Overview; Hardware Components; Hardware Configuration - HP P4800 G2 Maintenance Manual

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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.

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- 1 0 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.

Figure 1 (page 6)

through

Figure 4 (page 9)

shows the base configuration of the HP P4800 G2 solution.

show additional configurations of the HP P4800 G2 solution.

Figure 2 (page 7)

Hardware components

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