BladeCenter S Chassis

Highlights

• Integrates servers, Storage Area Network (SAN) storage, networking, input/output (I/O) and applications into a single chassis
• Uses standard office power plugs with 100 240 V, so you do not need a data centre to take command of your data
• Featuring the BladeCenter Start Now Advisor, making it easy to set up servers, SAN storage, network switches and SAN switches, all from a single console
• Flexible modular technology integrates Intel, AMD Opteron, or POWER processor-based blade servers supporting a wide range of operating systems
• Comes with management tools that are open and easily integrated, allowing you to focus on your business, not your IT
• Helps build greener IT infrastructures with powerful IBM Cool Blue technology and a portfolio of products and tools to help customers plan, manage and control power and cooling.

BladeCenter S offers a broad range of storage and networking options integrated into the chassis to simplify infrastructure complexity and manageability while helping lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

The BladeCenter S Office Enablement Kit is the ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S into your everyday office. The kit enables several office-friendly features such as the built-in Acoustical Module, a front locking door, 33 percent or 4U available for expansion or for your other IT and optional contaminants filter.

Product features

• First BladeCenter chassis built specifically for the office and distributed enterprise environment
• Start Now Advisor makes it simple to set up BladeCenter S from a single console
• The first blade chassis to incorporate a fully redundant SAN inside the BladeCenter S
• Open and easy management tools deliver advanced, proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities
• Predictive Failure Analysis helps save you time and money by helping decrease unplanned downtime
• Calibrated Vectored Cooling helps maintain the health of your system by keeping internal components cool
• Available in the Office Enablement Kit, the ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S into the everyday office environment.

Hardware summary

• 7U rack-optimised chassis
• Up to six blade server bays
• Up to 12 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) (5.4 TB¹), 12 Nearline SAS (12.0 TB) or 12 Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) (12.0 TB) or an intermix of the disks
• Hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting SAS, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and Fibre Channel (FC) options
• Up to four hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules
• High-availability midplane helps enable increased uptime and investment protection for future technologies.

¹ When referring to storage capacity, GB means 1,000,000,000 and TB means 1,000,000,000,000. Accessible capacity is less.

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