| Feature |
Benefits |
| Easy to use, space-saving 7U chassis that incorporates hot-swap disks, |
- BladeCenter S can meet your IT needs with six server bays and up to 5.4 TB of SAS, 12.0 TB of Nearline SAS or 12.0 TB of SATA, or an intermix of the disks
- Highly integrated IT infrastructure helps simplify the deployment, of servers and storage
- Comes with an easy setup flyer and the BladeCenter Start Now Advisor tool to get you up and running quickly
- BladeCenter S uses standard office power supplies, enabling you to build your IT outside of the data centre
- Support for common BladeCenter blade families including Intel servers, AMD Opteron servers, new workstation blades and POWER based blades Allows you to select the blades based on what best fits the application workloads.
- Virtualisation capability allows you to virtualise everything for a more flexible, better utilised and potentially lower cost IT infrastructure with a common management construct
- Innovative design reduces cables by up to 80 percent compared to rack servers, helping save you installation time and on cable costs
- Extensive compatibility with the family of BladeCenter blades, switches and ecosystem products
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| Energy-efficient design |
- BladeCenter S supports a very broad portfolio of low-voltage processor options, helping enable customers to lower their power usage without sacrificing performance2
- Because BladeCenter S uses power supplies that are as much as 90 percent efficient, much less power is wasted as heat and more power is available for the chassis and servers to use
- Blower/fan modules in the chassis adjust to compensate for changing thermal characteristics. At the lower speeds they draw less power
- The use of fewer and lower-power components helps enable power and cooling savings
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| IBM Open Fabric |
- Delivers a flexible, open, connected infrastructure to help optimise application performance
- BladeCenter supports a wide array of fabrics including: SAS, Ethernet, FC and SCSI over IP (iSCSI)
- Helps centralise storage, including boot capability, which can help reduce the effect of a disk outage on an application
- New Brocade and QLogic NPIV FC switches help simplify SAN deployment and management
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| Powerful solutions management |
- Provides intelligent systems management for rock-solid reliability
- Exploits hardware capabilities by surfacing pertinent information about your blade server
- Easy-to-use Deployment Wizard provides step-by-step installation instructions with automated deployment capabilities
- Advanced Management Module provides more robust hardware running Linux and supporting many industry-standard, open protocols
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| High-availability midplane |
- Provides a fault-tolerant connection from the blade server to all modular components
- Innovative midplane design provides support for you to upgrade to new technologies and helps preserve your original investment
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| Hot-swap, management, switch, power supply and blower modules |
- Provides single point of control for managing the entire solution helping to increase system reliability and availability
- BladeCenter S comes standard with one Advanced Management Module
- IBM smart management capabilities can help boost administrator productivity
- Uniquely designed Calibrated Vectored Cooling technology helps protect critical system components to help drive toward OnForever reliability
- Supports a wide selection of integrated switching components from industry-leading ecosystem companies such as Cisco, Blade Network Technologies, Brocade and QLogic
- Optional GbE switch modules provide GbE communication between blade servers, management modules and external hardware
- Optional FC switch modules deliver highly available cost-effective storage network, including support for IBM System Storage SAN
- Supports up to four 950 W/1450 W power supplies with load-balancing and failover capabilities, providing additional reliability and protection
- Each power supply includes a customer replaceable fan pack to help keep the power supplies running at peak performance
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| Advanced server management |
- Supports system availability to accurately measure planned vs. unplanned outages
- Supports capacity manager to help monitor critical server resources, identify and predict bottlenecks and recommend upgrades to prevent diminished network performance
- Supports rack manager to conveniently configure and monitor rack components and provide health information
- Supports software rejuvenation (Predictive failure analysis for software) to monitor performance trends of software over time, predict software aging issues and schedule servicing when required
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| IBM Remote Deployment Manager |
- Simplifies and automates deployment and redeployment for efficient installation and setup of your blade servers
- Perform deployment tasks via the network that previously may have required a visit to each system, helping save your administrator valuable time
- Supports all Wake on LAN and Pre-boot eXecution (PXE) enabled products
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| Light path diagnostics self-diagnosis panel |
- Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) located on the front and rear of the system provide quick and easy guide to troubleshoot your server to help provide more availability and faster system uptime
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| Predictive Failure Analysis |
- Helps save you time and money by decreasing unplanned downtime
- Helps increase uptime by allowing you to receive proactive alerts and take corrective action, in some cases as much as 24 48 hours in advance
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| Three-year customer replaceable unit (CRU) and on-site limited warranty3
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- IBM Global Services organisation provides reliable, dedicated and skilled assistance when you need it
- Provides peace of mind for an extended period of time.
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