User's Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Please refer to the Supermicro web site for a list of supported memory
(www.supermicro.com/products/superblade). The detailed specifications for a blade
module will contain a link to a list of recommended memory sizes and manufacturers.
Details on installation of memory modules into the SBI-7226T-T2 blade module are
found in Chapter 3: "Setup and Installation" on page 3-1.
Storage
The SBI-7226T-T2 blade module can have four 2.5" SATA (Serial ATA) hard disk drives
in front-mounted easy removable carriers, two for each node. See Chapter 3: "Setup
and Installation" on page 3-1 for storage installation details.
Density
A maximum of ten blade modules may be installed into a single blade enclosure with
two nodes. Each blade enclosure is a 7U form factor, so a standard 42U rack may
accommodate up to six enclosures with 60 blade modules, or the equivalent of 120 1U
servers. With the inclusion of six CMM modules, twelve Gigabit Ethernet switches and
six InfiniBand switches, this would occupy up to 144U space in a conventional 1U server
configuration.
Figure 1-1 displays a view of a full rack with six blade enclosures in it, each with ten
blades to an enclosure.