HP ProLiant BL495c HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure technologies,4th edition - Page 16

storage and file serving inside the BladeSystem enclosure. The X1800sb can also be used as a low cost gateway to external FC, SAS, or iSCSI storage. For the most up-to-date information about HP StorageWorks storage blade solutions, go to the HP website: www.hp.com/go/storageblades. Mezzanine cards HP offers a variety of mezzanine card options to provide connectivity to networks and storage. HP ProLiant c-Class server blades use two types of mezzanine cards to connect to the various interconnect fabrics such as Fibre Channel, Ethernet, serial-attached SCSI, or InfiniBand. Type I and Type II mezzanine cards differ only in the amount of power allocated to them by the server and in the physical space they occupy on the server blade. Type I mezzanine cards have slightly less power available to them and are slightly smaller. Type I mezzanine cards are compatible with all ProLiant c-Class server blades in all mezzanine connectors (Table 1). Type II mezzanine cards are compatible with Mezzanine 2 or 3 connectors in full-height c-Class server blades. Type II mezzanine cards are also compatible with Mezzanine 2 connectors in half-height c-Class server blades. Table 1. Compatibility of mezzanine cards and mezzanine connectors in ProLiant c-Class server blades c-Class server blades Type I mezz card Type II mezz card Mezz connector 1 Full height yes no Half height yes no Mezz connector 2 Full height yes yes Half height yes yes Mezz connector 3 Full height yes yes Half height yes no For the most up-to-date information about the c-Class mezzanine card options, go to the HP website: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/c-class-interconnects.html. Virtual Connect Virtual Connect technology is a set of interconnect modules and embedded software for c-Class enclosures that simplifies the setup and administration of server connections. HP Virtual Connect includes the following components: HP 1/10 Gb Virtual Connect Ethernet Module HP 1/10 Gb-F Virtual Connect Ethernet Module HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10 Gb Ethernet Module HP Virtual Connect 4 Gb Fibre Channel Module HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb 24-Port Fibre Channel Module HP Virtual Connect Manager Virtual Connect implements server-edge virtualization so that server administrators can upgrade, replace, or move server blades within their enclosures without changes being visible to the external LAN and SAN environments. HP recommends using Virtual Connect or managed switches to reduce cabling and management overhead. Like other Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches, Virtual Connect modules slide into the interconnect bays of c-Class enclosures. To support Fibre Channel, the enclosure must have at least one Virtual 16