IBM BladeCenter S

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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 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