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IBM U.S. Product Life Cycle Dates
Type ModelAnnounced AvailableMarketing Withdrawn Service DiscontinuedReplaced By
8677-2XX 2003/10/142003/10/20 2005/06/30 - -


 
Abstract

The 8677 IBM eServer BladeCenter(tm) chassis coupled with the IBM eServer BladeCenter HS20 blade servers advance application serving with performance, density, and scalability. They help provide an economic approach to the deployment of large numbers of powerful servers that require less space and power resources.

Model Abstract 8677-2XX

(No Longer Available as of June 30, 2005)

The IBM 8677 Bladecenter Model 2XX has a high density, 7 U high modular design, 1800-watt, hot swap power modules, open blade bays, up to 6 BladeCenter enclosures per 42 U rack, and language support.
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Highlights

Revolutionizing the economics of application server deployment with power, scalability, control, and serviceability.

BladeCenter 8677-2XX

  • High-density, 7 U high modular design
  • Holds up to 14 BladeCenter HS20 blades with up to 28 processors
  • 1,800-watt power modules
  • Up to six BladeCenter enclosures per 42 U rack

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Description

Powerful Blade-Thin Computing

The IBM eServer BladeCenter chassis and IBM eServer BladeCenter HS20 blade servers are the key components to building your blade configuration. Optionally available Ethernet and Fibre Channel switch, Redundant Keyboard Video Mouse (KVM)/ management and power modules support advanced configurations.

BladeCenter 8677-2XX -- Rock-Solid Foundation for Business-Critical Applications

  • Rack-optimized, 7 U modular design enclosure holds up to 14 hot-swap BladeCenter HS20 blades with up to six enclosures in a 42 U rack

  • Contains high availability ePlane supporting hot-swap of individual blades

  • Two 1,800-watt, hot-swap power modules and support for two optional 1,800-watt power modules for redundancy and power for robust configurations

  • Two hot-swap 325 CFM blowers and thermal sensors throughout to monitor and alert over-temperature conditions

  • Management module - Lets you manage and control components in the enclosure

  • Optional hot-swap, redundant Ethernet and FC switch modules - Supports up to four network switch modules

  • Control panel - Contains USB port and status LEDs

BladeCenter HS20 - Performance and Highly Scalable

  • 3.06 GHz/533 MHz-512 KB L2 cache and 3.20 GHz/533 MHz-1 MB L3 cache Xeon processors with 533 MHz front-side bus.

  • 1 GB memory on 3.20 GHz system and 512 MB memory with 3.06 GHz system with Chipkill ECC support, supporting up to 8 GB maximum(2)

  • Dual Gb Ethernet connections with teaming and failover support

  • Integrated management processor, monitoring critical components on each blade for remote and local systems-management

  • ATA-100 IDE controller, economical interface for up to two optional 40 GB(3) IDE HDDs with IDE RAID 1(mirroring) standard for operating system-independent mirroring capability

  • SCSI expansion connector, supporting optional storage unit containing an Ultra320 RAID 1 SCSI controller and backplane support for two hot-swap HDDs

Note: (2) Using 2 GB DIMMs.

Note: (3) When referring to HDD or tape backup capacity, GB stands for one billion bytes. Total user capacity may vary depending on operating environments.

Service and Support Perfected for e-business

  • IBM Director and Remote Deployment Manager
  • ServerProven compatibility testing and Web support
  • Three-year, on-site(4), limited warranty(5)

Note: (4) IBM sends a technician after attempting to diagnose and resolve the problem remotely.

Note: (5) For information on the IBM Statement of Limited Warranty, visit:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/support/machine_warranties/

Alternatively, this information is also available by contacting your IBM representative or reseller. Copies are available upon request.

Note: The information in IBM announcement letters is subject to change without notice, consult the IBM Sales Manual, or your IBM marketing representative or reseller, for the most current information regarding IBM products.

Related Options

IBM Processor Upgrade with 3.20 GHz/533 MHz-1 MB L3 Cache Xeon Processor (P/N 13N0650)

Contains a 3.2 GHz/1 MB L3 Cache Xeon processor supporting internal processing speeds of 3.2 GHz at 533 MHz FSB.(1)

IBM Processor Upgrade with 3.06 GHz/533 MHz-512 KB L2 Cache Xeon Processor (P/N 73P9074)

Note: (1) GHz and MHz denote the internal and/or external clock speed of the microprocessor only, not application performance. Many factors affect application performance.

Contains a 3.06 GHz/512 KB L2 Cache Xeon processor supporting internal processing speeds of 3.06 GHz at 533 MHz FSB.

The above processor options features a full-speed 512 KB advanced transfer L2 cache. These next-generation Xeon processors use a 133 MHz common clock speed for external operations. Both 266 and 533 MHz source synchronous strobes are used to support 266 MHz (double-pumped) address and 533 MHz (quad-pumped) data busses to the memory controller. This allows up to 4.3 GB/s data transfers between memory and the processor.

IBM 1800 Watt Power Supply with line Cord Option (P/N 13N0570)

The 1,800-watt power supply is designed for maximum power availability and maximum efficiency to keep servers operating. It is designed to support the increased demands of the BladeCenter HS20 blades. The 1,800-watt power supplies come standard in the 8677-2XX BladeCenter

BladeCenter and BladeCenter HS20

High-Performance Blade-Server Subsystems

The BladeCenter HS20 blades are high-throughput, two-way, SMP-capable Xeon-based network blade servers, highly scalable by adding memory and a second processor. These flip-chip, pin grid array 2 (FC-PGA2) processors feature advanced transfer L2 caches integrated onto the processor core and run at the same clock speed. The advanced transfer cache is a result of a "backside bus" 256 bits wide. It features a quad-wide cache line that can transfer four 64-bit cache line segments at one time to deliver full-speed capability. The cache is eight-way set associative.

Two Intel Xeon connectors are standard on the blade board to support installation of a second processor. High-speed, PC2100 DDR SDRAM is synchronized for up to 533 MHz processor-to-memory subsystem performance with current processors.

The BladeCenter HS20 uses the fourth-generation ServerWorks Grand Champion Low End (GCLE) SystemSet chipset that includes:

  • Grand Champion Memory and I/O Controller (CMIC-LE5)
  • Champion South Bridge 6 (CSB6-U)
  • Champion I/O Bridge (CIOB-ES)

The CMIC-LE5 controls two main functional units:

  • High-performance main memory subsystem, maximizing throughput from processors to memory
  • Inter Module Bus (IMB), maximizing throughput from the processor bus to the I/O busses

The CSB6-U delivers PCI function and integrates the following key I/O functions:

  • IDE controller and HDDs
  • USB, supporting four USB ports
  • Power management logic
  • PCI bus interface for video controller
  • Systems management bus (SMBus), supporting Phillips I2C two-wire protocol interface
  • Low power controller (LPC) interface for POST/BIOS EEPROM
  • Dual Gb Ethernet connections
  • One external PCI-X bus segment for daughter card connector

Standard BladeCenter HS20 Configurations

  ___________________________________________________________________
 |   Models     Processor    L2 Cache   Memory     Ethernet   HDD    |
 |  --------  -------------  --------  ----------  --------  -----   |
 |  8832-31X  3.06 GHz Xeon   512 KB   512 MB ECC   Dual Gb   open   |
 |  8832-G1X  3.20 GHz Xeon   512 KB   1 GB   ECC   Dual Gb   open   |
 |___________________________________________________________________|

Additional Features

  • BladeCenter HS20 system board containing four DIMM connectors, supporting 256 MB, 512 MB, 1 GB or 2 GB DIMM options.
    • Up to 8 GB of system memory is supported.
    • Memory is two-way interleaved (must be installed in matched pairs).
    • Memory sizes can be mixed.
    • Chipkill function is supported.

  • Supports optional HS20 SCSI Storage Expansion Unit: 64-bit Ultra320 SCSI PCI controller (LSI53C1020 Ultra320 SCSI controller) supporting high-speed (320 MB/s), Low-Voltage Differential SCSI (LVDS) RAID 1 internal storage solutions

  • Dual-channel EIDE (ATA-100) controller, supporting economical EIDE data storage up to 80 GB (two 40 GB HDDs) and RAID 1

  • Two full-duplex, dual Gb Ethernet PCI connections, high-speed network communications to LAN clients

BladeCenter HS20 blades are designed for high throughput from processor, to memory, and bus I/O.

These features, combined with SMP capability and blade-thin density, make it an excellent choice for space constrained environments used for:

  • Web caching
  • Collaboration
  • Terminal serving
  • Dynamic Web serving
  • Firewall
  • Telecommunications
  • Active directory services
  • Scientific and technical computing
  • Linux clustering

High-Availability and Serviceability Features

  • Hot-swap blades enable easy access to each blade server

  • Two hot-swap 1,800-watt redundant power modules - Optional BladeCenter 1800 W Power Supply Modules providing two additional power modules for robust configurations

  • Two hot-swap, 325 CFM redundant blowers assemblies and thermal monitors in critical locations

  • Hot-swap module bays for support of optional Ethernet and FC switch modules minimizes point-of-failure for high levels of reliability and uptime

  • Management module interfaces with each blade server and enables single systems management control

  • Control panel with status LEDs provides visual indications of system well being

  • Light Path Diagnostics and on-board diagnostics provides an LED map to a failed or failing component, helping reduce downtime, and service costs

The BladeCenter HS20 blades deliver on reliability and serviceability.

Features include:

  • ECC DIMMs, combined with an integrated ECC memory controller, correct soft and hard single-bit memory errors, while minimizing disruption of service to LAN clients

  • Chipkill memory -- correction for up to four bits per DIMM to help keep your blade server up and running

  • Memory hardware scrubbing, designed to correct soft memory errors automatically without software intervention

  • ECC L2 cache processors help improve data reliability and reduce downtime, 3.20 GHz contains 1 MB L3

  • CPU failure recovery in SMP configurations:
    • Forces failed processor offline
    • Automatically reboots server
    • Generates alerts
    • Continues operations with the working processor

  • PFA on SCSI HDD options, memory, and processors alerts the system administrator of an imminent component failure

  • Dual Gb Ethernet connections support:
    • Failover, adapter fault tolerance
    • PXE 2.0 Boot Agent
    • Wake on LAN
    • Load balancing or teaming

  • An integrated management processor supports diagnostic, reset, POST, and auto recovery functions and monitors temperature and voltage; alerts generated when thresholds are exceeded (refer to the Limitations section for restrictions)

Systems Management

IBM Director

BladeCenter HS20 blades include IBM Director. This powerful, highly integrated systems-management software solution is built on industry standards and designed for ease of use.

Exploit your existing enterprise or workgroup management environments and use rich security features to access and manage physically dispersed IT assets more efficiently over the Internet.

It can help reduce costs through:

  • Reduced downtime
  • Increased productivity of IT personnel and end users
  • Reduced service and support costs

IT administrators can view the hardware configuration of remote systems in detail and monitor the usage and performance of critical components such as processors, HDDs, and memory. IBM Director can be extended with optional add-ons for advanced server management, deployment, and software distribution. All of these tools smoothly integrate into IBM Director for consistent look-and-feel and single point of management while taking advantage of IBM Directors monitoring, scheduling, alerting, event management, and group management capabilities.

Optional add-ons

  • The IBM Director Server Plus Pack is a collection of five tools with predictive and autonomic capabilities that help deliver optimal server performance and high availability. The five tools include Capacity Manager, Software Rejuvenation, Active PCI Manager, System Availability and Rack Manager.

  • Application Workload Manager extends IBM Director to enable the control of how multiple applications use server resources and protects against unexpected resource contention.

  • Remote Deployment Manager is an effective tool for the initial deployment phase of a systems life cycle with its ability to remotely send out complete software images for installation in a preboot environment.

  • Software Distribution Premium Edition enables you to create and distribute software packages to systems on your network, saving travel and labor costs.

IBM Director also provides integration into leading workgroup and enterprise systems management environments, via its Upward Integration Modules. This enables the advanced management capabilities built into xSeries servers to be accessed from:

  • Tivoli Enterprise and Tivoli Netview
  • Computer Associates CA Unicenter TNG
  • HP OpenView
  • Microsoft SMS
  • BMC Patrol
  • NetlQ

For more information about IBM Director, refer to Software Announcement 202-246, dated September 24, 2002.

Remote Deployment Manager(RDM) for BladeCenter

BladeCenter can use RDM, which enables the configuration and deployment of BladeCenter HS20 blades within a single BladeCenter. This highly flexible and powerful tool enables you to deploy system images that include the operating system and configuration detail to one or more blade servers at one time from an IBM Director console on the network.

With RDM you can:

  • Add instructions for loading firmware or specific operating systems
  • Deploy multiple blade servers in a BladeCenter at one time
  • Store various images on the RDM server for target server installations
  • Restore initial or incremental disk image locally with a keystroke
  • Drop and drag capability to deploy images

BladeCenter Management Module

Use the management module in the BladeCenter to manage the BladeCenter and obtain vital system information about your installed BladeCenter HS20 servers. The management module communicates with the blade servers within the BladeCenter via an RS-485 intermanagment network. This network relays vital information about individual blade servers such as:

  • Temperature
  • Voltages
  • Power supply status
  • Memory status
  • Fan status
  • HDD status
  • Error and status log

You receive status and control all blade servers within the BladeCenter. You can shut down and restart any blade server from anywhere on the network to help save time and costs associated with travel to the actual installation.

These manageability functions are provided through a self-contained Web page, creating an easy and familiar way for administrators to monitor, control, and maintain highly available BladeCenter installations. The BladeCenter chassis ships standard with two KVM/management modules. The optional IBM BladeCenter redundant KVM/management module provides BladeCenter with even higher levels of resiliency. While in the chassis, the second module is in passive or "stand by" mode. If the active or "primary" module faults, the second module is automatically enabled with all the configuration settings of the primary module. Providing the customer with seamless remote management and connectivity to the BladeCenter chassis for their most critical applications.
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Product Positioning

The BladeCenter and BladeCenter HS20 offerings are positioned as the highest-density servers of the IBM eServer line. They represent one approach to the deployment of application servers where two-way, SMP-capable Xeon processing, high-availability design, systems management and easy setup features are combined in an extremely dense package.

The BladeCenter 8677-2XX in just 7 U of rack space contains up to 14 blade servers and two 1,800-watt power supplies to provide the necessary I/O network switching, power, cooling, and control panel information. When compared to most Intel processor-based 1 U high servers, the BladeCenter can support twice the amount of processing power in the same rack space.

The BladeCenter and BladeCenter HS20 blades can require less space and power resources because of their high-density design, reduced power requirements, and single environment systems management. This is an extremely important consideration for:

  • Large enterprises
  • Application service providers
  • Scientific and technical computing businesses

They are an excellent fit for applications such as:

  • Lotus Notes
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Linux clusters

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Models

Model Summary Matrix

Model Blade Design Power Modules Blade Center Enclosures Miscellaneous
2XX high density, 7 U high modular design 1800-watt, hot swap up to 6 per 42 U rack Language support

Customer Setup (CSU)

This product is designated Customer Setup.

Devices Supported

The IBM(R) BladeCenter (model -2XX) is designed to maintain compatibility with the following IBM products. As a part of the ServerProven program, xSeries compatibility listings are updated on the Web. Detailed information relative to IBM and non-IBM vendor devices, adapters, software and network operating systems supported with xSeries servers can be accessed via the Web at:

http://www.ibm.com/pc/us/compat
                                                               Part
Description                                                    Number
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  BladeCenter (model 8677-2XX)                                 86772XX
  BladeCenter HS20 (model 8832-1XX)                            88321XX
  BladeCenter HS20 (model 8832-G1X)                            8832G1X
SYSTEM MEMORY
  256 MB PC2100 CL2.5 ECC DDR SDRAM DIMM                       33L5037
  512 MB PC2100 CL2.5 ECC DDR SDRAM DIMM                       33L5038
  1 GB PC2100 CL2.5 ECC DDR SDRAM DIMM                         33L5039
  2 GB &mem.                                                   33L5040
MICROPROCESSOR UPGRADES
  IBM Processor Upgrade with 3.20 GHz/533 MHz/512 KB           13N0650
     L2/1 MB L3 Cache Xeon Processor
  IBM Processor Upgrade with 3.06 GHz/533 MHz/512 KB           73P9074
     L2 Cache Xeon Processor
FIXED DISKS / DISKETTE DRIVES / STORAGE
  IBM HS20 40 GB 5400-rpm ATA-100 HDD                          48P7063
  IBM 36.4 GB 15K-rpm Ultra160 SCSI Hot-Swap HDD(1)            06P5768
  IBM 36.4 GB 10K-rpm Ultra160 SCSI Hot-Swap SL HDD(1)         06P5755
  IBM 73.4 GB 10K-rpm Ultra160 SCSI Hot-Swap SL HDD(1)         06P5756
  IBM 18.2 GB 15K-rpm Ultra160 SCSI 80-pin HDD(1)              06P5767
  IBM 18.2 GB 10K-rpm Ultra160 SCSI Hot-Swap HDD(1)            06P5754
  IBM 36.4 GB 10K Ultra320 SCSI HDD Hot-Swap                   32P0726
  IBM 36.4 GB 15K-rpm Ultra320 SCSI Hot-Swap HDD(1)            32P0734
  IBM 73.4 GB 10K-rpm Ultra320 SCSI HDD Hot-Swap               32P0727
  IBM 146.8 GB 10K-rpm Ultra160 SCSI HDD Hot-Swap              32P0750
  IBM 146.8 GB 10K Ultra320 SCSI HDD Hot-Swap                  32P0728
  IBM 73.4 GB 15K Ultra320 SCSI HDD Hot-Swap HDD               32P0735
  IBM HS20 SCSI Storage Expansion Unit                         48P7058
  IBM FAStT500 Storage Server(2)                               35521RU
  IBM FAStT EXP500 Storage Expansion Unit(2)                   35601RU
  IBM FAStT EXP500 Storage Expansion Unit(2)  (EMEA)           35601RX
  IBM FAStT EXP200 Storage Expansion Unit(2)                   35421RU
  IBM FAStT EXP200 Storage Expansion Unit(2)   (EMEA)          35421RX
  IBM FAStT EXP200 Redundant Raid Controller                   19K1121
  IBM FAStT EXP200 HA Storage Server(2)                        35422RU
  IBM FAStT EXP200 HA Storage Server(2)  (EMEA)                35422RX
  IBM FAStT700 Storage Server                                  17421RU
  IBM FAStT700 Storage Server                                  17421RU
  IBM FAStT700 Mini Hub                                        19K1269
  IBM SAN Data Gateway Router UltraSCSI LVD Port               2108R3L
 

Note: (1) Requires installation of the HS20 SCSI Storage Expansion Unit.

Note: (2) Must be attached to a supported FC expansion card and switch module.

COMMUNICATIONS
  IBM HS20 Fibre Channel Expansion Card                        48P7061
  IBM BladeCenter 2-port Fibre Channel Switch Module           48P7062
  IBM BladeCenter 4-port Gb Ethernet Switch Module             48P7054
MISCELLANEOUS CABLES
  Netfinity Fibre Channel 1 M Cable                            36L9973
  LC-LC Fibre Channel Cable - 25M                              19K1249
  Short Wave SFP Module                                        19K1271
  LC-LC Fibre Channel Cable - 1M                               19K1247
  LC-LC Fibre Channel Cable - 5M                               19K1248
  Netfinity Fibre Channel 25M cable                            03P9305
  LC-SC Fibre Channel Cable Adapter                            19K1250
  Long Wave SPF Module                                         19K1272
  NetVista USB - Parallel Printer Cable                        19K4164
  USB to Serial Cable                                          10K3661
OTHER DEVICES
  BladeCenter Acoustic Attenuation Module                      49P2694
  IBM KVM/Redundant Management Module                          48P7055
  NetBAY42 Enterprise Rack                                     930842S
  NetBAY42 Enterprise Rack Expansion Cabinet                   930842E
  NetBAY42 Standard Rack Cabinet                               9306420
  NetBAY42 Standard Expansion Rack Cabinet                     9306421
  NetBAY25 Standard Rack Cabinet                               9306250
  NetBay11 Standard Rack Cabinet                               9306110
  NetBAY Rack Power Distribution Unit                          37L6866
  BladeCenter 1400W Power Supply Modules                       48P7052
  BladeCenter 1800W Power Supply Modules                       13N0570
  NetBAY Local Console Manager (LCM)                           1735L04
  NetBAY Remote Console Manager (RCM)                          1735R16
  250 mm KVM Conversion Option                                 32P1636
  1.5 M KVM Conversion Option                                  32P1652
  IBM Two-Button Mouse                                         90P0740
  IBM 84-key Space Saver Cost Reduced Keyboard                 28L3644
  IBM Preferred Pro Full-Size Keyboard - 104-Key               25R6968
     (Business Black)
  Cisco Systems Intelligent Gigabit Ethernet                   13N2281
    Switch Module for IBM eServer BladeCenter
  Cisco Systems Fiber Intelligent                              26K6547
   Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module
   for IBM eServer BladeCenter
 IBM eServer BladeCenter T Filter                               25K8376
 Brocade(**) Entry Switch Module for                           26K5601
  IBM eServer BladeCenter(**)
 Brocade Performance Bundle for IBM eServer BladeCenter        26K5605
 Brocade ISL Trunking for IBM eServer BladeCenter              26K5607
 Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring for                   26K5612
  IBM eServer BladeCenter
 Brocade Extended Fabrics for IBM eServer BladeCenter          26K5613
 Brocade Fabric Manager v4.x for IBM eServer BladeCenter       26K5615
 Brocade Remote Switch for IBM eServer BladeCenter             26K5616
 Brocade Advanced Security (Secure OS) for                     26K5617
  IBM eServer BladeCenter
 BladeCenter Brocade Entry Switch Full SAN Upgrade for         26K5618
  IBM eServer BladeCenter
 Brocade Enterprise Switch Module for                          90P0165
  IBM eServer BladeCenter
 Intel Gigabit Ethernet Expansion Card for                     90P3777
  IBM eServer BladeCenter
 IBM eServer BladeCenter Fibre Channel Expansion Card          13N2203
 IBM eServer BladeCenter Copper Passthru Module                73P6100
 IBM eServer BladeCenter Copper Passthru Module                73P6101
  Cable
 IBM eServer BladeCenter HS20 Low Profile Handle               25K8358
 IBM eServer BladeCenter HS40 Low Profile Handle               25K8359
 
Topspin IB Switch Module for IBM eServer BladeCenter 26K6454 IB 3 meter 4x Cable for IBM eServer BladeCenter 26R0813 IB 3 meter 12x to (3) 4x Cable for IBM eServer BladeCenter 26R0816  
Nortel Networks L2/3 Copper GbE Switch 26K6530 Module for IBM eServer BladeCenter Nortel Networks L2/3 Fiber GbE Switch 26K6531 Module for IBM eServer BladeCenter  
Qlogic(**) iSCSI Expansion Card for IBM eServer BladeCenter 26K6487  

Model Conversions

None.
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Technical Description
TOC Link Physical Specifications TOC Link Operating Environment TOC Link Limitations
TOC Link Hardware Requirements TOC Link Software Requirements

BladeCenter

The BladeCenter 8677-2XX is a 7 U high, rack optimized cabinet designed to support extremely high density blade servers. It contains the following standard features:

  • 14 hot-swap blade server bays

  • Two standard 1800-watt power modules - Two additional 1800-watt power modules can be optionally installed for configurations using over six BladeCenter HS20 servers

  • Two, hot-swap redundant blowers - Support cooling requirements for full configurations

  • Management module:
    • Controls systems management of the enclosure and installed blades
    • Interface to control KVM, CD-ROM, or diskette activity for each blade server

  • Four network switch module bays - Supports installation of Ethernet or Fibre Channel networks

  • Control panel - Contains USB port and status LEDs

By combining a BladeCenter and up to 14 BladeCenter HS20 blades, extremely high-density configurations can be deployed to address large enterprise or application service providers needs for powerful, high density, high availability servers. This approach allows twice the processors, memory, and network connections to be made than that of the current 1 U-high xSeries 335.

Physical Specifications

BladeCenter

                              8677-2XX
                              -------------------------
 Blade bays (type) -          High-availability ePlanes
   Blades Standard -          0
   Blades Maximum -           14
 Video -                      none
 PCI Slots -                  0
 Switch Module Bays -         4
   Ethernet Switches -        Optional
   FC Switches -              Optional
 Management Module Bays -     2
   Standard -                 1
 CD-ROM (IDE) -               24x-10x
 Diskette Drive -             1.44 MB
 Power Supply Modules -       1800 W
   Number standard -          2
   Maximum -                  4
   Hot-Swap -                 Yes
   Redundant Power -          Standard
   Auto Restart -             Yes
 Cooling -                    2 blowers
   Redundant -                Yes
   Hot-swap -                 Yes

Dimensions - BladeCenter

  • 7 U Rack Drawer:
    • Width: 444.0 mm (17.5 in)
    • Depth: 711.2 mm (28.0 in)
    • Height: 304.2 mm (12.0 in)
    • Weight: (Minimum configuration) 95.0 kg (209 lbs)
    • Weight: (Maximum configuration) 235.0 kg (519 lbs)

Electrical - BladeCenter

  • 200-240 (nominal) V AC; 50 Hz or 60 Hz; 12 A (per power module)

  • Input kilovolt-amperes (kVA) (approximately):
    • Minimum Configuration: 0.40 kVA (two power supplies)
    • Maximum Configuration: 4.00 kVA (four power supplies)

  • Btu Output: Ship configuration - 1365 Btu/hr (400 watts)

  • Btu Output: Full configuration - 13648 Btu/hr (4000 watts)

  • Acoustical noise emissions for a single BladeCenter configured with 14 BladeCenter HS20 servers:
    • 7.4 bels (operating)
    • 7.4 bels (idling)

  • Acoustical noise emissions for a single BladeCenter with a BladeCenter Acoustic Attenuation Module option installed and configured with 14 BladeCenter HS20 servers:
    • 6.9 bels (operating)
    • 6.9 bels (idling)

Standards

This system supports or complies with the following standards:

  • Multiprocessor Specification (MPS) 1.4.
  • Hardware-enabled to meet the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9241, Part 3.

Equipment Approvals and Safety

  • FCC - Verified to comply with Part 15 of the FCC Rules, Class A
  • Canada ICES-003, issue 3, Class A
  • UL 60950 Safety of Information Technology Equipment
  • CSA C22.2 No.60950 Safety of Information Technology Equipment60950
  • NOM-019 Seguridad de Equipto de Procesamiento de Datos

Operating Environment

  • Temperature:
    • 10.0 to 35.0 degrees C (50 to 95 degrees F) at 0 to 914 m (0 to 3,000 ft)
    • 10.0 to 32.0 degrees C (50 to 90 degrees F) at 914 to 2,133 m (3,000 to 7,000 ft)

  • Relative humidity: 8% to 80%

  • Maximum altitude: 2,133 m (7,000 ft)

Limitations

  • The BladeCenter HS20 blades contain four DIMM sockets. A maximum of 8 GB of system memory is supported by adding a 2 GB PC2100 CL2.5 ECC DDR SDRAM DIMM in each of the 4 DIMM sockets. All supported system memory is addressable through direct memory access. The BladeCenter HS20 supports currently available 256 MB, 512 MB, 1 GB, and 2 GB DIMM options. Supported DIMMs can coexist in the same server; however, memory DIMMs of the same capacity must be installed in matched pairs. Refer to the xSeries server Web page memory options.

  • Microprocessor SMP upgrades must be of the same type and clock speed on each BladeCenter HS20. Mixing microprocessors of different speeds or cache size or upgrading the base processor is not supported.

  • The second IDE connector supporting an IDE HDD cannot be used when an HS20 Fibre Channel Expansion Card or other expansion adapter card is installed due to mechanical reasons.

Refer to the Software Requirements section for operating system limitations.

Hardware Requirements

For attended installation of an operating system, this server requires a compatible:

  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
  • Display

Unattended or remote installation may be performed without requiring some or all of these components. Review your unattended software installation program information for specific hardware configuration requirements.

For service, the server requires a compatible:

  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
  • Display

When having the unit serviced, plan to have these components attached to your server either directly or indirectly via a console switch.

Software Requirements

None.
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Publications

An installation and user's guide, safety, and warranty publications are shipped with each BladeCenter HS20 blade.
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Features -- Specify/Special/Exchange
TOC Link No Charge Specify Codes TOC Link Special Feature Codes -- Chargeable TOC Link Feature Exchanges

No Charge Specify Codes

None.

Special Feature Codes -- Chargeable

                                                       Order
 Description           Machine     Models              Number
 -----------           -------     ------              -------
 BladeCenter            8677        2XX                86772XX
                                                        Part
Description                                             Number
-------------------------------------                  --------
 IBM Processor Upgrade with 3.06 GHz/533 MHz           73P9074
 512 KB L2 Cache Xeon Processor
 IBM Processor Upgrade with 3.20 GHz/533 MHz           13N0650
 1 MB L3 Cache Xeon Processor
 1800 Watt Power Supply Option with Line cord          13N0570

Feature Exchanges

Not available.
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Accessories

None.

Customer Replacement Parts

None.
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Machine Elements

None.
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Supplies

None.

Diskettes

None.

Trademarks

(R), (TM), * Trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.

** Company, product, or service name may be a trademark or service mark of others.

Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
 © IBM Corporation 2005.
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