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
or
- 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 i
- 1
- (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 PowerHA™ family of high availability
products and Cluster Systems Management software*
Hardware summary
- Two 3.8 GHz POWER6 processor cores
- From 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, 146 or 300 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