HP Cluster Platform Server and Workstation Overview

The following table describes the callouts in Figure 4-2.
DescriptionItem
Hard drive cage1
Fan assembly2
Fan assembly connectors (2)3
System maintenance switch (SW1)4
Hard drive cable connector5
Processor socket 26
DIMM bank B7
Processor socket 1 (populated)8
DIMM bank A (populated)9
Adapter card connectors (2)10
Battery11
The HP ProLiant BL35p server blades require the support of an HP BladeSystem p-Class sleeve
in a server blade enclosure with enhanced backplane components (enhanced server blade
enclosure). Each sleeve holds two HP BL35p server blades and installs in a single bay in the
enclosure. Up to eight sleeves can be installed in the enclosure and each sleeve holds two blades
for a total of 16 HP ProLiant BL35p blades per 6U enclosure. The enhanced server blade enclosure
also provides a single rear iLO connector for single-cable remote management of all installed
HP ProLiant BL35p server blades. For more information about the enhanced server blade
enclosure, see the HP ProLiant BL p-Class Server Blade Enclosure Upgrade Installation Guide or the
HP ProLiant BL p-Class Server Blade Enclosure Installation Guide.
Each HP ProLiant BL35p server blade includes three network adapters: two Broadcom 5703
Gigabit Ethernet Embedded 10/100/1000T WOL (Wake On LAN) enabled with Preboot eXecution
Environment (PXE) plus one additional 10/100T Ethernet adapter dedicated to iLO management.
4.2.1 Supported Memory Configurations
Each processor in the HP ProLiant BL35p has a bank consisting of two DIMM slots. The server
blade supports up to 8 GB of memory. The following guidelines apply to the HP BL35p DIMMs:
• All DIMMs must be PC3200 DDR 400-MHz SDRAM DIMMs.
• Both DIMM slots in a bank must be populated.
• Both DIMMs in a bank must be identical.
• DIMM bank A must always be populated.
• DIMM bank B is only active when processor socket 2 is populated.
• For best performance, each processor should have a populated memory bank.
Caution:
Use only HP DIMMs. DIMMs from other sources may adversely affect data integrity.
PC3200 DIMMs can either be single- or dual-rank. A dual-rank DIMM is similar to having two
separate DIMMs on the same module. Although only a single DIMM module, a dual-rank DIMM
acts as if it were two separate DIMMs. The primary reason for the existence of dual-rank DIMMs
is to provide the largest capacity DIMM given the current DIMM technology. If the maximum
DIMM technology allows for creating 2 GB single-rank DIMMs, a dual-rank DIMM using the
same technology would be 4 GB.
156 Server Blades