| Feature |
Benefits |
| Dense, space-saving 9U chassis |
- With 14 server bays, this enclosure allows you to pack up to 112 eight-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
- Virtualisation capability allows you to virtualise everything for a more flexible, better utilised and potentially lower-cost IT infrastructure with a common management construct
- Innovative design reduces cables by up to 80 percent 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
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| IBM Cool Blue technology |
- Helps you plan, manage and control power and cooling in the data centre, 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 (AEM) tool tracks actual power usage, temperatures and heat emitted, tracking these items over time so you can actively manage power and cooling with real information
- AEM also will help you manage through power incidents (e.g., brownouts, supply failures) so users can avoid outages due to power and cooling issues
- AEM also provides the capability to cap and allocate power, as required. This capability helps maximise server usage within a restricted power envelope
- The IBM Rear Door Heat Exchanger can help address hot spots in the data centre by managing heat at the rack level
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| Energy-efficient design |
- Superb power supply efficiency
- BladeCenter uses power supplies that are up to 94 percent efficient and 80 PLUS Platinum Certified, so less energy is wasted as heat and more power is available for the chassis and servers to use than with typical power supplies
- BladeCenter H supports a broad portfolio of low-voltage processor options, helping customers to lower their power usage without sacrificing performance1
- Blower/fan modules in the chassis adjust to compensate for changing thermal characteristics. At the lower speeds they draw less power
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| IBM Open Fabric |
- Delivers a flexible, open, connected infrastructure to help optimise application performance
- BladeCenter H supports a wide array of fabrics including: Virtual Fabric, FCoE, Ethernet, FC, InfiniBand and SCSI over IP (iSCSI)
- Virtual Fabric for ultimate combination of input/output (I/O) performance and flexibility
- Helps centralise storage, including boot capability, which can dramatically reduce the effect of a disk outage on an application
- Wide variety of connectivity choices including the industrys only integrated 10 GbE solution for blade servers plus 10 Gb iSCSI support for Linux
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| 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 (aMM) provides more robust hardware running Linux and supports many industry-standard, open protocols
- BladeCenter H comes standard with one aMM; a second is available as an option for redundancy
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| 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
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| Hot-swap, redundant management, switch, power supply and blower modules |
- Provides a single point of control for managing the entire solution helping to maximise 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 GbE switch modules provide high-speed Ethernet communication between blade servers, management modules and external hardware
- Optional FC switch modules deliver a highly available cost-effective storage network, including support for IBM System Storage Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- Supports up to four 2980 W high-efficiency 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
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| High-speed switch module support |
- BladeCenter H supports all the fabrics that BladeCenter customers are used to seeing, including up to four 10 GbE and 4X InfiniBand connected fabrics
- 10 GbE and 4X InfiniBand deliver low-latency and high-throughput access all the way down to each blade
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| High-speed bridge module bays |
- Bridge modules allow customers to create a high-speed fabric between BladeCenter H chassis and to virtualise that single fabric into their traditional Ethernet and fabric interconnects
- Allows for I/O consolidation and virtualisation across multiple chassis making it even easier to scale as solution needs change
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| Advanced server management |
- Supports IBM Director System Availability to accurately measure planned versus unplanned outages
- Supports IBM Director Capacity Manager to monitor critical server resources, identify and predicts bottlenecks and recommend upgrades to minimise diminished network performance
- Supports IBM Director Rack Manager to conveniently configure and monitor rack components and provide health information
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| 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 (WoL) and Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE)-enabled products
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| Light path diagnostics self-diagnosis panel |
- Light Emitting Diodes (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
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| Predictive Failure Analysis |
- Helps save you time and money by minimising unplanned downtime
- Helps increase uptime by allowing you to receive proactive alerts and take corrective action, in some cases hours before actual failure
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| Three-year customer replaceable unit (CRU) and on-site limited warranty |
- IBM Global Services organisation provides reliable, dedicated and skilled assistance when you need it
- Offers peace of mind for an extended period of time
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