Datasheet

IBM ^ BladeCenter at a glance
Form factor
Rack/7U, high-availability midplane
Blade bays
Up to 14 2-way, and up to 7 4-way
Standard media
CD-ROM and diskette drive accessible from each blade server
Switch modules
4 switch module bays
Power supply module
Up to 4 (hot-swap and redundant 1800W with load balancing and failover capabilities)
Cooling modules
2 hot-swap and redundant blowers standard
Systems management hardware
1 management module standard, add an optional second module for redundancy
I/O ports
Keyboard, video, mouse, Ethernet, USB
IBM ^ BladeCenter HS20 at a glance
Processor
Intel Xeon Processor up to 3.2GHz
Number of processors (std/max)
1/2
Level 2 cache
Up to 2MB L3 cache
Front side bus
Up to 533MHz
Memory
Up to 8GB
7
ECC DDR
8
Internal hard disk drives
Up to 2 IDE (or up to 2 hot-swap Ultra320 SCSI drives with optional SCSI Storage Expansion Unit)
Maximum internal storage
293.6GB
4
SCSI/80GB IDE
RAID support
Integrated IDE RAID standard on blade server, integrated RAID with SCSI Storage Expansion Unit option
Network
2 integrated Gigabit Ethernet controllers
I/O upgrade
1 expansion card connection
Systems management hardware
Integrated systems management processor
Systems management software
IBM Director with systems management and trial deployment tools, IBM Director Server Plus Pack optional
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
9
and support
3-year onsite limited warranty
External storage
Support for IBM TotalStorage solutions (including FAStT and NAS family of products)
Operating systems supported
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server, Red Hat Linux, SuSE
Linux, Novell NetWare