Highlights
- Pre-configured JS21 blade server optimised with fast memory and lots of storage
- Combines deployment flexibility of IBM BladeCenter with ease of management
- Takes advantage of virtualisation technologies to help increase utilisation and decrease costs.
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For success in today's demanding marketplace, small businesses require leading price/performance to manage their bottom line. But competing against larger companies also requires an investment in technology and innovation that has to be justifiable from day one. For high performance computing (HPC) applications such as life and earth sciences research, computer-aided engineering (CAE) or business intelligence (BI) grids as well as a variety of commercial applications such as Web serving, server consolidation and retail environments, it takes more than just the claim of innovation to deliver real value.
The IBM BladeCenter JS21 Express blade server, a feature-rich, pre-configured blade, is the answer to meet the stringent requirements of small businesses for advanced technology at a very attractive price. The JS21 Express delivers many leading-edge technologies - support for the IBM AIX 5L and Linux® operating systems (OS), IBM Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV) and AltiVec Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) acceleration functionality - in a single, highly reliable, high-performance, yet cost-efficient blade server.
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Product features
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| · Single-wide blade server compatible with any BladeCenter family chassis |
| · Single-core or dual-core Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) scalability |
| · 64-bit IBM PowerPC 970MP with AltiVec SIMD accelerator |
| · APV (optional) including support for Virtual LAN, POWER Hypervisor, IBM Micro-Partitioning (up to 40 partitions per blade), Shared processor pool, Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) and Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM) |
| · IBM Director industry-leading systems management software |
| · Support for AIX 5L V5.2 and above, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS 4 for POWER and above and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 for POWER and above |
· Support for IBM System Cluster 1350, High Availability Cluster MultiProcessing (HACMP) and Cluster Systems Management (CSM) software
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Hardware summary
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| · 2-socket single-core: 2.7GHz*, 1MB L2 Cache, with 2GB 533 MHz memory standard (2 x 1GB DIMMs) |
| · 2-socket dual-core: 2.5GHz*, 2x1MB L2 Cache, with 4GB 533 MHz memory standard (2 x 2GB DIMMs) |
| · 16GB maximum memory in 4 DIMM slots |
| · High-performance DDR2 SDRAM running at 533 MHz |
| · Integrated SAS Controller plus RAID-0/1 Mirroring |
| · Up to two 2.5" 10K Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives supporting up to 146GB maximum internal storage, one 73GB hard drive standard |
| · Integrated Broadcom 5780 controller supporting 17X PCI-Express connector and Dual Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) |
| · Integrated systems management including Serial over Local Area Network (LAN) support via Ethernet |
| · Enterprise reliability with Light path diagnostics, IBM Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA), Error Checking and Correction (ECC) and IBM Chipkill memory |
· Support for Calibrated Vector Cooling (CVC) and IBM PowerExecutive to monitor power and maintain optimum cooling.
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* Processor frequencies when installed in BladeCenter H. The 2.7GHz frequency is reduced to 2.6GHz and the 2.5GHz frequency is reduced to 2.3GHz when installed in the BladeCenter or BladeCenter T chassis. In all BladeCenter chassis, autonomic power and thermal controls may reduce the processor frequency in certain operating conditions.
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