Selling Features 2 Bladecenter - IBM BladeCenter HS21 Product Manual

Workhorse 2-socket dual and quad-core Intel Xeon blade server
Selling Features
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84 HS21 servers (168 processors) can be installed in one industry-standard 42U rack but the
value of BladeCenter extends far beyond high density data center environments.
The various BladeCenter chassis are designed to monitor environmental conditions in the
chassis and each blade and send alerts to the administrator. Advanced standard features, such
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as Active Memory , Predictive Failure Analysis
redundant power supplies and blower modules with Calibrated Vectored Cooling
2.0 support, including highly secure remote power control; text-console redirect over LAN,
a Management Module (upgradeable with a redundant MM), IBM Director management
software including IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for x86 (formerly known as
PowerExecutive), Remote Deployment Manager, and IBM ServerGuide
system availability with increased uptime.
If you need highly manageable, high-performance computing power in a space- or power-
constrained environment, the HS21 is the ideal system.
Price/Performance
• There is an HS21 model to fit all budgets. The HS21 offers a choice of high-performance quad-and
dual-core Xeon processors with 64-bit extensions, 1.6GHz to 3.33GHz clock rates, 1066MHz or
1333MHz front side bus, and 4MB to 12MB (processor-specific) of integrated Level 2 cache.
• Low-voltage processors draw less energy and produce less waste heat than high-voltage
processors, thus helping to reduce data center energy costs. On a per-core basis, the standard
80W quad-core processors are extremely economical, consuming only 20W per core. Some low-
voltage quad-core Xeon processors consume only 50W (12.5W per core). For even lower overall
energy utilization, consider dual-core processors operating at 40W and even 35W (20W and
17.5W per core, respectively.)
• Fully buffered PC2-5300 ECC memory operates at 667MHz with dual-interleaving, for high
performance.
• RAID-1 standard offers high-performance disk access.
• Optional 15.8GB solid-state drives use only 1W of power per drive, vs. 10W for 2.5-inch HDDs.
This is as much as 90% less power than a HDD would use (with a corresponding reduction in heat
output). The 31.4GB drive requires only 2W.
• Selected HS21 blade servers are NEBS3/ETSI-compliant and feature long-life availability. These
blades are ideal for telecom or Next Generation Network (NGN) applications such as IPTV, IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and security. NEBS3/ETSI-compliance testing of the BladeCenter HT
chassis by Underwriters Laboratories is in progress. When complete, the BladeCenter HT chassis
will be covered under a UL-certified NEBS Level 3/ETSI test report, which will be available for
customer review.
• The extremely high degree of integration in the various BladeCenter chassis reduces the need
for server components, replacing numerous fans, KVM and Ethernet cables, power supplies,
external switches and other components with fewer shared hot-swap/redundant components in the
chassis itself. This integration also can greatly reduce the amount of power consumed and heat
produced, relative to an equivalent number of 1U servers. This can significantly reduce a data
center's power bill. The reduced datacenter footprint can also save on infrastructure cost.
• The chassis midplane provides high-speed blade-to-blade, blade-to-switch-module and
module-to-module communication internally as well as externally. The midplane in the
BladeCenter H provides four 10Gb data channels to each blade, and supports 4X InfiniBand and
10Gb Ethernet high-speed switch modules.
• The various BladeCenter chassis use ultrahigh efficiency power supplies. Most industry-
standard servers use power supplies that are between 65-75% efficient at converting power from
AC wall current to the DC power used inside servers. BladeCenter power modules can be more
than 90% efficient. This helps save even more money, as more of the power input you are paying
for is used for processing, rather than released into the data center as waste heat.
• BladeCenter also reduces the number of parts required to run the system. Sharing fans, systems
management, floppy devices and media means fewer parts to buy and maintain, and fewer items
that can bring the solution down.
Flexibility
The HS21 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to:
• Up to two multi-core Xeon processors (four or eight cores in all).
• A choice of speeds from 1.6 to 3.33GHz (dual-core), and 1.6 to 3.16GHz (quad-core), a choice of
1066MHz or 1333MHz FSB, a choice of 4MB, 6MB, 8MB or 12MB of L2 cache, and a choice of
power draw from 35W to 120W.
• Up to 16GB (standard) or 32GB (using the optional Memory and I/O Expansion Unit) of high-
speed fully buffered 667MHz PC2-5300 DDR2 error checking and correcting (ECC) system
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