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BladeCenter S provides:

• A choice of installation methods — Designed for either rack or deskside use with the

optional Office Enablement Kit, it’s ideal for offices or remote/branch locations.

• Integrated compute blades, SAN storage, and switches in one chassis — In addition

to six blade servers, the BladeCenter S also supports 12 shared hot-swap 3.5-inch

SAS, SATA, or Nearline SAS HDDs, and four integrated switches (two Ethernet, plus

two Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SAS, or RAID SAS Controllers, which can enable true

shared storage).

• Six 30mm blade slots — These hot-swap slots are capable of supporting any

combination of 6 HC10/HS12/HS20/HS21/HS21 XM (Intel Xeon), LS20/LS21/LS22 (AMD

Opteron

), and JS12/JS21/JS22 (IBM PowerPC

970FX/MP) blade servers, or 3 double-

wide (60mm) LS41/LS42 blade servers or a mixture of 30mm and 60mm blades. It also

supports multiple optional 30mm Expansion Units in combination with the blade servers,

using the same blade slots. Up to six chassis can be installed in an industry-standard 42U

rack, for a total of up to 36 30mm blade servers and 72 HDDs per rack, plus switches, with

full power redundancy.

• Standard office 110V power or 220V power — Don’t have a data center, but still want to

consolidate many servers into a few? No problem. BladeCenter S runs on standard office

power (as well as 220V), using an auto-sensing power supply.

• Simplified setup and configuration — BladeCenter S’s configurable “business in a box”

foundation offers the BladeCenter Start Now Advisor, a wizard-based installation tool on a

DVD that is shipped standard with every chassis. You can be up and running in minutes. A

user can literally plug the blade servers into the system, plug the system into a power

outlet, and launch a management tool that enables easy select-and-click configuration via

an "express" install. For businesses operating branch offices—such as retailers or financial

institutions—IT administrators at headquarters can easily pre-configure hundreds of blade

systems to operate in the same manner and ship them out the door knowing an office

employee will be able to simply plug a system in and power it up.

• Forward and backward compatibility — Most blades, and every switch and passthru

module released by IBM for BladeCenter E since 2002, are supported. Many new blades

and 1X fabric switches released for IBM BladeCenter E, BladeCenter H, BladeCenter T, or

BladeCenter HT are also supported in the BladeCenter S chassis.

• One module bay for hot-swap Advanced Management Module — The management

module provides advanced systems management and KVM capabilities for not only the

chassis itself, but for all of the blades and other modules installed in the chassis. The

management module provides capabilities similar to the IBM Remote Supervisor

Adapter II used in stand-alone IBM System x

™

or IBM eServer

™

xSeries

rack and tower

servers. The features of the management module can be accessed either locally or

remotely across a network. One module comes standard.

• One module bay for hot-swap Serial Passthru Module — This module provides six

RJ45 serial ports (one per blade). The ports are numbered 1 through 6, and correspond to

blade slots 1 through six.

• Two bays for hot-swap Storage Modules — Each module supports up to 6 hot-swap

SAS, SATA, or Nearline SAS drives (12 total), for an internal capacity of up to 3.6TB

(using 300GB SAS HDDs) or 12TB (using 1TB SATA drives). The drives can be mixed

within a Storage Module. The drives can be shared by one or more blades. If any drives

are installed, one or two (for redundancy) SAS Connectivity Modules or the SAS RAID

Controller Modules must be installed in switch bays 3 and/or 4. (In addition, if you have

BladeCenter Storage and I/O Expansion Unit blades, which attach to the HS and LS

blades, these are supported as well.)

• Four module bays for hot-swap communication and I/O switches — The modules

interface with all of the blade servers in the chassis and eliminate the need for external

switches or expensive, cumbersome, and error-prone cabling. All connections are done

internally via the midplane. All modules, when installed in pairs, offer load balancing and

failover support. Integrated switch modules mean that no extra “U space” is required in

the rack. The first two bays support Ethernet switches only (one comes standard). The

other two bays support Ethernet, Fibre Channel, or SAS switches. Either one or two of a

kind is required in Bays 3 and 4. (No mixing and matching between the pair.)

• Four module bays for Fan Modules — Four hot-swap/redundant blower modules

come standard with the chassis. (Each module contains two fans.) They are capable of

providing efficient cooling for all blades, switches and storage devices. These modules

replace the need for each blade to contain its own fans. The four fan modules are more

energy efficient than dozens or hundreds of smaller fans would be, and they offer many

fewer points of potential failure.

• Four module bays for hot-swap Power Modules — BladeCenter S ships with two 950W

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