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1.1 BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure Configurations
The following figures and tables describe the half-height and full-height server blades and their configurations in either an InfiniBand configuration or a gigabit Ethernet configuration in a c7000 BladeSystem enclosure.
These figures show the front view and server blade bay numbering scheme for half-height and full-height server blade configurations:
The following figure and table map the server blade's embedded NICs and mezzanine port slot assignments for various server blade types (single-density full-height, single-density half-height, and double-density half-height server blades) to the HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure interconnect module bays.

The following table maps the server blade type and the InfiniBand switch to its bandwidth in InfiniBand configurations (note that this table does not apply to gigabit Ethernet configurations):
Server Blade Type One 24-Port Server Blade InfiniBand Switch per Enclosure (410398-B21) Two 24-Port InfiniBand Switches per Enclosure (410398-B21) One 32-Port Server Blade InfiniBand Switch per Enclosure Two 32-Port Server Blade InfiniBand Switches per Enclosure
Single-Density, Full Height 1:1 BW N/A 1:1 BW N/A
Single-Density, Half Height 2:1 BW 1:1 BW 1:1 BW N/A
Double-Density, Half Height N/A 2:1 BW N/A 1:1 BW
For the 24-port server blade InfiniBand switches, there are 16 downlinks and 8 uplinks on the switches. For single-density, half-height server blades, there are 16 server blades in the enclosure utilizing all 16 internal ports (2:1 bandwidth DDR). For full-height server blades there are 8 server blades in an enclosure using just 8 of the internal links and using the 8 uplinks (1:1 bandwidth DDR). For double-density server blades, there are 16 SserverA and 16 ServerB nodes. Only the ServerA or the ServerB nodes will connect to a server blade InfiniBand switch, and you will need to have 2 server blade InfiniBand switches installed to allow all of the ServerA and ServerB nodes to communicate (2:1 bandwidth DDR).
For the 32-port server blade InfiniBand switches, there are 16 downlinks and 16 uplinks on the switches. For single-density, half-height server blades, there are 16 blades in the enclosure utilizing all 16 internal ports (1:1 bandwidth DDR or QDR). For full-height server blades there are 8 server blades in an enclosure using just 8 of the internal links and using the 8 uplinks (1:1 bandwidth DDR or QDR). For double-density server blades, there are 16 ServerA and 16 ServerB nodes. Only the ServerA or the ServerB nodes will connect to a server blade InfiniBand switch, and you will need to have 2 server blade InfiniBand switches installed to allow all the ServerA and ServerB nodes to communicate (1:1 bandwidth DDR or QDR).
The following table maps the server blade type and the GigE modules to the bandwidth in gigabit Ethernet configurations (note that this table does not apply to InfiniBand configurations):
Server Blade Type One 16-Port Pass-Through Module per Enclosure (406740-B21) Two 16-Port Pass-Through Modules per Enclosure (406740-B21) One 8-Port Cisco Switch per Enclosure (Catalyst Series) Two 8-Port Cisco Switches per Enclosure (Catalyst Series) One 4-Port GbE2 Switch per Enclosure (410917-B21) Two 4-Port GbE2 Switches per Enclosure (410917-B21)
Single-Density, Full-Height 1:1 BW  N/A 1:1 BW N/A 2:1 BW N/A
Single-Density, Half-Height 1:1 BW N/A 2:1 BW N/A 4:1 BW N/A
Double-Density, Half-Height N/A 1:1 BW N/A 2:1 BW N/A 4:1 BW