ProLiant WS Workstation Blade Parts

A ProLiant WS workstation blade is a c-Class server blade built to carry workstation graphics hardware. The machine lives in a BladeSystem enclosure and the person using it works from a thin client or a remote session, so the graphics card sits in the data centre rather than under a desk. Everything true of a BL server blade is true here as well, with graphics hardware added on top. Every part on the model pages below is genuine HPE, available new and refurbished, and tested for compatibility before it ships.

What Defines a WS Workstation Blade

• It is a blade first: no power supply, no fans and no rails. The enclosure supplies power, cooling, networking and management, so those are enclosure parts rather than blade parts.
• Graphics arrive on an expansion blade or a mezzanine card: both WS460c listings carry expansion blade parts, and the Gen8 listing adds a graphics options section of its own. There is no PCIe slot on the blade to drop a card into.
• Expansion is by mezzanine: the G6 listing carries c-Class and Fibre Channel mezzanine options, and the Gen8 listing adds Fibre Channel and InfiniBand mezzanines. These connect through the enclosure midplane to interconnect modules at the back.
• Local storage is small: the small form factor bays on the blade hold an operating system. Bulk storage comes from a storage blade in the enclosure — the G6 listing includes a StorageWorks SB40c storage blade entry — or from shared storage.
• The enclosure is shared with the BL blades: a WS460c sits in the same c-Class enclosure as the ProLiant BL server blades, so the enclosure itself is not a separate product line to source for.
• The user is remote by design: there is no display output on the front of a blade, so a WS machine is only useful with a remote graphics path in place.

The graphics hardware does not go in a slot, because there is no slot. A WS460c takes its graphics on an expansion blade or a mezzanine card, and both listings below carry expansion blade parts. Power, cooling, networking and management all come from the c-Class enclosure, the same one the ProLiant BL blades use.

Shop WS Workstation Blade Parts by Model

• ProLiant WS460c G6 — the G6 workstation blade, listing processors, memory, drives, storage controllers, c-Class and Fibre Channel mezzanine options, expansion blade parts and an SB40c storage blade entry.
• WS460c Gen8 Graphics Server Blade — the Gen8 blade, catalogued as a graphics server blade and much the larger listing: processors, memory, drives, networking, graphics options, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand mezzanines, storage blades and tape blades.

Server blades without the graphics hardware are in ProLiant BL Blade Server Parts, which is also where enclosure-side questions lead. If the machine has its own power supplies and rails it is not a blade: see ProLiant DL Rack Server Parts for a rack chassis or ProLiant ML Tower Server Parts for a tower. Trays that share a chassis are in ProLiant SL Scalable Server Parts and ProLiant XL Server Parts. Every family sits under HPE parts by server model.

ProLiant WS Workstation Blade Parts FAQ

What is a workstation blade for?
It puts workstation-class graphics hardware into a data centre enclosure, so the user works from a thin client or a remote session rather than at the machine itself.

Does a WS460c need an enclosure?
Yes. Like any c-Class blade it has no power supply, no fans and no rails, so the enclosure supplies power, cooling, networking and management.

Where do the graphics go?
On an expansion blade or a mezzanine card rather than in a PCIe slot. Both WS460c listings carry expansion blade parts, and the Gen8 listing carries graphics options.

Can I use BL blade parts in a WS460c?
Some c-Class parts are shared, mezzanine cards among them, but processors, memory and the blade board itself are model-specific. Order from the page for the blade you own.

How much storage does a WS460c hold?
Only the small form factor bays on the blade. Bulk storage comes from a storage blade in the enclosure or from shared storage; the G6 listing includes an SB40c storage blade entry.

What is the difference between the WS460c G6 and the WS460c Gen8?
Generation and scope. The Gen8 blade is catalogued as a graphics server blade and its listing carries graphics options, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand mezzanines; the G6 listing is smaller and centres on processors, memory and mezzanine options.

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