User Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Storage
The MBI-6128R-T2/T2X MicroBlade module has two (2) 2.5" SATA3 HDD/SSD
internally mounted drives and one SATA-DOM drive that it can also use for storage or
for installation of the node’s operating system. See Chapter 3: " Setup and Installation"
on page 3-1 for storage installation details.
RAID
The MBI-6128R-T2/T2X MicroBlade module has only two hard drives, so only a RAID 0
or 1 array is possible.
Density
A maximum of twenty-eight blade modules may be installed into a single blade
enclosure. Each blade enclosure is a 6U form factor, so a standard 42U rack may
accommodate up to seven enclosures with 196 blade modules, the equivalent of 784 1U
servers. With the inclusion of up to fourteen CMM modules and up to twenty-eight
Gigabit Ethernet switches this would occupy up to 826U space in a conventional 1U
server configuration.