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Figure 1-15 Acoustic Attenuation Module
Power
The IBM Eserver BladeCenter comes with two 220 volt 1200 watt hot-swap power modules
in power bays 1 and 2. Table 1-4 outlines the power module bays and their functions.
Table 1-4 Power module bays
Cabling modules
The IBM Eserver BladeCenter is capable of managing four switch modules of either
Ethernet or Fibre, the minimum requirement being a single Ethernet switch.
Power
module bays
Power module function
1 Provides power to all the BladeCenter modules in server bay slots 1-6.
2 Redundancy for Power module bay 1.
3 Provides power to all the BladeCenter modules in server bay slots 7-14.
4 Redundancy for Power module bay 3.
Note: A blade server in bay 6 with a SCSI storage expansion option requires a power
module in power module bays 3 and 4 to support the SCSI storage expansion.
Shaft
Acoustic muffler
Locking
handle
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