Compaq ProLiant BL e-Class System Overview and Planning

Compaq ProLiant BL e-Class System Overview and Planning 8
Memory: Two DIMM slots with a maximum capacity of 1 GB of 133-MHz, ECC SDRAM
(operating at system bus speed of 100-MHz)
Management: The ProLiant BL e-Class Integrated Administrator (“Integrated Administrator”) is
a centralized management and monitoring system for the ProLiant BL e-Class enclosure and
server blades. The Integrated Administrator acts as a combination terminal server and remote
power controller, enabling out-of-band, secure, serial console connections to all server blades in
the enclosure.
NICs: Each server blade has two Preboot eXecutable Environment (PXE) capable Compaq
NC3163 Fast Ethernet NICs embedded 10/100 WOL (Wake On LAN).
LEDs on each Server Blade
• Unit Identification LED (“UID”) and button. UID is a blue LED on the front of each
server blade and enclosure and can be activated locally or remotely to help a user onsite
find a specific server blade immediately in a densely loaded rack.
• Health
• NIC link and activity (2)
• Disk drive activity
• Power
Local I/O: Keyboard, video, mouse, USB, and serial connections are available for each server
blade by attaching the Diagnostic Adapter (provided with each server blade enclosure).
Density: Up to 280 server blades fit into a 42U rack.
Supported Operating Systems: The ProLiant BL line supports the most current versions of these
top-tier operating systems: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft Windows .NET Server
(when it becomes available in 2002), Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, and Caldera Linux.