Provisioning of lightweight configurable servers with chassis base and cover designed for nested stacking

A lightweight server (LWS) chassis assembly comprising:

• a chassis base having chassis surface that receives compute component for downstream assembly of a fully functional IHS;
• and
• a chassis cover having edges that are shaped in a first position to form an enclosure with the chassis base to protect the end user selectable compute components and that is shaped in a second position that is flipped over from the first position to be positioned in the casing above the compute components;
• wherein a contoured shape of the chassis cover in the second position and the casing opposingly contact an inserted modular, functional compute component to retain the inserted modular, functional compute component to prevent dislodging of the compute component if the casing is impacted;
• and
• wherein the contoured shape of the chassis cover in the first position defines an air flow passage around the user selected compute components inserted into the chassis base.

An information handling system (IHS) comprising:

• a lightweight server (LWS) chassis that is user selectable from multiple LWS chasses, each LWS chassis comprising a chassis base having structural configuration that enables placement of the LWS chassis in a nested, stacked configuration with a second LWS chassis place atop the LWS chassis and a third LWS chassis placed below the LWS chassis, wherein multiple LWS chasses can be stacked in a vertical space whose height is less than a sum of individual heights of each of the multiple LWS chasses;
• at least two compute components inserted into the LWS chassis;
• and
• one or more connecting cabling interconnecting the at least two compute components.

A lightweight server (LWS) chassis assembly comprising:

• a chassis base having chassis surface that receives compute component for downstream assembly of a fully functional IHS;
• a chassis cover having edges that are shaped in a first position to form an enclosure with the chassis base to protect the end user selectable compute components and that is shaped in a second position that is flipped over from the first position to be positioned in the casing above the compute components;
• and
• one or more connecting cabling interconnecting the at least two compute components;
• wherein a contoured shape of the chassis cover in the second position and the casing opposingly contact an inserted modular, functional compute component to retain the inserted modular, functional compute component to prevent dislodging of the compute component if the LWS chassis is impacted, and
• wherein the contoured shape of the chassis cover in the first position defines an air flow passage around the user selected compute components inserted into the chassis base.

A method for shipping and downstream assembly of an information handling system (IHS), the method comprising:

• forming a LWS chassis assembly having a chassis base and a chassis surface that receives compute component for downstream assembly of a fully functional IHS;
• forming a chassis cover having edges that are shaped in a first position to form an enclosure with the chassis base to protect the end user selectable compute components and that is shaped in a second position that is flipped over from the first position to be positioned in the casing above the compute components;
• positioning a contoured shape of the chassis cover in the second position to opposingly contact, with the LWS chassis, an inserted modular, functional compute component to retain the inserted modular, functional compute component to prevent dislodging of the compute component if the LWS chassis is impacted;
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• positioning the contoured shape of the chassis cover in the first position to define an air flow passage around the user selected compute components inserted into the chassis base.