Technologies in HP ProLiant G7 c-Class server blades with AMD Opteron™ processors, 3rd Edition

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In designing ProLiant G7 c-Class server blades based on AMD Opteron processors, we used enterprise-class
technologies to provide maximum flexibility, scalability, performance, and control to meet many types of customer
needs:
• Two or four AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors
• HP Thermal Logic technologies
• HP advanced memory technologies
• Multiple PCIe Gen 2 x8 slots for I/O cards
• HP NC551i dual-port FlexFabric 10 Gb converged network adapters (CNAs) that support Ethernet, iSCSI,
Flex-10, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• Up to two HP hot-plug internal disk drives and the HP Smart Array P410i controller with 1 GB flash-backed write
cache (FBWC)
• HP advanced power monitoring and management
Half-height server blades support up to 2 processors, 16 DIMM slots for DDR3 memory, up to 2 hot-plug drives,
1 dual-port FlexFabric 10 Gb CNA, and 2 PCIe Gen 2 x8 mezzanine expansion slots (Figure 1). Optional
mezzanine cards support multiple types of I/O fabric connectivity to the interconnect bays in the BladeSystem
enclosure.
Figure 1: This HP BL465c G7 server is an example of a half-height HP c-Class BladeSystem server.
The unique drive drawer design on the BL465 G7 enables hot-plug storage. You can service each drive
independently. The drawer slides out to reveal two disk drives, one behind the other. The front drive slides over to
provide access to the rear drive (Figure 2).