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Racks and enclosures

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Overview

A blade server is typically a very dense server system containing microprocessors, memory, and network connections that can be easily inserted into a rack-mountable enclosure to share power supplies, fans, switches, and other components with other server blades. Server blades tend to be more cost-efficient, faster to deploy, and easier to adapt to growth and change than traditional rack-mounted or tower servers.

A rack is a set of components cabled together to communicate between themselves. An enclosure is a physical container for a set of blades servers. It consists of a backplane that routes power and communication signals and additional hardware for cabling and thermal issues. It also hosts the CPU or server power supplies. A rack is a container for an enclosure although racks and enclosures are considered containers.

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager in HP Systems Insight Manager provides the following collection types:

  • e-Class. e-Class collections include the Consolidated Client Infrastructure blade PC Enclosures which host 20 PC blades including bc1000/bc1500 PC blade types, and the e-Class BL10e server blades.

  • p-Class. p-Class enclosures together form a rack if a set of enclosures are networked in the hardware level. A p-class enclosure hosts the ProLiant BL p-Class server and workstation types.

  • c-Class. c-Class collections consist of the HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, HP ProLiant BL c-Class server blades, network interconnect components, Onboard Administrator, and management tools that enable adaptive computing, optimized for rapid deployment.

Rack and enclosure collections

HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) discovers and identifies server blade racks and enclosures.

There are two specific search criteria for racks and enclosures:

  • Rack

  • Enclosure

Running searches using these criteria returns a list of systems contained in the selected racks or enclosures. Any criteria, except for the two listed previously, returns the racks and enclosures themselves, not the systems in those racks and enclosures. For instance, a system name search for the rack Franklin 1 would return the system Franklin 1, not any systems in Franklin 1.

Two default collections are related to racks and enclosures and are listed under the System Type collection:

  • All Racks

  • All Enclosures

On the system table view page, racks display in two formats:

  • Encl1 in Rack1

  • Rack1

The Picture View page can be displayed by clicking rack hyperlink.

Clicking an enclosure name in the System Name column on the system table view page produces a list of all discovered systems in the selected enclosure. The status for both racks and enclosures is always Unknown.

The Picture View page displays if the server is part of an enclosure or rack. This page contains a diagram of the discovered systems in the enclosure and, if available, in the rack. While signed in to HP SIM and placing your cursor over a server shown in the view, you receive information on that particular server, including server blade name, slot number, and the enclosure in which the server is located.

Related procedures

» Rack view - p-Class rack view
» Rack view - c-Class rack view
» Enclosure view - e-Class enclosures
» Enclosure view - c-Class enclosures
» Enclosure view - p-Class enclosures

Related topics

» Racks and enclosures - System(s) tab
» Racks and enclosures - Events tab
» HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager in HP Systems Insight Manager - Overview
» Overview - HP BladeSystem page
» HP BladeSystem page - Picture view
» HP BladeSystem page - Tree view