IBM BladeCenter S

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Highlights

Integrates servers, storage area network (SAN) storage, networking, input/output (I/O) and applications into a single chassis
Uses standard office power plugs with 100 - 240 V, so you do not need a data centre to take command of your data
Featuring the BladeCenter Start Now Advisor, making it easy to set up servers, SAN storage, network switches and SAN switches, all from a single console
Flexible modular technology integrates the latest x86 and IBM Power 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 (TCO).

The BladeCenter 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 percent or 4U available for expansion or for your other IT and optional contaminants filter.

Product features

First BladeCenter chassis built specifically for the office and distributed enterprise environment
Start Now Advisor makes it simple to set up BladeCenter S from a single console
The first blade chassis to incorporate a fully redundant SAN inside the BladeCenter S
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

Hardware summary

7U rack-optimised chassis
Up to six blade server bays
Up to 12 serial attached SCSI (SAS), nearline (NL) SAS or serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) or an intermix of the disks
Hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting SAS, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and Fibre Channel (FC) 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.