High-performance blade server optimized for virtualization
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Product Guide
February 2011
IBM BladeCenter HS22V
Product Overview
CONTENTS
Product Overview
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Selling Features
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Key Features
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Key Options
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HS22V Images
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HS22V Specifications
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The Bottom Line
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Server Comparison
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High density, high performance 2-socket blade server optimized for
virtualization
Suggested uses:
Mainstream virtualization and memory-intensive HPC applications requiring
high memory density, outstanding performance, and enhanced power efficiency.
Today’s data center environment is tougher than ever. You’re looking to reduce IT cost,
complexity, space requirements, energy consumption and heat output, while increasing flexibility,
utilization and manageability through virtualization. Incorporating IBM
X-Architecture
™
features,
the
IBM
®
BladeCenter
®
HS22V
blade server, combined with the various BladeCenter chassis,
can help you accomplish all of these goals.
Reducing an entire server into as little as
.5U
of rack space (i.e., up to 14 servers in 7U) does
not
mean trading away features and capabilities for smaller size. Each HS22V blade server offers
features comparable to many 1U rack-optimized full-featured servers: The HS22V supports up to
two
of the latest high-performance
6-core/4-core/2-core
Intel
®
Xeon
®
5600 series and 5500
series processors. The Xeon processors are designed with up to
12MB
of shared cache and
leading-edge memory performance (up to
1333MHz
, depending on processor model) to help
provide the computing power you require to match your business needs and growth
.
The HS22V
supports up to
288GB
of
registered
double data rate III (
DDR3
)
ECC
(Error Checking and
Correcting) memory in
18
DIMM
slots, with optional
Chipkill
™
protection
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, for high performance
and reliability. Selected models are planned for
NEBS-3/ETSI-compliance
.
The HS22V supports
VMware vSphere Hypervisor
(formerly ESXi)
preloaded
on a standard
USB flash drive. It operates in a diskless configuration, offers a smaller memory footprint,
extremely high performance, and stronger security, making getting a system up and running in a
virtualized environment faster and easier than ever before. The HS22V supports approximately
50% more
average virtual machines (VMs) than the HS22. With up to 288GB of memory, the
HS22V is an outstanding choice for virtualization, in-memory databases, and memory-intensive
enterprise applications.
An integrated
dual-port
Gigabit Ethernet
2
controller is standard, providing high-speed data
transfers and offering
TOE
(TCP Offload Engine) support,
load-balancing
and
failover
capabilities. Via optional expansion cards, each blade can also connect to additional Ethernet,
10Gb Ethernet
, Converged Network Adapter (
CNA
),
SAS
,
Fibre Channel
,
iSCSI, InfiniBand
™,
and other high-speed communication switches housed in the chassis. This blade is designed with
power management capability
to provide the maximum uptime possible for your systems. In
extended thermal conditions or power brownouts, rather than shut down completely, or fail, the
HS22V automatically reduces the processor frequency to maintain acceptable thermal and power
levels.
All HS22V models offer impressive features at an equally impressive price, including up to
two
1.8-inch fixed solid-state drives (SSDs)
with
RAID-0/1
support,
and one
internal USB flash
drive
(for embedded hypervisor]. Additional direct-attach storage is available via the BladeCenter
S chassis. Moreover, the HS22V is
optimized
for diskless operation, offering each blade server
access to essentially unlimited external storage capacity via Fibre Channel, SAS, or iSCSI.
A single
BladeCenter E
or
BladeCenter H
chassis supports up to
14
hot-swappable
30mm-
wide HS22V blades in only
7U
(BladeCenter E) or
9U
(BladeCenter H) of rack space or up to
12
in the
12U BladeCenter HT
high-speed telecommunications chassis. In addition to the blade
servers, these chassis also hold up to
4
switches
(BladeCenter E) or up to
10
(BladeCenter H)
or
8
switches/bridges
(BladeCenter HT) internally. The
BladeCenter S
, designed for SMB and
mid-market customers, takes integration and affordability to a new level, combining up to
12
hot-
swap
SAS/SATA
HDDs (with optional SAS card) and up to
6 blade servers
and
4 switches
. Not
only can this save significant data center space (and therefore the cost of floor space and rack
hardware) compared to 1U servers, it also consolidates switches/bridges and cables for reduced
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Chipkill protection on the HS22V requires x4 DIMMs; Chipkill protection is
not
available with x8 DIMMs.
2
Actual data transfer speed will vary and is often less than the maximum possible. Gigabit Ethernet transfer speed requires support on both
system and server, and appropriate network infrastructure.
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