Blade Servers: BladeCenter
Delivering superior performance, flexibility and manageability, supporting 2-way POWER processor-based servers and 4-way Intel® processor-based servers
IBM BladeCenter plays a key role in the overall server strategy and is an important piece of the  ® xSeries family of offerings. The BladeCenter design addresses your most serious issues: space constraints, manageability, scalability, capacity, performance, cooling, and power. BladeCenter servers are designed to take less time to install, fewer people to maintain and cost less than a traditional server solution, helping you reduce your IT infrastructure costs. Your organization will benefit from simplified management, fast installation and deployment, modular scalability, and high availability. BladeCenter offers the performance and manageability you expect from IBM rack-optimized platforms at twice the density of today’s 1U servers. The result is a highly managed infrastructure that helps maximize resource productivity and minimize IT administration costs.
BladeCenter Chassis
Flexible, innovative design provides investment protection and helps reduce deployment costs
 Features include: 7U rack-optimized chassis accepts Intel and PowerPC processor-based blade servers, up to 14 blade server bays for extreme performance density and up to 2 integrated and hot-swappable Gb Ethernet and Fibre Channel Switch Modules.
IBM  ® BladeCenter™ T Chassis
Specifically designed to support compute intensive applications for next generation networks
 The BladeCenter™ T and BladeCenter offer a broad range of networking options integrated into the chassis to simplify infrastructure complexity and manageability while helping lower total cost of ownership. Designed to satisfy the rugged demands of the telecom industry, the BladeCenter T is NEBS 3/ETSI compliant, compact, tough, flexible and proven to meet the most stringent industry standards and testing. More info...
Brocade® SAN Switch Modules for BladeCenter™
Reduces infrastructure complexity and increases SAN manageability
 Integrate Brocade technology into the IBM  ® BladeCenter architecture by choosing from two new embedded Brocade® Switch Modules that satisfy a wide variety of storage area networking needs. These SAN fabric switches deliver the advanced Brocade functions, performance, manageability, scalability, and security required by the most demanding SANs. Integration of SAN switching capabilities reduces complexity and increases SAN manageability. More info...
BladeCenter JS20 (2-way POWER-based blade server)
 Designed to support POWER technology for compute-intensive needs BladeCenter JS20 is a single-wide blade server with the following components: Modular blade server optimized for the BladeCenter enclosure, two PowerPC® 970 processors at up to 1.6GHz standard, and 512MB standard/4GB max PC2700 ECC DDR memory. More info...
BladeCenter HS20 (2-way Intel-based blade server)
 Ultra-dense computing platform utilizing Xtended Design Architecture™ This highly manageable modular computing platform is optimized for the BladeCenter T and BladeCenter environments. It has up to 2 IDE or hot-swap SCSI hard disk drives for maximum internal storage of 80GB IDE and/or 293.6GB U320, and up to 4GB flash disk drives on blade, 1GB standard/8GB max PC2100 ECC DDR Chipkill™ SDRAM. More info...
BladeCenter HS40 (4-way Intel-based blade server)
High-performance, 4-way blade server for mission-critical and enterprise computing applications
 The IBM  ® BladeCenter HS40 provides rack-dense, 4-way SMP solutions for those who demand high reliability and availability in environments where rapid installation and increased manageability are required. The HS40 features up to four high-performance Intel® Xeon™ Processors MP at up to 2.8GHz and up to 16GB of memory for businesses striving for outstanding on demand processing power. This blade fits into the BladeCenter chassis and can coexist in the chassis with your 2-way IBM  ® BladeCenter HS20 blade servers. It is ideal for applications that include e-business, databases and Enterprise Resource Planning. More info...
AMD Opteron LS20 IBM  BladeCenter
Delivers new levels of flexibility and choice for your high performance computing applications
Designed to support the AMD Opteron family of single and dual core processors the LS20 blades are packed with features. When combined with the BladeCenter, the LS20 delivers density without sacrificing processor performance or availability. For applications that are limited by memory performance the LS20 may bring sizeable performance gains. More info...
 Useful Hardware, Software and Support links
 IBM eServer BladeCenter Solutions (95k PDF file)
 Why Blade Servers? (255k PDF file)
 To Blade or Not to Blade...That is the IT Question (298k PDF file)
 Setting up an IBM eServer BladeCenter on Lotus Products (167k PDF file)
 IBM eServer and IBM TotalStorage products (213k PDF file)
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