Brief-About us
• Started in the year 2000
• Serving 900 + customers
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First BCP for IBM in A.P
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65+ Smart Datacenters
deployed
• IBM-Center of Excellence
IBM Flex System Offerings
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BladeCenter
IMM
Integrated Management
Module
HS23E
HS23
Blades
IMM
X220
Integrated Management
Module
X240
X440
HSX5
Software
Management
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Flex Systems
Next Generation
ADV MGMT
Appliance
Management
Flex Systems Manager
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Designed For The Next Decade Of Workload
BladeCenter
Next Generation
Flex Systems
+New high speed backplane
+Supports internal storage solutions
Chassis
+Supports high speed networking
+New power and cooling design
+Full CPU support without thermal limitations
+Supports Intel 135W Top Bin CPU’s
Blades
+Maximum memory for memory Intense
Workload
+Dual Hypervisor Keys
+Low Latency/High IOPs (320GB/s)
HS23E
HS23
+Supports 40GB Uplinks
HSX5
X220
X240
X440
PCI
+Feature On Demand Scalability
Network
+High speed 40GB Ethernet
+High speed Infiniband 56GB
Storage
+Flexible direct attached storage (Internal
Drive, eXflash Drives, Storage Expansion node)
+Internal scalable shared storage node
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Flexible and open IO from an ecosystem of partners
Standard Speed Switches
Standard Speed
IO Expansion Card
High Speed Switches
High Speed
IO Expansion Card
Ethernet – Fibre Channel – InfiniBand – FCoE – SAS – iSCSI – Virtual
Fabric
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Flex System and BladeCenter
BladeCenter
Flex System
Shared
Allows configuration
for specific customer
needs with the ability to
grow to the level of
PureFlex System
Focused on physical consolidation
and/or integration
Blade footprints
Make short cycle purchases
(i.e. Financial Services)
Customers who …
Appliance-centric datacenter model
Do not have an IBM BladeCenter
footprint today
Want fastest x86 performance
with Intel ® Xeon EX processors
Desire maximum x86 EP compute
and memory performance
Value higher bandwidth and
flexibility for today’s and future
I/O needs
Want to grow existing
BladeCenter footprint
Need the densest
blade environment
Value future-proofing their IT solution
Value integrated virtualized
storage
Customers who …
Flex System
BladeCenter
Are looking for large
enterprise distributed
small office
Are installing telco/ruggedized
remote deployments
Are installing lowest
cost deployments
Value tightly integrated, automated
intelligent systems management
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The Anatomy of the IBM PureFlex System
What’s inside?
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Integrated Infrastructure
Designed for future generations of technology
1 system for compute,
storage and systems
networking
Up to 896 cores, 43 TB
memory, 480 TB storage
and 26M IO operations per
second, per rack
10U Chassis
14 Node
Bays
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Up to 4 chassis per rack
scalable up to 4 racks
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Enterprise Chassis Design
IBM Flex System Chassis
System infrastructure
Chassis
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Infrastructure to support the
compute, storage and
networking components
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Energy efficient cooling
and power system
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Easy to use with integrated
single-point management
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Designed to support future
advancements in I/O,
processors, memory, and
storage
V7000 Storage Node
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•
•
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4 scalable switch bays
10U Chassis, 14 bays
Standard and Full width node support
Up to 6 2500W power supplies N+N or N+1
configurations
• Optional lower wattage 2100W PS
• Up to 8 cooling fans (scalable)
• Integrated chassis management through CMM
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IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis Front View
Size: 10 U
19” Rack
14 Node Bays
(7 Full Wide)
Nodes:
 Power
 Intel
 Flex System Mgr
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Flex System Mgr
IBM Flex System x240
Filler
Filler
Filler
IBM Flex System p260
Filler
IBM Flex System p260
IBM Flex System p460 ( Full Width )
Filler
IBM Flex System x240
Filler
Filler
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IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis Rear View
Fans
CMM
10 U
Power Supplies
(6X)
12
High Speed
Switch (4X)
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Compute
POWER7 & x86
No compromise design for the next decade
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Integrated Compute Nodes
No compromise designs for full performance
Support multiple
architectures using up to 14
POWER7 or x86 nodes per
chassis
Support for applications
across 4 operating
environments
POWER7
® ®
®
AIX , i , Linux
x86
®
Linux ,
®
Windows
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Secure startup for both
physical and virtual
environments
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Diverse offerings to match the diverse workloads
Compute
IBM Flex System x220
System infrastructure
IBM Flex System x240
System Portfolio tuned to
workloads
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Reduce acquisition costs
through virtualization
consolidation
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Maximum platform capability
provides deployment
flexibility
IBM PCIe Expansion
Node
IBM Flex System x440
IBM Flex System p260
IBM Flex System p24L
IBM Flex System p460
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IBM Flex System x240 – 2S EP Compute Node
System infrastructure
Compute
Standard Width compute
node
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2-socket Intel E5 2600
Sandy Bridge-EP
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24 LP DDR3 DIMMs /
1333MHz / 1600MHz
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10Gb Converged LOM
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2 hot swap 2.5” SAS/SATA
SSDs or HDDs
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Dual Enabled Hypervisor –
ESXi on Flash Key Option
IBM Flex System x240
Uncompromised Compute, IO, and Storage
performance, designed for mainstream
virtualization, and a broad range of workloads
2x IO Mezzanine Cards
24 LP
DIMMs
Keyboard, Mouse,
Video Dongle
connector
Release latch
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2x Intel E5 2600
Processors
2x Hot Swap, Small
Form Factor HDDs
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IBM Flex System PCIe Expansion Node
System infrastructure
Compute
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Utilize high-capacity, flash
based storage to significantly
boost transaction based
workloads
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Utilize high performance
GPUs to boost
computationally capabilities
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Enable attachment of external
drive enclosures
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Tap all available I/O of modern
CPU architectures
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Industry standard PCIe cards
PCIe Bridge Chip
2 Extra
Mez slots
PCIe Full
Width, Full
Height Slots
(2)
PCIe Low
Profile Slots
(2)
PCIe Adapters load from front
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IBM Flex System x440 Compute Node
System infrastructure
Compute
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Full Width compute node
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4-socket Sandy Bridge-EP
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48 LP DDR3 DIMMs /
1333MHz / 1600MHz
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10Gb LOM
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2 hot swap 2.5” SAS/SATA
SSDs or HDDs
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Dual Enabled Hypervisor –
ESXi on Flash Key Option
Delivers maximum CPU, memory, and IO
performance, ideal for database and large VM
deployment
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Integrated x86 Compute Nodes
Flex System x220
Flex System x240
Flex System x440
4/6/8c, 1/2s, E5-2400
2c, 1s, E5-1403
4/6/8c, 1/2s, E5-2600
4/6/8c, 1/2/4s, E5-4600
Memory
12 memory DIMMs
Up to 48 GB (Pentium)
Up to 384 GB E5-2400
24 memory DIMMs
Up to 768 GB
48 memory DIMMs
Up to 1.5 TB
Disk
Up to 2 HDD or 8 SSD
Up to 2 HDD or 8 SSD
Up to 2 HDD or 8 SSD
2 or 1 + LOM
2 or 1 + LOM
2 + 2 LOM or 4
Windows, Linux
Windows, Linux
Windows, Linux
CPU
I/O slots
OS Support
c=core, s=socket, LOM=LAN on Motherboard
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IBM Flex IO pitched
IBM Flex System EN4091 10Gb Ethernet Pass-thru
The EN4091 pass-thru module provides 14 internal and 14 external 10 Gb Ethernet
ports, and it supports 1 Gb and 10 Gb Ethernet signaling for Converged Enhanced
Ethernet (CEE), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and other Ethernet-based
transport protocols..
IBM Flex System FC3171 8Gb SAN Pass-thru
The FC3171 8 Gb SAN pass-thru module provides a fully interoperable solution that
can integrate Fibre Channel initiators with any existing external fabric.
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IBM Flex-Node x240 VS Competition
vs. Cisco UCS B200 M3
 Does not offer & support memory rank sparing
 Limited to RAID 0 and 1 because it supports up to only two internal drives.
 Does not offer any FC or InfiniBand options
 Offers only Ethernet and FCoE connectivity for UCS
 Does not offer any expansion units for the UCS B200 M3.
 Has only an internal USB port , making access difficult
vs. Dell PowerEdge M620
 limited to RAID 0 and 1 because it supports up to only two internal drives
 lacks the selection of high-speed networking switches that IBM offers
 Advanced ECC runs at a slower speed than in ECC mode, and works on pair of DIMMs, not
single
 iDRAC7(Management –Module)comes with Express license, Enterprise-support would cost extra.
vs. HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8
 Advanced ECC runs at a slower speed than in ECC mode, and works on pair of DIMMs, not
single
 BL460c Gen8 is fixed at two 2.5-inch drives, has only an internal USB port.
 supports one optional storage, tape, or PCI expansion blade.
 Does not support Memory mirroring
 Still based on traditional BIOS and no support for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
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IBM Flex Chassis VS Competition
Vs. Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis
 The Cisco UCS 5108 chassis cannot support industry-standard networking.
 Uses a proprietary variation of FCoE and Fabric Extender (FEX) devices.
 It cannot support native Ethernet or Fibre Channel (FC)
 With UCS, all blade-to-blade and virtual-machine-to-virtual-machine network traffic must traverse
to the top-of-rack (TOR) switch first which results in high latency and network bottlenecks
 The UCS 5108 chassis supports only one network connection type: FCoE
 The UCS 5108 chassis does not support any internal, integrated shared storage
 The required UCS Fabric Interconnect modules use different power supplies than the 5108 chassis
vs. Dell PowerEdge M1000e
 In the Dell M1000e, the management connection is 100 Mb/s Ethernet
 Dell’s switches in the M1000e require all internal ports to be licensed, no matter how many are actually
in use.
 Requires an optional KVM over IP (iKVM) module in order to get local analog KVM access to individual
blades
 The Dell M1000e does not support any direct-connect storage expansion for blade nodes
 Always sold with a full complement of nine fans, even if the chassis configuration does not require all
nine fans
 Chassis Management Controller (CMC) in the Dell M1000e does not support SNMPv3.
 Does not have handles, and installation could be complex & could even damage the front- LCD module
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IBM Flex Chassis VS Competition
vs. HP Blade System c7000 Platinum
 Is an aging chassis architecture , soon to be replaced with HP Moonshot 1500
 The management connection is 100 Mb/s Ethernet
 Shared storage is possible only via a Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA), that occupies at least 2blade slots
 Shared storage solution must be based on iSCSI, and it must be managed separately
 Mixing half-height and full-height blades in the same chassis can result in unusable chassis
bays
 The Onboard Administrator module does not support SNMPv3.
 Switches require all internal ports to be licensed, no matter how many are actually in use
 Mainframe Inspired Predictive Failure Analysis
PFA
Hardware
 Disk
 Memory
 CPU
 Fan
 VRM
 Pwr Supply
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Cisco
DELL
HP
IBM
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Networking
New Switches designed for virtualization
Scalable Bandwidth, Scalable Ports or both
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Optimized, Automated and Integrated network
architecture
Fits within your existing and future environment
The Problem:
Today’s networking offerings
lack the flexibility to meet the
demands of the next decade of
I/O. Clients are often burdened
now with the costs of
technology for tomorrow.
Extreme Flexibility
• Designed to meet port and bandwidth
requirements for next decade
• Pay for what you need today with
Features on Demand (FoD)
Highest Performance
• First 40Gb capable Ethernet Switch
• First 16Gb capable SAN Switch
• First 56Gb capable Infiniband FDR switch
• Up to 220Gb uplink BW and <1microsec
latency
Standards based Convergence
• 10Gb iSCSI and FCoE offering
• First 40Gb end to end FCoE offering
(post GA)
• Standard based for seamless integration
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IBM Flex System Fabric I/O modules — Flexible and
innovative integration with your existing or future network
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Flexibility – Clients have Choice - Full Switch Mode or Easy Connect Mode
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Investment protection
• Extreme “Pay as you grow” scalability
• Support for 1/10/40Gb Ethernet
• Software upgrade entitlements while under warranty
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Reduce costs
• Up to 75% lower I/O cost vs. Pass-Thru - Fewer ext. ports & cables
• Convergence – up to 25% less with FCoE or less with NAS/iSCSI
• Economical use of adapter bandwidth - vNIC (Virtual Fabric / UFP)
• Simplified management – Chassis / Rack as 1 logical unit (FSM)
• Smart workload provisioning and placement to max. performance
• Automate Ethernet & server provisioning and failover (Fabric Mgr.)
• VM aware networking automates deployment & migrations - VMready
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Improve Performance and user satisfaction
• Lower latency - < 1us latency
• Minimize upstream network traffic - keep traffic in the system (rack/chassis)
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Changes in IT are Driving up Network Demand
Virtualization
• Mobility for larger active VMs
• VM mirroring
Scale Out Workloads
• Distributed applications
• Scale out databases
Maximum Integrated 10 Gb Ethernet Bandwidth
10 Gb Switches
In Chassis
To TOR
Convergence / consolidation
2 Ethernet Switches
560 Gbps
440 Gbps
• Data center consolidations
• FCoE
4 Ethernet Switches
1120 Gbps
880 Gbps
Analytics
• ETL
• Predictive analytics
Less than 1 microsecond (µs) switch latency
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Next generation flexibility: Scale for Bandwidth, Ports, or Both
IBM 10Gb Switch: Wired for up to three 10Gb ports per node and twenty two external ports
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14
internal
ports
14
internal
ports
14
internal
ports
• Base Switch: Enables 14 internal 10Gb ports
(one to each server) and 10 external 10Gb
ports
• Supports the 2 port 10Gb LOM and Virtual
Fabric capability
Logical
partition 1
Logical
partition 2
Logical
partition 3
Pool of uplink ports
IBM 10Gb Virtual Fabric Switch
System infrastructure
Networking
• 1st Upgrade via FoD: Enables 2nd set of 14
internal 10Gb ports (one to each server) and
2 40Gb ports
• Each 40Gb port can be used as four 10Gb
ports
• Supports the 4-port Virtual Fabric adapter
• 2nd upgrade via FoD: Enables 3rd set of
fourteen internal 10Gb ports (one to each
server) and four external 10Gb ports
• Capable of supporting a six port card in
future
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Integrated Networking: High Bandwidth, Low Latency
< 25%
Switching at the edge allows
•Lower latency: < 1 microsecond (µs)
•Lower cost node to node bandwidth
•Less demand on core/aggregation layer
•Less cabling
> 75%
Growth in East-West traffic
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•
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•
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VM mobility (VM sizes are growing)
Scale out databases
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Datacenter consolidations
Distributed applications
Hadoop direct attach storage copies
Big Data
Number of Switches
In Chassis
To TOR
2 Ethernet Switches
560 Gbps
440 Gbps
4 Ethernet Switches
1120 Gbps
880 Gbps
Maximum bandwidth using 4-port 10 Gb mezzanine
cards and 10 Gb integrated switches
Switches can operate at either layer 2 or 3
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Integrated Ethernet Switches
Choice of 10 Gb or 1 Gb switches
High bandwidth, low latency
Layer 2 and layer 3
Standards compliant IEEE and IETF protocols
Integrated
Switch
Total Ports
Internal, Uplink
Layer VMready
802.1Qbg
Virtual
Fabric
FCoE
Transit
EN4093
(B)
14x10Gb, 10x10Gb
(U1) 28x10Gb, 10x10Gb + 2x40Gb
(U2) 42*x10Gb, 14x10Gb + 2x40Gb
2/3
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
EN2092
(B)
14x1Gb, 10x1Gb
(U1)
28x1Gb, 20x1Gb
(U2)
14x1Gb, 10x1Gb + 4x10Gb
(U1&U2) 28x1Gb, 20x1Gb + 4x10Gb
2/3
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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* Second upgrade dependent upon a future mezzanine adapter for server nodes, SOD = Planned Statement of Direction. IBM plans subject to change.
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Leverage Converged Networking Switches Available Today
IBM Flex System EN4093 Virtual Fabric Switch
Ideal for clients using Converged Top of Rack switches
IBM Flex System CN4093 Virtual Fabric Switch
Ideal for clients using Traditional LAN & SAN ToR switches or connecting Flex
System chassis directly to Storage
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Proven Interoperability: IBM and Cisco
IBM Networking OS
Standards-compliant IEEE & IETF protocols
Common OS on PureSystems, BladeCenter, and RackSwitch switches
Extensive IBM interoperability testing with Cisco, Juniper and others
Cisco-like command line interface – familiar to Cisco-trained admins
IBM System Ethernet switches
15M+ Ethernet ports shipped WW connecting to servers, storage and other networks
IBM estimates 2-3M ports are connected & working with Cisco switches & cores today
Certified Interoperability with Cisco Catalyst and
Nexus
2012 Tolly Group: Nexus and Catalyst Interoperability report
2010 Tolly Group: Nexus Interoperability report
2009 Tolly Group: Catalyst Interoperability report
Learn more:
contact your local IBM
System Networking expert
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Storage
Midrange SAN – Virtualized – Tiering
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Direct Attach Storage Options
IBM Storage Expansion Node
Storage
System infrastructure
Provides cost optimized, high capacity, direct
attached storage to meet today's needs data
intensive workloads
Dedicated storage “side-car”
that attaches to single width
compute node
IBM Flex System x220 / x240 With Storage
Expansion Node
12 x HS 2.5” hot swap HDDs
or SSDs
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12 x 2.5” drive
module
Integrated RAID function
◊
1 GB RAID Cache (optional)
◊
SAS
Expander
Hot Swap
drive tray
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Chassis
Management /
Power
Interface
◊
RAID
Controller
Up to
12 TB
of storage
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Direct Attach Storage Options
Storage
IBM eX Flash for high IOPS storage expansion
Low cost IOPS performance, optimized for
transaction processing, media streaming, and
business intelligence applications
System infrastructure
Supports 8 1.8” SSDs
SAS Mezz Cards
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4 drives over DIMMs and 4
in the drive bays
2 SSDs
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1.6 TB - 3.2 TB Total
Capacity
(200GB/400GB SSD Drives)
2 SSDs
4 SSDs
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IBM PureFlex System Storage interoperability
Storage
IBM Flex System Chassis
Other storage
Virtualization options
FSM
IBM Flex System Storage Node
 Integrated virtualized IBM Flex System
Storage
IBM Flex System Storage Virtualization
Storwize V7000
System infrastructure
 Virtualize external Storage for greater
data center efficiency and utilization
 Avail in: Storwize V7000, IBM Flex System
Storage Node, & SVC
IBM Flex System Storage
Interoperability
 Broad set of IBM storage supported with IBM
Flex System
 Interop with 3rd party via Virtualization
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IBM SVC
Direct Interoperability
or via
Storage Virtualization
IBM Flex System FSM Storage Control
Discovery and Inventory
Monitoring and Alerts
Configuration
Provisioning
Via Storage
Virtualization
IBM Flex System FSM Advanced
 Integrated virtualization management across
server, storage, network
 Image repository and management
Storage provisioning for image creation,
deployment, and cloning
 System Pools
 Integrated management of storage in lifecycle
of defining and managing system pools
 Virtual Image Cloning
 Integrated storage provisioning and virtual
image placement for new virtual machines
Centralized management to reduces costs
and complexity across server and storage
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IBM Flex System
V7000
Storage Node
DS8100,
DS8300,
DS8700,
DS8800
XIV
Storwize V7000
DS3400, DS3500, DS4100, DS4200,
EMC, HP, Dell
DS4300, DS4400, DS4500, DS4700, DS4800,
DS5020, DS5100, DS5300,N3600, N3700, DS6800
Included in Base Director
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Management
Physical – Virtual – Workloads
Manage across multiple architectures and hypervisors
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Flex System Manager
 Single focus point for seamless multichassis management providing an
instant resource oriented view of
chassis and chassis resources
 Resource oriented chassis map
provides multiple view overlays to
monitor system health, work with
firmware inventory, and view
environmental status including
thermal and power metrics
 Chassis views to view and label
hardware, OS, and firmware inventory
 Includes quick finder to launch to
common management tasks (a value
add for admin’s to quickly perform
management tasks)
 Chassis map provides launch point
for remote access tools to work with
OS, etc. on individual blade (node)
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Thank You!
Subbaram.Gowra
CEO-GBB(www.gbb.co.in)
E: subbaramg@gbb.co.in
M:09849004358
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