HP Blade System is the evolution of rack-mounted & pedestal infrastructure. A Blade System reduces costs & simplifies the management, building, & maintenance of the infrastructure behind your multi-server environment. It consolidates & repackages all the supporting infrastructure elements-compute, storage, network, & power into a single platform that can accelerate the integration & optimization of your data center.A Blade System c 3000 enclosure holds up to 8 server & / or storage blades plus redundant or non-redundant network & storage switches. It
Includes:: a shared, multi-terabit high-speed mid-plane for wire-once connectivity of server blades to network & shared storage. Power is delivered through a pooled power backplane that ensures the full capacity of the power supplies is available to all blades.