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- Integrates servers, SAN storage, networking, I/O and applications into a single chassis
- Uses standard office power plugs with 100 – 240 V, so you do not need a data center to take command of your data
- Featuring the BladeCenter Start Now Advisor, making it easy to set up servers, SAN storage, network switches and SAN switches, all from a single console
- Flexible modular technology integrates Intel®, AMD Opteron™, or POWER™ processor-based blade servers supporting a wide range of operating systems
- Comes with management tools that are open and easily integrated, allowing you to focus on your business, not your IT
- Helps build greener IT infrastructures with powerful IBM Cool Blue™ technology, and a portfolio of products and tools to help customers plan, manage and control power and cooling.
BladeCenter S offers a broad range of storage and networking options integrated into the chassis to simplify infrastructure complexity and manageability while helping lower total cost of ownership.
The BladeCenter S Office Enablement Kit is the ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S into your everyday office. The kit enables several office-friendly features such as the built-in Acoustical Module, a front locking door, 33% or 4U available for expansion or for your other IT and optional contaminants filter
Product features
- First BladeCenter chassis built specifically for the office and distributed enterprise environment
- Start Now Advisor makes it simple to set up BladeCenter S from a single console
- The first blade chassis to incorporate a fully redundant SAN inside the BladeCenter S
- Open and easy management tools deliver advanced, proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities
- Predictive Failure Analysis® helps save you time and money by helping decrease unplanned downtime
- Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ helps maintain the health of your system by keeping internal components cool
- Available in the Office Enablement Kit, the ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S into the everyday office environment.
Hardware summary
- 7U rack-optimized chassis
- Up to six blade server bays
- Up to 12 SAS (5.4 TB1), 12 Nearline SAS (12.0 TB) or 12 SATA (12.0 TB) or an intermix of the disks
- Hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting SAS, Gigabit Ethernet, and Fibre Channel options
- Up to four hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules
- High-availability midplane helps enable increased uptime and investment protection for future technologies

