Features | ?Up to 10 blade servers in a 7U rack allows for the conservation of valuable floor space without sacrificing performance. ?Innovative chassis design can help minimize network, power, and KVM cable sprawl as compared to traditional rack servers. ?High availability features including hot pluggable blade servers, power supplies, cooling fans, I/O modules, and hard drives. ?Exceptional performance for today and scalability for tomorrow with dual 64-bit In?XeonTM processors, 800MHz FSB, DDR-2 memory, and PCI Express technology. ?A dense enclosure designed for easy deployment and headroom for future growth provides investment protection by offering support for future generations of blade servers and I/O technologies. ?All IEI I-Blade servers are delivered standard with the systems management tools for monitoring, and managing your server. |
I-Box Blade Chassis |
- | Form Factor: 7U Enclosure for 19-inch racks up to ten server blade |
- | I-Box support up to 10 hot-plug server blades, I-Blade2SD or I-Blade1SD1PC |
- | Standard ship with: One USB/ VGA cable (special cable with 2 USB and 1 VGA connections, 1HY7ZZZ02E8) One KVM cable (special cable with 2 PS/2 and 1 VGA connections, 1HY7ZZZ03V2) |
- | Standard equipped with: One KVM switch module (1HY7ZZZ03K2), Max.1 One MMB (Management Blade, 1HY7ZZZ07Z4), I/F: 1x RS-232-C, 1x LAN RJ45), (Max.2 and support hot-plug redundant MMB function) Two system hot-plug fans (each with 2 redundant fans) Dummy module: 2x CPU blade dummy module, 2x I/O dummy module, 2x Power supply dummy module, 1x MMB Dummy module |
- | Rear Ethernet I/O module bay: Two on board Ethernet hot-plug switch modules (Standard on board gigabit Ethernet, option for GSW31 or GPT101) Two additional hot-plug Ethernet modules (Fiber channel solution need plug FC modules, option for FCT102) |
- | Power supply: Hot pluggable or option N+1 redundant power, each with 2100W and Power supply cable. (if the number of server blades is greater then 5 the 3rd and 4th power supply modules are required) |
- | Ambient temperature: 5癈 to 35癈 |
- | Dimensions (H x W x D): 307 x 466 x 735 mm |
- | Weight (kg): Max. 125kg (with all components) |
- | Optional rack installation kit: Optional I-Box Slide set (1HY7ZZZ03W1) |
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CPU Blade |
The I-Blade delivers true server functionality including dual 64-bit In?XeonTM processors, 800MHz FSB, dual hot-plug Ultra320 SCSI 3.5" hard drives (or one hot-plug Ultra320 SCSI 3.5" hard drives and one PCI add-on space), DDR-2 memory scalable to 12GB and integrated server management.
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CPU Blade Specifications |
- | Processor: Dual Socket for In?64-bit Xeon?processor with FSB 533/ 800MHz |
- | Available processor: 2.80GHz, 512 Kbytes, 3.06GHz, 512 Kbytes, 1Mbyte, 3.20GHz, 512 Kbytes, 1Mbyte |
- | Cache: Up to 2MB L2 |
- | System Chipset: In E7520 |
- | System Main Memory: 6 DDRII (PC2-3200) DIMM, support up to 12GBytes |
- | Display: ATI Radeon 7000-M with 16Mbyte VGA RAM. |
- | Ethernet: Support dual gigabit Ethernet via midplane at switch or pass though blade. |
- | Drive controllor: 1-channel Ultra320 SCSI with RAID 0 and 1 function. |
- | I-Blade1S1P provide one PCI-X 64bit 100MHz slot for released half-length PCI card |
- | Support HDD: 36/73/146/300 Gbyte hot-plug Ultra320 SCSI HDD, (I-Blade2S Max.2, I-Blade1S1P Max.1) |
- | I/O Interfaces: 2x Gigabit LAN ports via midplane at switch blade 1x VGA and 2x USB at the front via special cable; connection to the KVM switch via the midplane. Optional 2x Gbit Fiber Channel via midplane at Fiber Channel Pass-thru blade
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I/O Module |
The blade server chassis greatly simplifies the cabling process by aggregating cabling of ten servers at once. Up to 70% of network, power, and KVM cabling required for ten 1U servers can be reduced by moving to blade servers in a single chassis. Redundant power cables can be reduced from twenty cables (two per server) to four cables. A single keyboard/video/mouse controller allows for a single connection to replace the thirty connections required for ten individual servers. These cabling reductions continue across networking, SAN connectivity, and management controllers.
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| Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module with 3-channel external RJ45 interface
The IEI GbE Switch Module is a fully managed Layer 2 switch that aggregates network traffic from the Gigabit network controllers on each blade server and provides three uplink ports out to the core networking infrastructure. This not only helps optimize network traffic, but it also minimizes the number of cables per chassis and helps reduce the number of costly ports needed in your network infrastructure.
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| Gigabit Ethernet Pass-Through Module with 10-channel external RJ45 interface
GbE Pass-Through Ethernet Module provides maximum network bandwidth and the ability to seamlessly utilize existing network investments. Another option for customers that would like to leverage existing external networking infrastructures is the Ethernet Pass-Through Module. A Pass-Through Module is a device that routes traffic directly from the blade server to an external networking device. A Pass-Through Module works in a one-to-one ratio with the port that it is connected to on the blade server - just like cabling from the NICs of a traditional 1U server to the external network device. The Ethernet Pass-Through module supports ten 1000baseT uplinks.
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| FC Pass-Through Module with 10 external SFP interface
Just like the Ethernet Pass-Through Module, the Fiber Channel Pass-Through Module provides a seamless connection to external Fiber Channel SAN switches such as Brocade?, McData?, and Qlogic?. Customers who have already made an investment in external Fiber Channel switches can save money by using their existing infrastructure. The Fiber Channel Pass-Through Module comes with ten short wave optical transceivers by default.
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| If you need Fiber channel feature, should add-on the FC Daughter card on the server blade, based on the Qlogic ISP 2312 HBA chipset. From the Fiber Channel switch or Pass-Through modules, redundant connections can be made to external SAN storage. The rear of the chassis includes four I/O bays for adding I/O peripherals. The top two bays are used for Ethernet while the lower 2 bays can add additional I/O functionality such as networking, Fiber Channel. |
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Management Blade and Server management software |
| Some blade server vendors charge a premium to customers for a high-density blade solution based on a promise of lower management costs over time. The perception is that blade servers should simply cost more as a new technology to the market. IEI believes that blade servers can be deployed with a cost savings upfront in addition to the long-term management cost savings. A port in the front of each blade server is also available to enable USB ports for provisioning the server with external USB media like CD-ROM, floppy drive or USB key devices. The MMB module also provides remote management of the enclosure and blade servers including power control, event log reporting, and inventory reporting. In addition, a second MMB module is available for active/passive redundancy. |