Innovative modular technology achieves outstanding performance density and affordable availability

IBM

^

BladeCenter solutions

Highlights

■ Intelligent management tools such as IBM Director help provide comprehensive systems management.

■ Innovative, flexible modular technology integrates both

Intel® processor-based and

IBM POWER processor-based blade servers into the

IBM ^ ® BladeCenter™ architecture.

■ BladeCenter Standby Capacity on Demand delivers extra power when you need it.

BladeCenter offers the high performance and manageability of IBM rackoptimized platforms. The result is an effectively managed infrastructure that helps maximize resource productivity and minimize IT administration costs. In an on demand world,

BladeCenter gives control back to the

IT manager.

Your priorities are clear: contain costs, deal with a critical shortage of skilled people and keep up with the demands of sustained e-business innovation. In short, manage the many components of your IT organization so that they contribute to business success in today’s on demand world.

On demand ready

BladeCenter helps businesses be responsive to customers, focused on core competencies, variable to adapt to cost structures flexibly and resilient to face any challenge. The Standby

Capacity on Demand offering features a customizable BladeCenter system with a mix of active and standby capacity blades.

Take control of your infrastructure

Tackle your server management challenges with IBM ^

BladeCenter. BladeCenter’s modular design gathers computing resources into cost-effective, high-density enclosures that support hot-swappable, high-performance 2-way and 4-way

Intel processor-based and new 2-way

POWER processor-based blade servers.

Pay for the standby blades only after they’re activated 1 —helping deliver additional computing capacity when it’s needed.

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Advanced manageability:

IBM Director

IBM Director unleashes the power of

BladeCenter, giving you comprehensive remote management from a single graphical console. IBM

Director, which ships with

BladeCenter, automates and simplifies IT tasks, letting you deploy, configure, manage and maintain up to hundreds of blade servers.

Tools such as IBM Deployment

Wizard, and functions such as

Automatic Chassis Discovery and

Event Action Plans, make infrastructure deployment easy. The

Deployment Wizard allows you to save chassis configurations for easy replication. Another tool, Remote

Deployment Manager (RDM), gives you the ability to create, maintain and deploy images from a single dragand-drop user interface 2 .

- Capacity Manager

Helps predict future server bottlenecks and proactively alerts administrators, automating corrective actions to minimize downtime.

- Software Rejuvenation

Helps predict pending software failures that could lead to costly downtime and automatically refreshes the software to help ensure optimal operation.

Advanced management capabilities boost administrator productivity and reduce skill-level requirements, which can help reduce costs, improve overall productivity and make administration easier. IBM Director and

BladeCenter deliver incredible control of 2-way and 4-way Intel processorbased and 2-way POWER processorbased blade servers. Shared infrastructure means platform deployment is quicker and more cost-effective.

Because installing a new blade server is fast and easy, expanding capacity for applications can be completed in as little as just a few minutes instead of hours.

With the tight integration of storage, networking, servers and applications, and IBM Director’s common interface for a rich portfolio of management tools, the BladeCenter design is both intelligent and simple. IBM has created an ideal environment to maintain your data center. Tools such as light path diagnostics, Predictive Failure

Analysis®, and calibrated vectored cooling can help reduce administration costs.

Powerful tools for advanced management

IBM Director delivers advanced, proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities. Some of the key optional enhancements in the IBM Director

Server Plus Pack include:

- System Availability

Tracks and provides graphical views of system downtime or uptime for systems or groups of systems, helping save labor costs.

- Rack Manager

Provides a graphical drag-anddrop interface that simplifies rack hardware management.

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for more information about the selfmanaging capabilities of IBM Director software.

Designed to solve real-world problems

The BladeCenter design addresses your most serious issues: space constraints, manageability, scalability, capacity, performance, cooling and power. BladeCenter servers are designed to take less time to install, fewer people to maintain and cost less than a traditional server solution, helping reduce IT infrastructure costs.

Integrating both Intel processorbased and POWER processor-based blade servers, BladeCenter collapses the data center by integrating functions such as Layer 2-7 Ethernet and your Storage Area Network (SAN) fabric into an efficient 7U enclosure that simplifies deployment and management.

Your enterprise can benefit from simplified management, fast installation and deployment, modular scalability and high availability. What’s more,

BladeCenter delivers improved space efficiency when compared to most of today’s 1U solutions.

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Outstanding performance density

BladeCenter provides an efficient use of data center floor space with up to 84 2-way blades or up to 42

4-way blades in an industrystandard (42U) rack. The efficient design features leading-edge cooling technology and the latest

Intel Xeon™, Intel Xeon Processor

MP and PowerPC® 970 processors.

Application flexibility

BladeCenter architecture is based on industry standards to better support the deployment of third-party software and hardware technologies. IBM works with industry-leading technology companies to support innovative solutions running on Linux,

Windows® and Novell operating systems.

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Affordable availability for your mission-critical applications

Chassis features, such as highavailability midplanes and redundant hot-swap cooling and power, help reduce single points of failure.

This is part of the OnForever™ features—designed to deliver outstanding operation, helping to increase your productivity. Tight integration of key components such as networking services, centralized management and applications help to enable high availability.

Customers using BladeCenter can take advantage of the flexibility provided by the Linux operating system. Linux offers power, functionality, high security and reliability for business and infrastructure applications, and is strongly supported on

BladeCenter.

BladeCenter supports the Microsoft®

Windows Server 2003 and Windows

2000 operating systems enabling customers to migrate existing or deploy new Windows environments on this platform. The unique advantages offered by BladeCenter combined with the broad array of applications supported on Windows deliver a valuable proposition for customers.

BladeCenter solutions make adding capacity simple and affordable.

BladeCenter’s technology features deliver an effective scale-out architecture that lets you add server modules quickly using a “pay as you grow” approach.

BladeCenter options

BladeCenter options provide choices so you can tune hardware to create customized solutions to match application needs.

40GB 4 5400rpm ATA-100 Hard Disk Drive

(HDD)

Helping you achieve maximum density at a low cost, the ATA-100 HDD is a 2.5-inch, slim-high EIDE HDD. The

HS20 and JS20 blade servers support two HDDs for up to 80GB of storage capacity.

Blade server options

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Myrinet® Cluster Expansion Card

This I/O expansion option provides a high-speed interconnect for high performance computing applications. It works in conjunction with the Optical

Pass-thru Module.

SCSI Storage Expansion Unit

Enable the use of high-performance

Ultra320 SCSI HDDs in your blades environment. This option provides integrated mirroring capabilities and uses standard IBM hot-swap HDDs.

Gigabit Ethernet Expansion Card

This I/O option allows for expansion of the Ethernet subsystem to enable additional bandwidth. It works in conjunction with the Optical Pass-thru

Module, the Nortel Networks® Switch

Module and the IBM 4-port Gigabit

Ethernet Switch Module.

Blade chassis options

Optical Pass-thru Module

This option features an unswitched, unblocked network connection to each blade server bay. It must be used in conjunction with the Gigabit

Ethernet Expansion Card, the Myrinet

Expansion Card, the FC Expansion

Card or the integrated Gigabit

Ethernet on the blade server.

Fibre Channel (FC) Expansion Card

This I/O expansion option adds dualport FC connectivity at up to 2Gbps to each blade server. It works in conjunction with the IBM BladeCenter

2-Port Fibre Channel Switch Module.

4-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module

Featuring Layer 2 switching technology, this option provides highspeed Ethernet connections between each blade server and the outside network environment.

Nortel Networks Layer 2-7 Gigabit

Ethernet Switch Module

Featuring Layer 2 through 7 switching technology, this module integrates advanced Ethernet functionality into the chassis, decreasing complexity and increasing manageability.

2-Port Fibre Channel Switch Module

Similar to the Ethernet switch, this option contains two FC uplinks capable of supporting transmissions up to 2Gbps 5 .

Redundant KVM/Management Module

This option enables system management resiliency and provides remote management and connectivity to the

BladeCenter chassis for the most critical applications 6 .

1800W Power Supply Module

Bringing greater reliability to your

BladeCenter solution and greater availability for applications, the

1800W Power Supply Module provides both power and redundancy to

BladeCenter configurations.

Acoustic Attenuation Module

An ideal solution for sound-sensitive customers deploying multiple

BladeCenters, this module is designed to minimize audio emissions.

BladeCenter options

Optical Pass-thru Module 02R9080

Optical Pass-thru Module

SC Cable

73P5992

Optical Pass-thru Module

LC Cable

73P6033

4-Port Gigabit Ethernet

Switch Module

13N0568

Nortel Networks Layer 2-7

Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Module

73P9057

2-Port Fibre Channel

Switch Module

Redundant

KVM/Management

Module

1800W Power Supply

Module

48P7062

48P7055

13N0570

Acoustic Attenuation

Module

49P2694

Myrinet Cluster Expansion

Card

73P6000

Gigabit Ethernet

Expansion Card

73P9030

Fibre Channel Expansion

Card

48P7061

40GB 5400rpm ATA-100

Hard Disk Drive

48P7063

SCSI Storage Expansion

Unit

26K4847

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Support for IBM TotalStorage® solutions

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

NAS

NAS is a low-cost, remote storage solution giving you great flexibility and scalability for storage needs.

Connecting the Gigabit Ethernet switch module to the IBM TotalStorage

NAS family of products creates a solution that is easy to deploy and manage.

SAN

A SAN is a high-performance, highly flexible architecture for creating remote storage solutions, ideal for

Microsoft Exchange configurations.

The FC switch modules and FC expansion cards enable connectivity to each blade server. Connecting to the IBM TotalStorage FAStT family of products is an ideal solution.

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Reseller locator and general information

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Canada

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Choose BladeCenter solutions

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Innovative technology

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High-performance solution with high reliability targeted at business-critical application workloads

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Integration reduces complexity

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Bringing servers, storage and networking together in a single managed environment,

BladeCenter simplifies IT management while helping reduce IT costs.

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On demand world

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BladeCenter gives businesses the flexibility to architect application solutions that meet business objectives.

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BladeCenter provides advanced systems management capabilities that help simplify operations and make your IT infrastructure more resilient.

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BladeCenter ecosystem offers solution flexibility

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BladeCenter’s comprehensive ecosystem gives you the ability to integrate BladeCenter into the existing environment—so you can standardize data centers around existing infrastructures.

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A comprehensive solution

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IBM provides outstanding service and support

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IBM features interoperability between series to make

BladeCenter work with midrange, mainframe and existing Intel systems

IBM ^ BladeCenter at a glance

Form factor

Blade bays

Standard media

Switch modules

Power supply module

Cooling modules

Systems management hardware

I/O ports

Rack/7U, high-availability midplane

Up to 14 2-way, and up to 7 4-way

CD-ROM and diskette drive accessible from each blade server

4 switch module bays

Up to 4 (hot-swap and redundant 1800W with load balancing and failover capabilities)

2 hot-swap and redundant blowers standard

1 management module standard, add an optional second module for redundancy

Keyboard, video, mouse, Ethernet, USB

IBM ^ BladeCenter HS20 at a glance

Processor Intel Xeon Processor up to 3.2GHz

1/2 Number of processors (std/max)

Level 2 cache Up to 2MB L3 cache

Front side bus Up to 533MHz

Up to 8GB 7 ECC DDR 8 Memory

Internal hard disk drives

Maximum internal storage

RAID support

Network

I/O upgrade

Systems management hardware

Systems management software

Predictive Failure Analysis

Light Path Diagnostics

Up to 2 IDE (or up to 2 hot-swap Ultra320 SCSI drives with optional SCSI Storage Expansion Unit)

293.6GB

4 SCSI/80GB IDE

Integrated IDE RAID standard on blade server, integrated RAID with SCSI Storage Expansion Unit option

2 integrated Gigabit Ethernet controllers

1 expansion card connection

Integrated systems management processor

IBM Director with systems management and trial deployment tools, IBM Director Server Plus Pack optional

Hard disk drives, processors, blowers, memory

Blade server, processor, memory, power supplies, blowers, switch module, management module, hard disk drives and expansion card

3-year onsite limited warranty Limited warranty 9 and support

External storage

Operating systems supported

Support for IBM TotalStorage solutions (including FAStT and NAS family of products)

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server, Red Hat Linux, SuSE

Linux, Novell NetWare

BladeCenter servers

BladeCenter supports the

IBM ^® BladeCenter™ HS20, a 2-way blade server with up to two high-performance Intel® Xeon™

Processors; the IBM ^®

BladeCenter™ HS40, a 4-way blade server with up to four highperformance Intel Xeon Processors

MP; and the IBM ^®

BladeCenter™ JS20, a PowerPC 970 processor-based server.

The HS20 blade is ideal for applications such as collaboration, Citrix and

Linux clusters, while the HS40 blade excels at commerce transactions, databases and ERP/CRM applications. The HS20 and HS40 blades deliver rack-dense solutions for customers who demand high reliability and availability, rapid scalability and quick installation.

The JS20 (see at a glance chart page

8) delivers a new level of price/ performance for the POWER technology customer. This blade server features a 64-bit PowerPC 970 processor, derived from POWER4™ technology. The processor is enhanced with 162 Single

Instruction/Multiple Data (SIMD) instructions. Applications in bioinformatics, seismic processing, crash analysis, digital signal processing and financial services will often be able to effectively use these instructions. They may achieve 20 to 40% greater throughput because of increased parallelism in execution.

IBM ^ BladeCenter HS40 at a glance

Processor Intel Xeon Processor MP up to 3.0GHz

1/4 Number of processors (std/max)

Level 3 cache

Front side bus

Memory

Up to 4MB

400MHz

Up to 16GB DDR ECC Chipkill™

Internal hard disk drives Up to 2 hot-swap Ultra320 SCSI drives with optional SCSI storage expansion unit

293.6GB SCSI Maximum internal storage

RAID support

Network

Integrated RAID with SCSI storage expansion unit option

4 integrated Gigabit Ethernet controllers

I/O Upgrade 2 expansion card connections

Systems management hardware Integrated system management processor

Systems management software IBM Director with systems management and trial deployment tools, IBM Director Server Plus Pack optional

Predictive Failure Analysis Hard disk drives, processors, blowers, memory

Light Path Diagnostics Blade server, processor, memory, power supplies, blowers, switch module, management module, hard disk drives and expansion card

3-year onsite limited warranty Limited warranty 9 and support

External storage

Operating systems supported

Support for IBM TotalStorage solutions (including FAStT and

NAS family of products)

Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Microsoft Windows®

2000 Server/Advanced Server, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux,

Novell NetWare

Applications written for POWER4 and

PowerPC processor-based systems using the SuSE Linux Enterprise

Server 8 (SLES 8) can be executed without recompilation on same and newer models of that processor family with SLES 8. The exceptions include, but may not be limited to, applications compiled using POWER4 or PowerPC specific compiler options but executed on models other than

POWER4 or PowerPC, respectively, or applications using undocumented

SLES 8 internal features; or SIMD instructions which are not available on POWER4 systems.

The JS20 provides 64-bit Linux support. This can help customers with data-intensive applications, enabling them to simplify programming and improve application performance.

IBM ^ BladeCenter JS20 at a glance

Processor PowerPC® 970 at 1.6GHz (64-bit)

2 Number of processors

Level 2 cache 512KB

800MHz Memory bus

Memory

Internal hard disk drives

Maximum internal storage

Up to 4GB DDR ECC SDRAM

Up to 2 IDE

80GB

Network

I/O Upgrade

Systems management hardware

Systems management software

2 integrated Gigabit Ethernet controllers

1 expansion card connection

Integrated system management processor

IBM Director with systems management and trial deployment tools, IBM Director Server Plus Pack optional

Hard disk drives, processors, blowers, memory Predictive Failure Analysis

Light Path Diagnostics Blade server, processor, memory, power supplies, blowers, switch module, management module, hard disk drives and expansion card

3-year CRU and onsite limited warranty Limited warranty 10 and support

External storage

Operating systems supported

Support for IBM TotalStorage solutions (including FAStT and

NAS family of products)

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, Turbolinux Enterprise

Server 8

9 Visit ibm.com/pc/safecomputing periodically for the latest information on safe and effective computing. For a copy of the IBM Statement of

Limited Warranty, call 1 800 426-7378.

Telephone support may be subject to additional charges. For onsite service, IBM sends a technician after attempting to diagnose and resolve the problem remotely.

10 For a copy of the IBM Statement of Limited

Warranty, call 1 800 426-7378. Telephone support may be subject to additional charges.

For onsite service, IBM sends a technician after attempting to diagnose and resolve the problem remotely. If the problem can be resolved with customer replaceable unit (CRU), then IBM will ship CRU parts to you for your replacement.

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1 The Standby Capacity on Demand offering requires agreement to purchase all standby blades within six months of delivery.

2 The Remote Deployment Manager Tool is not supported on the JS20 blade.

3 Options support varies by server platform.

4 When referring to storage capacity, GB means

1,000,000,000 and TB means 1,000,000,000,000.

Accessible capacity is less.

5 Speed denotes maximum possible and is dependent on many factors. Actual speed may vary and be less than the maximum.

6 KVM capability not available on JS20.

7 Varies by model.

8 Memory with Chipkill-enabled technology is available as an option at 512MB DIMMs and higher.

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