Supermicro SBI-7147R-S4F, User Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Please refer to the Supermicro web site for a list of supported memory
(
www.supermicro.com/products/superblade ). The detailed specifications for a blade
module will contain a link to a list of recommended memory sizes and manufacturers.
Details on installation of memory modules into the SBI-7147R-S4F blade module are
found in
Chapter 3: "Setup and Installation" on page 3-1 .
Storage
The SBI-7147R-S4F blade module can have four 2.5" SATA/SAS2/SSD hard disk drives
in front-mounted easy removable carriers. See
Chapter 3: "Setup and Installation" on
page 3-1 for storage installation details.
RAID
Each SBI-7147R-S4F blade module supports up to four hard drives, which may be used
with SAS2 drives to create a RAID 0, 1 and 10 system.
Further information on the RAID and its software can be found on our website at:
http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/
LSI_2108_2208_SAS_MegaRAID_Configuration_Utility.pdf
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.