The HP BladeSystem PCI Expansion Blade provides PCI card expansion slots to an adjacent c-Class blade server. This blade expansion unit uses the c-Class midplane to pass standard PCI signals between adjacent enclosure bays, to allow a c-Class blade server to add off-the-shelf PCI-X or PCI-e cards. Customers would need one PCI Expansion Blade for each c-Class server blade needing PCI card expansion. Any PCI card from third-party manufacturers that works in HP ProLiant ML and HP ProLiant DL servers should work in this PCI Expansion Blade. HP does not offer any warranty or support for third-party PCI manufactured products. HP does joint market with selected PCI manufactures via the HP BladeSystem Solutions Builder Program.

Each PCI Expansion Blade can hold one or two PCI-X cards( 3.3V or universal); or one or two PCI-e cards(x1, x4, or x8). Installed PCI-X cards must use less than 25 watts per card. Installed PCIe cards must use less than 75 watts per PCIe slot, or a single PCIe card can use up to 150 watts, with a special power connector enabled on the PCI Expansion blade. Supports typical third-party (non-HP) PCI cards, such as SSL or XML accelerator cards, VOIP cards, special purpose telecommunications cards, and some graphic acceleration cards.

Specification

Product
Product id	215782
Brand	Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Partnr	448018-B21
EAN/UPC code	883585131044
Warranty (months)	3 Years
Features
Interface	PCI-X
Technical details
Dimensions (WxDxH)	181.7 x 509.5 x 56.1 mm
Weight	4540 g