Compaq ProLiant BL e-Class System Overview and Planning

Compaq ProLiant BL e-Class System Overview and Planning 7
• Server blades are designed for remote management from anywhere in the world, so there
is no need to have experts physically located in the data center.
• Ease of deployment/redeployment and enhanced management features means fewer
people are needed to manage a large number of blades.
Designed to Protect Your Investment
• Fits into Compaq, third-party, and Telco racks
• Mixes with traditional servers and storage
Hardware Components
ProLiant BL10e Server Blade
Figure 2. ProLiant BL10e single-processor server blade
Description
The ProLiant BL10e server blade (Figure 2) is ideal for use as a power efficient, front-edge server
and for utility applications (such as Web hosting, computational clusters, terminal server farms,
and domain controllers). By removing the CD-ROM/diskette drive, PCI slots, and the power
subsystem, Compaq has created the densest ProLiant server ever. Up to 280 ProLiant BL10e
server blades fit a standard 42U rack.
The power efficient front-edge server blades fit within the 3U ProLiant BL e-Class server blade
enclosure. The enclosure contains twenty server blade bays, dual-redundant hot-plug power
supplies, redundant hot-plug fans, and an interconnect tray bay that is used to house one of three
interconnect tray options.
Features
Processor: One Ultra-Low Voltage Intel Pentium III processor (Tualatin-based) with 512K cache
operating at 700 MHz
System Bus: 100-MHz
Chipset: ServerWorks LELP 3.0 chipset
Hard drive: One 30-GB non-hot-plug ATA disk drive, 4200 rpm, 2.5"