IBM BladeCenter S

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 NL 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, GbE, FC 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 Four hot-swap and redundant blowers standard
Systems management hardware One management module standard
I/O ports Keyboard, video, mouse, Ethernet, universal serial bus (USB)
Systems management software Open and easy systems management and trial deployment tools
Predictive Failure Analysis Hard disk drives (HDDs), processors, blowers, memory
Light path diagnostics Blade server, processor, memory, power supplies, blowers, switch module, management module, HDDs and expansion card
Limited warranty Three year CRU and on-site 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