Mezzanine Cards; Virtual Connect - HP Xw460c - ProLiant - Blade Workstation Overview

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
Mezz connector 1 Full height
Half height
Mezz connector 2 Full height
Half height
Mezz connector 3 Full height
Half height
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
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Type I mezz card
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Type II mezz card
no
no
yes
yes
yes
no
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