BladeCenter JS12 Express: Overview
| Product characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Form factor | Single-wide blade server for BladeCenter E, BladeCenter S, BladeCenter H, BladeCenter HT, or BladeCenter T chassis |
| Processor cores | Two 64-bit 3.8 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration |
| Level 2 (L2) cache | 4 MB per processor core; 4-way set associative |
| Memory(std/max) | Base/Express offering: 4 GB (2 x 2 GB); Up to 64 GB maximum per blade, eight DIMM slots, ECC Chipkill DDR2 SDRAM running at 667 MHz (2, 4 GB DIMMs) 400 MHz (8 GB DIMMs) |
| Internal disk storage | Zero to two 73, 146 or 300 GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm disk drives Integrated RAID-0 or -1 standard on blade server with support for disk mirroring |
| Networking | Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit and support for optional dual gigabit Ethernet daughter card |
| I/O upgrade | Integrated PCI Express connector for high-speed expansion cards, integrated connector for legacy expansion cards |
| Optional connectivity | 1 Gbps Ethernet Expansion Card, 4 Gbps Fibre Channel, 4X InfiniBand, iSCSI Expansion Card, SAS Expansion Card |
| PowerVM Standard Edition (built-in) | Virtual LAN, POWER Hypervisor, Micro-Partitioning, Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager, Shared Dedicated Capacity, Shared Processor Pool, PowerVM Lx86 |
| PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional) | All the features of PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility and Active Memory Sharing |
| Systems management | Integrated systems management processor, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, light path diagnostics, Predictive Failure Analysis, Cluster Systems Management (CSM), Serial Over LAN, IPMI-compliant |
| RAS features | IBM Chipkill ECC, bit-steering memory and cache Processor Instruction Retry Service processor with fault monitoring Hot-swappable disk bays (in BladeCenter S chassis) Hot-plug power supplies and cooling fans (on chassis) Dynamic Processor Deallocation Dynamic deallocation of logical partitions and PCI bus slots Extended error handling on PCI-X slots Redundant power supplies and cooling fans (on chassis) |
| Operating systems | AIX V5.3 or later IBM i 6.1 or later SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for POWER (SLES10 SP2) or later; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 for POWER (RHEL4.6) or later; RHEL5.1 or later |
| High availability | IBM PowerHA family |
| System dimensions | JS12 Express blade: 9.65 in (245 mm) H x 1.14 in (29 mm) W x 17.55 in (445 mm) D; weight: 9.6 lb (4.35 kg)2 BladeCenter H chassis: 15.75 in (400 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.0 in (711 mm) D; weight: 350 lb (159 kg)2 BladeCenter S chassis: 12.0 in (306 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.3 in (733 mm) D; weight: 240 lb (108.9 kg)2 |
| Warranty (limited) | 9 hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next-business-day for three years at no additional cost; on-site for selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country). Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available. |
1 Some of the IBM BladeCenter functions may not be supported by the IBM i operating system. These are identified at ibm.com/systems/i/os/i5os/v6r1/blades/index.html.
2 Weight will vary when disks, adapters and peripherals are added.
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