Supermicro SBI-7427R-S2L, User Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Details on installation of memory modules into the SBI-7427R-S2L blade module are
found in
Chapter 3: "Setup and Installation" on page 3-1 .
Storage
The SBI-7427R-S2L blade module can have two 2.5" SATA/SAS/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-7427R-S2L blade module supports up to two hard drives, which may be used
with SATA drives to create a RAID 0, 1, 5 or 10 array using the Windows™ operating
system, or RAID 0, 1 or 10 for the Linux™ operating systems.
When using the AOM-S2308-L8I-O-P SAS add-on card with SAS drives, RAID 0, 1, 5,
6, 10 and 50 can be employed. Further information on the AOM-S2308-L8I-O-P add-on
card’s LSI 2308 RAID controller 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 fourteen 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 84 blade modules, or the equivalent of 84 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.