The Blade Pc Allocation Process; Blade Image Management Considerations - HP Bc1500 - BladeSystem - Blade PC Supplementary Manual

The blade PC allocation process

The following illustration highlights how HP SAM uses the network to facilitate the user to blade PC alloca-
tion process. Other HP SAM activities, such as manual or automated administrative operations to the
blade PC, may utilize the network, but are not necessarily covered in this illustration. For more informa-
tion, see the HP PC Session Allocation Manager User Guide, part number: 416323-001.
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1. Client sends HTTP "Connect Request" to HP SAM Web service (port 80 by default).
2. HP SAM validates the user name with directory services.
3. HP SAM retrieves user roles from SQL Server (port 1433 by default).
4. Users with more than one role are prompted to choose one.
5. HP SAM validates the blade PC using the HP SAM blade service.
6. HP SAM returns a blade PC pointer (new or disconnected) to the client (port 80 by default).
7. Client connects to the blade PC (port 3389 by default).
8. Blade service sends usage activity (login, disconnected, logoff) to HP SAM (port 47777 by default).

Blade image management considerations

In a typical CCI implementation, blade PC image deployment and maintenance is accomplished with HP
Rapid Deployment Pack (RDP), which includes the Altiris Deployment Solution (DS). The network designer
has flexibility in determining where to deploy the DS server hosting HP RDP server within the network. For
more in-depth technical information regarding DS ports, protocols, switches and routers, PXE, and multi-
cast, see Ports and Protocols used by Deployment Solution 6.5 at http://juice.altiris.com/node/249.
The HP blade PC supports Wake on LAN (WOL) and Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE) only on NIC
A. Therefore, when designing network connectivity for the HP RDP server to the blade PC, the HP PC
Blade Switch must be configured so that all internal odd numbered ports between e1 and e39 have net-
work connectivity to the blade image management solution.
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