BladeCenter JS43 Express

IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express

Frontier provides refurbished and excess IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express servers.  This BladeCenter server is an ideal solution for infrastructure consolidation and virtualization.  The IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express utilizes the IBM POWER6 technology that has the ability to run AIX, IBM i and Linux OS simultaneously.

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Features

• Form factor:  Double-wide blade server for BladeCenter S,BladeCenter H,or BladeCenter HT chassis
• Processor cores:  Eight 64-bit 4.2 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
• Level 2 (L2) cache:  4 MB per processor core; 4-way set associative
• Level 3 (L3) cache:  32 MB per processor socket
• Memory(std/max): 
  • Base offering:8 GB (2 x 4 GB)
  • Express offering:8 GB (2 x 4 GB),up to 128 GB maximum,16 DIMM slots,ECC Chipkill DDR2 SDRAM running at 667 MHz (2 and 4 GB DIMMs) 400 MHz (8 GB DIMMs)
• Internal disk storage: 
  • One or two 73,146 or 300 GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or 69 GB Solid State Disk
  • No disk drive required on base offering
• Networking:  Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit and support for optional dual gigabit Ethernet daughter card
• I/O upgrade:  Two PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card and two PCI-E CFFh High Speed Expansion Card
• Optional connectivity:  1 Gbps Ethernet,4 and 8 Gbps Fibre Channel,4X InfiniBand,SAS Expansion
• PowerVM
  • Standard Edition (built-in):  Virtual LAN,POWER Hypervisor,Micro-Partitioning,Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager,Shared Dedicated Capacity,PowerVM Lx86
  • PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional):  All the features of PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility and Active Memory Sharing
• Systems management: 
  • Integrated systems management processor,IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager,light path diagnostics,Predictive Failure Analysis,Cluster Systems Management (CSM),Serial Over LAN,IPMI-compliant
• RAS features: 
  • IBM Chipkill ECC,bit-steering memory and cache
  • Processor Instruction Retry
  • Service processor with fault monitoring
  • Hot-swappable disk bays (in BladeCenter S chassis)
  • Hot-plug power supplies and cooling fans (on chassis)
  • Dynamic Processor Deallocation
  • Dynamic deallocation of logical partitions and PCI bus slots
  • Extended error handling on PCI-E slots
  • Redundant power supplies and cooling fans (on chassis)
• Operating systems:
  • AIX V5.3 or later,AIX V6.1 or later
  • IBM i 6.1 or later
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for POWER (SLES10 SP2) or later
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 forPOWER (RHEL4.6) or later
  • RHEL5.1 or later
• High availability: IBM PowerHA family
• System dimensions:
  • JS43 Express blade:9.65 in (245 mm) H x 2.32 in (59 mm) W x 17.55 in (445 mm) D; weight:19.2 lb (8.7 kg)
  • BladeCenter H chassis:15.75 in (400 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.0 in (711 mm) D; weight:350 lb (159 kg)
  • BladeCenter S chassis:12.0 in (306 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.3 in (733 mm) D; weight:240 lb (108.9 kg)