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IBM BladeCenter S at a glance
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
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 950W/1450W 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 warranty1 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
