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BladeCenter S Chassis


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Highlights

Integrates servers, storage, networking, I/O and applications into a single chassis

Uses standard office power plugs with 100–240V, so you do not need a datacenter to take command of your data

Flexible modular technology integrates Intel®, and AMD Opteron™ 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		Hardware summary

First BladeCenter chassis built specifically for the office and distributed enterprise environment 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.		7U rack-optimized chassis Up to six blade server bays Up to 12 SAS (3.6 TB¹) or 12 SATA (9 TB) or an intermix of the two 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

¹ When referring to storage capacity, GB means 1,000,000,000 and TB means 1,000,000,000,000. Accessible capacity is less.