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Notices and statements in this document
Use this information to understand the most common documentation notices and statements and how
they are used.
The caution and danger statements in this document are also in the multilingual Safety Information
document, which is on the IBMDocumentation CD. Each statement is numbered for reference to the
corresponding statement in the Safety Information document.
The following notices and statements are used in this document:
• Note: These notices provide important tips, guidance, or advice.
• Important: These notices provide information or advice that might help you avoid inconvenient or
problem situations.
• Attention: These notices indicate possible damage to programs, devices, or data. An attention notice is
placed just before the instruction or situation in which damage might occur.
• Caution: These statements indicate situations that can be potentially hazardous to you. A caution
statement is placed just before the description of a potentially hazardous procedure step or situation.
• Danger: These statements indicate situations that can be potentially lethal or extremely hazardous
to you. A danger statement is placed just before the description of a potentially lethal or extremely
hazardous procedure step or situation.
Features and specifications
Use this table to view specific information about the blade server, such as blade server hardware features
and the dimensions of the blade server.
Notes:
1. Power, cooling, removable-media drives, external ports, and advanced system management are
provided by the BladeCenter unit.
2. The operating system in the blade server must provide USB support for the blade server to recognize
and use USB media drives and devices. The BladeCenter unit uses USB for internal communications
with these devices.
The following table is a summary of the features and specifications of the blade server.
Table 1. Features and specifications
Microprocessor: Supports up to two
multi-core IntelXeon microprocessors.
Note: Use the Setup utility to
determine the type and speed of the
microprocessors in the blade server.
Memory:
• 12 dual inline memory module
(DIMM) connectors
• Type: Very Low Profile (VLP)
double-data rate (DDR3) DRAM.
Supports 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB,
and 16 GB DIMMs with up to 192
GB of total memory on the system
board
Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA)
alerts:
• Microprocessors
• Memory
• Storage drives
Electrical input: 12 V dc
Environment:
• Air temperature:
– Blade server on: 10°C to 35°C
(50°F to 95°F). Altitude: 0 m to
914.4 m (0 ft to 3000 ft)
– Blade server on: 10°C to
32°C (50°F to 89.6°F). Altitude:
914.4 m to 2133.6 m (3000 ft
to 7000 ft)
Drives: Supports up to two hot-swap,
small form factor (SFF) Serial Attached
SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA)
storage drives
Size (Type 7870 and Type 1936):
• Height: 24.5 cm (9.7 inches) (6U)
• Depth: 44.6 cm (17.6 inches)
• Width: 2.9 cm (1.14 inches)
• Maximum weight: 4.8 kg (10 lb)
Size (Type 1911):
• Height: 24.5 cm (9.7 in)
• Depth: 44.6 cm (17.6 in)
• Width: 14.5 cm (5.71 in)
• Maximum weight: 8.15 kg (40.02 lb)
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Introduction
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