HP ProLiant BL30p Setup And Installation Manual page 42

Hardware Options Installation
With the BL30p blade and FC adapter, FC port aggregation is required to
accommodate the increased number of server FC HBA ports and maintain
compatibility with the available enclosure backplane signals and interconnect ports.
The BL30p blade sleeve aggregates the four paths from two BL30p blades into two
physical paths. Up to sixteen physical FC ports connect from the Patch Panel 2 or
GbE2 interconnect switch directly to the customer external FC SAN switch. BL30p
FC implementations require the FC SAN switch supports FCAL public loop login.
Most FC switches provide this support, however, some vendors carry models that do
not provide this port level support.
For information on accessing internal server blade components, refer to Chapter 3,
"Server Blade Setup."
Figure 4-13: Installing the FC adapter
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