/IP traffic for both Microsoft Windows and Linux. The adapter supports iSCSI boot certification for VMware ESX Server 3.5 and ESXi 3.5. The QMH4062 is IPv6 compliant providing an end-to-end IPv6 solution when using either a Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3120 for HP with the IPv6 software upgrade or the Ethernet Pass-Thru.
• The NC512m is a dual port 10 Gigabit Ethernet network server adapter supporting stateful TCP offloading. It offers the highest bandwidth available in a ProLiant Ethernet c-Class adapter. Two NC512m adapter is supported on all ProLiant c-Class servers in mezzanine slot 2 or 3 (full height servers) and slot 2 (half height servers) providing up to sixty-four (64) 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter ports per c7000 enclosure and thirty-two (32) per c3000 enclosure.
• The NC382m adapter is supported on all HP BladeSystem ProLiant c-Class servers in all mezzanine slots. Multiple adapters can be installed per server.
• The NC373m is a dual port Multifunction Gigabit Ethernet adapter supporting TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine) for Microsoft Windows and accelerated iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) The Multifunction capabilities permit a unified fabric combining accelerated networking, storage, and clustering over a single network connection.
• The HP NC364m is a quad port network adapter providing four Gigabit Ethernet ports on a single card saving valuable server mezzanine slots for other purposes. The x4 PCI Express NC364m is supported on both HP Integrity and ProLiant c-Class servers in all mezzanine slots.
• The HP NC360m is a dual port 1 GbE BL-c network adapter providing two Gigabit Ethernet ports on a single mezzanine card. The NC360m is designed for applications requiring additional Gigabit Ethernet ports than those provided on the server.
• Like the NC360m, the NC326m is a dual port Gigabit Ethernet adapter designed for applications requiring additional Gigabit Ethernet ports than those provided on the server. The NC326m has a Broadcom controller where as the NC360m has an Intel controller giving customer a choice of the network controller manufacturer.
• Like the NC364m, the NC325m is a quad port Gigabit Ethernet adapter providing the highest port density available for BladeSystem servers in a single adapter. The NC325m , as well as the NC364m, are ideal for virtualization, security, server consolidation, network segmentation, and other ProLiant server applications requiring maximum throughput and port density. The NC325m has a Broadcom controller where as the NC364m has an Intel controller.

NOTE: For additional information on the BladeSystem Ethernet adapter mezzanine options, see: http://www.hp.com/servers/networking

• HP Ethernet and Fibre Channel Pass-Thru Modules provide transparent, 1:1 port connectivity between the Server and an external switch.
• The Fibre Channel Pass-Thru Module includes 16 short wave SFP transceivers.

• The QLogic QMH2462 4Gb FC HBA Adapter provides the c-Class BladeSystem with two 4Gb Fibre Channel ports for fast and reliable SAN connectivity. Through the implementation of a SAN with the HP BladeSystem, customers can achieve improved data availability, easily scale capacity, and realize management cost savings from consolidating disk resources. Fibre Channel capability is achieved using a QLogic FC Mezzanine HBA specifically designed for HP c-Class BladeSystem. The HP BladeSystem is optimized for HP StorageWorks and compatible with third party storage vendors.
• The Emulex LPe1105-HP dual port PCI Express Fibre Channel HBA provides reliable, high-performance 4 Gb/s connectivity, enabling high-availability to scalable storage in order to meet the needs of the most demanding applications and environments. Based on the same field-proven ASIC, firmware, and driver technology as Emulex's LPe1150 HBA, the Emulex LPe1105-HP is fully driver compatible with all Emulex HBAs. As a centralized management suite, HBAnyware™ incorporates agent technology that provides discovery, reporting and management of local and remote HBAs.
  

The BL2x220c Blade has a different I/O mapping for server I/O ports to expansion bays than existing half-height servers. The BL2x220c contains 2 server nodes that share a single half-height bay.

When installing a BL2x220c into an existing enclosure the following rules must be followed otherwise the Blade will not boot due to an e-keying error

HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure:

• Interconnect bays 1,2,3,4 are reserved for Ethernet
• Fibre Channel, InfiniBand or other Interconnects must be placed in bays 5 & 6 or 7 & 8
  • Bays 5 & 6 must match the mezzanine type plugged into Server A
  • Bays 7 & 8 must match the mezzanine type plugged into Server B

HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure:

• Interconnect bays 1 & 2 are reserved for Ethernet
• Fibre Channel or other Interconnects must be placed in bays 3 & 4
  • Bays 3 & 4 must have interconnects of the same type or be empty

• Virtual KVM based remote console Virtual media (single server, browser based access only)
• Remote Serial Console
• Virtual Power Button Control
• Virtual Unit ID control
• Integrated Remote Console (Active X Control client)
• Dedicated network connectivity
• OS independent hardware health status
• Automatic IP Configuration via DHCP/DNS/WINS
• Industry Standard RC4, 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Secure Shell (SSH) Security
• Advanced Encryption Standard (AES/Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES)
• IML and iLO 2 Event Logging
• Support for 12 user accounts with customizable access privileges
• Single sign-on from HP BladeSystem Onboard Administrator

Upgrade to HP ProLiant Essentials Integrated Light-Out Select Pack for the following features:

• Power Regulator Reporting Virtual Media (command line and scripted multi-server)
• Enterprise security (includes directory services and two-factor authentication)

NOTE: Advanced features such as Graphical Remote Console and browser accessible Virtual Floppy/CD-ROM is included with the BL c-Class server.

An Onboard Administrator management module is built in to the enclosure with the following functions:

• Robust, multiple enclosure setup and control.
• Reports asset and inventory information for the devices in the enclosure.
• Reports thermal and power information, including real-time actual power usage per server and per enclosure.
• Front mounted Insight Display for easy management within the datacenter.
• Integrated access to all server blade iLOs from a single cable.
• Provides integrated access to interconnect bay device management ports from the single Onboard Administrator cable.
• Single sign-on capability for all devices in the enclosure
• Role-based security locally and/or with LDAP directory services.
• Provides a wizard-based initial setup process for easy configuration.

HP Factory Express offers configuration, customization, integration and deployment services for HP servers and storage products. Customers can choose how their factory solutions are built, tested, integrated, shipped and deployed.

Factory Express offers service packages for simple configuration, racking, installation, complex configuration and design services as well as individual factory services, such as image loading, asset tagging and custom packaging. HP products supported through Factory Express include: a wide array of servers and storage: HP Integrity, HP ProLiant & HP ProLiant Server Blades, HP BladeSystem, HP 9000 servers as well as the MSAxxxx, VA7xxx, EVA3000 & EVA5000, XP, rackable tape libraries and configurable network switches.

NOTE: For more information on Factory Express services for your specific server model please contact your sales representative or go to: http://www.hp.com/go/factory-express.

HP Care Pack services provide total care and support expertise with committed response designed to meet your IT and business needs.

The HP Care Pack service or ProLiant BL c-Class server blades, cover the server blade and all HP branded hardware options qualified for the server, purchased at the same time or afterwards, internal to the server.

HP Care Pack services for the c7000 and c3000 Enclosure cover the enclosure, power supplies and fans. HP qualified rack options are covered by these services when installed within the same rack. HP supported c-Class enclosure devices including pass thru, Ethernet interconnect and virtual connect modules are also covered by the c7000 and c3000 enclosure Care Pack services.

NOTE: SAN/Fabric switches for the HP c-Class BladeSystem are not covered under the c7000 enclosure Care Packs, SAN/Fabric switches carry separate Care Packs. SAN/Fabric Switch Care Pack service level support should always be uplifted to match existing storage or server service level.

To fully capitalize on your HP BladeSystem servers' capabilities requires a service partner who thoroughly understands your server technology and systems environment. HP Services, an industry leader in provision of multi vender support solutions provides a range of support services designed to meet the varying needs of business. Whether an SMB or large global corporation HP has a HP BadeSystem server support offer to help you speedily deploy and maximize system uptime.

Recommended Service - Simplify ProLiant solution implementation, maintenance and management.

• Support Service - 4-Hour Response Coverage, 3-Year, 24 x 7, Same Business Day
  
• Deployment Service - Installation and Start Up for HP BladeSystem Infrastructure
  

Enhanced Service - Optimize service level to increase IT performance and availability

• Support Service - HP Proactive BladeSystem Service, 1-Year
  
• Deployment Service - Enhanced Network Installation and Start-up for HP BladeSystem Switches

Installation & Start-Up service for HP BladeSystem Infrastructure plus HP BladeSystem Enhanced Network Installation and Start-UP as per the Customer Description and/or Data Sheet. To be delivered on a scheduled basis 8am-5pm, M-F, excluding HP holidays.

For a complete listing of service offerings and information visit:
http://www.hp.com/services/bladesystemservices
http://www.hp.com/go/proliant/carepack

NOTE: Each HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosure requires two Ethernet/Fibre Channel switches OR Virtual Connect Ethernet/Fibre Channel Module OR two Ethernet/Fibre Channel Pass-Thru Modules for a redundant Ethernet/Fibre Channel configuration.

• Choose a base configuration that meets your Ethernet/Fibre Channel networking needs
• Order in quantities of two for a fully redundant configuration
• Choose additional options for the base configuration that meet your needs for cabling and software options
• Bays 1 and 2 are reserved for Ethernet Switches or Pass-Thru Modules supporting Server LAN on Motherboard (LOM) NIC connections to ports on the Ethernet Switch or Pass-Thru Module.
• Supported bays for additional Ethernet and/or Fibre Channel Switch Modules include unpopulated Bays 3/4, 5/6, or 7/ 8
• Redundant Switches must be configured adjacent to one another in Bays 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, or 7/ 8.

NOTE: The HP Care Pack service part numbers below for ProLiant BL c-Class server blades, cover the server blade and all HP branded hardware options qualified for the server, purchased at the same time or afterwards, internal to the server.

Hewlett-Packard offers end-of-life HP product return, trade-in, and recycling programs in many geographic areas. For trade-in information, please go to http://www.hp.com/go/green. To recycle your product, please go to: http://www.hp.com/go/green or contact your nearest HP sales office. Products returned to HP will be recycled, recovered or disposed of in a responsible manner.

The EU WEEE directive (2002/95/EC) requires manufacturers to provide treatment information for each product type for use by treatment facilities. This information (product disassembly instructions) is posted on the Hewlett Packard web site at: http://www.hp.com/go/green. These instructions may be used by recyclers and other WEEE treatment facilities as well as HP OEM customers who integrate and re-sell HP equipment.