IBM Hardware Product Selector
BladeCenter T Chassis
Highlights
- A commercial off-the-shelf platform designed to help lower total cost of ownership and help accelerate new revenue generation opportunities for telecommunications and service providers
- Innovative, modular design delivers the reliability, flexibility and performance density capable of supporting an IP-based, next-generation network application infrastructure integrating voice, data and multimedia
- Integration of servers, I/O, storage, operating systems and applications into a single, compact network platform that is ideal for deploying autonomic capabilities, enabling an on demand operating environment
IBM BladeCenter T delivers rich telecommunications features and functionality, including integrated servers, storage and networking, fault-tolerant features, optional hot-swappable redundant AC or DC power supplies and cooling, and built-in systems management resources in a 20" deep chassis.
Common features
- High performance density helps you concentrate as much computing power as possible into your datacentre
- IBM Director software provides proactive systems management for rock-solid reliability
- Calibrated Vectored Cooling helps maintain the health of your systems by keeping internal components cool
- Light path diagnostics helps you troubleshoot more easilyhelping increase uptime and reduce service costs
- 3-year onsite limited warranty provides operational continuity and use of networking technology for an extended period of time
Hardware summary
- 8U rack-optimized chassis
- Up to 8 blade server bays for significant performance density
- Up to four integrated and hot-swappable Gigabit Ethernet switch modules or two Gigabit Ethernet and two Fibre Channel switch modules
- Designed to meet the rigorous NEBS-3-ETSI standards for electromagnetic compatibility, thermal robustness, fire resistance, earthquake and office vibration resistance and airborne contaminant resistance
- Up to four hot-swap and redundant 1300W power supply modules with load-balancing and failover capabilities
