C3000 BladeSystem Enclosures

HP C3000 BladeSystem Enclosures

As a 6U blade chassis designed to house HP ProLiant and HP Integrity blade servers, the HP BladeSystem C3000 features support for up to 8 half-height blade servers and 4 full-height blade servers. In addition to space-efficiency, HP C3000 blade enclosures easy management with HP Onboard Administrator and HP Insight Control, as well as easy scalability since C3000 enclosures can grow from 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) to 10GbE alongside your business environment. HP C3000 enclosures are also cost-effective through reduced up-front costs, as well as reduced on-going management costs. Through their space-efficient design and many performance advantages, HP BladeSystem C3000 blade enclosures are ideal for environments such as remote sites and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

In addition to ease of use, scalability and space and cost-efficiency, other advantages provided by HP C3000 BladeSystem enclosures include consolidation, comprehensive virtualization and robust versatility. When it comes to consolidation, HP C3000 blade enclosures allow you to consolidate by integrating your servers, networking, storage (either Network Attached Storage [NAS] or iSCSI) and power management components into a single chassis. As for the HP C3000’s comprehensive virtualization capabilities, the C3000 allows you to take a step beyond simply virtualizing your servers by allowing you to virtualize your entire network infrastructure. And last but not least, the robust versatility provided by HP BladeSystem C3000 enclosures is derived from a couple of factors, such as the C3000’s four interconnect bays that support any I/O fabric including Ethernet, Fibre Channel (FC) and Infiniband, and its low-line and high-line power options.