Product characteristics |
Form factor/height |
Rack-mount chassis/9U |
Blade bays |
Up to 14 |
Switch modules |
Up to four standard, up to four high-speed and up to four bridge module bays |
Power supply module |
Up to four hot-swap and redundant 2980 W ac high-efficiency power supplies with load-balancing and failover capabilities. Operating at 200-240 V |
Cooling modules |
Two hot-swap and redundant blowers standard, additional fan packs on power supplies |
Systems management hardware |
Advanced Management Module (aMM) standard; add an optional aMM for redundancy |
I/O ports |
Universal Serial Bus (USB) based keyboard, video, mouse (KVM), Ethernet, USB |
Media |
Two USB connections and an optional DVD multiburner |
Systems management software |
Systems management and trial deployment tools |
Predictive Failure Analysis |
Internal storage, processors, blowers, memory |
Light path diagnostics |
Blade server, processor, memory, power supplies, blowers, switch module, management module, internal storage and expansion card |
Limited warranty |
Three-year customer replaceable unit (CRU) and on-site limited warranty |
External storage |
Support for IBM System Storage solutions (Including DS and Network Attached Storage (NAS) family of products) and many widely adopted non-IBM storage offerings |