Ivailo Djilianov, System X and Blade Center Sales Specialist
IBM Forum Oct 22 2009
System x and BladeCenter
Servers for a Smart Planet
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IBM System x and BladeCenter servers help to deliver a dynamic
infrastructure that…
Reduces operating costs with higher performance, energy
efficiency, simplified management, virtualization, and
increased utilization
Manages present and future risk in challenging economic
conditions with best-in-class RAS and future-proof IT
Improves service with an end-to-end approach to
systems management
The New Generation of IBM System x and BladeCenter servers deliver business
value and reduce costs for clients through industry leading scalability, virtualization
and management capabilities.
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Reduce Cost
 Virtualization
Get the tools to break out of the barriers presented by physical devices in their
data center. System x and BladeCenter servers and storage, virtualization tools,
networking tools, and applications offer customers improved TCO, resiliency and
flexibility for a dynamic infrastructure.
 Energy Efficiency
System x and BladeCenter offer a portfolio of leadership products and services for
optimizing the energy efficiency of the IT infrastructure to reduce costs; resolve
space, power, and cooling constraints; and achieve Green strategy objectives.
 Consolidation
 Performance
 Express Mid-Market Offerings
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Virtualization Manager
Fully integrated into IBM Systems Director 6.1 base functionality
Active Energy Manager
Energy efficiency features of IBM Systems Director
Active Energy Manager V4.1
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Energy usage is a top concern for datacenters
 IT energy demand doubling every
9-24 months
 6500 US Datacenters consume
electricity = state of Utah
 100 units of energy generation =3
units of work for productive IT
 IT accounts for 2% of anthropogenic
CO2 emissions
 eWaste cannot be ignored –1 billion
computers potential scrap by 2010
Source: IDC Predictions 2009 -Enterprise Server Market
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Energy efficiency features of the BladeCenter HS22
Extended
operating
temperature
SSD
(solid
state disk)
Support
Disabling
unused devices
Dynamic memory
throttling
Wide DIMM
spacing
Internal USB
key for
hypervisor
DC Power
Metering
High Level of
Chip
Integration
Intel Xeon Pstate and Cstate support
CPU & DIMM
Temperature Sensing
Ethernet
TOE
Enhanced VRD
Efficiency
Autonomous
power capping
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Energy efficiency features of the System x3650/x3550 M2
Rack Servers
Intel Xeon P-state
and C-state support
Native
integrated
SATA
support
Dynamic memory
throttling
#2 & 3
SPECpower
scores
Highly efficient power
supply
High Level of
Chip
Integration
SSD
(solid
state disk)
Support
Ethernet
TOE
Disabling
unused devices
CPU & DIMM
Temperature Sensing
Enhanced VRD
Efficiency
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Energy efficiency features of the iDataPlex dx360 M2
Shared fan infrastructure
Dynamic memory
throttling
Native
integrated SATA
support
Intel Xeon Pstate and Cstate support
High Level of
Chip
Integration
Ethernet
TOE
SSD
(solid
state disk)
Support
CPU & DIMM
Temperature Sensing
Shared high efficiency
power supply
#1 SPECpower
score &
first product to
exceed 2000
Enhanced VRD
Efficiency
Disabling
unused devices
Rear door heat
exchanger
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Energy efficiency features of the eX4 enterprise servers
Highly efficient
power supply
Enhanced VRD Efficiency
EXA4 snoop filter
Disabling unused devices
Ethernet TOE
DDR2 memory (vs. FBDIMMs)
High Level of Chip
Integration
High memory capacity –ideal
for virtualization
X3850 M2 Efficiency Comparison
CPU & DIMM
Temperature Sensing
IBM x3850 M2
HP DL580 G5
AE2000
780W (-10%)
860W
Lower overall power
MLG
800W (-10%)
880W
DDR2 advantage
MaxPower
80% +MLG
925W (-24%)
1150W
DDR2 +efficient power
supply advantage
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Reduce costs through consolidation
Smart Energy Design and 9:1 Consolidation Ratio
Customers can lower energy costs $100 per server per year and maintain workload levels
with significantly fewer of the new IBM x3650M2 servers
2
0
0
5
9 x346 Servers
Single-Core proc.
2
0 1 x3650M2 Server
0 Quad-Core proc.
9
 50% lower annual energy costs1
 8.8x more performance per server2
(1) IBM Engineering Research Study, Feb’09
 89% floor space reduction
(2) Based on Intel performance data, 2009
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Reduce costs through consolidation
Save over 93% on energy costs alone; complete ROI as fast as 6 months
166 2P Rack
1U servers
(Xeon)
14 HS22
BladeCenter blades
(Xeon 5500)
3.95 racks
1 BladeCenter E
Chassis
0.17 of a rack
2
0
0
5
2
0
0
9
 Get the same or better performance
 Reduce your IT footprint by over 95%
 Get greater than 11:1 consolidation ratio
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Manage Risk
 Business Resiliency
Business resilience from IBM gives you the ability to rapidly adapt and respond to
both risk and opportunity, in order to maintain continuous business operations,
reduce operational costs, enable growth and be a more trusted partner.
 Security
System x and BladeCenter technologies offer a new approach to managing risk, by
providing a full range of security capabilities to organizations, processes, and
information as the IT and business infrastructures become more interconnected.
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Manage risk with reliability, availability, security
Get the peace of mind to run
mission-critical applications.
 IBM X-Architecture makes makes datacenters more
reliable and secure
 IBM System x offers the resiliency clients require to
virtualize their business-critical workloads
 Reduce downtime with options such as hot-swap solid
state HDDs
 Unique industry offerings including the ServeRAID
Vault controller that offers full hardware-based
encryption to protect against security threats and costly
data breaches
 Predictive Failure Analysis and Light Path Diagnostics for
advance warning on power supplies, fans, VRMs, disks, processors,
and memory and redundant, hot-swap components so clients can
replace failures without taking their system down
– Enterprise-level reliability in standard rack offerings
– Full redundancy in all BladeCenter Chassis
– ex4 enterprise servers offer best-in-class reliability and resiliency
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BladeCenter offers no single point of failure
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Improve service with comprehensive systems management
Delivering innovations throughout the systems management stack
Upward integration into Tivoli
Service Management
IBM Systems platform solution
for System x, BladeCenter,
Power Systems, System z
and storage
Redesigned system tool
portfolio for singlesystem management
and scripting
Hardware and
firmware advances
which are standard
across all
new systems
IBM Tivoli
IBM Systems Director
 Platform management that is easy and efficient
 Management of physical and virtual resources
across heterogeneous systems
ToolsCenter
 Consolidated, integrated suite of
management tools
 Powerful bootable media creator
Integrated Management Module (IMM)
 Standards-based hardware which combines
diagnostic and remote control
UEFI—next generation BIOS
 Richer management experience and future-ready
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What can IBM® Systems Director 6.1 manage
 Blade and Modular resources that can be managed:
– BladeCenter, Blade servers (x, Power, Cell), I/O modules, Modular servers
– VMware ESX, VMware 3i, MSVS, Xen
– Windows, Linux, Netware
 POWER System resources that can be managed:
– HMC, IVM, Virtual I/O Server, System i/p Servers (FSP)
– AIX, POWER Linux, IBM i
 Mainframe Systems resources that can be managed:
– Linux on zSeries
– z/VM
 HP, Dell, and other x86 servers
 SNMP-based devices
– Network, storage, power distribution units, etc.
 CIM-based devices
– CIM = Common Information Model
 Storage resources that can be managed:
– LSI (IRC), DS3000, DS4000, DS6000, RSSM
– SAS Switch (NSSM, RSSM), Brocade FC Switch, Qlogic FC Switch
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UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
Single consistent system level code stack with advanced setup and configuration
UEFI replaces legacy BIOS providing a modern, well defined environment for booting an operating system
and running pre-boot applications. It is fully backwards compatible with legacy BIOS and provides additional
functionality, a better user interface and easier management. UEFI settings can be managed both in-band
and out-of-band. With UEFI “beep codes” are eliminated and covered completely by light path diagnostics.
Key Features
Simplified error handling
Customer Benefits
 No more cryptic event logs and reduction of out date errors in BIOS
 Beep codes now covered completely by light path diagnostics
Easier configuration
and management
 Ability to configure machines completely via command scripts remotely with Advance
Settings Utility
 In-band and out-of-band firmware update via the Integrated Management Module
 Remote configuration which lowers TCO by reducing upgrade downtime and making
platforms easier to manage
Abilities beyond legacy BIOS
 No limits on number of adapter cards – no more 1801 resource errors (important to
VMware customers)
 Ability to move adapter configuration to main UEFI configuration
 Ability to run in 64-bit native mode
 Complete support for new and legacy operating systems
– Windows 2008 supported in UEFI mode today
– Other operating systems fully supported in legacy BIOS mode
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IMM (Integrated Management Module)
Remote control to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot from any corner of the world.
The IMM is a single chip on each new generation server which combines the function of the previous BMC and
RSA-II card, a video controller, remote presence and remote disk. Remote presence is a priced feature ($299US)
for rack and iDataPlex servers and is enabled by simply inserting a hardware key. IMM is common hardware with a
single IMM firmware across all new platforms. It requires no special IBM drivers and is configurable both in- and
out-of-band. Open standards (CIM and WS-MAN) used for alerts and command enable out-of-the box integration.
Key Features
Single chip on each server
Customer Benefits
 Provide diagnostics, virtual presence and remote control to manage, monitor,
troubleshoot and repair from any corner of the world
 Manage servers remotely, in a secure environment independent of operating system state
 Single administrator can configure and deploy server from bare metal to operating
system boot
 Support of new altimeter on x3550 M2 and x3650 M2 which can reduce power consumed
by fans
Unified code base across all
IMM systems
 One firmware stack for IMM simplifies images
Standards based alerting
 IMM with IBM Systems Director provide secure alerts and status, helping to reduce
unplanned outages
 Easier for system administrators to manage large group of diverse systems
 Standards based alerting enables upward integration into wide variety of enterprise
management environments “out of the box”
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ToolsCenter
Reducing complexity of choosing, finding, and learning management tools.
IBM ToolsCenter consolidates the needed tools for managing servers individually into an integrated suite. The
tools are organized by function: deployment, updates, configuration and diagnostics. Tools are now simpler to
access and use with a single easy-to-use webpage for access, a common look and feel and a common
command line interface for the scripting tools. The ToolsCenter Bootable Media Creator offers significantly
more functionality than past tools with the ability to add more tools to the bootable image and to automatically
download the bootable environment if needed. The bootable media creator supports CD, DVD and USB key.
Key Features
Bootable Media Creator
Customer Benefits
 Allows customers to create bootable CD/DVD/USB for updates
customized to their systems
 Ability to acquire firmware automatically from ibm.com.
Redesigned for
reduced complexity
 Common look and feel across tool set to reduce training needs
 Single easy to use webpage to acquire tools
 Consolidated 42 tools down to 8 tools to easily find tool required
Scriptable Interface
 Ability to script tools using common command line interface
so customers can incorporate into existing management
infrastructure
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Product Portfolio
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System x and BladeCenter Portfolio
Clusters, HPC,
Virtualization,
Web 2.0
& Cloud
Large symmetrical
multiprocessing (SMP)
Scale up / SMP computing
x3950 M2
1-4 nodes
dx360 M2
Cluster 1350 iDataPlex
x3850 M2
High density
x3755
x3400 M2/
x3500 M2
BladeCenter
S, E, H, T, HT
x3650 M2
x3550 M2
x3655
x3455
x3450
x3100
x3200 M3
x3250 M3
x3350
HS22
HS22/12/21/21XM
LS22/42
JS12//22
QS22
Scale out / distributed computing
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Recommended Product Segmentation
System x
Tower
Smaller businesses
Smaller remote environments
Stand-alone requirements
Blades
Large consolidation environments
Server & infrastructure replacement
BCS – remote environment consol
Rack
Small to Mid-range businesses
Segmented workloads
Existing fit for purpose
eX4
Heavy vertical workloads
Large virtualization projects
Legacy system replacement
Specialty
HPC / Analytic workloads
WEB2.0 environments
Massive scaling
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