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NovaScale Blade BL265 - Installation and User's Guide
1.3 Features and specifications
The following table provides a summary of the features and specifications of the blade
server.
Notes
• Power, cooling, removable-media drives, external ports, and advanced system
management are provided by the Blade Chassis.
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The operating system in the blade server must provide USB support for the blade server
to recognize and use the removable-media drives and front-panel USB ports. The Blade
Chassis uses USB for internal communications with these devices.
Blade server features and specifications
Microprocessor: Supports up to two dual-core or quad-core Intel Xeon processor 5500
series microprocessors.
Note: Use the Setup Utility to determine the type and speed of the microprocessors in your
blade server.
Memory:
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12 dual inline memory module(DIMM) connectors.
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Type: Very Low Profile (VLP) double-data rate (DDR3) DRAM.
• Supports 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, and 8 GB DIMMs with up to 96 GB of total memory on
the system board.
Drives: Supports up to two hot-swap, small form factor (SFF) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or
Serial ATA (SATA) storage drives.
Predictive Failure Analysis® (PFA) alerts:
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Microprocessor
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Memory
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Hard disk drive
Electrical input: 12 V dc
Integrated functions:
• Horizontal-compact-form-factor (CFFh) expansion card interface
• Vertical-combination-I/O (CIOv) expansion card interface
• Local service processor: Integrated Management Module (IMM) with Intelligent Platform
Management Interface (IPMI) firmware
• Integrated Matrox G200eV video controller
• LSI 1064E Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controller
• Broadcom BCM5709S dual-port Gigabit Ethernet controller
• Integrated keyboard/video/mouse (cKVM) controller through IMM
• Light path diagnostics
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RS-485 interface for communication with the management module
• Automatic server restart (ASR)
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Serial over LAN (SOL)
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Redundant buses for communication with keyboard, mouse, and removable media
drives
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USB 2.0 for communication with the cKVM and removable media drives (an external
USB port is not supported)