Site Preparation Guide - HP Integrity BL60p Server Blade

System Specifications

Grounding

Chapter 1

Grounding

The site building shall provide a safety ground/protective earth ground to all enclosures.

Install a PE (protective earthing) conductor that is identical in size, insulation material, and thickness to the

branch-circuit supply conductors. The PE conductor must be green with yellow stripes. The earthing

conductor is to be connected from the unit to the building installation earth or, if supplied by a separately

derived system, at the supply transformer or motor-generator set grounding point.

Electrical Specifications

The server blade runs on -48 VDC power. This power is provided by the blade server enclosure. Refer to the

enclosure documentation for the electrical specifications.

Power and Cooling

Typical power consumption and cooling values for the server blade is listed in Table 1-3. The table lists power

and cooling values associated with server blades that contain the listed components. These power and cooling

values are considered typical and not maximum for the configurations shown.

Table 1-3 Typical Configuration Power Values

CPU

Qty

Memory Gigabytes

PCI Cards

(assuming

10W each)

Hard

Disk

Drives

Core

I/O

Typical

Power-

Watts

11 GB

(2 DIMMs @ 512 MB ea.)

n/a 1 1 240

28 GB

(4 DIMMs @ 2 GB ea.)

n/a 2 1 360