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Egenera® Control BladeTM ES Specifications

By hosting Egenera PAN ManagerTM software, the fully redundant Control Blades ES provide the hardware platform to manage BladeFrame® ES performance and functionality. Control Blades ES house a DVD drive, ports for laptop-based administration, and interfaces to external network and storage resources. Control Blade ES combines the functionality of the Control Blade and Switch BladeTM found in the BladeFrame EX platform.

Control Blade ES Architecture

 

 

 

 

Number per
BladeFrame ES

2

 

I/O interfaces



Gigabit Ethernet, 4 ports, fiber or copper

2 Gigabits/sec. Fibre Channel, 4 ports

 

Console port

Front- and rear-accessible:
RS 232

 

Management port

10/100 Ethernet

 

DVD drive

40X (1 per Control Blade ES)

 

 

 

Power supply

Independent of other
blades

 

 

 

Cooling

Self-contained
front to back

 

 

 

Hot-pluggable

Yes