Supermicro SBI-7126T-S6, User Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Storage
The SBI-7126T-S6 blade module can have six 2.5" SAS(2) or SATA (Serial ATA) hard
disk drives in front-mounted easy removable carriers. 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 sixty blade modules, or the equivalent of sixty 1U servers. With the
inclusion of six CMM modules, twelve Gigabit Ethernet switches and six InfiniBand
switches, this would occupy up to 108U 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