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Egenera® BladeFrame® EX Chassis Specifications

The BladeFrame EX chassis, which is the size of a standard data center rack, houses the system's Processing Blades, Control Blades EX and Switch Blades EX. It also contains the built-in Egenera BladePlaneTM EX, which provides the physical connectivity for Processing Blade I/O, network communication and power distribution. In conjunction with Control Blades EX and Switch Blades EX, the chassis replaces the Fibre Channel switches, Gigabit Ethernet switches and power connections required by traditional server architectures.

The BladeFarm feature enables the management of multiple BladeFrame EX systems from a single console. This capability extends Egenera's N+1 high availability model, improving the flexibility and efficiency of failover pools and further reducing the cost of providing backup resources. In addition, clustered applications can draw incremental processing capacity from any Processing Blade in the BladeFarm.

System Specifications

 

 

 

 

Physical Dimensions

BladeFrame EX Chassis

Height

82 in. / 208 cm.

Width

24 in. / 61 cm.

Depth

30 in. / 76 cm.

Weight (fully populated)

1,000 lbs. / 454 kg.
maximum

 

 

Electrical Specifications

Number of Connections

4

Input Voltage

200/208/230

Input Current

20 or 30 Amperes per
plug, single phase AC

Frequency

50/60 Hz, auto-ranging

 

Power & Cooling

Configuration-dependent.
Contact Egenera.

 

 

 

 

BladePlane EX

BladePlane EX

Data Transfer Rate

2.5 Gigabits/sec. over
a switched fabric
interconnect

 

 

Environmental

Operating temperature
range

41° F to 95° F
(5° C to 35° C)

Maximum Altitude

6,000 ft. / 1828 m.

Humidity
(non-condensing)

10-80%

Acoustics

Computer room /
data center compatible