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NIC teaming support
The NC7782 supports two types of teaming: Network Fault Tolerance (NFT) teaming and Load
Balancing teaming.
NFT teaming increases system availability by providing failover between a primary and a secondary
network port on a server. It also monitors the server connection to the network and automatically
switches traffic to a redundant link in the event of a failure. In a system configured for failover, a
secondary port can take over for a failed primary port with no interruption of server operations.
Load balancing teaming, sometimes called port-bonding or trunking, enhances server availability and
performance by sharing traffic among multiple network adapters. Load balancing capability allows
optimum throughput by “bonding” multiple ports in a server to act as a single port. Load balancing
teaming increases network bandwidth and redundancy.
High availability technologies
The ProLiant DL585 server supports dual, hot-pluggable, redundant power supplies to ensure
uninterrupted service. All models ship standard with dual 870-Watt Hot-Plug Redundant Power
Supplies (featuring hi/lo line auto-sensing).
The ProLiant DL585 supports internal hot-plug drives and has a transportable Battery-Backed Write
Cache (BBWC) Enabler module with battery charge of up to 72 hours. This BBWC module protects
up to 64 MB of write cache memory from hard boot, power, SCSI controller, or system board
failures. In the event of a failure, write cache data can be moved to another ProLiant DL585 server in
the data center by simply removing the BBWC Enabler and 5i Plus Memory Module simultaneously.
CAUTION
To prevent data loss, the cable between the BBWC Enabler
and 5i Plus Memory Module must NOT be disconnected.
The ProLiant DL585 has eight hot-pluggable fans. The 7+1 redundant fan configuration provides a
single cooling zone across the major server subsystems for7x24 cooling.
Storage technologies
The ProLiant DL585 server supports internal hot-plug storage and has an empty Wide
Ultra3/Ultra320 drive cage. An internal Wide Ultra3/Ultra 320 backplane supports up to four 1-
inch Ultra320 SCSI hot-plug drives and is configurable to support simplex (4x1) or duplex (2x2)
mode. Duplex is the default mode. The server supports serial attached SCSI (SAS), small form factor
(SFF) drives within the 8-Bay SAS/SATA Cage Option Kit. The SAS/SATA Cage must be used in
conjunction with a SAS/SATA Controller such as the Smart Array P600 Controller to upgrade all
U320 models to SAS. The server supports up to 1.20 TB of internal storage using 4 x 300 GB
Ultra320 SCSI 1-inch hard drives or up to 582 GB of internal storage using 8 x 72.8 GB SAS SFF
drives. The server supports Ultra320 drives with the addition of a PCI-X or PCI option card cabled to
the backplane. An external SCSI port is not available on the ProLiant DL585 server. External SCSI
solutions require the addition of a PCI or PCI-X option card with an external connector.
A dual-channel, Ultra3 Smart Array 5i Plus Controller is integrated on the DL585 system board. This
controller supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, and 5 across the internal hard disk drives. The DL585 supports a