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Chapter 1. General information
The IBM
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BladeCenter E Type 8677 and 1881 unit is a high-density,
high-performance rack-mounted system developed for medium-to-large businesses.
It supports up to 14 blade servers, making it ideally suited for networking
environments that require a large number of high-performance servers in a small
amount of space. The BladeCenter system provides common resources that are
shared by the blade servers, such as power, cooling, system management, network
connections, and input/output (I/O) ports (diskette drive, optical drive, ports for USB,
keyboard, video, mouse, and network interfaces). The use of common resources
enables small blade server size, minimizes the cabling required in a working
configuration, and eliminates resources sitting idle.
Performance, ease of use, reliability, and expansion capabilities were key
considerations during the design of your BladeCenter system. These design
features make it possible for you to customize the system hardware to meet your
needs today, while providing flexible expansion capabilities for the future.
Notes:
1. Current BladeCenter E models do not have a diskette drive in the media tray.
Older BladeCenter E models do have a diskette drive in the media tray. In this
document, this difference is noted, when necessary, to describe differences that
exist between current and older model offerings.
2. The illustrations in this document might differ slightly from your actual hardware:
the illustrations do not depict a particular model offering unless noted in text.
3. Throughout this document, the terms I/O module and switch module are used to
refer to switch modules and all other types of I/O module.
This Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide provides
information to troubleshoot your BladeCenter unit and replace damaged parts.
This Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide and other
publications that provide detailed information about your BladeCenter unit are
provided in Portable Document Format (PDF) on the IBM BladeCenter
Documentation CD.
The latest version of this publication is available from the IBM support Web site at
http://www.ibm.com/systems/support.
If you have access to the World Wide Web, you can obtain up-to-date information
about your BladeCenter model and other IBM server products at
http://www.ibm.com/eserver/xseries/ on the World Wide Web.
You can register the BladeCenter unit and blade servers on the World Wide Web.
To register, go to http://www.ibm.com/support/mysupport/ on the World Wide Web.
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