HPE BladeSystem c3000 Platinum Enclosure brings unique capabilities to HP BladeSystem. The c3000 is ideal for:
1) Small offices or remote sites that have limited to no IT staff.
2) Applications requiring up to eight servers per enclosure.
3) Locations that have limited rack power and cooling capacity.
4) Data centers requiring power connections to an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) or 100-120V AC wall outlets.
Similar to the c7000 enclosure, the Intelligent Management through the Onboard Administrator gives you complete control of your c3000 bladed infrastructure. Each c3000 enclosure repackages the moving parts of your infrastructure cables, power supplies and fans, networking, and redundancy. The economical HP c3000 solution includes useful features that save you time, hassles, and energy, while making change quick and easy. The result— greater convenience during setup, maintenance, and daily operations.
Table 1 shows the main features of HP c3000.
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Key features |
Server blades (excluding the BL 2x220c G6), storage blades, interconnect modules, power supplies, fans, and Onboard Administrator modules are designed to fit into the c3000 enclosure. A single-phase enclosure available worldwide for use with in-rack PDUs & UPSs which accept C13/C14 power cords. Optional HP 1200 W Common Slot Platinum Hot Plug Power Supply Kit (up to 6 total). Optional c-Class Active Cool fans (between 4 and 6 total). Up to 8 half-height server blades or 4 full-height server blades. Up to 4 PCI Expansion blades attached to half-height server blades. Up to 3 different interconnect fabrics (Ethernet, FC, IB, iSCSI, SAS, etc.) supported simultaneously within the enclosure. Six (6) Active Cool fans. Types of interconnect modules available (up to 4 per enclosure). HP Insight Control, a product option, delivers essential infrastructure management. HP Matrix Operating Environment for ProLiant, a product option, is an integrated command center. c3000 enclosure is divided into 2 zones or quadrants by the horizontal support metalwork. Zone 1 includes bays 1, 2, 5, and 6; Zone 2 contains bays 3, 4, 7, and 8. |
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HP ProLiant & Integrity Server Blades |
Delivering best-in-class performance, choice and reliability on AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon and Intel Itanium processors for Windows, Linux, Solaris, OpenVMS, or HP-UX based servers. |
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HP D2200sb Storage Blade |
D2200sb Storage Blade delivers direct attached storage for c-Class servers, with support for up to twelve hot plug small form factor (SFF) SAS hard disk drives. |
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HP Ultrium Tape Blades1 |
Tape blades are ideal for HP BladeSystem c-Class customers who need a data protection solution but are not connected into a Storage Area Network (SAN). They provide direct attach data protection for the adjacent server and network backup protection for all other data within the enclosure. The HP tape blades are the industry's first bladed tape drives and are developed exclusively for the BladeSystem c-Class enclosures. |
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HP Network Storage Servers |
HP X1800sb G2 Network Storage Blade is a flexible storage server solution for BladeSystem environments. |
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HP BladeSystem c-Class c3000 Platinum Enclosure |
A BladeSystem c3000 Platinum enclosure holds up to 8 server and/or storage blades plus redundant or non-redundant network and storage switches. |
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HP BladeSystem c-Class Interconnect Options |
HP also offers one of the broadest selections of interconnect fabric options in the industry to provide network, SAN/network attached storage (NAS), and cluster connectivity. |
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