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Escala Blade EL260B - Installation and User's Guide
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What your blade server offers
The design of the blade server takes advantage of advancements in chip technology,
memory management, and data storage. The blade server uses the following features and
technologies:
Baseboard management controller (BMC
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The enhanced BMC for the Escala EL260B blade server is a flexible service processor that
provides support for the following functions:
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Alert Standard Format (ASF) and RS-485 interfaces to the management modules
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Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
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The operating system
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Power control and advanced power management
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Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features
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Serial over LAN (SOL)
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Continuous health monitoring and control
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Configurable notification and alerts
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Event logs that are time stamped and saved in nonvolatile memory and that can be
attached to e-mail alerts
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Point-to-point protocol (PPP) support
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Remote power control
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Remote firmware update and access to critical blade server settings
Disk drive support
The blade server supports two 2.5 inch (small-form-factor) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard
disk drives.
Impressive performance using the latest microprocessor technology
The blade server comes with a POWER6 dual-core microprocessor.
Integrated network support
The blade server has two integrated (onboard) 1 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) Host Ethernet
Adapter (HEA) controllers that provide advanced acceleration features, such as checksum
offload, TCP large send, and jumbo frames. Capabilities include virtualized adapter
sharing among logical partitions that does not require the shared Ethernet adapters of
Virtual I/O Server. TCP advanced features include hardware de-multiplexing and per
connection queues.
I/O expansion
The blade server has connectors on the system board for optional PCI-X and PCIe
expansion cards, such as Fibre Channel and InfiniBand expansion cards, for adding more
network communication capabilities to the blade server.
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