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Highlights
- Integrates servers, storage, networking, I/O and applications into a single chassis
- Uses standard office power plugs with 100–240V, so you do not need a datacenter to take command of your data
- Flexible modular technology integrates Intel®, and AMD Opteron™ processor-based 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.
Product features
- First BladeCenter chassis built specifically for the office and distributed enterprise environment
- 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
Hardware summary
- 7U rack-optimized chassis
- Up to six blade server bays
- Up to 12 SAS (3.6 TB1) or 12 SATA (9 TB) or an intermix of the two disks
- Hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting SAS, Gigabit Ethernet, and Fibre Channel 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.
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