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Operating the workstation blade 11
Preparing the workstation blade infrastructure
To prepare the workstation blade infrastructure (enclosure, power supplies, Onboard Administrator
modules, and networking), perform the following steps:
1. To set up the enclosure, including wiring the PDUs, follow the instructions in the HP BladeSystem
c7000 Enclosure Setup and Installation Guide.
2. Install power supplies in the enclosure according to the HP BladeSystem power guidelines on the HP
website at http://www.hp.com/go/bladesystem/powercalculator
(http://www.hp.com/go/bladesystem/powercalculator
).
3. Install the Onboard Administrator modules. If you are using multiple c3000 or c7000 Enclosures,
connect the Onboard Administrator module in each enclosure to the uplink/downlink Ethernet
connectors in each module.
4. Install your network devices in the enclosure, and then connect them to your site network
infrastructure. Hardware and Software Supported by HP ProLiant Workstation Blades describes the
c7000 Enclosure interconnect bay mappings for the WS460c Workstation Blade.
5. Connect power to the enclosure and power it up. When the enclosure is powered up for the first
time, Insight Display launches an installation wizard. Complete the configuration process, and then
verify no installation or configuration errors appear on the Insight Display.
6. Verify the Onboard Administrator module and network devices can be accessed over the network
from the PC.
Configuring the workstation blade hardware
The workstation blade hardware is configured before installing the blade in the enclosure. Unless
otherwise noted, the hardware listed can be configured on the WS460c Workstation Blade.
• Intel® Xeon® processors—The workstation blade supports Intel® Xeon® processors, offering multiple
frequencies of each processor type. In dual processor configurations, both processors must be
identical. For a description of the processors that are available for each workstation blade, see
Hardware and Software Supported by HP ProLiant Workstation Blades.
• Memory—Up to 12 memory DIMMs can be installed in the workstation blade, supporting up to 192
GB of memory for the WS460c Workstation Blade. For a description of per-OS memory limitations,
see Hardware and Software Supported by HP ProLiant Workstation Blades.
• HP Graphic Expansion Blade—The graphics expansion blade comes attached to the top of the
workstation blade and accommodates full length PCI-Express graphics cards.
The graphics expansion blade can only be purchased factory-attached to the workstation blade.
• NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics adapter—The WS460c Workstation Blade supports a number of
graphics adapters, which can be ordered factory-installed or as after market option kits. For a list of
the NVIDIA graphics adapters that are available, see Hardware and Software Supported by HP
ProLiant Workstation Blades.
• Disk drives—The WS460c Workstation Blade supports one or two SAS or SATA disk drives.
• BBWC—The WS460c Workstation Blade can be ordered with either of these BBWC:
o BBWC with 256 MB of memory.
o BBWC with 512 MB of memory.
For the latest information about BBWC, see the HP website.