Anatomy Of The Cci Solution - HP Bc1500 - BladeSystem - Blade PC Supplementary Manual

The HP PC Blade Switch is a managed Layer 2+ Ethernet switch that provides up to a 41-to-1 reduction in
Ethernet network cables and provides network connection redundancy for the HP PC Blade Enclosure.
Cable reduction can help to reduce the time required to deploy, manage, and service the HP CCI solu-
tion.

Anatomy of the CCI solution

As shown in Figure 1, the CCI topology is as follows:
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In the Access Tier, a user accesses an available blade PC from a remote access device.
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In the Compute Tier, for a dynamic environment implementation, the Session Allocation Manager
allocates the user direct access to either a new or an existing blade PC session.
A new session consists of a user without either an active or disconnected remote desktop session
running on a blade PC within the CCI solution.
An existing session consists of a blade PC resource that is either:
• Actively hosting the user's session from a different access device.
or
• A session that the user has disconnected from (either the same or different access device)
without first logging off.
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In the Resource Tier, users authenticate with the directory server each time they attempt to log onto
a blade PC. After successful authentication, users are logged onto the blade PC with access to the
resources in the Resource Tier allowed by their security level.
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The Management Tier is reserved for the tools necessary to manage the CCI solution, such as HP
Systems Insight Manager and the HP Rapid Deployment Pack.
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