Best Practices for HP BladeSystem Deployments using HP Serviceguard Solutions for HP-UX 11i (May 2010)

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recommendation to verify that both Onboard Administrator modules have the same and latest
firmware revisions installed.
Figure 7: HP BladeSystem Onboard Administrator
HP Integrity Blade Servers
HP Integrity blade servers - the BL870c and BL860c - enable customers to run and consolidate
business and mission-critical applications in the flexible BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure, providing
superior virtualization, high availability, scalability, simplified management, and energy efficiency.
The full-height BL860c is a two-socket blade server that supports dual-core Intel Itanium 9100
processors, up to 48GB memory, four Gigabit Ethernet ports, support for 3 standard c-Class I/O
mezzanine cards, and up to two internal SFF (Small Form Factor) SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) hot-plug
disk drives. The BL860c is a low-cost platform suited for testing, development and production
application consolidation, especially in IT organizations using HP-UX operating environments.
The HP Integrity BL870c Server Blade is a four-socket, full-height double-width server blade that can
support Intel Itanium 9100 series dual-core processors with up to 96GB memory, four Gigabit
Ethernet ports, three standard c-Class I/O mezzanine cards, and up to four internal SFF SAS hot-plug
disk drives. The BL870c is an ideal platform for use as the database tier of multi-tiered enterprises
applications such as SAP, and Oracle Enterprise Applications, in addition to distributed computing
applications for industries such as retail distribution, communications and financial services.
Both the BL860c and BL870c blade servers support HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3, Serviceguard A.11.17
and later versions and can coexist with ProLiant server blades and StorageWorks storage blades
within the c-Class enclosure. Table 2 shows a feature comparison of the BL860c and BL870c.