High-performance blade server optimized for virtualization
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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
HS22V 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™
.
Remote Deployment Manager
and
IBM ServerGuide
™
help maintain system availability with increased uptime.
If you need highly manageable, high-performance virtualization in a space- or power-constrained
environment, the HS22V is the ideal system.
Selling Features
Price/Performance
•
There is an HS22V model to fit all budgets. The HS22V offers a choice of high-performance
6-core/4-
core/2-core
Xeon
processors with integrated memory controllers, clock rates from
1.6GHz
to
3.6GHz
, and from
3MB
to
12MB
of shared cache (processor-specific) of integrated Level 3 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
1,500%
better performance than the single-core processors of a few
years ago that you may still be using.
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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
13.33W
per core. Some low-voltage
Xeon processors consume only
10W
per core (4-core
40W
or 6-core
60W
).
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Up to
288GB
of
registered DDR3
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
(2DPC) at
1333MHz
in specific 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.)
•
Solid state drives
(SDDs) use only 2W of energy per drive, vs.
7-10W
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 -voltage 1.35 volt memory
draws up to
19%
less power than 1.5V DIMMs.
•
Selected HS22V 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 data center 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
. Many industry-standard
servers use power supplies that are only
70-80% efficient
at converting power from AC wall current
to the DC power used inside servers. BladeCenter power modules are up to
94% efficient
(and meet
the
80 Plus
®
Platinum Standard
). 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.
Flexibility
The
HS22V
has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to:
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Based on Intel measurements.
