administrator can take full, remote control of the enclosure and quickly complete the configuration. 
The c-Class blades are now ready for the operating system deployment from the RDP server. 
The c7000 enclosure houses the entire infrastructure for all HP BladeSystem components (server 
blades, blade network switches or pass-through modules, blade SAN switches or SAN pass-through 
modules, management modules, power supplies, and fans). In addition, the enclosure provides an 
integrated on-board Insight Display screen that allows for the physical management of the entire 
BladeSystem enclosure and components. 
 
Figure 5. HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure, front view, empty: BLc7000 Enclosure Part number: 412152-B21     
 
 
Table 1. BLc7000 Enclosure Specification  
Device bays (Front side) 
•  Up 16 Half-Height Blades  
•  Up to 8 Full-Height Blades  
•  Mixed configurations supported 
Interconnect bays (Rear side)  Installed in matched pairs for redundancy, 8 total, any 
supported I/O fabric (Ethernet, Fibre Channel, 
InfiniBand (IB)) 
Interconnects Ethernet 
•  HP 1Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module  
•  3020 Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch  
•  GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch 
Interconnects Fibre Channel (FC) 
•  HP 16 port 4Gb FC Pass-Thru Module  
•  Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 
Interconnects InfiniBand  HP 4X DDR IB Switch Module 
Power supply (Rear side)  Up to 6 x 2250W 
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