Selling Features - IBM BladeCenter HS22 Product Manual

Versatile, easy-to-use blade optimized for performance, power and cooling

Selling Features

3
Based on Intel measurements.
Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information.
rack hardware) compared to 1U servers, it also consolidates switches/bridges and cables for
reduced complexity and lower cabling costs, and it allows clients to manage everything in the
solution as one. Using a BladeCenter E chassis, up to 84 HS22 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
™
as Active Memory , Predictive Failure Analysis
redundant hard disk drives, power supplies and blower modules with Calibrated Vectored
™
Cooling ; IPMI 2.0 support, including highly secure remote power control; text-console
redirect over LAN, next-generation BIOS (UEFI), an Advanced Management Module
(upgradeable with a redundant AMM), IBM Systems Director management software including
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ for x86. Remote Deployment Manager,
™
and IBM ServerGuide help maintain system availability with increased uptime.
If you need highly manageable, high-performance computing power in a space- or power-
constrained environment, the HS22 is the ideal system.
Price/Performance
• There is an HS22 model to fit all budgets. The HS22 offers a choice of high-performance 6-core/4-
core/2-core Xeon processors with integrated memory controllers, clock rates from 2.00GHz to
3.06GHz, and up to 12MB of shared cache (processor-specific) of integrated L3 cache. Xeon 5600
Series processors offer up to 60% better performance
processors and up to 1500% better performance than the single-core processors of a few years ago
that you may still be using.
• Low-voltage processors draw less energy and produce less waste heat than higher-voltage
processors, thus helping to reduce data center energy costs. On a per-core basis, the standard
80W processors are extremely economical, consuming as little as 20W per core. Some low-voltage
Xeon processors consume only 60W (15W per core).
• Up to 96GB of registered DDR-3 ECC memory operates at 800MHz to 1333MHz (depending on
the system configuration), for high performance and wide memory bandwidth.
• Run two DIMMs per memory channel at 1333MHz in 5600 Series processor configurations
• Embedded virtualization (optional on all models) offers extremely high performance, enhanced
security, and a zero-gigabyte HDD footprint. (In other words, no mechanical HDD to fail.)
• Optional solid-state drives (SDDs) use only 2W of energy per drive, vs. 9-10W for 2.5-inch HDDs.
This is as much as 80% less energy than a HDD would use (with a corresponding reduction in heat
output).
• Low power 1.35V memory draws up to 15% less power than current shipping memory DIMMs.
• Selected HS22 blade servers are planned for NEBS3/ETSI-compliance 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.
• 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
BladeCenter 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 power bill. The reduced datacenter footprint can also save on
infrastructure cost.
• The midplanes used in all chassis provide high-speed blade-to-blade, blade-to-switch-module
and module-to-module communications internally as well as externally. The midplanes used in
the BladeCenter H and BladeCenter HT chassis provide four 10Gb data channels to each blade,
and supports high-speed switch modules, including 4X InfiniBand and 10Gb Ethernet.
• The various BladeCenter chassis use ultrahigh efficiency power supplies. Most industry-
standard servers use power supplies that are between 70-75% efficient at converting power from
AC wall current to the DC power used inside servers. BladeCenter power modules are up to 92%
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 that requires even more
energy to cool.
• 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 fail and bring the overall solution down.
™
, light path diagnostics, hot-swap
3
than the previous-generation 5500 Series
2.