9.5 HP P4800 G2 SAN Solution for Bladesystem Maintenance Guide (AX696-96151, September 2011)

1 Overview
The HP P4800 G2 SAN Solution for BladeSystem (HP P4800 G2 solution) base configuration is
a 2-node SAN consisting of two server blades and one disk enclosure. The server blades run the
SAN/iQ software, and the disk enclosure contains 70 disks. Up to six server blades and three
disk enclosures can be added, for a total of eight blades and four disk enclosures in an 8-node
SAN.
Multiple HP P4800 G2 solutions can be combined into clusters or management groups as part of
the same SAN.
NOTE: In this solution, storage system corresponds to a server blade. There are up to eight
storage systems in the HP P4800 G2 solution.
Hardware components
The HP P4800 G2 solution comprises the following components:
• HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure (1)
• Server blades (2 to 8)
• HP 3G SAS BL Switches (2, pass-through modules between the blade enclosure and the disk
enclosures)
• HP disk enclosures (1 per pair of server blades)
• HP Smart Array P700m controller cards (one on each server blade)
• HP VC Flex-10 modules (2, these modules connect to your network)
NOTE: Note: The original P4800 solution uses the HP 4000sb server blade. All information in
this guide applies to both the original and G2 solutions and server blades.
Hardware configuration
Figure 1 (page 6) shows the base configuration of the HP P4800 G2 solution. Figure 2 (page 7)
through Figure 4 (page 9) show additional configurations of the HP P4800 G2 solution.
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