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IBM BladeCenter S IBM BladeCenter E
Distributed, small office, Best energy efficiency,
easy to configure best density
IBM BladeCenter T IBM BladeCenter H IBM BladeCenter HT
Ruggedized High performance Ruggedized,
high performance
IBM BladeCenter Chassis
Product Guide
September 2008
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Table of Contents Overview 3 BladeCenter Chassis Positioning 4 IBM BladeCenter Chassis 6 BladeCenter I/O Modules 30 Rack vs. Blades Positioning 33 Citrix Solution 37 Virtualization Solution 38 2. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information.
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Overview You need to make IT decisions that will drive business success. You face management challenges and technological complexity such as space constraints, power and cooling limitations, heterogeneous environments and I/O connectivity issues. IBM brings together the widest choice of compatible chassis, blade servers, storage and networking offerings and solution providers in the industry to help you build an open and flexible IT environment. And regardless of the size of your business
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BladeCenter Chassis Positioning Which BladeCenter Chassis is Right for You? IBM offers five different BladeCenter chassis built across a consistent architecture. The chassis are targeted to meet your unique requirements, yet all encompass the same commitment to excellence. Remember, BladeCenter blades and switches can be seamlessly moved between chassis. This offers investment protection and incredibly flexible, mix-and- match deployment choices. IBM BladeCenter S BladeCenter S is the ch
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IBM BladeCenter HT BladeCenter HT is a new telecommunications-optimized version of IBM BladeCenter H. It delivers outstanding core network performance and high-speed connectivity. • Up to 12 blades, 12U design • Non-traditional environment support—NEBS 3/ETSI (planned) • Greatest I/O flexibility with up to 8 switch bays • Supports 30mm blades with up to 8 ports • Supports 10Gb Ethernet and 4X InfiniBand • Ruggedized chassis • AC and DC power input • Planned availability through 20
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IBM BladeCenter Chassis Today’s data center environment is tougher than ever. You are looking to reduce IT cost, Product Overview complexity, space requirements, power consumption and heat output, while increasing ® ® flexibility, utilization and manageability. Moving to innovative IBM BladeCenter as your IT foundation can help you accomplish all of these goals. The IBM BladeCenter family tightly integrates servers, storage, networking, I/O and applications, allowing you to b
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Selling Features Price/Performance • 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 themselves. This integration also can greatly reduce the amount of power consumed and heat produced, relative to an equivalent number of 1U servers—or competitiv
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capabilities by “surfacing” pertinent information about your blade server. The easy-to-use Deployment Wizard also provides step-by-step installation instructions and offers automated deployment capabilities. • Each BladeCenter chassis includes an Advanced Management Module (AMM). The AMM boosts administrator productivity and reduces skill level requirements, which can help reduce costs, improve overall productivity and make administration easier. Unlike traditional servers and some competi
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BladeCenter S provides: • A choice of installation methods — Designed for either rack or deskside use with the optional Office Enablement Kit, it’s ideal for offices or remote/branch locations. • Integrated compute blades, SAN storage, and switches in one chassis — In addition to six blade servers, the BladeCenter S also supports 12 shared hot-swap 3.5-inch SAS, SATA, or Nearline SAS HDDs, and four integrated switches (two Ethernet, plus two Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SAS, or RAID SAS Cont
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/ 1400W high-efficiency hot-swap/redundant power modules (upgradeable to four), capable of handling the power needs of the entire chassis. Many servers use power supplies with an efficiency level of approximately 65-75%. Because BladeCenter S uses power supplies that are at least 90% efficient, much less power is wasted as heat. Not only is more power available for chassis use, there is less power wasted as excess heat output. Two additional power modules must be installed when the second S
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come standard with the chassis. They are capable of providing efficient cooling for up to 14 blades. These modules replace the need for each blade to contain its own fans. The two blowers are more energy efficient than dozens or hundreds of smaller fans would be, and they offer many fewer points of potential failure. • Four module bays for Power Modules — BladeCenter E ships with two 2000W high- efficiency hot-swap/redundant power modules (upgradeable to four), capable of handling the powe
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modules interface with all of the blade servers in the chassis and alleviate the need for external switches or expensive, cumbersome, and error-prone cabling. All connections are done internally via the midplane. Two module slots are reserved for hot-swap/redundant Gigabit Ethernet switch modules. Two slots support either high-speed bridge modules or legacy Gigabit Ethernet, Myrinet, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and other switch modules. Two slots are dedicated for bridge modules. Four additio
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• NEBS Level 3/ETSI-tested — Designed for the Network Equipment Provider (NEP)/Service Provider (SP) environment. Also ideal for government/military, aerospace, industrial automation/robotics, medical imaging and finance. Certified testing by Underwriters Laboratories of the BladeCenter HT chassis is in progress; when complete, it will be covered under a UL-certified NEBS Level 3/ETSI test report. • Support for Carrier-Grade Linux — Several distributions are supported, include SUSE
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switches. (And the integrated switches may be less expensive than external, self-powered switches.) Plus, the number of power distribution units (PDUs) needed per rack may be lessened, because there are fewer discrete devices to have to plug in. In addition, because all the blades are connected to all the switches inside the chassis, there is no need for external Ethernet or other communication cables to connect the blades and switches. (Only the few cables needed to connect the switches to
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• Two hot-swappable Media Trays each contain two external USB 2.0 ports, a light path diagnostic panel, and support a 1GB/4GB compact flash (CF) option — The media trays are shared by all the blades in the server. This reduces unnecessary parts (and reduces the number of parts than can fail). In the event of a failure of the Media Tray the tray can be swapped for another. While the tray is offline, the servers in the chassis can remotely access the Media Tray in another chassis. The diagnos
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• Local update of BMC firmware • Firmware firewall • Support for IPMI v2.0 compliant management software (e.g., xCAT) • Other mandatory and optional IPMI BMC functions Other systems management features offered for the combination of blade server and chassis include: • Predictive Failure Analysis for system processors, memory and HDDs, as well as chassis switch modules, blower/fan modules and power modules • Web-based out-of-band control • Windows “blue screen” capture • Remote virtual
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• Network attached storage (NAS) — Provides a large capacity, highly available and secure ™ environment for storing mission-critical data. The System Storage N series attaches to IBM BladeCenter using integrated Ethernet switch modules. • Storage area network (SAN) — Offers iSCSI and Fibre Channel SANs for high- performance, block-level storage solutions. With IBM System Storage DS3000, DS4000, DS6000 and DS8000, IBM can help you create an easy-to-deploy storage solution for your
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Additional services include hardware warranty upgrades and factory-installed Product Customization Services (PCS), such as asset tagging, hardware integration, software imaging and operating systems personalization. IBM offers extensive technical support by phone and via the Web. Support options include links to forums/newsgroups, problem submission, online shopping support, service offerings, device drivers for all IBM product lines, software downloads and even upcoming technical seminar
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BladeCenter S Chassis Specifications Machine type 8886-1Ex/Y, 1Mx/1MY, AC1 Rack form factor 7U # of DVD/CD drives standard 1 DVD-RW/CD-RW (in Media Tray) # of diskette drives standard None (USB-attached) # of internal (chassis-based) H/S SAS 12 (3.5-inch) HDDs supported # of Media Tray module bays 2 Internal tape drives supported None (SAN-attached) Internal hot-swap disk drive support 12 hot-swap SAS/SATA/Nearline SAS (mix-and-match) Internal disk storage capacity 3.6TB (using 12 3
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BladeCenter S Chassis Specifications Length of limited warranty 3 years (parts and labor) onsite BladeCenter E Chassis Images Front View Rear View Empty Module Slots CD-ROM Drive Ethernet Switch Module Media Tray Management Module Blower Module Blade Floppy Drive Server Midplane Redundant Management Module Slot Other Blade Servers Blower Module Power Modules Empty Power Light Path Diagnostics Module Slots Panel Interior View Diagnostic LEDs USB Port CD-ROM Drive Flopp
