The HP Integrity BL870c i2 server blade is a 4-socket full-height blade featuring the latest Intel® Itanium® processor 9300 series supported by up to 7680GB memory (48 DIMM slots) and features 8 Flex-10 (10 Gigabit) Ethernet ports standard. The BL870c i2 also features HP’s unique Blade Link technology which combines multiple blades to create 2, 4 and 8 socket systems, providing greater scalability and flexibility.

The HP Integrity BL870c i2 server blade coexists with ProLiant server blades and StorageWorks storage blades within the BladeSystem c-Class enclosure.        


Scale Up, Scale Out, Scale Within

Up to four (4) Intel Itanium processor 9300 series providing 16-cores of compute power
48 DIMM slots providing up to 768 GB of DDR3 memory with double chip spare enables a large memory footprint for demanding applications
Up to four (4) disks, with a choice of hot plug small form factor (SFF) SAS hard disk drives, or solid state disks (SSD)
Eight (8) embedded Flex-10 NICs with the option of adding up to 6 mezzanine cards to provide support for FCoE, SAS RAID, Fibre Channel, etc.

Always-on Resiliency


Industry-leading integrated infrastructure management

HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology offers up to 32 FlexNIC ports of Ethernet connectivity before adding additional server adapters
HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) provide up to 15 vPars per BL870c i2 server blade, dynamically adjust and share resources, and require very little overhead. HP Integrity VM provide the benefits of increased resource utilization and flexibility (Shared processor and I/O devices) and rapid deployment
Integrity Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3) is HP's next generation of remote management, providing built-in core management functions to simplify setup, health monitoring, and remote administration. Every Integrity BL870c i2 blade ships with an Integrity iLO 3 Advanced Pack license preinstalled
Infrastructure Orchestration provisions and modifies complex infrastructures in minutes