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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
™
, light path diagnostics
,
hot-swap
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.
Selling Features
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
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than the previous-generation 5500 Series
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.
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Based on Intel measurements.
