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3.
Flexibility
The
HS22
has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to:
•
Up to
two multi-core
Xeon processors
(four, eight or twelve
cores in all).
•
A choice of processor speeds from
2.00
to
3.06GHz
, up to
12MB
of shared cache, and a choice of
power draw from
40W
to
95W
.
•
A choice of memory speeds from
800MHz
to
1333MHz
.
•
Up to
96GB
of system memory in
12 DIMM slots.
•
Two internal
hot-swap
2.5
-inch
SAS or SATA HDDs or solid state drives, and access to terabytes
of external
IBM System Storage
™
SAN and NAS storage devices.
2.5-inch
drives consume
approximately
half the power
of 3.5-inch drives.
•
Two
Gigabit Ethernet ports standard; plus more, using either a
2-port
or
4-port Gigabit Ethernet
Expansion Card
or a
BladeCenter
PCI Express I/O Expansion Unit
.
In addition, the various
BladeCenter chassis
offer a high degree of flexibility:
•
A 30mm HS22 blade server can be upgraded, via a planned
PCI Express I/O Expansion Unit
.
This expandability allows configurations that are
30mm
or
60mm
wide, with a variety of I/O options,
depending on need.
•
When installed in a BladeCenter H high-speed switch bay, the optional
Multi-Switch Interconnect
Module
doubles the number of
Gigabit Ethernet
and
Fibre Channel
connections to every blade in
the chassis (up to
8
or
12
ports, depending on the blade server).
•
Xeon processor-based
HS22
blades can be used in the same chassis as Intel processor-based
HC10
,
HS12
,
HS20
,
HS21
,
HS21 XM
,
HS40
, and
HX5
blades; AMD Opteron processor-based
LS20
,
LS21, LS22
,
LS41
and
LS42
blades; IBM PowerPC
®
processor-based
JS12
,
JS20
,
JS21
and
JS22
blades; Cell Broadband Engine™ processor-based
QS21
and
IBM PowerXCell™
processor-based
QS22
blades. Depending on the blade servers used, the various BladeCenter
chassis support Microsoft
®
Windows
®
,
Linux
®
, Novell
Netware
, IBM
AIX
®
and Sun
Solaris 10
operating systems in the same chassis.
•
Every HS/LS/JS blade server ever released by IBM is supported in BladeCenter H and BladeCenter
HT, and most are supported in every BladeCenter chassis ever release
d, going back to 2002. Every
switch module released by IBM is equally compatible. (Ask HP and Dell how far back
their
compatibility goes.)
•
A blade server has access to as many as
10
communication switches/bridges
in a
BladeCenter
H
or
8
in a
BladeCenter HT
chassis. (Up to
4
switches in a BladeCenter E chassis.) And the
switches can be Ethernet, iSCSI, SAS, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel, or anything else designed and
ServerProven for BladeCenter use. Switches, bridges and interface cards are currently available
from such vendors as Brocade, Cisco, Intel, McData, Nortel, QLogic, Cisco Topspin and others, in
addition to IBM.
Manageability
•
The HS22 blade server includes an
Integrated
Management Module (IMM)
to monitor server
availability, perform Predictive Failure Analysis, etc., and trigger IBM Systems Director alerts. The
IMM performs the functions of both the Baseboard Management Controller (
BMC
) of earlier
systems, and the
Remote Supervisor Adapter II
, as well as
remote presence/cKVM.
•
Each BladeCenter chassis includes an
Advanced Management Module
to provide additional
systems management capabilities, including
Web-based out-of-band control; virtual floppy and CD-
ROM support; Windows “blue screen” error capture; LDAP and SSL support; and remote redirection
of video, text, keyboard and mouse
.
•
Integrated industry-standard Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (
UEFI
) next-generation BIOS.
New capabilities include:
Human readable event logs – no more beep codes
Complete setup solution by allowing adapter configuration function to be moved into UEFI
Complete out-of-band coverage by the Advance Settings Utility to simplify remote setup
•
Integrated industry-standard
IPMI 2.0
support works with the IMM to alert IBM Systems Director to
anomalous environmental factors, such as voltage and thermal conditions. It also supports
highly
secure remote power control
.
•
Integrated
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2
support.
•
IBM
Systems Director Active Energy Manager
, an IBM-exclusive, is designed to take
advantage of new system power management features, by monitoring
actual
power usage and
providing power consumption capping features. More accurate power usage data helps with data
center construction planning and the sizing of power and cooling needs, as well as allowing you to
use available power more efficiently.
•
The HS22 supports
remote presence
/
concurrent KVM (cKVM)
and
concurrent media (cMedia)
