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

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

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Flexible modular technology integrates Intel®, and AMD Opteron™ processor-based blade servers supporting a wide range of operating systems

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Comes with management tools that are open and easily integrated, allowing you to focus on your business, not your IT

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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.
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Product features
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Hardware summary
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First BladeCenter chassis built specifically for the office and distributed enterprise environment
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Open and easy management tools deliver advanced, proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities
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Predictive Failure Analysis® helps save you time and money by helping decrease unplanned downtime
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Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ helps maintain the health of your system by keeping internal components cool
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Available in the Office Enablement Kit, the ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S into the everyday office environment.
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7U rack-optimized chassis
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Up to six blade server bays
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Up to 12 SAS (3.6 TB1) or 12 SATA (9 TB) or an intermix of the two disks
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Hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting SAS, Gigabit Ethernet, and Fibre Channel options
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Up to four hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules
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High-availability midplane helps enable increased uptime and investment protection for future technologies
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1 When referring to storage capacity, GB means 1,000,000,000 and TB means 1,000,000,000,000. Accessible capacity is less.
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Extending the benefits of blade technology outside the data center |
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