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IBM BladeCenter JS21 Express

  
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Form factor Single-wide blade server for BladeCenter, BladeCenter H or BladeCenter T chassis A
Processors 64-bit IBM PowerPC 970MP with integrated AltiVec SIMD accelerator
Number of processors Two-socket single-core (2.70GHz) or two-socket dual-core (2.50GHz) B
Level 2 cache 1MB per core
Memory 2GB (2 x 1GB in single-core) or 4GB (2 x 2GB in dual-core), up to 16GB maximum per blade B , ECC Chipkill DDR2 SDRAM running at 533 MHz, 4 DIMM slots
Internal disk storage One 73GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K RPM hard disk drive standard, Up to two 36GB or 73GB non-hot-swap hard drives per blade, maximum 146GB
RAID support Integrated controller for RAID 0/1 mirroring
Networking Integrated Broadcom 5780 controller with Dual Gigabit Ethernet , 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 4Gb Fibre Channel, 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 1X or 4X InfiniBand
Optional Advanced POWER Virtualization Virtual LAN, POWER Hypervisor, Micro-Partitioning, Shared processor pool, Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager
Systems management Integrated systems management processor, IBM Director, light path diagnostics, Predictive Failure Analysis, IBM Power Executive, Cluster Systems Management (CSM) B , IBM HACMP™ B , Serial Over LAN, IPMI-compliant
Operating systems AIX 5L V5.2 and V5.3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for POWER, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 for POWER
System dimensions Blade: 9.65 in (245.2 mm) H x 1.14 in (29 mm) W x 17.55 in (445.8 mm) D, Weight: 9.6 lbs. (4.35 kg)
Warranty 3-year, on-site, next business day limited warranty, upgradeable to 24-hour, same business day


A IBM intends to support the JS21 in the BladeCenter T chassis for NEBS (Telco) environments in 3Q2006.

B Processor clock speed when IBM BladeCenter JS21 2-core is installed in BladeCenter or BladeCenter T chassis is 2.6 GHz. Processor clock speed when IBM BladeCenter JS21 4-core is installed in BladeCenter or BladeCenter T chassis is 2.3 GHz. In all BladeCenter chassis, autonomic power and thermal controls may reduce the processor frequency in certain operating conditions.

IBM intends to offer an 8GB (2 x 4GB DIMMs) PC2-4200 DDR2 ECC SDRAM 533 MHz memory option for the JS21 blade in 3Q2006.

IBM intends to provide CSM for AIX 5L V1.5 and CSM for Linux on POWER V1.5 support on the BladeCenter JS21 running AIX 5L V5.2, AIX 5L V5.3, RHEL AS 4 and SLES 9 by 3Q2006.

IBM intends to provide HACMP support on the BladeCenter JS21 in 3Q2006.




 
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