Overview
The HPE Integrity BL860c i4 Server Blade is a dense, low-cost, Intel Itanium processor server blade.
Using a Blade Link hardware assembly, multiple BL860c i4 Server Blades can be conjoined to create
dual-blade, four socket and quad-blade, eight socket variants.
Name Number of Conjoined Server
Blades
Number of Processor Sockets
BL860c i4 1 2
BL870c i4 2 4
BL890c i4 4 8
The three blade configurations support the HP-UX operating system and are designed for deployment in
HPE c-Class enclosures, specifically the 10U c7000 and the 6U c3000 Enclosures. The nPartition
configuration feature is enabled from the factory, enabling the BL870c i4 and BL890c i4 to be partitioned
into one more electrically isolated partitions. See the nPartitions Administrator Users Guide for more
information.
NOTE:
For purposes of this guide, make sure that the c-Class server blade enclosure is powered on and
running properly and that the OA and iLO 3 is operational.
Server blade overview
Product CPU cores
(octo)
DIMM slots max memory PCIe I/O
Mezzanine
card capacity
SAS Hard Disk
Drives
BL860c i4 16 24 364GB with
16GB DIMMs
3 2
BL870c i4 32 48 768GB with
16GB DIMMs
6 4
BL890c i4 64 96 1.5TB with
16GB DIMMs
12 8
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