HP XC System Software Hardware Preparation Guide Version 3.1

1 Hardware and Network Overview
The following topics are addressed:
• “Important Information About HP XC Systems with HP Server Blades and Enclosures” (page 15)
• “Supported Cluster Platforms” (page 15)
• “Supported Console Management Devices” (page 16)
• “Administration Network Overview” (page 17)
• “Administration Network: Console Branch” (page 17)
• “Interconnect Network” (page 17)
1.1 Important Information About HP XC Systems with HP Server Blades
and Enclosures
If the hardware configuration contains HP server blades and enclosures, download and print the HP XC
Systems With HP Server Blades and Enclosures HowTo from the following Web site:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/highperfcomp.html
The HowTo contains essential information about blade server hardware preparation tasks that was not
available at the time of publication. The HowTo also describes how the network topology and switch
connections differ for HP server blades and enclosures.
1.2 Supported Cluster Platforms
You can install and configure HP XC System Software on the HP Cluster Platform 3000 (CP3000), HP
Cluster Platform 3000BL (with HP server blades), HP Cluster Platform 4000 (CP4000), and HP Cluster
Platform 6000 (CP6000). For more information about the cluster platforms, see the documentation that
was shipped with the hardware.
Table 1-1 lists the hardware models that are supported for each HP cluster platform.
A typical HP XC hardware configuration contains from 5 to 512 nodes. To allow systems of a greater size,
an HP XC system can be arranged into a large-scale configuration with up to 1024 compute nodes (HP
might consider larger systems as special cases).
Table 1-1 Supported Processor Architectures and Hardware Models
Processor Architecture and Hardware ModelCluster Platform
Intel® Xeon™ with EM64T
• HP ProLiant DL140 G2 and G3
• HP ProLiant DL360 G4, G4p, and G5
• HP ProLiant DL380 G4 and G5
• HP xw8200 and xw8400 Workstation
CP3000
Intel Xeon with EM64T
• HP ProLiant BL460c Server Blade (Half-height)
• HP ProLiant BL480c Server Blade (Full-height)
CP3000BL
AMD Opteron®
• HP HP ProLiant DL145 G1
• HP ProLiant DL145 G2 and G2 DC
1
• HP ProLiant DL385 G1 and G1 DC
• HP HP ProLiant DL585 G1 and G1 DC
• HP xw9300 Workstation
CP4000
Intel Itanium®
• HP Integrity rx1620
• HP HP Integrity rx2600
• HP Integrity rx2620
• HP Integrity rx4640
• HP Integrity rx8620
CP6000
1 Dual core
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