IBM BladeServer Chassis

Modular technology that lowers costs and management pains, while increasing performance density and availability

IBM Blade Center Chassis products are designed to allow you to keep your architecture simplified even as you grow. Scale out your IT architecture securely and cost-effectively, and deploy new workloads in minutes.

Models	BladeCenter HT	BladeCenter T	BladeCenter H	BladeCenter E	BladeCenter S
Blade bays	12	8	14	14	6
Form factor	12U	8U	9U	7U	7U
NEBS-/ETSI for telecom environments	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Internal 4X InfiniBand or 10Gbps Ethernet capability	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Power Supplies	3160 Watt AC or 2535 Watt DC	1300 Watt AC or DC	Up to 4 x 2980 Watt AC	Up to 4 x 2320 Watt or 200 Watt ACvv	Up to 4 x 950 Watt or 1450 Watt AC
Summary	High-performance, for telecom and ruggedized environments	Telecom and ruggedized environments	High-performance	Energy-efficiency and high-density	Small offices and remote branch offices

Management Features

IBM BladeCenter chassis includes IBM Director, a set of management tools that deliver advanced, proactive management capabilities to maximize IT staff productivity and provide rock-solid reliability. IBM’s XpandOnDemand™ capability allows you to “pay as you grow” and Light path diagnostics provide you with a quick and easy way to troubleshoot your blade server infrastructure, maximizing uptime and availability. Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ maintains the health of your system by keeping components cool, so you can maximize compute density.

Operating System Flexibility

All IBM Blade server chassis are compatible with a wide variety of operating systems, and provide you with a choice of Intel®, AMD Opteron™ or POWER®-based processing power. Consolidate your storage, networking, server and applications into a single platform that supports your current computing requirements and future IT needs.

Start Configuring Your Blade Server Solution Today

North American Systems’ extensive IBM experience and experience with the Blade platform makes us an ideal partner to work with for those who are looking to pilot or expand their blade server projects and deployment. Our systems engineers can provide in-depth technical insight and expertise, to help you configure a system that meets business requirements while reducing infrastructure costs.

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