Planning and Preparation
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Marathon Technologies Corporation
Preparing to Install
BladeCenter Options
An IBM eServer BladeCenter
may be configured using a variety of storage
and networking options. For example, the BladeCenter chassis using HS20
blade servers offers the following configuration features:
•
A rack-optimized 7U modular 14 slot chassis that can support a
total of 14 hot-swap BladeCenter HS20 blades.
•
A CD-ROM and floppy shared by all blade bays.
•
A maximum of two Management modules integrating remote man-
agement functions and a 14-port Keyboard/Video/Mouse switch.
•
Up to 4 Gigabit Ethernet Switch modules. Each switch has four
external ports as well as 14 internal ports (one to each bay).
•
HS20 hot-swappable blades supporting two XEON processors, 4-
port Gigabit Ethernet modules, on-board disks and/or a piggy-
backed SCSI drive Expansion Unit.
