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HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide

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HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide March 2009 Part number: 450941-003 Third edition: March 2009

HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide

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... 3-2-4 Remote management ...11 3-2-5 Blade workstation and server blade co-residence 13 3-2-6 Blade workstation site planning 13 3-2-7 Blade workstation power planning 13 3-3 HP Remote Graphics Software ...13 3-3-1 RGS Sender ...14 3-3-2 RGS Receiver ...14 3-3-3 RGS licensing ...14 3-3-4 RGS product structure ...15 3-3-5 Audio support...15 3-3-6 USB support ...15 3-3-7 Alternative connection methods to RGS 16 3-4 Client computers ...16 3-4-1 HP gt7725 Thin Client ...16 3-5 Session Allocation...

HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide

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5-5-1 Characterizing latency...32 5-5-2 Characterizing RGS bandwidth consumption 34 5-6 Network summary...35 Figures Figure 1-1 HP Blade Workstation Solution documentation hierarchy 5 Figure 3-1 When viewed electronically, the rounded rectangles are buttons which generate mouse-over popup text boxes...8 Figure 3-2 The HP Blade Workstation Solution architecture 9 Figure 3-3 iLO 2 status summary ...11 Figure 3-4 Boot console ...12 Figure 3-5 Connecting virtual media to the...

HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide

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... recommended document to ensure a successful deployment. Client computers Figure 1-1 HP Blade Workstation Solution documentation hierarchy white paper The HP Blade Workstation-A new paradigm in workstation computing featuring HP ProLiant Blade Workstations This document HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide www.hp.com/support/xw460c_manuals www.hp.com/support/xw2x220c_manuals HP ProLiant Blade Workstations • Hardware and Software Supported by the blade workstation solution • The blade workstation solution architecture and its key components...

HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide

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.... If your printer handles only letter-size paper, you have access to fit on letter-size paper. Depending on your HP Blade Workstation Solution Deployment • HP Blade Workstation Solution for the Financial Services sector • HP Blade Workstation Solution for the Public Sector These white papers are available on the websites listed in the print dialog. The tabloid...

HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide

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... and inexpensively managed. Benefits of the HP Blade Workstation Solution 7 HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) provides a high-performance, reliable, and secure link between the blade workstations and the client computers. 2 Benefits of the HP Blade Workstation Solution The HP Blade Workstation Solution represents a new paradigm in the form of blade workstations) is often necessary, ranging from a situation where a single user's workstation goes down to a situation where...

HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide

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... information on paper, the popup text information that is available in the electronic version is also included in Figure 3-2 is a tabloid-size page. HP Blade Workstation Solution architecture 8 For those of you place your mouse over popup text boxes. Central to this guide as static text. Figure 3-1 When viewed ... rectangle button (circled in Figure 3-1), four blue, rectangular popup text boxes will appear, three of the rounded rectangles in Figure 3-1. 3 HP Blade Workstation Solution architecture This chapter describes the HP Blade Workstation Solution architecture.

HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide

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... audio USB The HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure contains power supplies, fans, network switches, the Onboard Administrator, and up to 64 blade workstations. HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure, which supports up to 8 blade workstations. 2. HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation HP ProLiant xw2x220c Blade Workstation HP gt7725 Thin Client HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation with HP Graphics Expansion Blade RGS - Click the radio buttons above to view each HP Blade Workstation Solution component.

HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide

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...), 64-bit- HP Blade Workstation Solution architecture 10 3-1 Components of the blade workstation solution As shown in workstation computing featuring HP ProLiant Blade Workstations. This OS is acquired by the blade workstation The blade workstation supports the following blade workstation models: • HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation-Supports a broad range of graphics adapters in the document Hardware and Software Supported by the customer from a thin client to provide extremely...

HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide

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...allows administrators to remotely perform most common way to access iLO 2 is created on the blade workstation (using HTTPS). Figure 3-3 iLO 2 status summary HP Blade Workstation Solution architecture 11 Data security is provided by RGS. 3-2-3 Data security Data security is ... 2 (Integrated Lights-Out version 2) architecture as noted below, the blade workstation solution provides application transparency. For example, iLO 2 allows the administrator to the client computers. The blade workstation solution supports all RGS communications (frame buffer pixels, mouse/keyboard events,...

HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide

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... when a monitor, keyboard, and mouse are connected directly to the blade workstation from the local PC. For more information about each console type, see the HP Integrated LightsOut 2 User Guide. HP Blade Workstation Solution architecture 12 In Figure 3-4, the Integrated Remote Console is connected to the blade workstation by selecting Local Image File and providing the file name...

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... drives. To install and use many of your PC. 3-3 HP Remote Graphics Software HP Remote Graphics Software interfaces between the blade workstations and the client computers. The frame buffer is displayed in a separate window on the client computer. 3-2-5 Blade workstation and server blade co-residence HP ProLiant Blade Workstations and HP ProLiant Server Blades can co-reside in the same enclosure, and can establish...

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... the License Key file. HP Blade Workstation Solution architecture 14 These licenses are dynamically allocated on a broad range of licenses are connecting to the blade workstation for playback. Three types of computers. As noted above, a single RGS Sender connection session might include multiple Receiver connections. The License Key file is checked each client computer. The License...

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...-This RGS product runs only on HP ProLiant Blade Workstations, and supports floating licenses only 3. Audio can be sent from HP, and can be attached to the client computer and then remotely mounted to a blade workstation. Audio is based on the blade workstation to access the USB devices as by the HP gt7725 Thin Client, as well as if the devices...

HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide

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... used as the HP gt7725 Thin Client-The HP gt7725 Thin Client is the most powerful HP thin client, and supports up to 7680x1200 or 3840x2400 (at 1920x1200 on the HP gt7725 Thin Client. NOTE: The HP gt7725 Thin Client supersedes the HP Blade Workstation Client series of client computers: 1. RGS is established, the blade RGS Sender disconnects and the RGS session terminates. HP Blade Workstation Solution architecture 16...

HP Blade Workstation Solution Planning Guide

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... resource assignment, a user and the user's client computer are assigned blade workstation resources from a pool of SAM operation to be automatically assigned to multiple blade workstations. SAM can be configured to access network printers, which would typically be configured to perform client aggregation automatically, while ensuring that each of your HP Blade Workstation Solution deployment by separately logging into...

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..., of which only interconnect bay 1 is installed in each enclosure (see the HP BladeSystem Onboard Administrator User Guide. HP Blade Workstation Solution architecture 18 For more information about each blade in the rear of each device bay in the c7000 enclosure. • All blade workstations are used by logging into OA, and obtain detailed information about the...

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... in the document Hardware and Software Supported by the blade workstation are routed to iLO 2 on each blade. A number of the enclosures. The network switches supported by HP ProLiant Blade Workstations, available at the websites shown in the back of network switches can manage power for all blades in the enclosure from a single OA login session. 3-8 Network...

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... systems in your environment, this step to provide guidance for production use. HP looks forward to working with hands-on each of blade workstations and client computers in your environment to determine if the blade workstation solution has the potential to meet your detailed remote workstation computing requirements. Information is debugged prior to Production Deployment. Demo the...

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... number of blade workstations and client computers (typically 2-8 systems) are installed in the next section, "Identify your computing objectives." Define your requirements If the capabilities of the questions that you engage HP technical personnel to assist with you how the HP Blade Workstation Solution can meet your organization's computing objectives. Identify your computing objectives The HP Blade Workstation Solution is...

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