Form factor |
Rack/7U, high-availability midplane |
Blade bays |
Up to six 1- or 2-processor, and up to three 4-processor |
Disk bays |
Up to 12 SAS, 12 Nearline SAS, or 12 SATA, or an intermix of the disks. Visit this link for a list of supported disks* |
Media |
Optional DVD multi-burner accessible from each blade server |
Switch modules |
SAS, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel switch modules available |
Power supply module |
Up to four (hot-swap, auto-sensing, and redundant 950 W/1450 W with load-balancing and failover capabilities) |
Cooling modules |
4 hot-swap and redundant blowers standard |
Systems management hardware |
1 management module standard |
I/O ports |
Keyboard, video, mouse, Ethernet, USB |
Systems management software |
Open and easy systems management and trial deployment tools |
Predictive Failure Analysis |
Hard disk drives, processors, blowers, memory |
Light path diagnostics |
Blade server, processor, memory, power supplies, blowers, switch module, management module, hard disk drives and expansion card |
Limited warranty |
3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty |
External storage |
Support for IBM System Storage® solutions (including DS and NAS family of products) and many widely adopted non-IBM storage offerings |