Small enough to sit under your desk, the new BladeCenter S chassis makes it easy and cost-effective for SMBs to obtain IT results at levels traditionally reserved for LEs. With six blade servers and a fully integrated SAN, the chassis simply plugs into an average wall socket, helping eliminate the need to own and operate costly data centres.
Details
Within a single chassis, BladeCenter S supports virtually all of your applications — including those ruitning on Microsofr’ Windows, Linux, IBM ALX and IBM i — and integrates the hardware and software most used by mid-sized businesses:
- Antivirus/firewall protection.
- Voice over IP VoIP.
- Virtualisation.
- Email and collaboration applications.
- Backup and recovery.
- File and print applications.
- Easy tools to manage storage./li>
BladeCenter S is compatible with the BladeCenter family of products, helping provide investment protection and seamless growth. The new chassis shares many of the BladeCenter blades and switches. Leveraging a single, compatible architecture can help you reduce costs and complexit while helping deliver investment protection.
Highlights
- All in one - integrates servers, storage area network (SAN) storage, networking and input/output (I/O) into a single chassis.
- No special wiring needed - uses standard office power plugs supporting 100- 240V.
- Flexible modular technology - integrates a family of IBM blade servers supportinga wide range of operating systems andapplications.
- Easy to deploy, use and manage - BladeCenter Start Now Advisor allowssimple setup, so you can focus on yourbusiness, not your IT.
- Helps build greener IT infrastructures - IBMCool Blue technology delivers aportfolio of tools that helps plan, manageand control power and cooling.
Chassis Type | Rack/7U incorporates blade server bays and hot-swap storage high-availability midplane |
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Blade Bays | Up to six 1- or 2-processor and up to three 4-processor |
Disk Bays | Up to two Disk Storage Modules; each one can incorporate up to six 3.5" serial attached SCSI (SAS), nearline (NL) SAS or serial advanced technology attachment (SATA), or an intermix of the disks |
Connection Type | Four switch module bays |
Management Blades | Open and easy systems management and deployment tools |
Fan Configuration | Four hot-swap and redundant blowers standard |
Power Supply Configuration | Up to four(hot-swap and redundant 950W/1450W with load-balancing, auto-sensing and fail over capabilities) |
Integrated Storage | Support for hot-swap SAS or hot-swap SATA disks |
External Storage | Support for IBM System Storage solutions (including DS and NAS family of products) and many widely adopted non-IBM storage offerings |
I/O Ports | Keyboard, video, mouse, Ethernet, universal serial bus (USB) |
Manufacturer | IBM |
Part No. | bld03007 |
Rack Units | 7 U |
Weight [Kg] | 75.00 |
Standard | Support for IBM System Storage solutions (including DS and NAS family of products) and many widely adopted non-IBM storage offerings |