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BladeCenter S Chassis

BladeCenter S offers a broad range of storage and networking options integrated into the chassis to simplify infrastructure complexity and manageability while helping lower total cost of ownership.

Highlights

Integrates servers, SAN storage, networking, I/O and applications into a single chassis
Uses standard office power plugs with 100 – 240 V, so you do not need a data center to take command of your data
Featuring the BladeCenter Start Now Advisor, making it easy to set up servers, SAN storage, network switches and SAN switches, all from a single console
Flexible modular technology integrates Intel®, AMD Opteron™, or POWER™ processor-based blade servers supporting a wide range of operating systems
Comes with management tools that are open and easily integrated, allowing you to focus on your business, not your IT
Helps build greener IT infrastructures with powerful IBM Cool Blue™ technology, and a portfolio of products and tools to help customers plan, manage and control power and cooling.

Feature	Benefits
Easy to use, space-saving 7U chassis that incorporates hot-swap disks,	BladeCenter S can meet your IT needs with six server bays and up to 5.4 TB of SAS, 12.0 TB of Nearline SAS or 12.0 TB of SATA, or an intermix of the disks. Highly integrated IT infrastructure helps simplify the deployment, of servers and storage. Comes with an easy setup flyer and the BladeCenter Start Now Advisor tool to get you up and running quickly. BladeCenter S uses standard office power supplies, enabling you to build your IT outside of the data center. Support for common BladeCenter blade families including Intel servers, AMD Opteron servers, new workstation blades, and POWER- based blades. Allows you to select the blades based on what best fits the application workloads. Virtualization capability allows you to "virtualize everything" for a more flexible, better utilized and potentially lower cost IT infrastructure with a common management construct. Innovative design reduces cables by up to 80% compared to rack servers, helping save you installation time and on cable costs. Extensive compatibility with the family of BladeCenter blades, switches and ecosystem products.
Energy-efficient design	BladeCenter S supports a very broad portfolio of low-voltage processor options, helping enable customers to lower their power usage without sacrificing performance.² Because BladeCenter S uses power supplies that are as much as 90% efficient, much less power is wasted as heat and more power is available for the chassis and servers to use. Blower/fan modules in the chassis adjust to compensate for changing thermal characteristics. At the lower speeds they draw less power. The use of fewer and lower-power components helps enable power and cooling savings.
IBM Open Fabric	Delivers a flexible, open, connected infrastructure to help optimize application performance. BladeCenter supports a wide array of fabrics including: SAS, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI. Helps centralize storage, including boot capability, which can help reduce the effect of a disk outage on an application. New Brocade and QLogic NPIV Fibre Channel switches help simplify SAN deployment and management.
Powerful solutions management	Provides intelligent systems management for rock-solid reliability. Exploits hardware capabilities by surfacing pertinent information about your blade server. Easy-to-use Deployment Wizard provides step-by-step installation instructions with automated deployment capabilities. Advanced Management Module provides more robust hardware running Linux® and supporting many industry-standard, open protocols.
High-availability midplane	Provides a fault-tolerant connection from the blade server to all modular components. Innovative midplane design provides support for you to upgrade to new technologies and helps preserve your original investment.
Hot-swap, management, switch, power supply and blower modules	Provides single point of control for managing the entire solution helping to increase system reliability and availability. BladeCenter S comes standard with one Advanced Management Module. IBM smart management capabilities can help boost administrator productivity. Uniquely designed Calibrated Vectored Cooling technology helps protect critical system components to help drive toward OnForever™ reliability. Supports a wide selection of integrated switching components from industry-leading ecosystem companies such as Cisco, Nortel, Brocade, QLogic, and McDATA. Optional Gigabit Ethernet switch modules provide Gigabit Ethernet communication between blade servers, management modules and external hardware. Optional Fibre Channel switch modules deliver highly available cost-effective storage network, including support for IBM System Storage™ SAN. Supports up to four 950 W/1450 W power supplies with load-balancing and failover capabilities, providing additional reliability and protection. Each power supply includes a customer replaceable fan pack to help keep the power supplies running at peak performance.
Advanced server management	Supports system availability to accurately measure planned vs. unplanned outages. Supports capacity manager to help monitor critical server resources, identify and predict bottlenecks and recommend upgrades to prevent diminished network performance. Supports rack manager to conveniently configure and monitor rack components and provide health information. Supports software rejuvenation (PFA for software) to monitor performance trends of software over time, predict software aging issues and schedule servicing when required.
IBM Remote Deployment Manager	Simplifies and automates deployment and redeployment for efficient installation and setup of your blade servers. Perform deployment tasks via the network that previously may have required a visit to each system, helping save your administrator valuable time. Supports all Wake on LAN® and Pre-boot eXecution (PXE) enabled products.
Light path diagnostics self-diagnosis panel	LEDs located on the front and rear of the system provide quick and easy guide to troubleshoot your server to help provide more availability and faster system uptime.
Predictive Failure Analysis	Helps save you time and money by decreasing unplanned downtime. Helps increase uptime by allowing you to receive proactive alerts and take corrective action, in some cases as much as 24 - 48 hours in advance.
3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty³	IBM Global Services organization provides reliable, dedicated and skilled assistance when you need it. Provides peace of mind for an extended period of time.

BladeCenter H Chassis

In today's high-demand enterprise environment, organizations need a reliable infrastructure to run compute-intensive applications with minimal maintenance and downtime. IBM BladeCenter H is a powerful platform built with the enterprise customer in mind, providing industry-leading performance, innovative architecture and a solid foundation for virtualization.

Highlights

Delivers high performance to run the most demanding applications and simulations at blazing-fast speeds
Provides easy integration to promote innovation and help manage growth, complexity and risk
Protects your investment by being compatible with the entire IBM BladeCenter® family

Feature	Benefits
Dense, space-saving 9U chassis	With 14 server bays, this enclosure allows you to pack up to 112 quad-core processors into an industry-standard rack. Highly integrated IT infrastructure simplifies the deployment, provisioning and management of servers as well as network and storage switch fabrics. Support for five blade families including Intel®, AMD Opteron™, IBM POWER® and Cell Broadband Engine™ processors and workstation blades. Allows you to select the blades based on targeted application workloads. Virtualization capability allows you to "virtualize everything" for a more flexible, better utilized, and potentially lower-cost IT infrastructure with a common management construct. Innovative design reduces cables by up to 80% compared to rack servers, helping you save on installation time and cable costs. Extensive compatibility with the entire family of BladeCenter® blades, switches and ecosystem partnership offerings.
IBM Cool Blue® technology	Helps you plan, manage and control power and cooling in the data center—helping to build greener infrastructures The Web-based IBM System x® and BladeCenter Power Configurator accurately predicts the power and cooling required for specific configurations thereby enabling realistic planning of the proper power and cooling infrastructure. IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ tool tracks actual power usage, temperatures and heat emitted, and tracks these items over time so you can actively manage power and cooling with real information. Active Energy Manager also will help you manage through power incidents (e.g., brownouts, supply failures) so users can avoid outages due to power and cooling issues. Active Energy Manager also provides the capability to cap and allocate power, as required. This capability helps maximize server usage within a restricted power envelope. The IBM Rear Door Heat Exchanger can help address hot spots in the data center by managing heat at the rack level.
Energy-efficient design	BladeCenter H supports a broad portfolio of low-voltage processor options, helping customers to lower their power usage without sacrificing performance¹. BladeCenter uses power supplies that are as much as 90% efficient, so less power is wasted as heat and more power is available for the chassis and servers to use than with typical power supplies. Blower/fan modules in the chassis adjust to compensate for changing thermal characteristics. At the lower speeds they draw less power.
IBM Open Fabric	Delivers a flexible, open, connected infrastructure to help optimize application performance. BladeCenter H supports a wide array of fabrics including: Ethernet, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand® and iSCSI. Helps centralize storage, including boot capability, which can dramatically reduce the effect of a disk outage on an application. New Brocade and QLogic NPIV Fibre Channel switches help simplify SAN deployment and management. Wide variety of connectivity choices including the industry's only integrated 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution for blade servers plus 10 Gigabit iSCSI support for Linux®.
Powerful solutions management	Provides intelligent systems management for rock-solid reliability. Exploits hardware capabilities by surfacing pertinent information about your blade server. Easy-to-use Deployment Wizard provides step-by-step installation instructions with automated deployment capabilities. Advanced Management Module provides more robust hardware running Linux and supports many industry-standard, open protocols. BladeCenter H comes standard with one Advanced Management Module; a second is available as an option for redundancy.
High-availability midplane	Provides fault-tolerant, redundant connections from the blade servers through the midplane to modular components in the chassis. Flexibly designed midplane provides support for you to upgrade to new technologies as your needs change.
Hot-swap, redundant management, switch, power supply and blower modules	Provides a single point of control for managing the entire solution helping to maximize system reliability and availability. IBM management capabilities can help boost administrator productivity. Uniquely designed Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ technology helps protect critical system components to help drive maximum reliability. Supports a wide selection of integrated switching components from industry-leading ecosystem provider companies such as Cisco, Nortel, Brocade, QLogic and McDATA. Optional 10 Gb Ethernet switch modules provide high-speed Ethernet communication between blade servers, management modules and external hardware. Optional Fibre Channel switch modules deliver a highly available cost-effective storage network, including support for IBM System Storage™ SAN and NAS. Supports up to four 2900W power supplies with load-balancing and failover capabilities, providing additional reliability and protection. Each power supply includes a customer- replaceable fan pack to keep the power supplies running at peak performance. Easy transition for customers already deploying BladeCenter.
New high-speed switch module support	BladeCenter H supports all the fabrics that BladeCenter customers are used to seeing, including up to four new 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 4X InfiniBand connected fabrics. 10 Gb Ethernet and 4X InfiniBand deliver low-latency and high-throughput access all the way down to each blade.
New high-speed bridge module bays	Bridge modules allow customers to create a high-speed fabric between BladeCenter H chassis and virtualize that single fabric into their traditional Ethernet and fabric interconnects. Allows for I/O consolidation and virtualization across multiple chassis making it even easier to scale as solution needs change.
Advanced server management	Supports IBM Director System Availability to accurately measure planned vs. unplanned outages. Supports IBM Director Capacity Manager to monitor critical server resources, identify and predicts bottlenecks and recommend upgrades to minimize diminished network performance. Supports IBM Director Rack Manager to conveniently configure and monitor rack components and provide health information.
IBM Remote Deployment Manager	Simplifies and automates deployment and redeployment for efficient installation and setup of your blade servers. Performs deployment tasks via the network that previously required a visit to each system, saving your administrator valuable time. Supports all Wake on LAN® and Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE)-enabled products.
Light path diagnostics self-diagnosis panel	LEDs located on the front and rear of the system provide a quick and easy guide to troubleshoot your server, to help increase system uptime.
Predictive Failure Analysis	Helps save you time and money by minimizing unplanned downtime. Helps increase uptime by allowing you to receive proactive alerts and take corrective action, in some cases hours before actual failure.
9.5 mm UltraSlim DVD	Ships as part of the media tray, standard with BladeCenter H. Chassis allows new blades to simultaneously share access to the media tray for hassle-free local access.
3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty²	IBM Global Services organization provides reliable, dedicated and skilled assistance when you need it. Offers peace of mind for an extended period of time.