Egenera® BladeFrame® ES Processing BladeTM Specifications
Within the BladeFrame® and BladeFrame ES systems, Processing Blades provide the processing capacity needed to run applications. To accommodate a range of customer requirements, Egenera offers both two-processor and four-processor Processing Blade (pBladeTM) configurations based on x86 microprocessor technology from AMD and Intel.
Significantly, Egenera Processing Blades are diskless, anonymous and interchangeable—enabling automated allocation, repurposing and failover since any can immediately assume the identity of any other. Disk resources are accessed from a storage area network (SAN) or network attached storage (NAS). This unique design enables a datacenter to pool processing assets and associate configurations with the pool instead of assigning individual servers to specific applications. It also enables Egenera to deliver four processors in a 1U form factor.
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AMD Opteron Four-Socket

Intel Xeon Four-Socket
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Dual-Core AMD OpteronTM processor Model 8220SE 2.80 GHz
16 or 32 or 64 GB registered DDR-2 memory
Dual-Core AMD OpteronTM processor Model 8216 2.40 GHz
8 or 16 or 32 GB registered DDR-2 memory
Dual-Core Intel® XeonTM processor MP 3.4 GHz
16 MB L3 cache
32 GB ECC DDR-2 ChipkillTM memory
Dual-Core Intel® XeonTM processor 2.66 GHz
2x2MB L2 cache
32GB ECC DDR-2 ChipkillTM memory
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AMD Opteron Two-Socket

Intel Xeon Two-Socket
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Dual-Core AMD OpteronTM processor Model 2220SE 2.80 GHz
16 GB DDR-2 memory
Dual-Core AMD OpteronTM processor Model 2216 2.40 GHz
4 GB DDR-2 memory
Quad-Core Intel® XeonTM processor Model 5355 2.66 GHz
16 or 32 GB DDR-2 memory
Dual-Core Intel® XeonTM processor Model 5160 3.00 GHz
4 or 8 or 16 GB DDR-2 memory
Dual-Core Intel® XeonTM processor Model 5140 2.33 GHz
4 GB DDR-2 memory
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Multiple pBlade architectures within a BladeFrame
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Yes
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Processing Blades per BladeFrame
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BladeFrame: Up to 24
BladeFrame ES: Up to 6
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Height
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2.1 in. / 5.3 cm.
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Power supply
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Independent of other blades
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Cooling
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Self-contained, front to back
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Customer replaceable
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Yes
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Operating system
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Red Hat® Enterprise Linux Advanced Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise and Standard Editions
Sun® SolarisTM 10
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Multiple operating systems within a BladeFrame
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Yes
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System management
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Egenera PAN ManagerTM software
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