Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:48 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >> Oh, right - um, the obvious question (once I thought about it): can you >> actually plug this thing in at home, or is it going to pop the breaker >> when it tries to draw more current than the breaker's designed for? >> > I don't have no 48V DC power supply yet. I think you misunderstood me: this suckers gonna draw a LOT of watts. Your home house wiring may not carry enough current per circuit breaker to run it. > > By Googling I've found that there's an adapter cable I can buy to get > standard VGA/Ethernet/USB ports out of each blade. > http://www.amazon.com/HP-Crossover-Connection-Proliant-Enclosures/dp/B007P6R4Y2 > > But sadly there´s a missing cable that interconnects the PC-ILO female > sockets at the enclosure with some interconnect backplane (at first I > thought those were Ethernet but no, there is s a management socket for > every blade, where you can connect the above cables...). Are you in the US? I have a place in New York state that I *just* discovered a couple weeks ago, to my (and several users and their managers) joy: FrozenPC.com, who will *make* custom cables, and they're *very* reasonable and fast. I was looking for what should have been a "standard PCIe splitter or Y power cord - we needed two for a couple of Tesla cards on riser cards in a Dell R720 server... except all three needed to be male, not one female, and almost no one makes that. I got the quote, and we've ordered them... an off-the-shelf PCIe power cable is $8-$9 USD... and these *custom* cables, they quoted me $14.99 USD. I said they were reasonable.... I *really* like talking up companies who know what they're doing, and do it without the high-priced spread. <g> > > I feel like I´m polluting this list. I´ve googled but couldn´t find any > specific mailing lists for HP blades, or even blades in general... I´m > sure there´s corporate sysadmins familiar with this stuff somewhere... We've got several blade systems here. I'm not a fan of them: they sell them with "they're so easy to upgrade", so you buy and use them for a few years, and, oh, gee, the new ones don't use the old backplane connector, but we'll be happy to sell you a whole new system.... mark "and let's not forget the special connector that goes on the front of the HP SL230S that you *must* have to plug in a monitor...."