We received the IBM Blade Center with a couple of blade servers and HDDs.
This Blade Chassis is called the BladeCenter S and is meant for SMBs and Branch
Offices. Its key benefits are: a single rack enclosure of around 2 feet with 11U
space, which can act as a complete mini datacenter for SMBs or branch office
setups. This is called the BladeCenter S OfficeEnablement Kit, and gives you 4U
of additional space for adding other rack mountable devices. These enclosures
also help in suppressing the sound generated by the blades. We didn't run any
benchmarks on the box as the results would vary with the configuration of
servers and disks going to be used in the box. That's why we've done this visual
tour to show what goes into a mini BladeCenter. But before that, let's try to
get a feel of what all it has and what all it can do.
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This enclosure comes with a Blade chassis that can take upto six blade
servers. And for storage, it can accommodate up to 12 SAS or 12 SATA disks (with
two IBM BladeCenter S 6-Disk Storage Modules) or a mix of both. It also has
hot-swap and redundant switch modules which can support SAS, Gigabit Ethernet
and Fiber Channel options, an inbuilt KVM and a remote management interface for
configuring and accessing each and every component over IP.
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For power supply, it has four hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power
supply modules, and it's designed to sustain either complete power failure of
one power source or failure of any of the two SMPSes.Being an IBM product, the
box truly follows the IBM toolless technology concept which means you can take
out every single component from the chassis without even touching a screw
driver. Even blade servers inside the chassis have been designed on the same
concept.
SMS Buy 130930 to 56677.
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