xSeries and BladeCenter
xSeries Technical Support
CRISTIAN GIACCI
IBM eServer xSeries Sales & Technical Specialist
Computer Gross Italia S.p.A.
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IBM Systems Group
xSeries portfolio leads in the industry
Scale up / SMP computing
Large symmetrical
multiprocessing (SMP)
Clusters and
virtualization
x460
High
density
Cluster 1350
x366
eServer 326m
x260
x346
x336
e326
x236
x100 x206m
x226
x306m
Scale out / distributed computing
tended Design Architecture
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BladeCenter
IBM Systems Group
Common Intel landscape
We don’t see this 1_Appl–1_OS limitation changing any soon....
Appl4
Appl6
Appl7
Appl8
Appl3
Appl1
Appl9
Appl5
Appl2
Win
NT 4
Linux
Suse
..and so on...
Win
2000
Linux
RH
Win
2003
Linux
Debian
Linux
Suse
Win
2000
Linux
RH
..and so on...
.... but we can change the system infrasctructure to support it
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IBM Systems Group
Evoluzione
Appl4
Appl6
Appl7
Appl8
Appl3
Appl1
Appl9
Appl5
Appl2
..and so on...
Win
NT 4
Linux
Suse
Win
2000
SAN
Linux
RH
Win
2003
Linux
Debian
Linux
Suse
ethernet
bladecenter
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Win
2000
Linux
RH
Blades offering
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IBM Systems Group
2
Step
1
Result
3
4
5
Integrate
First
Layer
Consolidate
Servers
BladeCenter
Second
Applications
Layer
of
the Network
(L2)
Storage
Collapses
Fabric
Complexity
(L4-7)
SSL
SSL Appliances
Appliances
SSL Appliances
Caching
Caching
Appliances
SSL Appliances
Appliances
Caching
SSL Appliances
Appliances
Layer
Layer 4-7
4-7
Switches
Switches
Layer 4-7
Switches
Layer
Layer 22
Layer
4-7
Switches
Switches
Switches
Caching
Appliances
Public
Public
Internet/
Internet/
Intranet
Intranet
Public
Clients
Clients
Internet/
Intranet
Routers
Firewall
Firewall Routers
Clients
(Layer
3
(Layer
3
ss
Switches)
Switches)
Public
Public
Public
Routers
Firewall
Internet/
Internet/
Internet/
(Layer
3
s
Intranet
Intranet
Intranet
Switches)
Clients
Clients
Clients
SSL
SSL
Appliances
Appliances
Routers
Routers
Routers
Firewall
Firewall
Firewall
(Layer
(Layer
(Layer
33
3
s
s
SSL Appliances
Switches)
Switches)
Switches)
Caching
Caching Appliances
SSLAppliances
Appliances
Caching
SSL Appliances
Appliances
Caching
Appliances
Caching
Appliances
Caching
Appliances
Storage
Storage
Storage
Fibre
Fibre
Fibre
Switches
Switches
Switches
Storage
Storage
Storage
Storage
Storage
Fibre
Fibre
Fibre
Storage
Area
Switches
Switches
Switches
Area
Area
Network
Network
Network
Storage
Storage
Storage
Area
Area
Area
Network
Network
Network
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BladeCenter Chassis - Front
►Up
to 4 Processors / 4 Cores each Blade
►Up
to 14 Blades each BladeCenter
►Up
to 6 BC’s each Enterprise 42U Rack
►Hot-swap
of PS’s, Blowers, Switches and
Blades
►Hot-swap
switchable Media tray (DVD-ROM,
Floppy, USB 1.1)
►Dual
Blades
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midplane and double connections to
IBM Systems Group
What is a “Blade”
 A “server on a card” – each “Blade” has
its own:
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processor
networking
memory
optional storage
etc.
IBM Blade - in its own rugged-ized chassis
 The chassis provides shared:
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►
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Console Access (KVM)
Power Supplies
Cooling
Network Connectivity (SAN/LAN/Myrinet
Switches)
CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
diskette drive
IBM Blade - with its cover on - ready for
insertion into the BladeCenter
IBM BladeCenter chassis - 7U rackable
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IBM Systems Group
BladeCenter Chassis - Rear
 Gigabit Ethernet Switches (Layer 2-3)
►
D-Link, Cisco, Nortel
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Commodity level networking
►
Link aggregation
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VLAN creation and management
 Nortel Layer 2-7 Switch
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Advanced networking
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Content-based routing
 Fibre Channel Switches (2/4Gb FC Fabric)
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Brocade, McData, Qlogic
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Potentially lower cost via integration
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Full support of FC-SW-2 standards
 Power (4 x 2000W load-balancing)
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Upgradeable as required
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Redundant and load balancing for high availability
 Calibrated, vectored cooling™
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Highly fault tolerant
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Status Monitoring/PFA
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Allow maximum processor speeds
 KVM Switches / Management Modules
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Full remote video redirection
►
In many cases out-of-band / lights out systems management
Ethernet Switch
KVM Switch /
Management
Module
Redundant
Power
Nortel
Layer
Switch
Redundant
Blower
QLogic, MCData orBrocade
2/4Gb 2-7
Fibre
Channel Switch Module
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IBM Systems Group
2. Web Interface
1. Director Console
ethernet
3. Telnet Interface
4. Command Line Interface (MPCLI)
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IBM Systems Group
Integrated System Management Blade Center
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IBM Systems Group
What is about ?
Base
Additions
CURRENT
Chassis
BladeCenter
BladeCenter T
Management Module
NEW
BladeCenter H
IBM BladeCenter
Advanced Management Module
Blades
Adapters
Switches
2-way Xeon
2-way low voltage Xeon
2-socket Opteron
2-way PowerPC
Dual Gigabit Ethernet
Dual iSCSI/TOE Ethernet
Dual QLogic Fibre HBA
Dual Emulex Fibre HBA
Dual Topspin 1X Infiniband
Dual Myrinet Fabric
Nortel
Cisco
QLogic
Brocade
McData
Topspin
2-socket PowerPC Refresh (dual core)
2-way low voltage Xeon speedbumps
2-way Xeon RoHS
2-socket Opteron speed bump and RoHS
2-socket Sossaman (preannounce)
Dual 4X InfiniBand HCA
Cisco 4X InfiniBand Switch
Module (preannounce)
THE FOUNDATION CONTINUES
Ecosystem
The strength of the entire BladeCenter ecosystem – Includes 700 Alliance and
OpenSpec Partners Blade.Org
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IBM Systems Group
Portfolio breadth for customizing solutions
HS20 2-core Xeon
HS40 4-core Xeon
JS21 4-core PPC
 Intel® Xeon™ DP
 Intel Xeon MP
 Dual-core PowerPC®
Features
970MP Processor
processors
 EM64T
 Intel® Xeon™
dualcore 32bit
 Mainstream rack
LS20 2-core AMD
 4-way SMP capability
 Built-in
 Supports Windows®,
 Scalable UNIX® Blade
Linux® and NetWare
virtualization1
 Integrated vector
 Two socket AMD
 Single- and dualcore
 Similar feature
set to HS20
co-processor for
high-performance
parallel computing
dense blade
 High availability apps
 Optional HS HDD
 Edge and mid-tier
Target Apps
workloads
 Collaboration
 Back-end workloads
 Large mid-tier apps
 Web serving
 HPC: life/earth
AltiVec™2
sciences,
acceleration
 UNIX workloads
(WebSphere®)
 AIX 5L™ SCON
Common Chassis and Infrastructure
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1. Must acquire optional VIOS license to utilize Micro-Partitioning™
2. AltiVec is a trademark of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
 32- or 64-bit
HPC
 High memory
bandwidth
applications
IBM Systems Group
IBM eServer BladeCenter HS20
Full Performance and
Manageability you expect from
1U/2U/3U platforms...
at TWICE the density!
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Up to two Xeon DP
Processors with EAM64T
• 2.4GHz, 2.80 GHz,
3.06GHz EM64T,
3.6GHz, 800MHz FSB
Dual Gigabit Ethernet
Channels
Up to 8GB Chipkill ECC
DDR Memory
Integrated Systems
Management Processor
High Availability Midplane
Connections
Server
Processors...
for Server
Workloads!
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IBM Systems Group
HS20 and BSE2 Architecture
SFF SCSI
HDDs
Existing form
factor daughter
cards
HS20
New access
door
New SFF daughter
card
CPU 2
CPU 1
OR New SFF
daughter cards
Memory (4x)
BSE2
New HS20
 Two SFF SCSI drive bays standard and
One I/O Expansion Card slot standard
 Two SFF SCSI drives can coexist with
One SFF Expansion Card
 One SFF SCSI drive can coexist with
One legacy Expansion Card
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New BladeCenter SCSI Expansion2
 Two 3.5” hot-swappable HDD bays
 Two I/O Expansion Card connections
► 1st
must be Gb Ethernet daughter card
► 2nd connection is flexible
► Supports legacy Exp Cards and SFF DC
Note: current BSE (48P7058 or 26K4847) will not function with
this blade. New BSE is not backward compatible with Laurel,
McCarran or Arbuckle
IBM Systems Group
Optical Pass-thru Module

Provide direct connectivity between server blade and external devices
►
►
►
Ethernet network devices
Fibre Channel network devices
Myrinet cluster switches
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IBM Systems Group
Copper Pass-thru Module
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Provide direct connectivity between server blade integrated ethernet adapter and
external devices
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Only 1Gb connection allowed
Requires cat-5e or above inteface cable
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