BladeCenter S Chassis

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IBM BladeCenter S at a glance
Form factor	Rack/7U, high-availability midplane
Blade bays	Up to six 1- or 2-processor, and up to three 4-processor
Disk bays	Up to 12 SAS, 12 Nearline SAS, or 12 SATA, or an intermix of the disks. Visit this link for a list of supported disks*
Media	Optional DVD multi-burner accessible from each blade server
Switch modules	SAS, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel switch modules available
Power supply module	Up to four (hot-swap, auto-sensing, and redundant 950 W/1450 W with load-balancing and failover capabilities)
Cooling modules	4 hot-swap and redundant blowers standard
Systems management hardware	1 management module standard
I/O ports	Keyboard, video, mouse, Ethernet, USB
Systems management software	Open and easy systems management and trial deployment tools
Predictive Failure Analysis	Hard disk drives, processors, blowers, memory
Light path diagnostics	Blade server, processor, memory, power supplies, blowers, switch module, management module, hard disk drives and expansion card
Limited warranty	3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty
External storage	Support for IBM System Storage® solutions (including DS and NAS family of products) and many widely adopted non-IBM storage offerings