Supermicro SBA-7141A-T, User Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Storage
The SBA-7141A-T blade module accommodates one internal 2.5" SATA hard disk drive,
which is mounted directly on the blade’s mainboard. See
Chapter 3: "Setup and
Installation" on page 3-1 for storage installation details.
Density
A maximum of ten blade modules may be installed into a single blade enclosure. Each
blade enclosure is a 7U form factor, so a standard 42U rack may accommodate up to six
enclosures with 60 blade modules, or the equivalent of 60 1U servers. With the inclusion
of six CMM modules, twelve Gigabit Ethernet switches and six InfiniBand switches, this
would occupy up to 84U space in a conventional 1U server configuration.
Figure 1-1 displays a view of a full rack with six blade enclosures in it, each with ten
blades to an enclosure.
Figure 1-1. Full Rack of Blade Enclosures and Blade Servers