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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.

Four-Socket Server-Class pBlade

 



AMD Opteron Four-Socket




Intel Xeon Four-Socket

 

Options:

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

 

 

  Two-Socket Server-Class pBlade

 

 

 

AMD Opteron Two-Socket



Intel Xeon Two-Socket

 

Options:

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

 

 

General Specifications

 

 

 

 

Hardware

 

Multiple pBlade architectures within a BladeFrame

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Processing Blades per BladeFrame

BladeFrame: Up to 24

BladeFrame ES: Up to 6

 

 

 

Height

2.1 in. / 5.3 cm.

 

 

 

Power supply

Independent of other blades

 

 

 

Cooling

Self-contained, front to back

 

 

 

Customer replaceable

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Software

 

Operating system



Red Hat® Enterprise Linux Advanced Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise and Standard Editions

Sun® SolarisTM 10

 

 

 

Multiple operating systems within a BladeFrame

Yes

 

 

 

System management

Egenera PAN ManagerTM software