What’s the networking options and number of mezzanine slots supported in a HP Blade?

When planning your server architecture and defining the number of network cards you need to support for things like, management, virtual machine workload, cluster heartbeat, Live Migration, iSCSI and backup, it is worth understanding what networking options ship inbox and how many mezzanine slots are available:

 

Blade

Number of ports

Bandwidth

Number of slots

Notes

G5 HH

2 ports onboard

1 GB

2 Mezzanine

Except BL495 G5 which has 2 ports onboard 10 GB

G6 HH

2 ports onboard

10 GB

2 Mezzanine

 

G5 FH

4 ports onboard

1 GB

3 Mezzanine

 

G6 FH

4 ports onboard

10 GB

3 Mezzanine

 

Patrick Lownds

 

Published 17 November 2009 19:21 by Patrick