Ibm Bladecenter Support; Supported Bladecenter Chassis - IBM BladeCenter PS700 Technical Overview And Introduction

1.2 IBM BladeCenter support

Blade servers are thin servers that insert into a single rack-mounted chassis that supplies
shared power, cooling, and networking infrastructure. Each server is an independent server
with its own processors, memory, storage, network controllers, operating system, and
applications. The IBM BladeCenter chassis is the container for the blade servers and shared
infrastructure devices.
The IBM BladeCenter chassis can contain a mix of POWER®, Intel®, Cell and AMD
processor-based blades. Depending on the IBM BladeCenter chassis selected, combinations
of Ethernet, SAS, Fibre Channel, and FCoE I/O fabrics can also be shared within the same
chassis.
All chassis can offer full redundancy for all shared infrastructure, network, and I/O fabrics.
Having multiple power supplies, network switches, and I/O switches contained within a
BladeCenter chassis eliminates single points of failure in these areas.
The following sections describe the BladeCenter chassis that support the PS700, PS701, and
PS702 blades. For a comprehensive look at all aspects of BladeCenter products see the IBM
Redbooks publication, IBM BladeCenter Products and Technology, SG24-7523, available
from the following Web page:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247523.html

1.2.1 Supported BladeCenter chassis

The PS700, PS701, and PS702 blades are supported in the IBM BladeCenter chassis as
listed in Table 1-1.
Table 1-1 The blade servers supported in each BladeCenter chassis
Blade Machine
type-model
PS700 8406-70Y
PS701 8406-71Y
PS702 8406-71Y
a. BladeCenter E requires an Advanced Management Module and a minimum of two 2000 watt power supplies.
b. Only specific models of the BladeCenter E support the PS700. See Table 1-2.
A detailed description of each supported BladeCenter for the PS700, PS701, and PS702
blades is contained in the following sections.
IBM BladeCenter E (PS700 only support) provides the greatest density and common
fabric support. It is the lowest entry cost option. See "BladeCenter E" on page 5 for details
on the chassis.
Only specific models of the BladeCenter E models listed are supported as shown in
Table 1-2.
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IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701, and PS702 Technical Overview and Introduction
Blade width BC S
8886
1 slot Yes
1 slot Yes
2 slot Yes
BC E BC T BC T
a
8677 8720 8730
b
Yes No No
No No No
No No No
BC H BC HT BC HT
8852 8740 8750
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes