2.1 The IBM Eserver BladeCenter product family

The IBM Eserver BladeCenter family of products features a modular design that integrates multiple computing resources into a cost-effective, high-density enclosure for a platform that:

￿Reduces installation, deployment, and redeployment time

￿Reduces administrative costs with our helpful management tools

￿Achieves the highest levels of availability and reliability

￿Provides XpandonDemand scale-out capability

￿Reduces space and cooling requirements compared to 1U solutions

To understand more about how the Nortel Networks Layer 2/3 GbE Switch Module is designed to operate in the BladeCenter chassis, we suggest that you read the sections that

follow which discuss the BladeCenter architecture. If you seek to know more about the IBM Eserver BladeCenter and its components, visit:

http://www.ibm.com/products/us/

Figure 2-1 on page 5 shows the IBM Eserver BladeCenter chassis, HS40, HS20, JS20, and LS20:

￿IBM Eserver BladeCenter chassis

The BladeCenter is a high-density blade solution that provides maximum performance, availability, and manageability for application serving, storage flexibility, and long-life investment protection.

￿HS40

HS40 is a 4-way blade server for high-performance enterprise applications requiring four-processor SMP capability. The BladeCenter chassis supports up to seven 4-way servers and is ideal for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and database applications.

￿HS20

The IBM efficient 2-way blade server design offers high density without sacrificing server performance. Ideal for Domino®, Web server, Microsoft® Exchange, file and print, application server, and so on.

￿JS20

JS20 is a 2-way blade server for applications requiring 64-bit computing. Ideal for compute-intensive applications and transactional Web serving.

￿LS20

LS20 is a 2-way blade server running AMD Opteron processors. The LS20 delivers density without sacrificing processor performance or availability. For applications that are limited by memory performance, the LS20 might bring sizeable performance gains.

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