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Chapter 1. Introduction
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Chapter 1. Introduction
The Bull novascale BL465 server is a high density, scalable blade server ideally suited for
high performance and virtualized environments.
It is compatible with Bull Blade Chassis – Enterprise.
Note “Blade Chassis” is used to indicate the Bull Blade Chassis – Enterprise.
The BL465 supports the following components:
• Up to 2 multi –core Intel Xeon® microprocessors
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Up to 16 memory-module slots
• Up to 2 internal solid state drives (SSD)
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Expansion device Horizontal-compact-form-factor (CFFh) expansion cards and vertical-
combination-I/O (CIOv) expansion cards.
In addition, you can combine two BL465 blade servers to form a scalable blade complex,
named BL465 complex in this guide. Combining two BL465 servers in a BL465 complex
provides for FlexNode partitioning
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With FlexNode partitioning, you can deploy the BL465
complex as a single blade or as two independent servers, without having to change the
physical configuration. The ability to switch between single-partition mode and stand-alone
mode is provided through the management-module Web interface. For more information
about FlexNode partitioning see Working with a BL465 Complex on page 12.
For more information about the Management-module Web interface, see Bull Blade
Management Module User’s Guide .
This Installation and User’s Guide provides information about:
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Setting up the blade server
• Starting and configuring the blade server
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Installing hardware options
• Installing the operating system
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Performing basic troubleshooting of the blade server
The blade server comes with a limited warranty. For information about the terms of the
warranty and getting service and assistance, see the Bull Hardware Product Warranty
document for your blade server on the Resource DVD . You can obtain up-to-date
information about the blade server at http://support.bull.com .
If firmware and documentation updates are available, you can download them from
http://support.bull.com/. The blade server might have features that are not described in
the documentation that comes with the blade server, and the documentation might be
updated occasionally to include information about those features, or technical updates
might be available to provide additional information that is not included in the blade server
documentation.