Does chassis mid-plane provide load balancing for power supply

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I am new to blade chassis management, and i want to know what is the purpose of mid plane apart from connectivity. Does it provide load balancing among the power supplies. If so does that mean it automatically ensures power supply redundancy or for redundancy some specific OR'ing circuit is needed. Appreciate any help

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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Here's a shot of an HP C7000 blade chassis midplane. It's primary function is to feed power and I/O to the individual blade servers. At this stage, power is the aggregate of the power supplies and power supply load balancing policy (e.g. n+1, n+n).

Also take a look at the description and diagrams at: Probability of Blade Chassis Failure

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answered Jul 29 '14 at 15:28

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Does chassis mid-plane provide load balancing for power supply

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