Ports & interfaces
| Number of expansion bays total (free) |
6 |
Storage
| Number of storage drives supported |
12 |
| Hot-swap |
Y |
BladeCenter S Chassis 7U rack, 12 Serial SCSI, 4 hot-swap, 950 W
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.
