Planning and Preparation

Preparing to Install

BladeCenter Options

An IBM eServer BladeCenter may be configured using a variety of storage and networking options. For example, the BladeCenter chassis using HS20 blade servers offers the following configuration features:

•A rack-optimized 7U modular 14 slot chassis that can support a total of 14 hot-swap BladeCenter HS20 blades.

•A CD-ROM and floppy shared by all blade bays.

•A maximum of two Management modules integrating remote man- agement functions and a 14-port Keyboard/Video/Mouse switch.

•Up to 4 Gigabit Ethernet Switch modules. Each switch has four external ports as well as 14 internal ports (one to each bay).

•HS20 hot-swappable blades supporting two XEON processors, 4- port Gigabit Ethernet modules, on-board disks and/or a piggy- backed SCSI drive Expansion Unit.

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