Product characteristics |
Form factor |
Rack/12U, high-availability midplane |
Blade bays |
Up to twelve two socket and up to six four socket |
Standard media |
Redundant (two) media tray modules standard, each with two external USB connections |
Switch modules |
Up to four traditional, up to four high-speed and up to two bridge module bays shared with two traditional bays |
Power supply module |
Four hot-swap and redundant DC or AC with load-balancing and failover capabilities. Operating at -48 V to -60 V dc or 200 - 240 V ac |
Cooling modules |
Four hot-swap and redundant chassis fan modules standard, additional triple fan packs on each power module |
Systems management hardware |
Redundant (2) Advanced Management Modules standard |
I/O ports |
USB-based keyboard, mouse (KVM), Ethernet, DB15 Analogue Video |
Systems management software |
Systems management and trial deployment tools |
Predictive Failure Analysis |
Hard disk drives (HDDs), processors, fans, memory |
Alarm Management |
Blade server, processor, memory, power modules, fans, 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 Network Attached Storage (NAS) family of products) and many widely adopted non-IBM storage offerings |
System standards |
Certified testing by UL of the BladeCenter HT chassis has been completed. The BladeCenter HT chassis is covered under a UL-certified NEBS Level 3/ETSI test report, which is available for review upon request |