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Contents
Component identification............................................................................................................... 6
Front panel components ............................................................................................................................. 6
Front panel LEDs ....................................................................................................................................... 7
SAS and SATA hard drive LEDs................................................................................................................... 8
SAS and SATA hard drive LED combinations ................................................................................................ 8
System board components.......................................................................................................................... 9
Mezzanine connector definitions ..................................................................................................... 10
FBDIMM slot numbering ................................................................................................................. 10
System maintenance switch............................................................................................................. 10
Hard drive backplane components ............................................................................................................ 11
Local I/O cable ...................................................................................................................................... 11
Operations................................................................................................................................. 13
Power up the server blade ........................................................................................................................ 13
Power down the server blade.................................................................................................................... 13
Remove the server blade .......................................................................................................................... 14
Remove the access panel.......................................................................................................................... 14
Install the access panel............................................................................................................................. 15
Setup......................................................................................................................................... 16
Overview ............................................................................................................................................... 16
Installing an HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosure ........................................................................................... 16
Installing server blade options................................................................................................................... 16
Installing interconnect modules .................................................................................................................. 17
Interconnect bay numbering and device mapping.............................................................................. 17
Connecting to the network........................................................................................................................ 17
Installing a server blade ........................................................................................................................... 18
Completing the configuration.................................................................................................................... 19
Hardware options installation....................................................................................................... 20
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 20
Hard drive option.................................................................................................................................... 20
Processor option...................................................................................................................................... 21
Memory options ...................................................................................................................................... 28
Memory configurations................................................................................................................... 28
Advanced ECC memory ................................................................................................................. 29
Online spare memory configuration ................................................................................................. 29
Mirrored memory configuration....................................................................................................... 30
Installing FBDIMMs ........................................................................................................................ 31
Mezzanine card option............................................................................................................................ 31
Smart Array E200i Battery-Backed Write Cache enabler option .................................................................... 33
Cabling ..................................................................................................................................... 36
Using the local I/O cable......................................................................................................................... 36
Connecting locally to a server blade with video and USB devices.................................................................. 36
Accessing a server blade with local KVM ......................................................................................... 36
Accessing a server blade with local media devices ............................................................................ 37
Software and configuration utilities ............................................................................................... 39
Server blade deployment tools .................................................................................................................. 39
Software drivers and additional components..................................................................................... 39
HP BladeSystem c-Class Advanced management ............................................................................... 39
