- Up to 8 half-height and/or up to 4 full-height server blades and/or storage blades per enclosure
- A single-phase power subsystem - for flexibility in connecting to datacenter power
- Parallel, redundant and scalable cooling and airflow design
- Fully redundant design - no single point of failure
- Best performance per watt - lower wattage per server blade
- Full AC redundancy - with no power zones
- Single Onboard Administrator management modules
A BladeSystem c3000 enclosure holds up to 8 server and/or storage blades plus redundant or non-redundant network and storage switches. It includes a shared, multi-terabit high-speed mid-plane for wire-once connectivity of server blades to network and shared storage. Power is delivered through a pooled power backplane that ensures the full capacity of the power supplies is available to all blades.