IBM BladeCenter Servers and Parts

 All in one - integrates servers, SAN storage, networking and I/O into a single chassis.
The first blade chassis to incorporate a fully redundant SAN inside the BladeCenter S.
Open and easy management tools deliver advanced, proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities.
Predictive Failure Analysis® helps save you time and money by helping decrease unplanned downtime.
Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ helps maintain the health of your system by keeping internal components cool.
Available in the Office Enablement Kit, the ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S into the everyday office environment.

7U rack-optimized chassis
Up to six blade server bays
Up to two Disk Storage Modules supporting either 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch HDDs
Each 3.5-inch Disk Storage Module provides up to six 3.5-inch SAS, Nearline SAS or SATA, or an intermix of the disks
Each 2.5-inch Disk Storage Module provides up to twelve 2.5-inch SAS HDDs
Hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting SAS, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel options
Up to four hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules
High-availability midplane helps enable increased uptime and investment protection for future technologies

 New ultra-efficient power supplies (94% efficient and 80 PLUS Platinum Certified¹) and cooling enhancements to support most demanding high-performance blade servers.
Open and easy management tools deliver advanced, proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities.
Predictive Failure Analysis helps save you time and money by decreasing unplanned downtime.
Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ helps maintain the health of your system by keeping internal components cool.

9U rack-optimized chassis
Up to 14 blade server bays
Up to four legacy, four high-speed and four bridge module bays supporting Virtual Fabric, FcOE,10 Gb Ethernet, 8 Gb Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and more
Up to four 2980 W hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules
High-availability midplane helps enable maximum uptime and investment protection for future technologies

 Open and easy management tools deliver advanced, proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities.
Predictive Failure Analysis helps save you time and money by decreasing unplanned downtime.
Light path diagnostics provides a quick and easy guide to troubleshoot your blade servers to help provide higher availability and system uptime.
Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ helps maintain the health of your system by keeping internal components cool.

7U rack-optimized chassis
Up to 14 blade server bays for extreme performance density
Up to four hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), Fibre Channel (FC), SCSI over IP (iSCSI) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Up to four 2000 W or 2320 W hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules
High-availability midplane helps enable maximum uptime and investment protection for future technologies

 High-speed I/O support including Virtual Fabric, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel.
Delivers increased network infrastructure performance ideal for telecommunications service, control and transport plane applications.
Improves network flexibility and interoperability via support for many blade processor types and operating systems.
Advanced proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities.
NEBS Level 3/ETSI certified.
Long life models.

12U rack-optimized chassis supporting up to 12 blade server bays
Supports high-performance blade servers with Intel® Xeon®, AMD Opteron and IBM POWER® and a wide variety of operating systems, including Linux®, Windows®, IBM AIX® and Oracle Solaris
Up to four traditional hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel
Up to four new high-speed capable switch module bays supported by 10 Gbps fabric
Four hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules, DC or AC power
Four hot-swap, redundant fan modules
Redundant removable media trays with optional Compact Flash, two external USB ports and full alarm management panel
High-availability midplane helps enable maximum uptime and enhances investment protection for future technologies
Hot-swappable midplane active components help provide maximum reliability for deployment into a telecommunications central office
Demonstrated history of compatibility so operators can standardize on a particular configuration for extended period of time

 The IBM 7870 BladeCenter HS22 offers great performance balanced with flexible configuration options and simple management in an efficient server designed to run a broad range of workloads exceptionally well.
Single-wide (30 mm), high-performance blade servers.
Two Intel Xeon X5560 processors with Intel** Turbo Boost.
Technology and Intel HT Technology.
Twelve high-performance double data rate (DDR3) very-low-profile memory DIMM slots.
High-speed PC3-10600 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC memory; maximum system memory 96 GB(2).
Broadcom 5709S dual Gigabit Ethernet connections with failover support.
Integrated dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections.
Support for additional Ethernet, SAS, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand expansion cards and a total of eight I/O ports per blade.
Support for up to two hot-swap SFF SAS, SATA, or solid-state drives with RAID 0 and 1 standard.
Support for optional RAID 5 controller with battery-backed write-back cache.
Internal standard USB 2.0 port for future optional embedded hypervisor.
Integrated Management Module for remote supervision with concurrent keyboard, video, and mouse (cKVM) standard.
Next-generation BIOS, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
Added security with a Trusted Platform Module chip standard.

 The IBM 7875 BladeCenter HS23 offers high performance balanced with flexible, scalable configuration options and simple management in an efficient server designed to run a broad range of workloads exceptionally well.
A feature-rich design enables the HS23 to run a broad range of workloads, including infrastructure, virtualization, and enterprise applications. This makes it ideal for cloud computing.
Integrated 10GbE Virtual Fabric allows for more scalable I/O solutions.
An extensive choice of processors, memory, internal storage, and I/O options allows flexible configurations.
The BladeCenter HS23 is supported in the BladeCenter H chassis (#8852), the BladeCenter HT chassis (#8740, #8750), the BladeCenter E chassis (#8677), and the BladeCenter S chassis (#8886). Some configuration limitations apply; refer to the Limitations section.
Next-generation Intel** Xeon** processor E5-2600 product family
High memory capacity with 16 DDR3 VLP memory DIMM slots supporting 1600 MHz memory and up to 256 GB of DDR3 memory.
High-speed I/O on the blade with integrated 10GbE Virtual Fabric
Support for running two DIMMs per memory channel at 1600 MHz.
Optional low-power processor, solid-state drives, and low-power memory DIMMs.
Energy-efficient 1.35 volt memory DIMM support.
Support for IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager to help monitor and cap power consumption.
Innovative component layout and blade design to help keep the blade up and running even under demanding conditions.