IBM BladeCenter Chassis
Product Overview
CONTENTS
Product Overview
6
Selling Features
7
Key Features
15
Key Options
16
BladeCenter S Images
18
BladeCenter S Specs
19
BladeCenter E Images
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BladeCenter E Specs
20
BladeCenter H Images
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BladeCenter H Specs
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BladeCenter T Images
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BladeCenter T Specs
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BladeCenter HT Images
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BladeCenter HT Specs
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Side-by-Side Comparison
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Chassis/Module/Blade
Compatibility
28
I/
O Module Compatibility
28
Today’s data center environment is tougher than ever. You are looking to reduce IT cost,
complexity, space requirements, power consumption and heat output, while increasing
flexibility, utilization and manageability. Moving to innovative
IBM
®
BladeCenter
®
as your
IT foundation can help you accomplish all of these goals.
The IBM BladeCenter family tightly integrates servers, storage, networking, I/O and
applications, allowing you to build a flexible IT infrastructure that is robust, integrated and
virtualized using common building blocks. This modular technology integrates
Intel
®
and
AMD
®
, as well as
IBM POWER
™
or
Cell Broadband Engine
™
(Cell/B.E.) processor-
based blade servers, supporting many operating systems.
All BladeCenter chassis offer impressive features and an extreme degree of compatibility
with one another. For example, a single
BladeCenter E
or
BladeCenter H
chassis
supports up to
14
hot-swappable
30mm-wide
blade servers
in only
7U
(BladeCenter E)
or
9U
(BladeCenter H) of rack space, up to
8
hot-swappable blades in the rugged
8U
BladeCenter T
chassis, or up to
12
in the
12U BladeCenter HT
high-speed
telecommunications chassis. In addition to the blade servers, these chassis also hold up
to
4
switches
(BladeCenter E/BladeCenter T), up to
10
switches/bridges
(BladeCenter
H), or
8
switches/bridges
(BladeCenter HT)
internally
. The
BladeCenter S
, designed for
SMB and mid-market customers, takes integration to a new level, combining up to
12
hot-
swap
SAS/SATA
HDDs with
6 blade servers
and
4 switches
. Using a BladeCenter E
chassis, up to
84
blade servers (
168
processors with multiple cores per processor) can
be installed in one
industry-standard
42U
rack.
Not only can this degree of integration save significant data center space (and therefore
the cost of floor space and rack hardware) compared to 1U servers, but consolidating
switches/bridges and cables reduces complexity and helps lower cabling costs, and it
allows clients to manage everything in the solution as one. But the value of BladeCenter
extends far beyond high-density data center environments. For small and medium
businesses, as well as remote branch offices with significant computing needs, the
compact
7U
BladeCenter S
houses up to
6 30mm blades
, along with
12 3.5-inch hot-
swap SAS or SATA HDDs
, and
4 switches
in one chassis. And the setup wizard;
BladeCenter Start Now Advisor makes it extremely easy to get started.
The various BladeCenter chassis are designed to monitor environmental conditions in the
chassis and each blade and send alerts to the administrator
.
Advanced standard features
help maintain system availability with increased uptime. These features include
Predictive Failure Analysis
™
,
light path diagnostics
,
hot-swap redundant power
supplies and blower/fan modules
with
Calibrated Vectored Cooling
™
;
IPMI 2.0
support with
highly secure remote power control
;
text-console redirect over LAN
,
and an
Advanced
Management Module
(upgradeable with a redundant AMM).
If you need a highly manageable, power-efficient, highly compatible family of blade
enclosures, BladeCenter is the ideal choice.
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