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IBM Bladecenter HS22 Versatile, easy-to-use blade optimized for performance, energy and cooling Product Guide August 2010 IBM BladeCenter HS22 Product Overview No-compromise, truly balanced, 2-socket blade server for infrastructure, virtualization and enterprise business applications Suggested uses: Front-end and mid-tier applications requiring high performance, enterprise- class availability and extreme flexibility and power efficiency. CONTENTS 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 Product Overview 1 flexibility, utilization and manageability. Incorporating IBM X-Architecture ™ features, the IBM ® BladeCenter ® HS22 blade server, combined with the various BladeCenter chassis, can help Selling Features 2 you accomplish all of these goals. Key Features 4 Reducing an entire server into as little as .5U of rack space (i.e., up to 14 servers in 7U) does Key Options 14 not mean trading away features and capabilities for smaller size. Each HS22 blade server offers features comparable to many 1U rack-optimized full-featured servers: The HS22 supports up to HS22 Images 15 two of the latest high-performance or low-voltage 6-core , 4-core , and 2-core Intel® Xeon ® 5500 series and 5600 series processors.. The Xeon processors are designed with up to 12MB of HS22 Specifications 16 shared cache and leading-edge memory performance (up to 1333MHz , depending on The Bottom Line 18 processor model) to help provide the computing power you require to match your business needs and growth . The HS22 supports up to 192GB of registered double data rate III ( DDR3 ) Server Comparison 19 ECC (Error Checking and Correcting) memory in 12 DIMM slots, with optional Chipkill ™ protection 1, for high performance and reliability. Selected models are planned for NEBS-3/ETSI- For More Information 20 compliance . Legal Information 20 The HS22 offers an option for VMware 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. 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, SAS , Fibre Channel , iSCSI, InfiniBand ™, and other high-speed communication switches housed in the chassis. Optional 2-port and 4-port Expansion Cards add additional fabrics to the HS22 server as needed. 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 HS22 automatically reduces the processor frequency to maintain acceptable thermal and power levels. All HS22 models offer impressive features at an equally impressive price, including up to two hot-swap SAS or SATA hard disk drives or two hot-swap solid-state drives with RAID- 0/1/1E support, and one USB-based internal flash drive (for embedded hypervisor]. Additional storage is available via the BladeCenter S chassis. Moreover, the HS22 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 HS22 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 complexity and lower cabling costs, and it allows clients to manage 1 Chipkill protection on the HS22 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. 1. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. Versatile, easy-to-use blade optimized for performance, energy and cooling 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 1.86GHz to 3.46GHz , and up to 12MB of shared cache (processor-specific) of integrated L3 cache. Xeon 5600 Series processors offer up to 60% better performance 3 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 13.33W per core. Some low- voltage Xeon processors consume only 40W ( 10W per core). • Up to 192GB 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 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. Flexibility The HS22 has the ability to grow with your application requirements, thanks to: 3 Based on Intel measurements. 2. Please see the Legal Information section for important notices and information. Versatile, easy-to-use blade optimized for performance, energy and cooling • Up to two multi-core Xeon processors (four, eight or twelve cores in all). • A choice of processor speeds from 1.86 to 3.46GHz , up to 12MB of shared cache, and a choice of power draw from 40W to 130W. • A choice of memory speeds from 800MHz to 1333MHz . • Up to 192GB of system memory in 12 DIMM slots.
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