HP ProLiant s6500 Chassis Maintenance and Service Guide

Component identification 23
Component identification
Configuration guidelines
• Half-width and full-width trays cannot be mixed.
• No 2U trays can reside in the middle two bays (slots 2–3 or slots 6–7).
• Each half of the chassis can support any of the half-chassis configurations.
• Any SL-series servers can be mixed within a chassis.
• Empty bays must be populated with a node blank to meet thermal requirements.
• Fans must be installed in all fan bays to meet thermal requirements.
• Redundant and nonredundant fan configurations cannot be mixed.
Front panel components
The following figure identifies the slot numbering for the front panel of the chassis.