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IBM BladeCenter S Big benefits for the small office

IBM BladeCenter S Big benefits for the small office

Highlights


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

Hardware summary


Feature Benefits
Easy to use, space-saving 7U chassis that incorporates hot-swap disks
Energy-efficient design
IBM Open Fabric
Powerful solutions management
High-availability midplane
Hot-swap, management, switch, power supply and blower modules
Advanced server management
IBM Remote Deployment Manager
Light path diagnostics self-diagnosis panel
Predictive Failure Analysis
Three year customer replaceable unit (CRU) and on-site limited warranty

2 Some machines are designed with a power management capability to provide customers with the increased uptime for their systems. In extended thermal conditions, rather than shutdown completely, or fail, these machines automatically reduce the frequency of the processor to maintain acceptable thermal levels.


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

* For a full list of supported disks, visit ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/serverproven/compat/us/blade/8886.html (US)

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