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 BladeCenter S Chassis
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- Integrates servers, storage, networking, input/output (I/O) and applications into a single chassis
- Uses standard office power plugs with 100–240V, so you do not need a datacentre 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 (TCO).
The BladeCenter S 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.
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Hardware summary
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- First BladeCenter chassis built specifically for the office and distributed enterprise environment
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Open and easy management tools deliver advanced, proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities
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Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) helps save you time and money by helping decrease unplanned downtime
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Calibrated Vectored Cooling (CVC) helps maintain the health of your system by keeping internal components cool
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Available in the Office Enablement Kit, the ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S into the everyday office environment
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- 7U rack-optimised chassis
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Up to six blade server bays
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Up to 12 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) (3.6 TeraByte (TB)
1) or 12 Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) (9 TB) or an intermix of the two disks
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Hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting SAS, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and Fibre Channel (FC) options
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Up to four hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules
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High-availability midplane helps enable increased uptime and investment protection for future technologies
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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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