| Form factor |
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Rack/12U, high-availability midplane |
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| Blade bays |
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Up to 12 2-socket, and up to 6 4-socket |
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| Standard media |
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One media tray standard, 2 external USB connections, redundant media tray optional, optional 1 GB or 4 GB compact flash (no DVD/CD) |
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| Switch modules |
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Up to four traditional, up to four high-speed and up to two bridge module bays shared with two traditional bays |
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| Power supply module |
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Up to 4 hot-swap and redundant DC or AC with load-balancing and failover capabilities. Operating at -48V to -60V DC or 200-240V AC |
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| Cooling modules |
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4 hot-swap and redundant chassis fan modules standard, additional triple fan packs on each power module |
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| Systems management hardware |
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Advanced Management Module standard, add an optional Advanced Module for redundancy |
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| I/O ports |
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USB-based keyboard, mouse (KVM), Ethernet, DB15 Analog Video |
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| Systems management software |
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Systems management and trial deployment tools |
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| Predictive Failure Analysis |
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Hard disk drives, processors, fans, memory |
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| Alarm Management |
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Blade server, processor, memory, power modules, fans, switch module, management module, hard disk drives and expansion card |
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| Limited warranty2 |
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3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty |
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| External storage |
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Support for IBM System Storage™ solutions (including DS and NAS family of products) and many widely adopted non-IBM storage offerings |
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| System standards |
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Certified testing by UL of the BladeCenter HT chassis has been completed. The BladeCenter HT chassis is covered under a UL-certified NEBS Level 3/ETSI test report, which is available for review upon request. |
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