Each chassis is a self-contained unit that houses the blades and distributes power. Up to fourteen R Series chassis (112 blades) or seven A Series chassis (70 blades) can be mounted in a standard six foot rack.
The R4300 Series includes a chassis and modules that provide all the connectivity and management features necessary to house PC Blades with the highest levels of flexibility, scalability, and reliability. When combined with ClearCube management software, the modules deliver unique capabilities such as hot sparing, blade switching, hardware remote control and out-of-band blade management. The chassis is based on a modular, redundant architecture that can be configured to optimally support ClearCube C/Ports, I/Ports or both.
The A3100 Chassis houses A-Series blades in a secure, rack-mounted, 6U enclosure. The A3100 Chassis and the included Expansion Backplane provide chassis management features, cable management, and blade connectivity. Chassis connectivity includes USB 2.0, two network ports for each enclosed blade (where applicable), and PCoIP connections to support I94x0-series clients.
The V7000 Blade Chassis is a highly available chassis with up to ten hot-plug slots for the V7100S PC Blades in a secure, manageable data solution, which fits within a 19" industry-standard rack. When fully configured the with ten V7100S PC Blades the V7000 can support up to 600 virtual desktop clients.
The Digital Fiber Transceiver converts the copper signal from R-Series or A-Series blades enabled with the V5100 series desktop extension host adapter into a fiber optic signal for transmission to the Digital Fiber C/Port on the user's desktop. A single Digital Fiber transceiver can support up to 16 PC blades.
The Chassis Rapid Mounting Kit is designed to aid in the installation of a ClearCube Chassis into standard 4-post rack environments. Using the kit, a single installer can easily and securely mount a Chassis in under two minutes with only a standard screwdriver.