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IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express

  
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Form factor Single-wide blade server for BladeCenter E, BladeCenter S, BladeCenter H, BladeCenter HT, or BladeCenter T chassis
Processor cores Two 64-bit 3.8 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
Level 2 (L2) cache 4 MB per processor core; 4-way set associative
Memory (std/max) Base offering: 2 GB (2 x 1 GB); Express offering: 4 GB (2 x 2 GB); Up to 64 GB maximum per blade, eight DIMM slots, ECC Chipkill DDR2 SDRAM running at 667 MHz (1, 2, 4 GB DIMMs) 400 MHz (8 GB DIMMs)
Internal disk storage Zero to two 73 or 146 GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm disk drives
Integrated RAID-0 or -1 standard on blade server with support for disk mirroring
Networking Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit and support for optional dual gigabit Ethernet daughter card
I/O upgrade Integrated PCI Express connector for high-speed daughter cards, integrated connector for legacy daughter cards
Optional connectivity 1 Gbps Ethernet Expansion Card, 4 Gbps Fibre Channel, 4X InfiniBand®, iSCSI Expansion Card, SAS Expansion Card
PowerVM Standard Edition (built-in) Virtual LAN, POWER Hypervisor™, Micro-Partitioning™, Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager, Shared Dedicated Capacity, Shared Processor Pool, PowerVM Lx86
PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional) All the features of PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility
Systems management Integrated systems management processor, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, light path diagnostics, Predictive Failure Analysis®, Cluster Systems Management (CSM), Serial Over LAN, IPMI-compliant
RAS features IBM Chipkill™ ECC, bit-steering memory and cache
Processor Instruction Retry
Service processor with fault monitoring
Hot-swappable disk bays (in BladeCenter S chassis)
Hot-plug power supplies and cooling fans (on chassis)
Dynamic Processor Deallocation
Dynamic deallocation of logical partitions and PCI bus slots
Extended error handling on PCI-X slots
Redundant power supplies and cooling fans (on chassis)
Operating systems AIX V5.3 or later
IBM i 6.1 or later
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for POWER (SLES10 SP2) or later; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 for POWER (RHEL4.6) or later; RHEL5.1 or later
High availability IBM Power HA family
System dimensions JS12 Express blade: 9.65 in (245 mm) H x 1.14 in (29 mm) W x 17.55 in (445 mm) D; weight: 9.6 lb (4.35 kg) 2
BladeCenter H chassis: 15.75 in (400 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.0 in (711 mm) D; weight: 350 lb (159 kg) 2
BladeCenter S chassis: 12.0 in (306 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.3 in (733 mm) D; weight: 240 lb (108.9 kg) 2
Warranty (limited) 9 hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next-business-day for three years at no additional cost; on-site for selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country). Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.

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2 Weight will vary when disks, adapters and peripherals are added.




1 Some of the IBM BladeCenter functions may not be supported by the IBM i operating system. These are identified at ibm.com /systems/i/os/i5os/v6r1/blades/index.html .
 
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