ProLiant BL10e

The Compaq BL e-Class QuickBlade rack server system offers state-of-the-art performance, high availability, expanded functionality, and unsurpassed serviceability, in an ultra-dense 3U server blade enclosure.

Feature

Description

Server Blade Enclosure
Includes

• 3U high rack-mountable chassis with 20 server blade bays. ¹
• Rear bay for 1 of 3 Interconnect Tray configurations for network cable management (see below).
• Integrated Administrator for remote, out-of-band monitoring and management
• Diagnostic Adapter (for connecting keyboard, video, mouse and other devices locally to individual server blades)
• ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack for ProLiant BL Servers, includes the Compaq Insight Manager 7 and Management Agents CD and ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack CD (trial version – 7-days, 10 nodes).
• Fan cage with four (2+2 redundant) hot- plug fans
• Dual (1+1 redundant) hot- plug power supplies (600 watts each), power cords
• Server blade blanks (to fill 19 of the 20 server blade bays)
• Rack mounting hardware for Compaq and third-party racks
• Null-modem cable for serial connection to the Integrated Administrator “Console” connector
• Compaq Documentation CD
• Server blade enclosure protected by Compaq Services, including a limited three year warranty with optional service uplifts available.

Rack Compability

Mounts in Compaq, third-party, and Telco racks. Rack mounting hardware for Compaq and third-party racks ships standard with each server blade enclosure. Telco rack-mounting hardware is a separately available option kit.

Enclosure Size

• 5.25” inch Height (3U), 17.5 inch Width, 28.35 inch Depth
• Bays for up to 20 ProLiant BL10e server blades

Interconnect Tray ²

Use one of  the following (3) interconnect tray options:

• RJ-45 Patch Panel (with 40 RJ-45 connectors)
• RJ-21 Patch Panel (with 4 RJ-21 connectors)
• ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch (with 4 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks)

Integrated Administrator Module ²

• Out-of-band local console and remote network access to the server blade enclosure and all 20 server blades via (one) RJ-45 10/100T Fast Ethernet and (one) RS-232 management connectors
• Provides local and remote access to the interconnect switch command console and browser-based management interfaces
• SNMP, Web (via HTTPS) and command-line interfaces (via Console connector, Telnet and Secure Shell)
• Remotely power on/off/reboot server blades and enclosures
• Remotely toggle on/off unit identification LEDs (UID) of server blades and enclosures
• Monitors and controls the enclosure fans, temperature sensors, power supplies, interconnect switch and server blade status
• Connect to each server blade’s serial text console (Microsoft .NET Server and Linux)
• User administration for up to 25 users. Server blade bay privileges can be set on a per-user basis
• Virtual NMI button generates non-maskable interrupt for crash debug and analysis
• More than 100 scriptable commands enable automated management
• Enables full control over server blade's Power-On Self Test (POST) and boot process, including the ROM-Based Setup Utility (RBSU)
• Selective enabling of all protocols, such as Telnet
• Logging of operating system console, server blade and enclosure hardware events, user actions and invalid login attempts
• Emergency server blade enclosure shutdown caused by a critical temperature
• Enclosure Link (2) connectors reserved for future use. ³

Diagnostic Adapter Interface

Provides the ProLiant BL10e server blade with diagnostic LEDs, buttons and the following external ports.

• 1 - PS/2 Mouse
• 1 - PS/2 Keyboard
• 1 -VGA Video
• 1 - Serial
• 2 - USB 

Redundant Power Supplies

Dual, 1+1 redundant hot-plug, 600 Watt power supplies

Redundant Cooling Fans

Four, 2+2 redundant hot-plug fans

Industry Standard Compliance

• ACPI 1.0b compliant
• SDG 3.0 compliant
• Microsoft Logo certifications
• MIB-II (RFC 1213), Bridge MIB (RFC 1493), Interface MIB (RFC 2233), 801.1Q MIB (RFC 2684), RMON1 MIB (RFC 1757) groups 1, 2, 3, and 9, and Ethernet MIB (RFC1643) (ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch interconnect tray option)
• IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab, IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.3ac and 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1Q, and IEEE 802.3x (ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch interconnect tray option)
• SNMP v1 (RFC 1157) and RMON v1 (RFC 1757) groups 1, 2, 3, and 9 (ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch interconnect tray option)

System Management

• Compaq Insight Manager 7
• ROM Based Setup Utility (RBSU) 
• Automatic Server Recovery (ASR-2)
• Enclosure Self Recovery (ESR)
• Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification Ready (ACPI)
• Server Blade and Enclosure Health Logs
• Compaq Redundant Power Supply Utility
• Compaq Power Down Utility
• Pre-Failure Warranty (covers processors, hard drives and memory)
• Compaq Interconnect Switch Management System and Utilities (included with the ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch interconnect tray option)

Availability

• Redundant Hot-Plug Power Supplies (ProLiant BL e-Class Server Blade Enclosure)
• Redundant Hot-Plug Fans (ProLiant BL e-Class Server Blade Enclosure)
• ECC Memory (ProLiant BL10e Server Blade)
• Redundant ROM (ProLiant BL10e Server Blade)
• Dual network communication paths to each server blade using redundant, non-blocking layer 2 switch modules with redundant inter-module communication links (ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch interconnect tray option)
• Two redundant uplink ports per each interconnect switch module (ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch interconnect tray option)
• Spanning tree protocol for loop-free path redundancy (ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch interconnect tray option)

Security

• Power-on password
• Administrator's password
• Multilevel username and password for web and men-driven interfaces (ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch interconnect tray option)
• Telnet and menu driven interface configurable time-out period (ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch interconnect tray option)
• Up to 64 IEEE 802.1Q tagged VLANs per interconnect switch module (ProLiant BL e-Class C-GbE Interconnect Switch interconnect tray option)

Service and Support

Compaq Services provides a wide range of service offerings, including a three-year, limited warranty on the ProLiant BL e-Class server blade enclosure and interconnect trays and a one-year, limited warranty on the ProLiant BL10e server blade. Warranties are fully supported by a worldwide network of resellers and service providers, toll-free 7 x 24 hardware technical phone support, and Pre-Failure Warranty coverage of hard drives, memory and processors. Disaster recovery services are available through partnership with Comdisco.⁴

Note 1: The ProLiant BL e-Class server blade enclosure can also be purchased bundled with 20 node licenses for Rapid Deployment Pack at 50% of the standard license price.
Note 2: Each interconnect tray includes the Integrated Administrator module.
Note 3: The enclosure link (RJ-45) connectors on the interconnect tray are not to be used. Connecting an external device to these enclosure link (RJ-45) connecters may damage your external device.
Note 4: Certain restrictions and exclusions apply. Consult the Reboot-IT Support Center at 1-866-601-2030 for details.

Feature

Description

Server Series

ProLiant BL e-Class

Processor Type
One of the following:

• Intel Pentium III ULV 800MHz, 100MHz front side bus
• Intel Pentium III ULV 700MHz, 100MHz front side bus

Processor Cache

512K integrated level 2 cache.

Number of Processors 

Single processor only

Server Chipset

ServerWorks LE3.0

Memory

1 - 512 MB PC133 MHz Registered ECC SDRAM DIMM. Expandable to 1 GB (2 DIMM slots total)

Expanson Slots

No PCI slots provided

System Management

Integrated Administrator Module

Storage
One of the following:

• Hard Drive (1) 40GB ATA/100 4.200 rpm non-hot plug, attached with screws
• Hard Drive (1) 30GB ATA/100 4.200 rpm non-hot plug, attached with screws

LED Indicators

Power, NICs 1 and 2, HDD activity, Blue UID, Health

OS Support

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
• RedHat Linux
• Microsoft .NET Server (when available)

Network Controller

Two Compaq NC3163 10/100 Mb Fast Ethernet NICs with Wake on LAN (WOL)

Maintenance

Diagnostic port support for local keyboard/video/mouse and diskette drive via the Diagnostic Adapter Interface . Server blades also support USB keyboard and USB mouse attached via the Diagnostic Adapter. The following USB devices have been tested for use with the ProLiant BL10e and the Diagnostic Adapter.

• USB Keyboard (P/N 222726-008)
• USB Mouse (P/N 195255-B25)
• USB Floppy Disk Drive (P/N 230330-B25)
• USB CD ROM Drive (TEAC CD-210PU-00)

Form Factor

Plugs vertically into Compaq ProLiant BL e-Class Server Blade Enclosure

Service and Support

Compaq Services provides a wide range of service offerings, including a three-year, limited warranty on the ProLiant BL e-Class server blade enclosure and interconnect trays and a one-year, limited warranty on the ProLiant BL10e server blade. Warranties are fully supported by a worldwide network of resellers and service providers, toll-free 7 x 24 hardware technical phone support, and Pre-Failure Warranty coverage of hard drives, memory and processors. Disaster recovery services are available through partnership with Comdisco.