BL Blades enhanced enclosure

[Tony Glynn]

Hi All,

I think I've figured it out but I thought I would ask the experts.

We have just received 2x BL25P's for eval. I notices that they have 4 NICS (plus the iLO). But I can only physically plug in 3 on our (older version) backplanes.
Am I to assume that the 4th NIC is only available if we (buy) use the enhanced backplane? I'm assuming that all servers then share the same iLO NIC in the new managment module leaving 4 NICS / server (or 16 if you have BL40/45s)

Cheers

[Oleg Koroz]

on the old type enclosure you loose NIC2 , so at left Patch you have ILO and NIC 4 and than you have at right NIC 1&3. You loose one because needs of ILO. Yes with new enhanced you can get all 4 NIC and ILO trough Management module (one port for all in the enclosure).
16 if you have 45, but if you have 40 - you have 20 + for each ILO in older an din newer one for all ILO.

[Samira Samarasekera]

Hello Tony,

You are quite correct in you deduction. Under the original Enclosure, you would lose NIC2 for the iLo. In the enhanced Enclosure, since all the iLos are ported thru the management module, NIC2 is available for use.

Samira

[Steven Clementi]

Actually, with the BL40 you only get 5 NIC's and 1 iLo. The BL45 gets only 4 nic's like a BL2x.

Also, I thought you lost "NIC4" on the old enclosure? NIC's numbered...


4 3 B B B B B B B B 1 2

numbers being the "NIC" (not numbered how you see in Windows though) and B being a blade slot. (View from the back)


The short story is... you gain the NIC back if you upgrade to the enhanced backplane.


Steven

[Oleg Koroz]

Tony did you find info what you looking?
If you confused

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00429271/c00429271.pdf

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00370682/c00370682.pdf

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00065042/c00065042.pdf

http://docs.hp.com/en/377853-001/377853-001.pdf

http://docs.hp.com/en/307153-002/307153-002.pdf