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IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express |
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BladeCenter JS12 Express
Highlights
- For replacing traditional UNIX®, IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS®) and Linux® servers
- For small database and application serving
- For a complete business system with an integrated database and application server
For the perfect alternative to a traditional AIX®, IBM i or Linux rack-mount and tower server, the IBM BladeCenter® JS12 Express blade server combined with a BladeCenter S chassis provides exceptional value and expandability in an attractively packaged and highly efficient design. And, specifically for an office environment, this combination can reside in your office quietly, securely and looking like it belongs with an acoustic treatment for quiet operation, a set of security doors to protect vital data and servers, and optional dust filtering to expand IT into virtually any environment.
For small database and application serving, the BladeCenter JS12 Express blade server delivers great performance, expandability and capacity to satisfy the needs of clients looking for an easy-to-use, integrated platform with a high degree of deployment flexibility, scalability and manageability.
For a complete integrated business system, the IBM i Edition Express for BladeCenter S which features the JS12 blade allows the small or mid-sized company that seeks simplicity to avoid increased spending and staffing requirements while becoming more responsive to their customers, improving their productivity and keeping their data secure. The i Edition Express for BladeCenter S integrates features to simplify an IT environment and delivers a complete, cost-effective business system that grows with your needs.
Built on the promise of the IBM BladeCenter family of products—easy-to-use, integrated platforms with a high degree of deployment flexibility, scalability and manageability—the BladeCenter JS12 Express is an extremely affordable blade server with the capability to run AIX, IBM i or Linux applications—concurrently if desired. The JS12 Express broadens the application offerings available and increases the ways clients can put this power to work. Powered by the latest IBM processor technology, POWER6™, the JS12 Express provides outstanding price/performance in a commercial IT environment; superior reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) characteristics; high energy efficiency; and outstanding built-in PowerVM™ virtualization to help achieve increased system utilization. The feature-rich, JS12 Express will bring significant benefits to clients who want a durable server solution for consolidating multiple applications and servers into a single BladeCenter chassis transitioning from traditional rack-mount or tower servers to highly efficient blades and implementing commercial applications across a range of operating systems.
Specifically, the BladeCenter JS12 Express blade provides:
Common features
- Single-wide blade server compatible with BladeCenter family chassis
- Dual-core SMP scalability
- 64-bit IBM POWER6 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
- PowerVM Standard Edition (built-in) including support for:
- Virtual LAN
- POWER Hypervisor™
- Micro-Partitioning™ (up to 20 partitions per blade)
- Virtual I/O Server
- Shared Processor Pool
- Integrated Virtualization Manager
- Shared Dedicated Capacity
- PowerVM Lx86
- PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional) including all the features of PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility
- IBM Director industry-leading systems management software
- Support for AIX (V5.3 or later), IBM i1 (V6.1 or later) and Linux for Power™ distributions from Red Hat (RHEL for POWER™ V4.6 or later) and SUSE Linux (SLES10 SP1 for POWER or later)
- Support for System Cluster 1350
- Support for the IBM Power HA family of high availability products and Cluster Systems Management software
Hardware summary
- Two 3.8 GHz POWER6 processor cores
- From 2/4 GB to 64 GB memory in eight DIMM slots
- High-performance DDR2 memory running at up to 667 MHz
- Integrated SAS controller
- Two 2.5" 10K rpm Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drive bays supporting 73 or 146 GB of internal storage
- Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit
- Integrated systems management including Serial over LAN support via Ethernet
- Enterprise-class reliability with light path diagnostics, IBM Predictive Failure Analysis®, ECC and IBM Chipkill™ memory
- Support for Calibrated Vectored Cooling™, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ software and EnergyScale™ technology to monitor energy and maintain optimum cooling
- Installed in BladeCenter E, T, H, HT and S chassis
Features and Benefits
| Feature |
Benefits |
| Highly efficient and flexible design of IBM BladeCenter |
- Densely pack more servers in a smaller space
- Tailor system to meet varied business requirements with a
choice of BladeCenter chassis
- Lower acquisition cost and energy consumption versus traditional 1U or 2U rack servers
- Integrate networking switch infrastructure for improved cabling and data center maintenance
- Deploy in virtually any office environment for quiet, secure and contaminant-reduced operation
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| Pioneering EnergyScale technology and Systems Director Active
Energy Manager software |
- Generate less heat by managing application utilization and
server energy consumption
- Use less energy to cool the system
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Industry-leading PowerVM virtualization technology |
- Reduce infrastructure costs by doing more with fewer servers
- Simplify IT operations to leverage storage, network and computing
resources to control costs and be more responsive
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| Innovative reliability features and systems management |
- Expedite hardware repairs and reduce service time
- Enable scheduled maintenance with proactive monitoring of
critical system components to help reduce unplanned failures
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| Choice of AIX, IBM i or Linux operating systems |
- Standardize on a single platform that runs the large and varied
portfolio of applications that support your business
- Take advantage of the power of IBM’s industry-leading UNIX operating system, AIX
- Utilize the Linux for Power™ operating system to access the breadth of open-source applications
- Exploit the simplicity of the integrated IBM i operating system
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Specifications
| Form factor |
Single-wide blade server for BladeCenter E, BladeCenter
S, BladeCenter H, BladeCenter HT, or BladeCenter T chassis |
| Processor cores |
Two 64-bit 3.8 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware
Decimal Floating-Point acceleration |
| Level 2 (L2) cache |
4 MB per processor core; 4-way set associative |
| Memory (std/max) |
Base offering: 2 GB (2 x 1 GB); Express offering: 4 GB (2 x 2
GB); Up to 64 GB maximum per blade, eight DIMM slots, ECC Chipkill
DDR2 SDRAM running at 667 MHz (1, 2, 4 GB DIMMs) 400 MHz (8 GB DIMMs) |
| Internal disk storage |
Zero to two 73 or 146 GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
10K rpm disk drives
Integrated RAID-0 or -1 standard on blade server with support for
disk mirroring |
| Networking |
Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit and support
for optional dual gigabit Ethernet daughter card |
| I/O upgrade |
Integrated PCI Express connector for high-speed daughter cards,
integrated connector for legacy daughter cards |
| Optional connectivity |
1 Gbps Ethernet Expansion Card, 4 Gbps Fibre Channel, 4X InfiniBand®,
iSCSI Expansion Card, SAS Expansion Card |
| PowerVM Standard Edition (built-in) |
Virtual LAN, POWER Hypervisor™, Micro-Partitioning™,
Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager, Shared
Dedicated Capacity, Shared Processor Pool, PowerVM Lx86 |
| PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional) |
All the features of PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition
Mobility |
| 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-X slots
Redundant power supplies and cooling fans (on chassis) |
| Operating systems |
AIX V5.3 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 for POWER (RHEL4.6) or later; RHEL5.1
or later |
| High availability |
IBM Power HA family |
| System dimensions |
JS12 Express blade: 9.65 in (245 mm) H x 1.14 in (29 mm) W x
17.55 in (445 mm) D; weight: 9.6 lb (4.35 kg) 2
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) 2
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) |
| Warranty (limited) |
9 hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next-business-day
for three years at no additional cost; on-site for selected components;
CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country).
Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available. |
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