User's Manual

1 Overview
The HP Integrity BL860c i4 Server Blade is a dense, low-cost, Intel® Itanium® processor server
blade. Using a Blade Link hardware assembly, multiple BL860c i4 Server Blades can be conjoined
to create dual-blade, four socket and quad-blade, eight socket variants.
Number of Processor SocketsNumber of Conjoined Server BladesName
21BL860c i4
42BL870c i4
84BL890c i4
The three blade configurations support the HP-UX operating system and are designed for deployment
in HP c-Class enclosures, specifically the 10U c7000 and the 6U c3000 Enclosures. The nPartition
configuration feature is enabled from the factory, enabling the BL870c i4 and BL890c i4 to be
partitioned into one more electrically isolated partitions. See the nPartitions Administrator Users
Guide for more information.
NOTE: For purposes of this guide, make sure that the c-Class server blade enclosure is powered
on and running properly and that the OA and iLO 3 is operational.
Server blade overview
SAS Hard Disk
Drives
PCIe I/O
Mezzanine card
capacitymax memoryDIMM slotsCPU cores (octo)Product
23364GB with
16GB DIMMs
2416BL860c i4
46768GB with
16GB DIMMs
4832BL870c i4
8121.5TB with 16GB
DIMMs
9664BL890c i4
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