BladeCenter JS23 & JS43
| IBM BladeCenter JS23 Express at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Form factor | Single-wide blade server for BladeCenter S, BladeCenter H, or BladeCenter HT chassis |
| Processor cores | Four 64-bit 4.2 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration |
| Level 2 (L2) cache | 4 MB per processor core; 4-way set associative |
| Level 3 (L3) cache | 32 MB per processor socket |
| Memory(std/max) | Base offering: 4 GB (2 x 2 GB); Express offering: 4 GB (2 x 2 GB), up to 64 GB maximum per blade, eight DIMM slots, ECC IBM Chipkill DDR2 SDRAM running at 667 MHz (2 and 4 GB DIMMs) 400 MHz (8 GB DIMMs) |
| Internal disk storage | One 73,146 or 300 GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or 69 GB Solid State Disk; No disk drive required on base offering. |
| Networking | Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit and support for optional dual gigabit Ethernet daughter card |
| I/O upgrade | One PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card and one PCI-E CFFh High Speed Expansion Card |
| Optional connectivity | 1 Gbps Ethernet, 4 and 8 Gbps Fibre Channel, 4X InfiniBand, SAS Expansion |
| PowerVM Standard Edition (built-in) | Virtual LAN, POWER Hypervisor, Micro-Partitioning, Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager, Shared Dedicated Capacity, 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-E slots Redundant power supplies and cooling fans (on chassis) |
| Operating systems | AIX V5.3 or later, AIX V6.1 or later IBM i 6.1 or later1 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 | JS23 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. |
| IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express at a glance | |
| Form factor | Double-wide blade server for BladeCenter S, BladeCenter H, or BladeCenter HT chassis |
| Processor cores | Eight 64-bit 4.2 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration |
| Level 2 (L2) cache | 4 MB per processor core; 4-way set associative |
| Level 3 (L3) cache | 32 MB per processor socket |
| Memory(std/max) | Base offering: 8 GB (2 x 4 GB); Express offering: 8 GB (2 x 4 GB), up to 128 GB maximum, 16 DIMM slots, ECC Chipkill DDR2 SDRAM running at 667 MHz (2 and 4 GB DIMMs) 400 MHz (8 GB DIMMs) |
| Internal disk storage | One or two 73, 146 or 300 GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or 69 GB Solid State Disk; No disk drive required on base offering |
| Networking | Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit and support for optional dual gigabit Ethernet daughter card |
| I/O upgrade | Two PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card and two PCI-E CFFh High Speed Expansion Card |
| Optional connectivity | 1 Gbps Ethernet, 4 and 8 Gbps Fibre Channel, 4X InfiniBand, SAS Expansion |
| PowerVM Standard Edition (built-in) | Virtual LAN, POWER Hypervisor, Micro-Partitioning, Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager, Shared Dedicated Capacity, 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-E slots Redundant power supplies and cooling fans (on chassis) |
| Operating systems | AIX V5.3 or later, AIX V6.1 or later IBM i 6.1 or later1 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 | JS43 Express blade: 9.65 in (245 mm) H x 2.32 in (59 mm) W x 17.55 in (445 mm) D; weight: 19.2 lb (8.7 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. //www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/blades/ibmi.html
2 Weight can vary when disks, adapters and other peripherals are added.
All products within the Bladecenter category
- BladeCenter E Chassis
- BladeCenter H Chassis
- BladeCenter HT Chassis
- BladeCenter S Chassis
- BladeCenter T Chassis
- BladeCenter HS12
- BladeCenter HS22
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