| IBM BladeCenter E chassis at a glance |
| Form factor/height |
Rack-mount chassis/7U |
| Blade bays |
Up to 14 |
| Switch modules |
Four switch module bays |
| Power supply module |
Up to four 2000 W or 2320 W (hot-swap and redundant with load-balancing and failover capabilities) |
| Cooling modules |
Two hot-swap and redundant blowers standard |
| Standard media |
Optional DVD multi-burner |
| Systems management hardware |
One Advanced Management Module standard; add an optional second module for redundancy |
| I/O ports |
Keyboard, video, mouse, Ethernet, USB |
| Systems management software |
Open and easy systems management and trial deployment tools |
| Light path diagnostics |
Chassis has LEDs for power status, location, over temperature, information and status indicators on both front and back. In addition power supplies, blade servers, management module, switch modules and blowers have light path diagnostics. |
| Limited warranty |
3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite 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 |
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